from nbc news, "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio ockefeller plaza. >> hello, everybody! yes, it's the beginning of the workweek but it's funday monday, february 22nd. that is "confession" by florida georgia line. hoda is having a lot of troubntrating because somebody is here. >> who? >> that guy. >> my trainer is 's so exciting, his name is chris.

>> is hoda good when in in the morning? >> yes. we train at 5:30 in the morning. >> he's going to show the workout he has meaid you hated it. >> no, i said i'm not that good at it. >> chris is going to show us some exercises. at those tats. >> he's got a few. if you missed the big "friends" reunion last all the highlights. >> now, last year it was all about the whip and the nae-nae, so there's a new ded the dab. link and dab, link and >> i never learned the nae-nae. >> it's the lean and the dab. >> they're going to show it was easy. >> okay. now, you said a nice weekend with your mom. i love when you take your little trips together.

rays. my mom was just like -- she's on themy god, we saw mary higgins clark in the lobby. i said to my mom, that's mary higgins clark, and she said, aselect. 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 >> she said she's on too much. >> she's not on too much. >> that's what we said. >> the other day it was love your pet day and in my love your pets. i put them on the sofa. like that. camera. >> do they ever get muddy and run on your furniture? >> yeah, but we try to get rid day.

>> i like mine on the rocks. with just else. just tequila. >> that's really good. one of those skinny ones. >> why do we have a margarita cupcake, you might add? >> they're tequila we try it? >> i'm not eating sweets, so you try it. >>ating sweets. >> your trainer is watching you. your trainer is watching you, hoda. >> what's isn't? >> maybe something >> lime. just lime. >> you're going to pay for that. >> you know a word i don't en it says lime curd is in it. what is curd? >> by the way, it's delicious. top? >> anyway, it's created by pastry chef michelle spell. each cupcake is $3.25 andit. >> but how many calories?

>> all right. so kanye has been making an awful lot of news for good reasons. >> not for good reasons, but if showing signs of how tiring fatherhood can be is in this next exhausted. they were out shopping, he and kim and the babies. is that north? >> north is long.tall. >> they were out with chrissy teigen and john legend. >> these guys don't do that, do they? >> apparently they ent 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 photother child, brand new baby -- not brand new, born in >> it's beautiful. it's really beautiful. all babies are beautiful, though, aren't i couldn't remember if saint was there are born.

pregnant and having babies. christey teaguen chrissie y teigen is pregnant. >> look how beautiful she looks. she's here's what happened. chrissie y 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, >> so twitter went cray like twitter does. they were saying it's part-time parenting,ou are, all those things. so she responded, because chrissy teigen does not mince words. she says a night nurse doesn'te you waking and feeding at night. you're up with them, they're helpers and teachers. she said i'm so used to sharingt i forget how protective i'll have to be soon. i cannot handle this kind of constant or should she have to but it unfortunately comes with the territory. it's the world we live in. it blows my mind that people

going to matter to you.e knows whose opinions matter so don't even read this stuff. >> she says whatever she wants on twitter. a couple of times she tweeted melly crazy and vug gar and wild and i thought that was an she goes after people who say negative things about her. good for her. >> why give them any power? ignore them. just ignore them. or pray for them, do something, but don't give them the power thinking that their opinionyou. >> does it ever matter when you read things? >> if somebody has misunderstood my intention about something, then i respond to it. just giving me their opinion on something and they don't even know me -- >> yes. >> no. no, no, no.hem power. right? >> right, chris? chris says yes. we don't care what chris ay whatever he wants. does doesn't make sense to

right way to write an going to ask your friend to go to dinner and you want to sound like a normal human being, not overeager, not crazy.f a friend are we talking about? >> a friend. >> why would you be overeager to ask a friend to have >> can you go. do you want to go to lunch? what time do you want to go? >> you know what i do to you? lamark. that's what i do to you. >> somebody had a lot of time and analyzed 5.3 million 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 to dinner. here's number one. >> hey, i was thinking about you earlier. do you want to get pizza. >> hey, i definitely would like to get together next week. do you want to get pizza? hoda's. >> hey, it would be absolutely

do you want to get pizza? i'm soso i would say 1. number one, life is short. hungry? 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 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.oh, my god, i can't wait, let's go get pizza. i think i would go with number >> hey, i'd definitely like to get together next week. do you want to get pizza? i think that's it's a good friend, they know you want to get together. experts, keep those things on the words, say you want to t.o.

