>>nn from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio # 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hey, everybody. happy funday monday december 19th, and so happy that you are joining us today. and welcome home, baby, that is from fifth harmony. >> and going to work, that is great. >> and we will have more news about them and more buzz. >> if you want the smoky eye or the sexy

look at how to get glamed up. >> you know the guest who won't leave? >> yes. >> or the one who brings a friend or two to the party, and mr. barley, mr. manners has a advice for you over the holiday, and it would not be a special occasion without inviting our two favorite wine-os, leslie and ray. we love them. >> we love them. >> they have creative cocktails to toast the holidays. >> excellent. >> and you are going to -- and i think that you need to change the agents, because every time you turn on the tv, there is hoda woman. >> and can we say welcome to the world to dylan dreyer and her husband who had a little baby and that baby came on her due date in a snowstorm. calvin bradley fischera. and eight pounds and three o

>> and how gorgeous. >> they were watching tv and they liked calvin. >> that is how we got eco di. a -- got cody. >> and she was so ready. and so cute pregnant. adorable. >> and yes, and she not everybody is that cute right up to the very end. >> yes. she could not have been more darli darling. >> and you know who else? charlie. >> who? >> savannah's new babynd i snuck over to the house. look at that nugget. and he fell asleep right there in the crook of the neck. and he is sleepy, and look at him. the cutest cheeks and outfits and look at how little he is. >> and look at how cute she is. >> i put some conditioner on the hair and put on a hat. he is so adorable. >> hat's off. >> i took the subway, baby and i took the train. it is awesome. >> the only way to get around new york, but this time of the year, so smart. >> we brought some of the crowds inside by the

friend friends here and the head of the zac brown band fan club, and the ski caps on, and the auction winners. hello, everybody. >> there is a cute video and a player nor dallfor the dallas c and he does a kettle hop. >> and he does a touchdown and what will i do to celebrate? i know, i will jump into the salvation army kettle, and he jumped in, and he is celebrating. now that player is ezekiel elliott, and it was, you know, one of those amazing players, and so the guy might get fined for doing that, a but he said, that he will take whatever that fine is and match it and give it to the salvation army. >> which is one of the greatest organizations year-round and not just at christmas time. >> right. >> and now, usually frank would

have been there before, but he would have liked that one, because it is a good cae d in swi o, d i to draw tetoog big. >> and i like when they jump into the fans and the fans get to hug them, like it does not feel like showing off, but it is celebration. >> okay. yeah. okay. and one more reboot. >> but i am excited about this. >> you are? >> yes, i loved it. "wu one day at a time." i >> i was too old. >> you were watching tv and with we or on tv. i missed everything. >> you didn't miss a thing, and while kathie lee was creating things, the rest of us with our hands on the dial. >> you were growing up, hoda woman. what they are doing is to take all of the nor man leer works, like "all in the family" and "one day at a time" and brilliant shows and rebooting them on the netflix. >> and this one, starred bonnie franklin and divorced with two daughters who were played by ri bertonelli and

>> what happened to your face? >> what happened to your face? >> sor are ri, i was hanging out with my friends, and it is hard to turn it off. >> i went to war and i got hurt and when i came back there was an organization set up to help me and the other veterans that reare in need. >> we are not doing a regular debate, but opposite sides to help each other. so i am you. >> you want to cross my heart into pieces. >> that is not me, and that is her. >> you make me sound like i have an accent. >> i love that. >> what is genius is that they are shooting the same scripts and everything holds up all of these years later, and norman leer is a jennous and i bet they do with the brand-new casts. >> and they will do it for "naul the family" and all

norman leer shows and revive them with the original titles. >> and i can't imagine who would have to step into those shoes though for "all in the family." >> didn't you love edith. >> meathead. and maude. and it makes sense. >> i would not think that they would hold up, but i bet they do. >> and they just do, and racism is racism and so many of the subsubjects that they discuss are still around unfortunately. >> yes. >> and demi moore's daughters, and not just hers, but -- >> ashton kutcher's. >> no, no, bruce willis. >> yes, a little brain shoot there. and they have three daughters together, rumor, and scout and 22-year-old tallulah. and so the rumor is that willis has started a singing career, but now she and her sister scout

together. >> wow. >> and here is a little bit of them together. we would like to hear what they sound like. ♪ i feel the same way ♪ seems the time is seeing you ♪ and i hurt the same way >> the familial sound together and you wonder who is shooting that video. somebody -- >> and you know what i believe, they plopped the phone down and positioned it and thought, are we in it? but they sound good. >> yes, and currently writing music for an album together and we wish them the best. >> here is the question, to you think that lying by omission is still a lie? when you are purposely omit an important detail from the statement, and like your boyfriend is going to ask like, how is

