We have a huge show for you today. Look at our little studio. It is so clean and fresh. It is like moving into a new house. Look at the windows. Everyone is out there. Hey. This is awesome. Thanks, everybody, for the last two weeks while hoda and i have been doing nothing. Nothing. Pretty much, holding the fort, we like to think. There is breaking news. Everybody at nbc felt better about knowing that you and i were here to cover any breaking news that would happen. Every now and then, you guys, we have a huge show. Todays show is packed. Yes. With great, great people. We have usher with us. We have Minnie Driver. Minnie driver and she has her bubbly. Shes such a i love her new show. It is fantastic. Everybody is going to love it. Jordin sparks is here, linda gray is here. We have a Live Performance. There is a band that really just one guy, called passenger. And there is a song called let her go. It is a great song. They use it in the commercials at the olympics. The one with the little puppy. So excited. And also all the buzz. There are other things happening in the world as well, hoda, the world, the hollywood world, celebrity world. Here is what our old set used to look like. It is like an ambush makeover. Here is the before. And here is after. Oh. Okay. I dont know if you can see that much difference there, but it just feels different and so thats a big part of the thing, how you feel. It is. Happy to see you. How was your weekend . It was great. Im getting a little bit of a health kick, i decided. You gave up sweets. I gave up sweets. Im going to do my favorite thing because it is so delicious and im doing this for you. I got something called the nutra bullet. Here is what i put in the little thing. I put in spinach, apples, banana, orange juice and beets. You stick them in here. You put it in the bullet and you okay. Just that amount of time. I cooked it a little bit before. Okay. You got to try it. It is so crazy delicious. So excited to see your first who sent you the bullet . I got it as a present. I said, who gave it to you . Oh, he did. Oh, okay. Thats delicious, hoda. That tastes just like the one that my friend emily made. I put in the bottom, that much spinach, so it is all spinach and it grinds it up into a liquid. I put orange juice and water you know what i would also put in it too, mint. I would put mint in it as well. Why dont you like it the way it is. I love it. How was your weekend . It was nice. The weather was so lovely. Havent seen a crocus but buds about to burst. I was tweeting about it. I see you hear now the birds in the morning, making their nests and getting mad at you because they come too close and all that good stuff. I was invited to a rare thing for me to come back into the city on a friday night and have a dinner, but craig hatcoff is married to jane rosenthal, invited me and maybe 20 people to come it a dinner at the lambs club in new york, beautiful, beautiful room, in honor of glenn beck, who is a controversial gentleman, but as i have befriended him in the last few years and have great affection for him and apparently so does craig, so do it was so fascinating to be in a room with so many people coming from completely different ideological places, all coming together to say, wait a minute, our country is in trouble, where is our common ground, because thats where our sacred ground is. Everybody contributed. Everybody was respectful, everybody was it was powerful because it was powerful. Im grateful he invited us to come. And then cassie texted me the next night, the next day, oh, mom, i heard you had dinner with my friend from colleges father last night, a small world. She was having dinner with her so it was lovely. I didnt eat much. I was so norm kamali was there, the great designer. Love her. Such a funny woman. Were leaving, she goes, i didnt know you were so smart. Oh, thanks. Anyway. It is the end of the olympics, you guys. They had the closing ceremony. You remember in the opening ceremony, there was this big flub where one of the rings didnt open up. I liked it that way. I thought was cute. The russians decided to have fun with it themselves. They made fun with it at the closing ceremony when all the rings except one burst into there it goes. They know how to laugh at themselves. It was clever. The united states, by the way, finished the olympics in great fashion, 28 medals, we were in second in medal count, next to russia and, you know, good there. Going to be interesting to see what all the attention is going to be on kiev now since the coup there. Different time for putin, who was partying one day and trying to clean up a major mess now. I bet he doesnt care that we didnt wear no makeup today. It is body image week. They did an image with kath and i about