Hoda Kotb’s longtime dream came true when she met Tom Cruise at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Hoda Kotbs “dream” came true 2024 Paris Olympics,
Although olympic opening ceremony The incident on Friday took Kotb, 59, by surprise. Tom Cruise62. Kotb took it Instagram She shared a selfie of herself with Cruise taken in heavy rain in Paris.
“You know when you dream about meeting Tom Cruise… and then it finally happens,” she wrote alongside a teary-eyed photo of the two.
In the photo, Kotb is smiling enthusiastically as she stands next to Cruise. She is wearing a poncho, leaving only a rim of her smiling face visible, while the wet-haired actor is dressed entirely in black.
“Did you wear a poncho in your dream?” Jenna Bush Hager joked in the comments.
“Just the icons,” Savannah Guthrie wrote.
Cruise and Kotb suddenly bumped into each other on a bridge over the Seine River. Today crews at the scene told the outlet.
Celine Dion surprise at the opening ceremonyThis was his first performance after halting his worldwide tour and staying away from public life. Revealing that he suffers from Stiff Person Syndrome In December 2022, she performed Edith Piaf’s famous composition, “Hymne à l’amour” (Hymn of Love) with the help of a full orchestra. This French song was written for the love of Piaf’s life, boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash just a month after it was first performed.
Last month, Kotb sat down with the 56-year-old global superstar to discuss his health struggles with Stiff Person Syndrome and the future of dealing with his medical struggle.
“First of all, she’s an incredible warrior. I had no idea what she went through, how close she came to surviving at one point,” Kotb said of Dion. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen“And now she’s here, and she’s singing again.”
Dion told Kotb that singing the song with her medical condition was a great experience for her. “Like being strangled” And he gets cramps in some parts of his body. Living with Stiff Person Syndrome For Dion, the pain became so intense at times that one of his ribs broke.
“It could be in the abdomen. It could be in the spine, in the ribs. But it seems like if I bend my legs forward, it will stay in there,” Dion explained to Kotb. “Or if I cook, my fingers or my hands lock into position. It’s cramping, but it’s like you’re in a position that you can’t open them.”
Kotb teased after her interview that Dion planned to return to the stage for live performancesWhen a caller asked if the presentation would take place during the Paris Olympics, Kotb admitted she didn’t know for sure, but said she thinks it would be “fantastic.”
“That would be amazing, but I don’t know,” Kotb said at the time. “However, I do know she is going to be performing live again. I just don’t know where she will be performing.”
When Dion returned to the stage for the first time in years at the Olympics, she looked stunning in a crystal-encrusted dress. Her show-stopping performance was a full-circle moment of nearly 30 years of hard work, starting when Dion opened the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia with a performance of her song “The Power of the Dream.”
ET spoke with neurology specialist Dr. Duarte Machado ahead of Dion’s comeback performance, who described her return to the stage as “extraordinary.”
He marveled, “Only a month and a half ago, she was discussing her difficulties during an interview on national television… To now be on the global stage once again and reach this point to sing at the opening ceremony is quite remarkable, and really, for anyone suffering from any long-term illness – particularly someone with SPS – it is a triumph that with perseverance and proper medical care, such triumphs can be achieved.”
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