Hoda Kotb is already planning a third date with the mystery man introduced to her by Jenna Bush Hager.
“We’ll have our third coming up, but it’s really fun,” Kotb told “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview published Friday.
While Kotb, 59, confirmed that her “Today with Hoda & Jenna” co-host was indeed the matchmaker, she clarified that Bush Hager, 42, does “not really know” her new love interest well.
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“Jenna is a great picker; she really is,” Kotb gushed. “She goes, ‘Look, I just want you to know: I don’t really know him. A friend of mine knows a friend.'”
Nonetheless, the former “Dateline” correspondent shared that she “had a great time” and “loved” her second date with the man.
She also explained that she decided to take a leap of faith because “life is meant to be experienced.”
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“You know what? Life is beautiful! Like, try things, go out, get out of your house and your apartment. I feel like life is meant to be experienced and step out into it,” she said.
Last Tuesday, Kotb revealed she had gone on her first date in two years.
“Something did happen the other day that hasn’t happened in two years … I had a date! I had a date!” she exclaimed on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
The news came after Bush Hager teased on “Today” in February that she was “in the process” of setting up a close friend on a date.
Kotb has not publicly dated anyone since calling off her two-year engagement and eight-year relationship with Joel Schiffman in December 2021.
Sources told Page Six exclusively at the time that the “Hope Is a Rainbow” author had broken up with Schiffman because she realized marriage would not work out.
“It’s not like something happened,” Kotb clarified on “Today with Hoda & Jenna” in January 2022.
“They say sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason, for a season or for a lifetime, and I feel like ours was meant to be there for a season.”
The former couple now co-parent their two adopted daughters: Haley, 7, and Hope, 4.
