Hoda Kotb‘s “dream” came true 2024 Paris Olympics.
Although olympic opening ceremony The scene that happened on Friday left Kotb, 59, in awe. Tom Cruise62. Kotb taken Instagram Sharing her iconic selfie with Cruise in a pouring rain in Paris.
“You know what, when you dream about meeting Tom Cruise…and then it finally comes true,” she wrote on a photo of the two looking very steamy.
In the photo, Kotb stands next to Cruise with an excited smile on his face. The cape she wore only revealed a smiley face, while the wet-haired actor wore all black.
“Were you wearing a cloak in your dream?” Jenna Bush Hager joked in the comments.
“Image only” Savannah Guthrie wrote.
Cruise and Kotb met by chance on a bridge over the Seine. today on-site staff told the media.
Celine Dion Amazing opening ceremony. It was her first performance since halting global tours and retiring from public life Reveals her diagnosis of stiffness syndrome In December 2022, she performed Edith Piaf’s famous work “Hymne à L’Amour” with the help of a full orchestra. The French ballad was written to the great love of Piaf’s life, the boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash less than a month after its premiere.
last month, Kotb sat down with the 56-year-old global superstar Discussing her health battle with Zombie Syndrome and what her future holds amid her medical battle.
“First of all, she’s an incredible fighter. I don’t know what she went through and how close she came to being a true survivor at certain points,” Kotb said of Dionne . Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. “Now that she’s here, she’s singing again.”
Dion shares with Kotb what it’s like to sing with health condition “Like being strangled” and caused some parts of her body to convulse. Living with Zombie Syndrome Sometimes Dionne’s emotions were so intense that they caused her to break her ribs.
“It could be in the abdomen. It could be in the spine, in the ribs. But it felt like if I pointed my foot, it would stay in,” Dionne explained to Kotb. “Or if I’m cooking, my fingers or my hands get in place. It’s crampy, but it’s like you’re in a position where you can’t unlock them.”
Kotb joked after the interview Dion had planned to return to the stage to perform live. When a caller asked whether that would happen during the Paris Olympics, Kotb acknowledged uncertainty but said she thought it would be “spectacular.”
“That would be great, but I don’t know,” Kotb said at the time. “But I know she’ll be performing live again. I don’t know where.”
When Dionne returned to the Olympics for the first time in years, she looked stunning in a crystal-encrusted outfit. Dion’s stunning performance when she performed her song “The Power of the Dream” at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia was a complete moment nearly 30 years in the making.
Ahead of Dion’s comeback, The Economic Times spoke to neurological expert Dr. Duarte Machado, who called her return to the stage “extraordinary.”
“Just a month and a half ago, she was interviewed on national television discussing the difficulties she was experiencing… to be able to be on a global stage again and sing at the opening ceremony is very remarkable,” he marveled. , “This is truly a win for anyone living with a chronic illness, especially those with SPS, and is achievable with persistence and the right medical care.”
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