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Hoda Kotb and\u00a0Jenna Bush Hager on ‘Today’ show<\/p>\n
Hoda Kotb may not be tuning in to watch Jenna Bush Hager\u2019s Today with Jenna & Friends every morning, but that didn\u2019t stop her from showing love for her former co-host.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old broadcaster returned to the Today set on Tuesday, September 9, where she reunited with her longtime colleagues and caught them up on her life since stepping away from the NBC morning show in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a different life,\u201d Kotb shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s funny how easily you can find yourself starting something new. I mean, I miss you guys like crazy. I miss everybody. Being here made my heart hurt a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bush Hager jumped in with a quick joke, telling her former co-host, \u201cWell, you can always come back!\u201d Savannah Guthrie then teased, \u201cJenna\u2019s still searching for friends!\u201d referencing the title of Bush Hager\u2019s new hour.<\/p>\n
Kotb turned the spotlight on Bush Hager, asking how her show was going and noting, \u201cYou look really, it\u2019s been going really really well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bush Hager laughed in response, \u201cThank you. You pretend you\u2019ve been watching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kotb didn\u2019t hold back her honesty, replying, \u201cI don\u2019t, I don\u2019t. But I hear it\u2019s amazing! But you guys have been doing so, so well. It\u2019s been fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reunion wasn\u2019t just about laughs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kotb also surprised the crowd at the Today Plaza by waving a sign that read \u201cToday Bucket List\u201d with a check mark, jumping up and down as she greeted fans.<\/p>\n
She then gave an update on her daughters, Haley Joy, 8, and Hope Catherine, 6, explaining how life has shifted since she left the morning show to focus on family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey love school, we have our new puppy,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo our life has started this rhythm where I walk the girls to school then I walk to my office. I have an office in my town. And I\u2019m just kind of building something. Building a business is hard. I had no idea all the stuff, but it\u2019s been so fun, challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kotb\u2019s mix of honesty and humour proved that while she may not be keeping up with Today with Jenna & Friends firsthand, her admiration for her former co-host remains as strong as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoda Kotb and\u00a0Jenna Bush Hager on ‘Today’ show Hoda Kotb may not be tuning in to watch Jenna…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}