This year, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are ringing in the new year with their closest friends — all 46 of them.
Viewers are counting down the hours until A Toast to 2025! hosted by the two real-life besties. The two-hour primetime special airs on December 31 at 10:30 p.m. ET on NBC and promises an evening that will pay tribute to the year that was. Kotb and Hager will reunite as co-hosts and shine a spotlight on the most memorable moments of 2025 as they prepare for the arrival of the new year.
Of course, the duo won’t be doing it by themselves. Here’s every celebrity guest slated to appear on A Toast to 2025!
Stars from TODAY and the NBC News team
- Blayne Alexander
- Andrea Canning
- Dylan Dreyer
- Willie Geist
- Savannah Guthrie
- Lester Holt
- Tom Llamas
- Josh Mankiewicz
- Craig Melvin
- Keith Morrison
- Al Roker
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Kotb’s former colleagues will stop by to celebrate her first primetime special since she exited TODAY earlier in 2025, with many of the world’s top broadcast journalists joining the festivities as well.
Stars from NBC’s Olympic coverage team
- Maria Taylor
- Lindsey Vonn
- Johnny Weir
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While Taylor and Weir will head up NBC Sports’ coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, Vonn recently made headlines by ending her five-year retirement from competitive alpine skiing and qualifying for the Winter Games — we have a feeling her impressive accomplishment will be the talk of A Toast to 2025!
Stars from your favorite NBC shows
- Matt Iseman & Akbar Gbajabiamila (American Ninja Warrior)
- Howie Mandel (America’s Got Talent)
- David Alan Grier (St. Denis Medical)
- Belissa Escobedo (Happy’s Place)
- Melissa Roxburgh & Sara Garcia (The Hunting Party)
- Josh McKenzie & Patrick Sabongui (The Hunting Party)
- Kristin Chenoweth & Jenn Lyon (Stumble)
- Chris Hardwick (The Wall)
This guest list reads like a who’s who of the entertainment world. From Mandel as one of the most iconic Judges in America’s Got Talent history to current stars of the hottest shows on NBC, Kotb and Hager will have almost too much star power to handle.
Stars from your favorite Peacock shows
- Jabari Banks (Bel-Air)
- Amaya Espinal & Ariana Madix (Love Island USA)
- Tom Daley (The Celebrity Traitors UK)
- Chris Sullivan (Devil in Disguise)
- Chelsea Frei (The Paper)
- Tiffany Haddish (Tiffany Haddish Goes Off)
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Spoiler: You know an event is can’t-miss when Tiffany Haddish and Love Island USA’s Amaya Espinal and Ariana Madix are scheduled to attend.
More fan-favorite celebs who wouldn’t miss it for the world
- Ethan Slater (Wicked: For Good)
- Brian Baumgartner (The Office)
- Jim Gaffigan
- Lil Rel Howery
- Nate Jackson
- Carson Kressley
- Loni Love
- Chris Mann
- Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live)
- Tom Papa
- Rob Riggle
- Wanda Sykes
From a Wicked: For Good icon to some of the funniest comedians on the planet, Kotb and Hager’s guest list is rounded out with more can’t-miss celeb special guests. A Toast to 2025! airs December 31 — New Year’s Eve — at 10:30 p.m. ET exclusively on NBC. Don’t miss out on ringing in the new year with two of TODAY‘s most beloved co-hosts reuniting one more time.