is an example, if i go out to have a fun, fun night, and joel couldn't go, i am not going to go on and on about how fun it was, and it is fun and why would i go on and on. >> it is because you are saying it is fun. >> but you are moiting some detd -- omitting the details of how much fun the night was. >> but it is not lying. >> but you are admitting only part of the story. >> only to not cause pain. >> if you do it to not cause pain. >> and what is the motivation? >> now, if -- >> what? >> if you said something like say you had plans with somebody and you weren't feel sog hoing . and then you went out with somebody else. >> well, that is a lie. >> yeah. >> that is a lie. if you omit -- yeah. so

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video. >> wait, look. and there he is. >> and go. >> does he go this is is. >> yes. good boy. >> and if you have to go, you have to go. >> good boy. >> and you have? >> "fear fighting" awakening courage to overcome your fears." it is on sale january 3rd on amazon and a lot of people battle fear. and she has in her own life and how she is able to overcome it. it is cute, because it is the "little christmas angel" and $24.99 including the doll. it has a wonderful message about christmas and precious little book to read are and a little baby. these are the last-minute gift ideas, okay. >> all right. we have a big show coming up up. >> and the rumors of a kardashian breakup coming up? >> well, the scoop of rob and blac chyna and the drama from the weekend. >> and mor

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if you were busy wrapping and shopping this weekend you did not have time to catch up on all of the celebrity scoop. >> but you can count on us, because we have the juicy gossip in "today's buzz." >> and here to fill you in is the entertainment weekly senior writer tim stackable. >> and we have devastating and jaw-dropping news for fifth harmony fans. >> yes,

are fourth harmony and no longer a fifth, but a fourth. >> and a done deal? >> yes, camila ka bbelo who is e of the e premier members of fifth harmony and cute and sang on all of the songs and worked from home, but she announced last night that she is leaving the band. well, it is announced to be a fifth harmony's website that they were represented by her agent that she is leaving. >> and they can still be friends. >> and they work from home, and one of the biggest singles of the year, and thap were discovered on "x factor" as solo artist artists so they never thought that they would be a group, and so it was not built on a long term friendship. >> and sometimes good things can happen that way, and lou perlman put many together. >>

and so she is branching out. >> and justin timberlake. >> and she is the timberlake/zane, and the justin zane. >> and has zane had a huge solo career yet? >> have you heard his song with taylor swift with 50 shades mov movie. >> and oh. >> and it is called "fire." and it is -- wow. >> and the box office, and something, something that i was surprised about the will smith movie shocked me. >> and yes, "collateral damage which got terrible reviews, but it also tanked. opened up $7 million which is the huge cast, and you know, helen mirren and the lowest opening ever in his career including "concussion" which came out. >> and he was brilliant there. >> and yes. >> and some people said, maybe jenna bush who watched it and said l

"bridget jones' baby" and i loved it. >> what is it? "collateral beauty." >> and the title is not great, because nobody use s ts the ter collateral beauty, because it is not a term that anybody uses, and i never have said, like, well, kathie lee all of the collateral beauty in the room, and it is -- and what does that mean? >> well, something has to suffer for it, right? >> well, i did not hear any advertising for the movie, and am a i crazy? what is that about? >> it is like wonderful life, but it dwarfs star wars which took everything. >> and what about rob are and chyna? >> well, i love to talk about them, don't you? well, america sweethearts are no longer. so it is -- >> she has moved out and taken the the baby. >> yes, and

took the baby and began on saturday when her e-mail was hacked by someone very mad she said, and implied it is rob who allegedly hacked the instagram account and the social media accounts, and somebody uploaded the text messages that she had and por trey her in a not awesome light, and then he basically said that she is leave org left, and she took dreamer kardashian which is my favorite kardashian name, and then blac chyna did her own instagram and said she is done with rob, and like this year has been so sberngs and blah, blah, terrible, and it is a war of words right now, but everyone is wondering if it is real are or fake, because they had the birth special on last night. >> and oh, lord. >> and picked up for another se on on the show, and so it is like, is it real? it is hard, because -- >> well. >> and time will tell. and i feel badly for the

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time. >> and guess what, hoda woman, she says that she relates to you because she has a large head and hats never fit her either. >> look at her, it does not fit. and she works as a senior business consultant and loves to golf with her work ladies and comes from a huge family, and she has two girls, and she and her husband have been married for 31 years, and they want to go on a trip together. >> all right. we will put the fandom to the test with the trivia question. you have 15 seconds and one guess. this is a little bit more difficult. all right. every wednesday, i share something with the audience and when i do, kathie lee often closes her eyes and goes like that. does this happen during ihoda or "words of wisdom" or "brain tea teaser tuesday." >> it is words of wisdom. >> you are going. >> oh, was that

