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Jenna Bush Hager taught a lot from her ex Today with Hoda & Jenna Cohost, Feast.
“That is, I think the most important lesson he taught me is about positivity,” Bush Hager, 43, was told only Weekly US On March 12. “She was such a good leader because she was so joyful all the time, and that is her natural condition really.”
Bush Hager took over as Kotb’s fourth hour cohost in 2019, after former -cohost Kathy Lee Gifford leave the program. The pair worked side by side Today with Hoda & Jenna Until January 2025, when kotb left Today.
“I turned 60, and it was such a memorial moment when I turned 60 because I started thinking about that decade, like, what does that decade mean? What does it have for me?” Kotb announced tearfully on the sky in September 2024. “And I realized it was time for me to turn the page at 60 and try something new.”
Nathan Congleton/NBC formed Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager a strong bond on and off the small screen. Kotb and Bush Hager joined NBC today in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and went on to the fourth hour of the show together following the 2019 departure of Kathie Lee Gifford. For over five years, the duo made a fan (…)
Bush Hager is now cohosting Today with Jenna & Friends Alongside a rotating cast of Cohosts Celebrity. She said Us That she used the lessons that Kotb, and the things they have in common, gave to help guide her as the show progresses.
“We had similar personalities, but now it’s just me, it’s like I feel I need to make sure I thank all our amazing producers, and I give people credit and email when people have done an amazing job,” he explained. “So just realize that he is as a leader, it is important what my disposition is. And luckily, my natural salvation is to be kind of joy.”
He continued, “We laugh so much, and I have an obsession with everyone I work with, which is so much of a gift.”
While Bush Hager admitted “when Hoda left, I was sad,” acknowledged that in Today And NBC has “this whole team of people who have my back.”
“So I’d say that’s what she taught me – that joy is infectious and it’s important to thank people and to be a leader who recognizes everyone’s hard work,” he added.
Today’s upcoming Hoda Kotb exit struck Jenna Bush Hager right in the feelings. “To be completely honest, I was shocked, shocked,” admitted Bush Hager, 43, chatting with Matt Rogers about Kotb’s departure on the episode on Thursday, December 5, from her podcast “Open Book with Jenna”. “That is, I was surprised.” Bush Hager explained (…)
To date, Bush Hager has maintained alongside a massacre of Hollywood a-listers, including Taraji P. Henson. Eva Longoria. Keke Palmer. Scarlett Johansson. Kelsea Ballerini and Kenet. While she said Us She is “having a blast at the moment” she thinks “we will have something more permanent” in terms of cohost in the near future.
“Every day it changes,” he said about the show’s current format. “It’s also been a very good lesson when living in the present. It is, like, I really have no idea what this show will look like. We’ve ordered through basically the spring and early summer, so yes, I probably have some idea of what it looks like throughout the spring.
Bush Hager added, “It’s kind of fun because obviously, after nearly six years of making the show with someone I worshiped so much, I knew what it looked like on every day to some extent. I had this real constant and a partner. So it’s kind of fun to be like, very, very, what happens tomorrow? There’s not much fun going to be a lot of work.”
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
