Joel Schiffman and Hoda Kotb
Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesHoda Kotb celebrated another trip around the sun with her ex-fiancé, Joel Schiffmanand her daughters Hope and Haley by her side.
“Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes!!!!” Kotb, 60, wrote on Instagram on Saturday, August 10. “My party was perfect!”
Hoda noted that the only disadvantage was her sister, Hello Kotb, “Homesick.” She added, “We missed you, Hala – ❤️❤️❤️.”
Alongside the message, Hoda shared a sweet snapshot with her friends and family, with festive balloons and decorations in the background.
After Hoda’s loved ones sang something to her, Today Co-host and Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, leaned over to blow out the candles. Schiffman was seen recording the interaction and smiling. (Hoda and Schiffman adopted Haley and Hope in 2017 and 2019, respectively.)
Hoda previously shared a glimpse into her festive morning as she started the day at home with her family. “Amazing birthday morning!! I’m lucky xoxoxo,” she wrote via Instagram, adding several pictures, including one of her unwrapping presents with her daughters.
The birthday celebration comes more than two years after Hoda announced that she and Schiffman had called off their engagement.
“Joel and I had a lot of thoughtful and really meaningful conversations over the holidays and we decided that we are better as friends and parents than as an engaged couple,” she said in an episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna“So we decided that we will start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorable, adorable children and as friends.”
Hoda Kotb has often gushed about how her loved ones have shaped her life – especially her daughters Haley and Hope. The Today host became a mother when she adopted her little ones with then-partner Joel Schiffman in 2017 and 2019 respectively. The former couple got engaged in 2019 after six years of dating (…)
Hoda noted at the time that “nothing happened” between her and Schiffman.
“They say that sometimes relationships are meant to last for a reason, for a certain time, or for a lifetime. And I feel like our relationship was only meant to last for a certain time,” she said.
Since going their separate ways, the two have continued to celebrate each other. Hoda sent her ex a warm greeting on Father’s Day. “Happy Father’s Day to the best daddy!” she wrote on Instagram in June, adding a snapshot of Schiffman and her daughters on the couch.
As for her love life after the split, Hoda announced in March that she had started venturing back into the world of dating. “I have to say something, the other day something happened that hasn’t happened in two years,” Kotb said during an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show back then. “I had a date! I had a date.”
Months later, Hoda gushed about going on her third date with a mystery man. “I think it was just the fun of talking about something that had nothing to do with kids and nothing to do with work,” she said during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show in May. “It was just life, and I missed that. And he’s really good-looking.”
