and hoda kotb, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. >> hello, everybody! yes, it's theeginning of the workweek but it's funday monday around here, february 22nd. that is "confession" by florida georgia line. hoda is having a lot of trouble just concentrating because somebody is here. >> who? >> that guy. >> my trainer is here. it's so exciting, his name is chris. he's from australia. >> is hoda good when she comes in in the morning? >> yes. we train at 5:30 in the morning. >> he's going to show dhe workout he has me do. >> you said you hated it. >> no, i said i'm not that good at it. >> chris is going to show us some exercises. >> look at those tats. >> he's got a few. if you missed the big "friends" reunion last night, we have all the highlights.

about the whip and the nae-nae, so there's a new dance craze called the dab. link and dab, link and dab. >> i never learned the nae-nae. >> it's the lean and the dab. >> they're going to show us. they said it was easy. >> okay. now, you said a nice weekend with your mom. i love when you take your little trips together. >> we did. we went to florida. rays. my mom was just like -- she's on the go. oh, my god, we saw mary higgins clark in the lobby. i said to my mom, that's mary higgins clark, and she said, a select. so we snuck up to her. she said she wants to come back on the show. >> it seems like she's here every week with a new book. i love her to pieces.

>> she's not on too much. >> that's w wt we said. >> the other day it was love your pet day and in my case it was love your pets. i put them on the sofa. >> i can't believe they just mug like that. >> they immediately look at the camera. >> do they ever get muddy and run on your furniture? >> yeah, but we try to get rid of it as soon as possible. >> today is nationana margarita day. how do you like yours, hoda? >> i like mine on the rocks. with just tequila and nothing else. st tequila. >> that's really good. >> that's like one of those skinny ones. >> why do we have a margarita cupcake, you might add? >> they're tequila soaked. shall we try it? >> i'm not eating sweets, so you try it. >> i'm not supposed to be eating sweets. >> your trainer is watching you.

>> what's isn't? >> maybe something margaritay. just lime. >> you're going to pay for that. >> you know a word i don't like, when it says lime curd is in it. what is curd? >> by the way, it's delicious. >> what's on the top? >> anyway, it's created by pastry chef michelle spell. each cupcake is $3.25 and worth it. >> but how many calories? >> they don't tell you that. >> all right. so kanye has been making an awful lot of news lately. >> not for good reasons. >> not for good reasons, but if showing signs of how tiring fatherhood can be is in this next picture, he's exhausted. they were out shopping, he and kim and the babies. is that north? >> north is long. she's tall. >> they were out with chrissy teigen and john legend.

>> apparently they do. she sent that out. she said it would be her father's birthday today had he not passed away. >> we also have a picture for the very first time, a photo of their other child, brand new baby -- not brand new, born in december. >> it's beautiful. it's really beautiful. all babies are beautiful, though, aren't they? >> i couldn't remember i saint was there are born. there are so many people pregnant and having babies. christey teaguen chrissiey teigen is pregnant. >> look how beautiful she looks. she's gorgeous. >> here's what happened. chrissiey teigen was tweeting that she was going to have a night nurse come and help her when the baby is born. >> she's a first-time mother, okay. >> so twitter went cray like twitter does. they were saying it's part-time

are, all those things. so she responded, because chrissy teigen does not mince words. she says a night nurse doesn't replace you waking and feeding at night. you're up with them, they're helpers and teachers. she said i'm so used to sharing my life that i forget how protective i'll have to be soon. i cannot handle this kind of constant judgment. >> nor should she h he to but it unfortunately comes with the territory. it's the world we live in. it blows my mind that people think that their opinion is going to matter to you. she knows whose opinions matter so don't even read this stuff. >> she says whatever she wants on twitter. a couple of times she tweeted me something really crazy and vug gar and wild and i thought that was an imposter. she goes after people who say negative things about her. good for her. >> why give them any power? i would just ignore them. just ignore them. or pray for them, do something,