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hair, and smoothing thing here. >> and we will reveal her in a moment. >> and make it smooth. >> but how did you make it curly? >> we just saturated it with the smoothing gel. >> that is all you did? >> and you had to use the curling iron, because that does not happen like that, come on. >> yeah, it is okay. >> and it is a little bit following the curl. i will show you how to do a lotion. >> and this is how you do the chinon out of a ponytail. you need a rubber band, and dissolves into the hair. and then what you do is to make spa space, and you twist this ponytail into this. that is one. and then you can put another one. >> and you keep going. >> yes. >> and until you have run out of hair. >> and while arson is going to demonstrate

tell us about this. >> we know that the ladies love the browner or the gray for the smoky eye, and so we want to kick it up and you can use the green or the beautiful plum, and the great thing to do is to use a shadow stick, because they are fast and easy and for these, it is a primer built right into it, and let me sneak in here. and watch this. we will take the plum and put it all over the lid. >> all over? >> and yes from the lashline to crease. and then blend it out. mush it in, y'all. here is the little secret f you are putting on a smoky eye and you feel like two holes in the bed sheet, and real dark like a ghost look, you want to pop it up to make it more open, quickly, we will take a

bit of the shimmer and pop it right in the inner corners aed right on the lid, and this is the fast way. you are get the rgusmo, but ligne tre >>ndowthjae o re >> and we veheefe pre >> thisbefore. >> okay. beautiful straight hair. all right. spin her around and talk about the makeup first. >> hello. >> and there we go. we will talk about the highlighting, because everybody loves a little bit of highlighting, and you love it. it lifts and makes you look like you have had eight hours of sleep, and you will g the glowing j.lo glow going on. so you pop it up with the highlighter, and we know where to put it. right on the cheekbones to make you look like you had a facelift and not like you need it, sisser te, but the dewey look, and the tip of the nose, so you don't look like a big matte potato. you know what i mean. >> and now, as you are doing that, arson is taking town the curlers, because she does not want to be in the curlers. >> and she told me that she wants to have volume. and so what

the velcro rollers, and good choice, because it is not hot. it is not the hot rollers, but the velcro roerls, because the hot will give y t cl at the end. >> and arson, when do you put them in? after a blow dry? >> your hair can be natural. >> and show us. >> look at that. >> oh, my -- what! >> look at the before and this. >> wow. >> oh, my gosh. where are you going the lunch? >> isn't that festive for five seconds, and so you want to heat these rollers and two minutes and put on the makeup like mali did and then cool them off. heat them n and then cool them off. >> okay. >> and it is a little bit, but it makes a big difference. >> and you can see how they create the model looks go to the style facebook page. >> and now, what do you do if a guest brings

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the holidays bring together family and friends, but sometimes with great gathering comes sticky situations. >> yep. from uninvited guests to those who don't know when to leave. we are going to show you how to handle awkward etiquette conundrums with help of mr. etiquette himself, thomas xlr. >> is somebody at the door? >> i think so. >> come on in, please. >> oh, it's kate. >> what's kate doing? >> you know, kate if you wouldn't mind, would you just take off your shoes. we have a little spot over here. >> oh, no. these are new. >> so is the rug. so, yeah, if you wouldn't mind. >> if you want to stay, kate -- take them off. all right? >> maybe she has a hole in her stockings. >> here's the key if you want guests to take off shoes. be welcoming but let your guest know in advance. not wearing wholly

>> kate is -- >> next? [ doorbell ] >> come in. >> oh, hi! >> i brought a friend. >> we have -- >> luna. here you want a drink? maybe not. you'll probably drop it. >> maybe in a minute. >> did luna do her business before she got here? >> she did. i promise. don't worry. she'll be very good. >> emily come with her dog and we were not aware. >> that's a no-no. >> this is not a chihuahua, obviously. this dog will be known. the key here is some of our guests may be very afraid of dogs. >> that's it. letting all the heat out. >> we don't know if our guests are comfortable with this. >> and also not appropriate -- >> too big. >> thank you, sweetie. >> i have shown up with bambino on occasion. >> letting the host know in advance is the key. [ doorbell ] >> i don't remember inviting any of these people. >> donna's here. >> i thought per effect tori