what we felt about our bodies and it ran in the earlier hours. Part of it. Part of it. Lets look at this is us without makeup. The wider the shot, the better. Thats not nice. Okay. Im going to say it anyway, they talked to us about how we felt about our bodies. We have some of that. I was a kid with the crazy frizzy hair, the sunglasses and the weird name. Like the trifecta of woof. We had something in our family, we called them wuggies, that little place right at the top of the thighs, just got a little too much on there, that love, you know . If you asked me this before i had my children, i would have said my thighs. But since the cesarean sections, my stomach. I was heavy and then i lost weight, but i dont ever feel like the girl who lost weight. Beauty is inside out. It is when your eyes light up and when you give off joy. To me, you look at someone and go thats beautiful. Amen, sister. Amen. Anyway, so all week long well have a love your selfie kind of week and we have Jordin Sparks discussing no makeup as well. And we have been talking about Justin Bieber and acting out a little bit on his road to manhood. It looks like he display been taking advice, hes been hanging out with his mom. They were in atlanta this weekend and he posted a video of the two of them singing. It is a short little tiny snippet, so take a look. Sweet. We only have that seven seconds, so we looped it. But, i mean wow, a lovely voice. You wonder where he got his voice. She didnt say it was from her, which is tweeted later, amazing night recording my first song, thank you so much for writing it, love. That was the best night of my life. I want to hear the whole song. I would love to see that. That picture you saw was a picture he posted on his twitter account. All righty. What else is going on in the world . A lot is happening. Favorite things. I did mine. So you enjoyed the drink. Yes. I want to let everyone know my favorite thing is the new movie that is coming out this week called the son of god, opens this friday. Ive seen it twice. Later today, that gentleman right there, jesus, is coming to my house. Of course he is. And his mother, mary, is also coming. Of course they are. Theyre going to do the podcast with me, so excited. Tomorrow night im hosting a google hour with roma and her husband mark burnett at 9 00 at the google headquarters. Youre very busy, important. I know. But a great movie. Seth meyers, we wish him such great luck. Hes taking over late night. His guests are amy poehler, shes perfect because hes so comfortable with her. Vice President Joe Biden and a musical guest, a great big world. It is going to be really nice. Wishing him all the best. Hes going to be excellent. You know why . Because you and i did his very first show, which was that why couldnt we get a real show . Because they want big stars. We wish him all the best. Coming up, he has the looks, the moves and the voice. Usher is heading back to the judges chair. [ male announcer ] rocky had no idea why dawn was gone for so long. But hed wait for her forever, and would always be there with the biggest welcome home. For a love this strong, dawn only feeds him iams. With 2x the meat of other leading brands. To help keep rockys body as strong as a love that never fades. Iams. Keep love strong. With 2x the meat. Love the iams difference or your money back. With 2x the meat. See whats new at. Projectluna. Com all right, gather around the couch, set your dvrs, a big night of tv is back. One of americas favorite shows, the voice, premieres on nbc. From the looks of it, the auditions, the competition, it is fierce. Yes. Season six already marks the return of grammy winning superstar usher as a coach and judge side by side with shakira, adam levine and blake shelton, hodi. You can bet some sparks are going to fly. Just take a look. You were phenomenal. Thank you so much. Yeah. You nailed that. I love you, usher. I plan on winning this entire thing with you. Dont you get a feeling if you go with him, you wont ever get a word in edgewise . So wow. Good to see you. How are you . All turned around for her, huh . We had 11 four chair turns this year, incredible, yeah. Watching the singers compete is great, but watching you guys fight like you do for the competitors we go for blood. Everything else is all love backstage. Is there a time where you love somebody, but you really, really think, you know what, im not best suited to be her mentor or his mentor . Or just go for the best talent you can get. You go for the best. If you feel it, you turn, because it is a blind audition. And then sometimes it becomes competitive. I dont get her, so youre going after this girl, you know, and you are vying for her attention. Youre wooing her. Yeah. Uhhuh. We know how you do. Oldfashioned