thinking that their opinion matters to you. >> does it ever matter when you read things? >> if somebody has misunderstood my intention about something, then i respond to it. but somebody just giving me their opinion on something and they don't even know me -- >> yes. >> no. no, no, no. don't give them power. right? >> right, chris? chris says yes. we don't care what chris says. he can say whatever he wants. does doesn't make sense to me but apparently there's a right way to write an e-mail. you're going to ask your friend to go to dinner and you want to sound like a normal human being, not overeager, not crazy. >> what kind of a friend are we talking about? >> a friend. >> why would you be overeager to ask a friend to have dinner? >> can you go. do you want to go to lunch? what time do you want to go? >> you know what i do to you? lamb chop, question mark. that's what i do to you.

and analyzed 5.3 million e-mails. >> an e-mail efficiency service. >> they determined these are the phrasings. so you guys choose and decide which e-mail is the best way to ask someone to dinner. here's number one. >> hey, i was thinking about you earlier. do you want to get pizza. >> number two. >> hey, i definitely would like to get together next week. do you want to get pizza? and this is hoda's. >> hey, it would be absolutely wonderful to see you. do you want to get pizza? i'm so excited. so i would say 1. number one, life is short. hungry? pizza? meet me. which one do you want? >> i don't know why i think it's so funny. there's nothing really funny about it but it's hysterical. i've lost it. i think i would go -- i would send number three, i'm so excited but i would hate to receive that one.

wait, let's go get pizza. i think i would go with number two. >> hey, i'd definitely like to get together next week. do you want to get pizza? i think that's ridiculous. if it's a good friend, they know you want to get together. experts, keep those things on when you say the words, say you want to t.o.infer that goldilocks area, not too positive, not to negative, not too in your face. what kind of friends do they have? first of all, don't do e-mail. that's an even better thing. hoda, i'm hungry. let's go eat. >> you'd say yes and that would be the end of it. so again city ofgwen stefani and blake shelton are apparently in love. apparently. they're sort of wrapped up. >> and you did wonder if it was a bouncy thing from their oar relationships or if it was

>> they say if you fall in love right away it's not that great long time. i'm not saying it's not going to last, but -- >> you sure as heck hope it doesn't. let's be honest. >> so i guess blake -- gwen stefani couldn't attending and so she brought her iphone and was facetiming him. >> the man does 300 gigs a year. of course she can't be at every one of them. it's not like she's missing his bar mitzvah or something. if you're in love with a lawyer, do you go and hear all his closing arguments? >> but here's the thing about facetiming. i was telling you, i went to the beach and there were four girls sitting at a table and their fifth friend couldn't come to the beach, so she was present everywhere. hey, look, we're having blueberry pancakes. look at that.

them pass the phone around, look at the sunrise. elevated. >> driving me nuts. breakfast? >> no. there should have been. should have been. oh, that's good. >> it bugs you. >> i don't know why. and i think if there was another person sitting there, who cares. hey, look at the sunrise. but there was something about the phone. give it to me and pass it over here and look what i'm wearing. it just seemed, i don't know, a little annoying, right? >> let me ask you this, did they know you were sitting there next to them? now you outed all of them and they probably were fans of yours before and not now. you've got to think these things through. >> anyhoo, this is kind of cute. so this little girl saved up all of her money because she wanted to buy her brother a hamster. >> that is so sweet. she's the younger sister, right? >> she's the younger sister. look at this moment that she decided to break the piggy bank. take a look at her brother's

>> a hamster. i paid for it. why are you crying? why are you crying? >> i think he's happy. >> are you happy crying? oh. >> how does it end? please tell me. oh, that is the sweetest thing. >> can i tell you one quick teeny story? >> apparently not. >> when i graduated -- when i graduated from college and i was looking for a job and i needed a car, my brother worked at popeye's fried chicken. he worked there every day that summer and i needed a $1,000 down payment to get a car because i didn't have a car to go to work and he wrote his whole check to me. he just wrote the check and handed to me. he worked every day that summer and he gave me the check. >> ooh.