estranged fromhe family. not seen olivia. >> nobody likes olivia. >> donna decided, a nice family idea -- >> decided to make nice with everybody. yeah. >> yes. >> you know what? let's move, because this door does not work here. >> good! >> had it repaired malt pultipl times. >> can't get it right. somebody's at the door. >> hey, guys. >> they got the memo. >> the lights. so sorry. >> please, don't worry about it. >>y broke the lights outside? >> that's okay. >> done the right thing. as a host you want to refuse and diffuse this feeling of guilt. you want to refuse -- refuse the money -- don't have to worry about replacing them. >> people are more important than things. >> look how nice. brought food. >> so nice, though. >> takes about an hour to heat up. [ laughter ] just have to reheat t. thank you so much. lovely. appreciate t. it's very sweet, but i don't think it's going to

no room at the inn. we have no room at the oven. >> what do you say, thomas? >> thank you so much. appreciate this. see if we can find smaller bowls to put it in and maybe heat it up in the microwave. >> oh. >> minimum, don't want it to take the place of the main course. >> also making more work for the host, or hostess. >> spiesed to lighten the load. >> i know you didn't mean to. >> but she did. maybe can you do something with these later. >> okay. >> thank you. >> i wonder who's at the door? >> i don't think there's anybody else. >> no. there's somebody else! >> no, there's not i. think we're done. go see the guests. >> visit with the guests. one more. >> everybody come on in. okay. all right. wow. this partien been fun. going on for hours. >> wait. we never really got to the bottom of this. donna brought -- where's donna. she left. >> donna brought, in a strange relative and now leaves the party. so what are youpo

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my agent thanks you. >> my gosh. look who won't leave the party. >> always somebody. >> time to go home. >> all right. raise glass to the holiday season with our favorite he said/she said team. >> the author of wine for women, leslie. hi, kids. you're back. >> hey. >> happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> back together. >> we love it when you visit. >> and brought cocktails. >> how you make it through the holiday season, as you know. >> all of those etiquette problems over there, solve them with this. >> perfect, lady. >> first off, punches. the one i started with, italian spritzer punch. basically like a spritz with a little galiano added to it. pretty, festive. >> what is

>> italian herbal liqueur. crisp, light, really, really lovely. >> pace yourself, hoda. there's lots of these. >> delicious. >> dump it all together in a punch bowl, a little ice ring. >> unusual and like it. you know me, i'm not into -- but that's delicious. >> i have a big old, the one-two punch. ginger spice punch. this has bourbon, baby. >> yes. >> so bourbon is the way. >> bring that over here, leslie. >> the way you solve holiday issues. no family problems there. >> oh, my gosh. >> we're not suggesting that. >> no, we're not. >> sometimes it enflames the problem. >> that's true. >> this is just a dash of bourbon. one part bourbon to five parts ap the-of-al cider. >> festive. >> and time. >> next up, calls the merry merry mojito. a variation of a mojito. you basically create like the usual. simple syrup, mint and lime. >>

>> i'm muddling. i love to muddle. >> what is that? >> we'll muddle through. >> that is rum. a little white rum. >> you could put vodka if you wanted, i bet? >> could you put vodka in. and then you pour into the glass, and instead of -- normally use sparkling water. for the holidays, i'm thinking champaign. >> of course you are. >> why not? more fete istive, fun. >> limey. >> zincy. >> a little festive sprig that is so for me. that is a delicious drink. >> takes you to mexico. doesn't it? >> it does. >> ray is winning now, i'm hearing. >> yes, i a. that's good. yes. >> all right. so i made a fourth-hour fizz, i wanted it to look beautiful and festive just like you two ladies. >> she was asking for votes. >> there we go. >> asking, begging for votes. the fourth-hour fizz. easy to make. a few ingredients. basically take vodka, put it into a shaker, about 1.5

a little elder flower liqueur. then you shake that up. it comes from ed s fros from es >> i said cody likes that. you know it minute you taste t. aren't they distinctive? >> floral. >> yes. >> add a little color. this is an argentinean lightly sparkling red wine because you want the color. you can add more tonic. you want it to be festive. any red. >> lambrusco, any red, then at alongside green color. >> red and green. >> fourth-hour fizz. >> all right. >> moving on to warm, sort of by the fire holiday, nice cocktails. coffee. this one's for you. >> oh, no. this one. >> this is -- essentially a variation -- >> not as -- >>

a little bit of creme de cocoa, kahlua. >> this, a very, very low-cal version of eggnog. no egg and no dairy. egg and delicious, stir it up, a little cinnamon stick, and it is yummy. >> and -- >> dairy-free. >> voila. >> find off of these drink recipes at today.com/food, and donnadorable about to pull back the red curtain with a big, big surprise. thank you, guys, for everything. first, this is "today" on nbc. >> that's what i meant to say.

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