By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

Popular morning news personality, Hoda Kotb, who co-hosts the fourth hour of the beleaguered TODAY with Kathie Lee Gifford, has split from her lawyer boyfriend, Jay Blumenkopf, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"Hoda and Jay dated for over a year but decided to part ways about two months ago," a source close to the situation tells Breaking Celebrity News. "There was no drama, they just realized that the relationship had run its course. They hope to remain friends."

During an appearance on Bethenny Frankel's show back in February, Kotb credited the Skinny Girl multi-millionaire mogul with giving her the courage to go out with Jay.

"It's the real thing. It's the real friggin' thing Bethenny. It's the real thing. I found the real thing at 47," Kotb said. "The other thing was so not the real thing, and I