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modest and simple and did not upstage the bride. >> i actually had lunch with brittany and her husband. >> you did? >> yeah, when i was down in florida. they were good friends with my friends the loomises and they were like two weeks ahead from their wedding and they're love low kids. you can see that she would be great friends with her. >> taylor has known brittany since they were ten years old and she has known the groom since she was 4-year-old old. so they all seem very close-knit. >> they really are darling. >> taylor was going to give $250,000 to ke$ha for some money. >> that's right. she wrote out a check to kesha for her legal troubles. she's in court and was told she cannot record music outside of her sony contract. she wants to get out because of dr. luke. she's alleged that he raped her, that he drugged her, that she

dr. luke's team said the allegations against luke will be shown to be completely false. a lot of female pop stars are coming to kesha's defense saying this is something that is a feminine problem. lady gaga -- >> i wonder if she in debt now? >> she's not making money or producing any records. so when you're not working, not making money, one has to imagine that taylor's money will definitely come in handy. there is a break-up to report, jamie alexander from "the blind spot" and peter facinelli. >> these two have been engaged since march, 2015, and they have called it quits. her rep told "usa today" that it's because of family and work commitments. jamie films "blindspot" in new york city and peter films "supergirl" which is in l.a. he has three daughters with his ex-wife so one has to imagine

>> i saw them at the parade, the macy's parade. they were together and just hanging around. i think she did one little spot or something but they were hanging out. >> this took me by surprise because at the golden globes, they were making out all over the red carpet and things seemed hot and heavy. >> at least they made that decision before they got married. >> so the "friends" reunion. >> it was yesterday. the legendary director james burrows directed lots of great shows. big special in honor of him but it was a little "friends" mini reunion. everyone was there except for matthew perry. >> do we have a little? >> i think we do, yeah. hard thing. we really just wanted to hang out with each other. it was not a we have to do this. we really just fell in love and adored each other instantly and would hang out at each other's houses and watch the show together. >> we did at the beginning. we watched -- >> you did, you watched together. >> at the beginning.

>> and then what happened? >> jennifer did go on to say that the girls all had lunch together every day for ten years where they would have the jennifer salad. >> what was the jennifer salad? >> they wouldn't tell us. >> one piece of lettuce probably. should you still tip of if your service is terrible? >> we are dishing out answers to your etiquette questions. >> and find out who hey, you're going to do great. hi. jane's always on the move.

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we are back on this funday monday, ready to serve up some advice for the restaurant etiquette dilemmas. >> you want to make sure you behave tastefully as mr. manners himself, thomas farley.

>> hi, thomas. >> the first we sit down should we put our napkin on our lap? >> the host will be the first one and that gives the cue to everyone else. >> what if we're all together? >> do it once you've sat down. >> hi, ladies and gentlemen, may i take your order? yet. >> you've been sitting here quite some time, but i'll check back. >> okay. how long is quite some time? >> what do you do about a rude waiter? on here clearly. our menus are closed so that indicates to the server that we are ready to order. now, in this case we just sat down so clearly he came over far too soon. >> which is typical of alex. now the look. >> we haven't seen each other in a while. we'll be talking more than looking. >> but this is a restaurant, not a lounge. so 10, 15 minutes is the maximum amount of time before you're looking at that menu ready to order. we ready with a drink order.

>> the drink order is already here. sometimes you come up and it's cold outside and you bring all your stuff with you. >> or are trying to save a little extra money not having to check it. >> so you plop things over the they ask you at the beginning can i take your coat? i always like mine. i like to keep it. >> or you come in and you're still cold. >> so is that a no-no. >> this is known as winter spreading where your coats and gloves and scarves are taking up more seats than you are. if the restaurant has a coat check and it's a large item, you're going to check it because this cluters up theters up the dining room and the server could trip over it. if you don't have a coat check, keep everything self-contained on your person. so on the back of your chair, not other chairs where people might need to sit there. >> our food is arrived and we ordered chicken.