word. Look it up. So this is definitely going to be an incredible season for me, season four was great. Season six having the opportunity to try some new things. You have a unique coaching style above all the others. Used to have some of your contestants get down and do 50 pushups. What are you part of who i am is because of my i guess my regimen and how disciplined i am. That represents a little bit of that. How bad do you really want it . The one thing i want to ask you about, you have a dog named blake . Yes, i do. Not that i i have an issue with that, because he is a dog, you know what im saying, but i felt like i had no possibility of winning this panel here. Well, we can rescue another one and named him usher. Musher . Usher. I had a dog named regis, he was honored and his ashes still live in my library. That was a loved dog. This is bad. Scary. What happened to cee lo. From what i hear, hes working on other aspects of his career. It is great when you have a platform like this to introduce whatever youre doing and then go on to what you love, if it is acting. For me, it is a little bit of all of that. Just completed my role as Sugar Ray Leonard in the film about roberto. Fantastic. When is that coming out . Later this year hopefully. We look forward to that. That could change everything, baby. Yeah, yeah. Will you like me then, for real . We like you. Youve always been very, very i love you. I could be your grandmother, so usher, good luck. Have fun tonight, okay . Great to see you. Have a great season. Season six of the voice premieres tonight and tomorrow night at 8 00, 7 00 central here on nbc. All the scoop on the hot hollywood buzz you may have missed over the weekend. And Minnie Driver has a lot to tell us about a boy. [ sneezes ] [ coughs ] ive got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. Its time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that wont relieve all your symptoms. Hmm . [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer plusd relieves more symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. Thanks for the tip. [ male announcer ] no problem. Oh. And hair products. Aisle 9. [ inhales deeply ] oh what a relief it is. Shed just grab the bounty selectasize. One selectasize sheet of bounty is 50 more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. Use less, with bounty selectasize. Actress and singer Minnie Driver appeared in dozens of films but you may remember her best for her oscar nominated performance of schuyler in good will hunting. Now starring in a new hit nbc show about a boy based on the bestselling novel then turned into a movie starring hugh grant. She plays fiona, an over the top mom, also a strict vegan and sets some ground rules for her neighbor when he hangs without her son marcus. Take a look. If you could stay off screens that would be good. Tv, computer, video games. Oh, also, if you could make sure that he doesnt eat meat, fish, fowl, gluten, sugar or dairy. What can he eat . Everything else. If he eats a nut, hes dead. Thats a great clip because thats how we fell in love with the show, the writing is terrific. Youre so well cast. Kept 76 . Yeah, we hit 76 of our audience. At olympics. Which is really difficult to do. I didnt know that meant if that meant its good. Thats fantastic. You kept your british accent in this. Tell us why. Well, i think there is an enormous amount of comedy to be mined from a british accent anyway, and a different culture and more of a fish out of water thing for fiona, who is already she makes things harder than they need to be. Why doesnt marcus speak with an english accent . Well, my son has an american accent. I think because we dont know how long exactly. Shes just moved to San Francisco in the pilot, but i think she there is henry. He grew that carrot he was just eating as well. There is a little fiona in you . Hes like, im with stupid. But the chemistry on the set, among the group of you, is incredible. We had benjamin on who plays your son. He is a hes a character, isnt he . Hysterical. Hes like an adult in a small boys body. Hes like a 75yearold. And this guy, tell us about him. David wilson is hes such a dream boat. Hes one of the nicest men ive ever met. Hes incredibly bright, which with all due respect, to all the other actors working in america, is a fairly rare i love how she says rare. Only one r in rare. Very clever and very kind and hes just a really, really lovely person to work with and hes incredibly quick and very funny. Like tom hanks. He is. He has that colin firth, tom hanks thing going. But hes not available, hoda. Hes married with two kids. A beautiful wife and beautiful baby. You came on the set. We said youre so great in this. You said, you know whos really great and