negative, not too in your face. what kind of friends do they 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 thahe end of it. so again city of gwen stefani and blake shelton are apparently in love. apparently. they're sort of wrapped up. wonder if it was a bouncy thing from their oar relationships or if it was promotion for "the voice." >> they say if you fall inright away it's not that great long time. i'm not saying it's not going to last, but -- >> you sure as heck hope itt. let's be honest. >> so i guess blake -- gwenldn't attending and so she brought her iphone and was facetiming him.

it's not like she's missing his bar mitzvah or you're in love with a lawyer, do you go and hear all his closing arguments? >> but here's the thing about i was telling you, i went to the beach and there were four girls sitting at a table and their fifth friend couldn't beach, so she was present everywhere. hey, look, we're having blueberry pancakes. look at that. and for some reason them pass the phone around, look at the sunrise. >> and it gets elevated and >> driving me nuts. >> was there alcohol involved at breakfast? >> no. there should have been. should have been. oh, that's good. >> it >> 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 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, know you were sitting there next

now you outed all of them and they probably were fans of yours before and not now. you've got to 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 ha 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 ook at her brother's reaction. >> a i paid for it. why are you why are you crying? >> i think he's happy. >> are you happy crying?. >> how does it end? please tell me. oh, that is the sweetest thing. >> can i tell you one quick teeny story?

>> when i graduated -- when i graduated from college and i was looking for a job and i needed a car, my brother worked at chicken. he worked there every day that summer and i needed a $1,000 down payment to get a 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 s he gave me the check. >> ooh. >> how do we do it day after day. favorite things and they might become yours too. actually i'm wearing it under my dress. >> of course you are, you little -- >> and why taylor swiftaring wedding bells this weekend. we'll get you caught up on the rest of the hollywood scoop all year long you worked hard to take care of business and take care of the people who matter most. n your tax refund arrives, make it go a little further at walmart. r,

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>> here with the scoop is nina >> so taylor swift was busy, busy, busy. >> monday she's with the a-s at the grammys, sunday she's at her best friend's wedding. she's just a normal girl. this is a wedding that taylor had been looking forward to time. she told "people" magazine this was her very first time as a maid of honor and she was thrilled. the two g akra dresses. taylor kept the dress very modest and simple and did not upstage the bride. >> i actually had lunchbrittany and her husband. >> you did? >> yeah, when i was down in florida. they were good friends with my 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 >> taylor has known brittany since they were ten years old

since she was 4-year-old old. all seem very close-knit. >> they really are darling. >> taylor was going to give $250,000 to ke$ha for some >> that's right. she wrote out a check to kesha for her legal troubles. she's in court and was toldnnot 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, suffered emotional lewis. dr. luke's team said the allegations against luke will be shown to be completely false.f female pop stars are coming to kesha's defense saying this is something that is a feminine problem. >> i wonder if she in debt now? >> she's not making money or producing any records. working, not making money, one has to imagine that taylor's money will definitely come in re is a break-up to

"the blind spot" and peter i. >> these two have been engaged since march, 2015, and they have called it quits. her rep told "usa today" that of family and work commitments. jamie films "blindspot" in new york city and peter films rl" 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.id one little spot or something but they were hanging out. >> this took me by surprise because at the golden globes,ing out all over the red carpet and things seemed hot and heavy. >> at least they made that decision before they got >> so the "friends" reunion. >> it was yesterday. the legendary director jamesected lots of great

big special in honor of him but it was a little "friends" mini everyone was there except for matthew perry. >> do we have a little? >> i think we do, yeah. it was not a hard thing. we really just wanted to hang out with each other. it was not a we have to do this. we in love and adored each other instantly and would hang out at each other's houses and watch the show >> we did at the beginning. we watched -- >> you did, you watched together. >> at the beginning. >> yeah, the first yore. >> and then >> 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 e are dishing out answers to your etiquette questions.