>> thank you. >> you know him really well. >> you don't want to drop it. >> thank you. >> let me know if there's anything wrong. >> all right. thank you very, very much. then we say grace and check in. oh, excuse me, oh, it's bloody. >> no. >> what do you do? >> excuse me, please, i'm so sorry, do you see that, i'm just a little concerned. >> it looks good to me. >> you get salmonella. let me know how you're feeling. >> so you handled that beautifully. you did exactly right. >> wishing salmonella on him? >> i think he earned that comment for sure. >> you said it politely. you didn't put it on the waiter. the waiter did his job in theory so sending it back -- >> never take it out on the waiter. >> never take it out on the waiter. >> i remember one time someone brought you chicken and you

you said that looks mouth watering but i actually ordered salmon. >> the tone is so important. >> okay. what happens now? >> now we say thank you, thomas farley. >> dessert. >> what if you're the only person that wants it. >> it would have been hoda. >> it would have been me. >> don't worry, alex, i'll get it to her. >> here's the issue with ordering a dessert and this is often the case with an appetizer as well. you may be the only one that nts wants to order dessert. if it seems like other people need to get on their way, you're not going to say, yes, i'd like dessert or i'd like coffee. order one for the table and maybe split it. >> if somebody orders an appetizer and everybody else orders a full meal, how do you divvy it up so it's fair?

somebody on a regular basis, you're going to get short the other time. if there's a vast disparity, you've ordered one cocktail and everybody else ordered ten? have a buddy step in for you and say hoda only had one cocktail, why don't we cover her. >> as we say good-bye, if the service is terrible. >> like it was. >> do you still tip alex? >> here's what we want to do. at the end of the meal. we're going to step in the moment it happens by speaking with the manager. >> bye. >> don't scrimp at the end. that's the wrong way to go. >> thank you very much, thomas. always a pleasure to have you. the workout that keeps hoda woman look as toned and fabulous as she is from her personal trainer. >> we're going to get moving with i love memphis doing the hottest new dance craze called the lean and dab. >> i'm going to lean now an incredible rebirth for dry hair. new from l'oreal, extraordinary oil shampoo. a shampoo system infused with luscious,

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just looking at me, what needs the most help? >> nothing. but we're going to pick the three main ones that pretty much everybody at home wants to work on. booty, arms and legs. >> i just did the nae-nae. >> is this the booty. >> step up with a knee rise into a real lunge. >> keeping him. >> step up, knee raise, step down, lounge down, lunge. >> i wanted to put workout clothes on and hoda said no. >> is that a lunge or no? >> bend the rear leg down. >> show her, show her. she wants to be shown. >> do it again. >> we'll do three or four on each side. >> step down, knee raise, step down, rear lunge.

and stuff. i got that one. >> we'll do ten on each side. as part of a circuit we'll do three rounds. second activity is for arms. this is good for bis, shouldering and triceps. problem areas for everybody. >> okay. >> so start with the weights by your side. do a curl. >> >>. >> up and back behind you. >> i'm sitting out, i can't do it. >> up, press, tricep extension. elbows in. so curl, press, when you go down for the tricep extension -- >> can you rest them on your neck? >> like that, perfect. right there. >> now what?

>> if you do it fast enough, sets of 15, that will get your heart rate up. >> okay. now what's the last one? >> 5:45 in the morning. >> the last one is hoda's favorite. it's called plank step-ups. jump down into a pushup position. go down to the left, down to the right. >> i can't. >> will you show a more of those. >> down to the left, down to the right, up to the left, up to the right. >> you were a navy s.e.a.l., right? >> i was in the kmondcommandos. >> and i actually feel a change. >> you'll find it really challenging in your core and doubles up on the triceps. >> isn't chris nice? wouldn't you show up early? >> she's been telling you how great you are all this time.

>> all right. our favorite things are next.

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