started talking about him. I love it when i dont understand why someone like, to me, david should be the biggest star in the world. So funny to me you have to wait for the timing and the here is i feel like this is his moment as much as all of ours. Im very happy. I also love it takes place in San Francisco, which we dont see enough of. You see the city of San Francisco, but not this suburban little off the you dont shoot all the time there, but it just is nice to have it is not l. A. , which i love l. A. , but we see it too much. I agree. I think jason katims does a great job of showcasing San Francisco in parenthood and comes into one of our episodes. So a little cross pollination. Which is rare. Really excited. You know who is excited . Nbc. Thank you so much. You can catch about a boy tomorrow night here at 9 00, 8 00 central on nbc. Let her go, a hit song from passenger. And from dallas, linda gray. And Jordin Sparks goes makeup free after this. Welcome back to welcome back to more of today on this fun day monday. Time for todays buzz when we get you caught up on all the celebrity gossip everybody will be talking about today. Justin timberlake apologized to thousands of fans. Jennifer lopez makes the return to tv. Here with all the juicy scoop is josh zest, host of post live. Hello. Wonderful to see you all again. Lets talk alec baldwin. Alec baldwin, isnt it adorable and delightful when they get to that age and they get a little cantankerous. Hes got this new article, not an article, he basically dictated it to a journalist who then published it in new york magazine. And it said it said hes sick of life and new york is bad and people are bad and celebrity culture is bad and tabloid is bad and twitter is bad and paparazzi is bad and everything is bad and he wants to go to l. A. And live behind a gate. Okay. Go to l. A. , live behind a gate. New york suffered worse calamities than losing alec baldwin. You dont think this is endearing him to anyone . I understand it must be frustrating to live in a Pressure Cooker bubble like that when youre a celebrity, but a lot of people do, you roll with the punches. Not 1950s anymore, we have twitter and people can be nasty. It will be less he said one thing he hated about l. A. , people live in palaces behind gates and dont interact with one another and now it appeals to him. We wish him the best. We do. Justin timberlake, he had to cancel one of his shows. Yes, on wednesday. He said he was sick and they rescheduled it, but now that bumps a buffalo show he was going to do on saturday and now they have to bump that back until the summer. He apologized and he said that anyone in buffalo who is upset, jimmy fallon will give them a onehour hes such a great he never does stuff like that. Something clearly happened. Total pro. I love when those two do the history of rap, fallon and timberlake. They did it again. Lets take a look. I love it when you call me big papa throw your hands in the air bow wow, wow, wow yippie yo yippie yea bow wow, wow, wow yippie yo yippie yea to the east side the lbt you were singing hoda knows every word. Getting all the lyrics right. It gets better every time. It gets better every time. They came back and came back and the fourth time jt said this is the last time were going to do this, were not going to do it anymore and jimmy fallon he had a great first week, didnt he . Jimmy . Exactly the sort of thing that sets jimmy apart from all the other hosts, right . Making it his own. And hes making hes understanding that now it is not really about who is watching at the time that you it is about creating viral clips that go online and share and he gets it in a way that alec baldwin maybe doesnt. Well, there you have it. Thank you very much. Hes got a thing about alec. Any who. Cant turn on the radio without hearing his hit. Hes a one man band named passenger and hes going to sing for us. And Jordin Sparks has a message for teens about what real beauty is all about. And dallas star linda gray. [ sneezes ] [ coughs ] ive got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. Its time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that wont relieve all your symptoms. Hmm . [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer plusd relieves more symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. Thanks for the tip. [ male announcer ] no problem. Oh. And hair products. Aisle 9. [ inhales deeply ] oh what a relief it is. Those spots are actually leftover food and detergent residue that can redeposit on your dishware during the rinse cycle. Gross. Jetdry rinse agent helps wash them away so the only thing left behind is the shine. Jetdry rinses away residues for a sparkling shine. It is an hour of television packed with drama, back stabbing