Today show fans are all saying the same thing after Craig Melvin is confirmed as Hoda Kotb's replacement

Today amusement fans couldn't beryllium happier that Craig Melvin has been confirmed as Hoda Kotb's replacement and person rushed to societal media successful their droves to hail him arsenic the 'right choice'.

It was announced connected Thursday greeting that the anchor, 45, would beryllium taking implicit from long-serving presenter Hoda, 60, aft her past occurrence connected January 10.

She had antecedently stated successful September that she would beryllium stepping down from her gig aft astir 3 decades astatine the network.

Craig said helium was 'beyond excited and grateful' arsenic helium commented connected his caller appointment.

'I've had a batch of conversations yesterday with a batch of radical who mean a batch to me, and I privation to evidently convey NBC and the folks present who person deemed maine worthy,' helium said.

'But I person to commencement by thanking the antheral upstairs. Thanking my lord supra and his lad Jesus, and I've enjoyed conscionable a beingness of blessings, and this is the latest successful a agelong enactment of blessings.'

And it's just to accidental that viewers could not beryllium much delighted that Craig volition beryllium taking implicit from Hoda, arsenic they flooded societal media with their congratulations.

Taking to X, 1 enthused: 'A GREAT choice! Congratulations Craig! So blessed for you and the Today Show fans!'

Another said: 'Congratulations, Craig! Well deserved. I deliberation you volition bash a large job, although, I inactive deliberation you would person been a cleanable prime for Jeopardy host.'

A 3rd continued: 'Congratulation to South Carolina's ain Craig Melvin! Such a immense accomplishment!'

'Craig Melvin is the cleanable idiosyncratic to capable this role. So galore congratulations!' a 4th said.

A 5th raved: 'Of each of the appointments I've heard astir successful the past fewer days, here's 1 I tin get excited about!'

'Congrats Craig Melvin. We volition miss Hoda Kotb but we are thrilled you volition beryllium her replacement!!!' a sixth celebrated.

A seventh added: 'Best determination ever! Congrats Craig!!'

'Congratulations connected being named the caller co-host of the @TODAYshow,' wrote another. 

'There's cipher other retired determination that works arsenic hard arsenic you who cares arsenic overmuch arsenic you bash who's specified a bully household antheral who has a large family, ace wife, ace kids. You're a bully antheral Craig, I'll beryllium rooting for you.'

An eighth exclaimed: 'Craig Melvin is replacing Hoda! So blessed for him and I cognize he's going to beryllium a large co-host with Savannah!'

During Thursday's episode, Hoda's existent co-anchor Savannah Guthrie noted that Craig's caller relation has been 'one of the astir fashionable decisions NBC quality has ever made'.

Addressing Hoda, she said: 'Though you are irreplaceable, we are truthful excited astir the quality successful our Today household and that is the idiosyncratic sitting close adjacent to me, our beloved person and talented, wonderful, hard-working, astir worthy of this, Craig Melvin is the caller anchor of the Today show.

'And fto maine conscionable accidental that the staff, the larger unit recovered retired this morning, and radical broke into applause. This is the 1 of the astir fashionable decisions NBC quality has ever made.'