In the whirlwind world of morning television, changes in the anchor chair are always headline-worthy, but Hoda Kotb's recent decision to leave the Today show didn't come as a shock to her co-anchor, Savannah Guthrie.

After leaving her fans in shock with the news of her departure from the ‘ Today’ show, Kotb has announced her new project which is currently “in its infancy”. The 60-year-old television host teased her latest project during a recent interview with People, clarifying that it is not in the traditional field of journalism.

Hoda Kotb, a fixture at NBC for more than two decades, says she will leave her morning perch on the “Today” show early next year, telling staffers “it’s time.” In a memo to her team — and later in an emotional on-air reveal Thursday — Kotb said her 60th birthday this summer helped trigger the departure: “I saw it all so clearly: my broadcast career has been beyond meaningful,

Savannah Guthrie noted that Hoda Kotb had been discussing leaving the show for years, and she recognized why her colleague had made the decision

Savannah Guthrie also rakes in over $20 million, while ex-anchor Matt Lauer earned over $25 million while at Today. Puck News reports that most high-earning TV hosts will have to take pay cuts; in best-case scenarios, they can earn a cost-of-living raise of between 2% to 4%. A longtime media exec told the site:

NBC staffers suspected Savannah Guthrie was planning her own exit from “Today” — but got “scooped” by Hoda Kotb’s resignation.

Kotb first joined NBC as a correspondent back in 1998. She became a co-anchor of the 10 a.m. hour alongside Kathie-Lee Gifford in 2008, with the show dubbed “Today with Kathie-Lee and Hoda.”

Savannah Guthrie‘s latest interview has people worried that she may be following in her friend Hoda Kotb‘s footsteps and leaving the Today show. “We’re dear friends and we have a lot of similarities,” she told Us Weekly on Oct.