Hoda Kotb says Frank Sinatra Jr was Today show's 'worst guest': 'He didn't say anything'

Today show host says of 2015 interview: ‘It was so weird’ 

Chelsea Ritschel
New York
Thursday 15 October 2020 13:38 EDT
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Hoda Kotb reveals Today show's worst guest

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Hoda Kotb has revealed Frank Sinatra Jr was the Today show’s worst guest “bar none”.

On Tuesday, the Today host appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, where she played "Plead The Fifth" with her former co-host Kathie Lee Gifford.

During the segment, Gifford asked Kotb: “Who do you think was my least favourite guest of all time?” adding: “And I bet it was yours too.”

The question was easy for the 56-year-old, who immediately responded: “I know exactly who that is, it was Frank Sinatra Jr.”

“It was the worst guest we’ve ever had, bar none,” Kotb continued while laughing. “He came for a book. He had a book he was promoting, and he didn’t want to talk about it, so he didn’t say anything.

“It was so weird.”

Sinatra Jr appeared on the show in 2015 along with co-author Charles Pignone to discuss the book Sinatra 100, which paid tribute to singer Frank Sinatra on the year he would have turned 100.

During the interview, Sinatra Jr declined to answer general questions asked by co-hosts Gifford and Kotb, including what made him decide to create the book honouring his late father.

“I didn’t decide, that was done by a committee,” he said before deferring a question about why it was “important” to create the book to Pignone.

Later in the interview, Sinatra Jr, who died in 2016, was asked to share details about photographs included in the book.

“I don’t know anything about that one because I was not present,” he said regarding a photograph of his famous father during the holidays.

Kotb and Gifford hosted the Today show together for 11 years before Gifford stepped down from the show in April 2019.

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