Al Roker may’ve missed the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, however his longtime NBC cohosts saved his spirit alive throughout this 12 months’s stay broadcast.
“For the previous 27 parades, at this second, we would flip to Al Roker, our As we speak present colleague and our greatest pal, however, as a variety of you may have heard, Al’s recovering, and he is recovering very effectively from a current medical concern,” Hoda Kotb stated on the prime of the annual particular, referencing the 68-year-old’s current hospitalization for a number of blood clots in his leg. “We simply wish to say we love you, Al. Surprise if you happen to’re watching? However, we want you a full restoration.”
Savannah Guthrie, who cohosted Thursday’s telecast alongside Kotb, added: “We love you, Al. We’ll see you subsequent 12 months!”
Peter Kramer/NBC/NBCU Picture Financial institution through Getty Al Roker gave a thumb’s up on the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The pair then launched Dylan Dreyer, As we speak‘s meteorologist who crammed in for Roker as she lined the parade from the Higher West Facet in New York Metropolis.
Roker beforehand introduced his medical prognosis in a Nov. 18 Instagram submit, which obtained well-wishing feedback from Octavia Spencer, Holly Robinson Peete, and The View cohost Sara Haines, amongst others.
“So lots of you may have been thoughtfully asking the place I have been,” the climate anchor shared. “Final week I used to be admitted to the hospital with a blood clot in my leg, which despatched some clots into my lungs. After some medical whack-a-mole, I’m so lucky to be getting terrific medical care and on the best way to restoration.”
Roker was earlier recognized with prostate most cancers in November 2020, and underwent a process to take away his prostate and affected lymph nodes.
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