American broadcast journalist, television personality and author Hoda Kotb was left shocked during a Q&A session on Watch What Happens Live when host Andy Cohen asked her about dating actor Kevin Costner. Sitting with her co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, Kotb responded to a fan’s question about fans ‘shipping’ her with Costner after her recent appearance on Today. Cohen spoke about the online phenomenon where viewers want to see them together, to which Kotb jokingly replied, “Well if the viewers want that.”
The journalist’s possible romance was also talked about on the ‘Today with Hoda & Jenna’ episode that aired on July 9, when co-host Jenna Bush revealed that she knew fans wanted to see the two good-looking faces together.
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Shedding light on the term “shipping,” Bush said she had no idea viewers were shipping the two together. She admitted she wasn’t aware of the term. However, she said she had an idea because people came up to her on the streets and asked her to pair them up. She added, “I actually knew because people were coming up to me on the street and people were saying, ‘You should set Hoda and Kevin Costner up.'” “And I was thinking, ‘Wow, I didn’t know they were flirting behind my back,'” she originally said.
Producers then played clips of Kotb and the Academy Award winner on the talk show’s set last month, where Bush joked that her co-anchor was “rubbing her arm nervously” while speaking to Costner.
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Following the actor’s interview with Kotb and Bush, a BTS clip showed Costner showing Kotb a picture of his dog before hugging her around the waist with both hands. “Kevin and Hoda should date! They look cute together,” one fan commented. Another added, “I can see some chemistry there.”
A third added, “I noticed how she put her hands on him when he hugged her.” Meanwhile, in her personal life, Kotb was previously married to Burzis Kanga from 2005 to 2008. After that, she was in a long-term relationship with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman from 2015 to 2022.
As for Hollywood heartthrob Costner, he was married to Christine Baumgartner from 2004 to 2023 and then to Cindy Costner from 1978 to 1994.
On the work front, Costner’s film ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ is now out in theaters.
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