The At present workforce was shocked when Hoda Kotb, 60, introduced she’d be leaving the present in January 2025. However, whereas Jenna Bush Hager, 43, was stunned by her co-host’s resolution, she is grateful for the way she protected her all through the method.
“In the identical approach that I did not envision myself working on the At present present, I by no means envisioned Hoda leaving,” Jenna shared on the How She Does It podcast.
Jenna went on, saying: “I did not ever have one inkling of a thought that she was about to say she was leaving. I do know she liked her work and loves her work, so leaving it wasn’t one thing I may wrap my thoughts round till I sat down together with her and heard her reasoning.”
© NBCWhereas the 2 spoke, Jenna stated that Hoda instructed her: “‘Do not signal your contract.'”
Hoda did not extrapolate past that piece of recommendation, so Jenna “thought she was saying that” so their “contracts [would be linked up] and be there till the identical time.”
Jenna continued: “However what she was doing was defending me, as a result of she knew I used to be gonna be doing the present alone.”
© GettySince Hoda left the present in January to spend extra time together with her daughters, Hope, seven, and Haley, 4, Jenna has been “relationship.”
She has had 50 totally different movie star company during the last seven months to co-host the rebranded Jenna & Buddies. Some fan favorites are fellow At present anchor Savannah Guthrie, Maria Shriver, Keke Palmer, and Olivia Munn.
Whereas showing on What What Occurs Dwell, Hoda instructed Andy Cohen: “Justin Sylvester is wonderful. Scarlett Johansson crushed it.”
© Nathan Congleton/NBC by way of Getty IFor her position within the alternative, Jenna admitted: “We are going to finally have a everlasting host, I believe, however we do not know. And I am Kind A in a bizarre approach. I am not a perfectionist in any respect. However I additionally like planning. I like plans. I wish to type of know the way issues are gonna go.”
In contrast to in her private life, Jenna is not dedicated to any particular sort in the case of her future co-host.
“I am not searching for something, you recognize?,” she defined on the podcast. “I am simply residing within the second with these individuals, a lot of whom I am assembly for the primary time. Which is loopy. I imply, and it’s. It’s a lot.”
Off display, Jenna is married to Henry Hager, 47.
“I keep in mind our first kiss, I am simply gonna come out and say it,” Jenna recalled throughout a latest At present episode. “It was to Lil’ Troy, a music we won’t say on TV. Lil’ Troy was a rapper again within the day. We had been dancing and hastily, you shot your shot.”
“I imply, nicely, I do not suppose you may say that on the ten a.m. hour of tv, however, I went in for the kiss,” Henry responded.
The 2 have been collectively for 17 years and share youngsters Mila, Poppy, and Hal.
“I really feel actually fortunate to have met someone that has given me three lovely little babes,” Jenna stated on the present. Now, Jenna simply wants to satisfy the right co-host.