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we are back on this funday ready to serve up some advice for the restaurant etiquette dilemmas. >> you want to make sure you behave tastefully as mr. mannef, thomas farley. >> whom we love. >> hi. >> hi, thomas. >> the first we sit down should we put our napkin on our 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 , ladies and gentlemen, may i take your order? >> alex, we're not quite ready yet. >> you've been sitting here quite some time, but i'll check back. >> is quite some time? >> what do you do about a rude waiter?

on here menus are closed so that indicates to the server that we are ready to order. now, in this case we just sat 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 >> 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 we ready with a drink order. >> hoda is ready for the drink order. >> the drink order is already 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 so is that a no-no. >> this is known as winter spreading where your coats and re taking up

if the restaurant has a coat check and it's a large item, you're going to check itcl ters up the dining room and the server could trip over it. if you don't have a coat check, keep everything 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 ordere >> i made the decision for you. >> thank you. >> you know him really well.ant to drop it. >> thank you. >> let me know if there's anything wrong. thank you very, very much. then we say grace and check in. oh, excuse me, oh, it's it's not cooked to your liking. >> no. >> what do you do? >> excuse me, please, i'm so

>> it looks good to me. >> you get t me know how you're feeling. >> so you handled that beautifully. you did exactly right. >> wishing salmonella on 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 salmon. you said that looks mouth watering but i actually ordered >> 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 ld have been me. >> don't worry, alex, i'll get it to her.

ordering a dessert and this is often the case with anwell. you may be the only one that nts dessert. if it seems like other people need to get on their way, you're not going to say, yes, i'dt or i'd like coffee. order one for the table and maybe split it. >> if somebody orders annd everybody else orders a full meal, how do you divvy it up so it's fair? >> if you're dining with somebody on a regular basis, you're going to get shortd one time, someone else the other time. if there's a vast disparity, you've ordered one cocktody else ordered ten? have a buddy step in for you and say hoda only had one cocktail, why don't we cover her. good-bye, if the service is terrible. >> like it was. >> do you still tip alex?t we want to do. we're not going to take it out at the end of the meal.

moment it happens by speaking >> bye. >> don't scrimp at the end. that's the wrong way to go. >> thank you very much, thomas. always a p the workout that keeps hoda woman look as toned and fabulous as she is from her personal >> 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 incredible rebirth for dry hair. new from l'oreal, extraordinary oil shampoo. a shampoo system infused with luscious, . ir looks instantly and visibly nourished. transforms dry hair without weighing it down. , weightlessly flowing, brilliantly shiny. as if transfromed. extraordinary. rth for dry hair. new extraordinary oil from l'oreal advanced haircare paris.

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if you ever wish hoda's toned arms and lean legs, push your coffee table out of the way and grab a water table. we're going to show you how sheshape. >> i want to point out i have never had a personal trainer in my life. i had never had one. i was in the gym and a girl at the gym named darcy said you'v to miss this guy named chris finn from equinox.d i started working muscles i didn't even know existed. >> and you thought you were in

work out all the time and you said. >> what? >> i wasn't in shape. i really wasn't. chris is here because he's going to teach us. where are you from? >> sydney, >> you just like to hear him talk. i've been living in about 15 months. >> so he's going to work three body parts of yours, kath. >> mine?f the 80 that need help. just looking at me, what needs the most help? >> nothing. but we're going to pick the ones that pretty much everybody at home wants to work on. booty, arms and>> i just did the nae-nae. >> is this the booty. >> step up with a knee rise into a real

>> step up, knee raise, step unge down, lunge. >> i wanted to put workout clothes on and hoda said no. >> is that a lunge or end the rear leg down. >> show her, show her. she wants to be shown. >> do we'll do three or four on each side. >> step down, knee raise, step down, rear without showing your spanx and stuff. i got that one. >> we'll do ten on each side. as part of a circuit we'll dothree rounds. second activity is for arms. this is good for bis, shouldering andlem areas for everybody. >> okay. >> so start with the weights by your side. do a curl. >> >>.

>> i'm sitting out, i can't do it. >> up, press, extension. elbows in. so curl, press, when you for the tricep extension -- >> can you rest them on your neck? >> like that, right there. >> now what? >> back up, down. >> if you do it fast enough, sets of 15, that will getheart rate up. >> okay. now what's the last one? >> 5:45 in the morning. >> the last one is hoda's vorite. it's called plank step-ups. jump down into a pushup go down to the left, down to the right. >> i can't.

those. >> down to the left, down to the right, up to the left, up to the >> you were a navy s.e.a.l., right? >> i was in the commandos. >> and i actually feel a change. >> you'll find it really challenging in your core and doubles up on the sn't chris nice? wouldn't you show up early? >> she's been telling you how great you are all this time. it's lovely to meet right. our favorite things are next. >> fir, st, this is "today" on

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