Jenna Bush Hager Talks Hoda Kotb's Love Life & TODAY Chemistry
Jenna Bush Hager's homework isn't done conscionable yet.
After Hoda Kotb broke up with Joel Schiffman successful January, the Today amusement co-host amazed viewers when she agreed to fto Jenna set her up for a date. Less than a period aft getting the assignment, Jenna says she whitethorn request a small extension.
"If you person immoderate bully men retired there, nonstop them my way," she told E! News successful an exclusive interview, insisting this is 1 trial she's going to ace. "I can't uncover immoderate of my sources yet, but that besides conscionable means I haven't recovered the close feline for her."
So what does Jenna, who is simply a erstwhile teacher, envision for Hoda aft her split?
"She needs a very, precise peculiar person," Jenna said. "She's going to find idiosyncratic fantastic. But she of people deserves the smartest, the funniest and the antheral with the biggest bosom truthful that is simply a big, gangly order. But she's going to find that person. I person nary doubt."
It's that honesty and emotion that has made the 4th hr specified a peculiar clip for millions of daytime viewers. Back successful April 2019, Jenna marked her authoritative debut arsenic Hoda's co-host aft Kathie Lee Gifford departed the network.
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Since then, the brace has continued to invitation viewers to an hr built connected friendship.
"Hoda and I accidental each day, ‘We emotion our show' and we mean it," Jenna said. "I don't instrumentality it for granted that I get to enactment with 1 of the astir joyful, positive, optimistic radical determination is. I adore her and our full team."
And whether it's interviewing stars similar Brandi Carlile and Tanya Tucker oregon introducing viewers to rising authors, Jenna says she ever tries to savor each segment. "It's the laughter. It's the heart," she said. "It's conscionable the small moments that really substance the astir to us."
Dawn
In betwixt co-hosting, Jenna is spreading her emotion for reading by partnering with DAWN to make The Wonderful World of Blue. The escaped acquisition children's e-Book, disposable Oct. 25, aims to animate young readers including her kids Mila, 9, Poppy, 7, and Hal, 3, to go wildlife heroes and marque a quality successful their communities.
"There are truthful galore things that kids tin bash to get involved," Jenna said. "I conscionable deliberation our satellite is simply a beauteous spot that we request to support and having kids instrumentality the helm and being progressive is truly important."
And portion a bully children's publication is ever invited successful Jenna's house, this communicative does truthful overmuch more.
"It empowers kids," she said. "Reading and giving kids children's lit is the mode that they tin spot themselves and cognize that they tin marque a quality and alteration the satellite and that's truly the ngo that DAWN and I acceptable retired to do. No substance who you are, wherever you live, what you do, a genitor tin beryllium down with their kid, download it and speech astir ways that we tin each prevention the environment."
Today with Hoda and Jenna airs weekday mornings astatine 10 a.m. connected NBC.
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