Jenna Bush Hager reveals she called dad George W. Bush crying about Hoda Kotb leaving 'Today'
“I don’t know if you’re embarrassed to say this or not, but I think that we should you called your dad. And I remember when you first started working together with me, you were afraid, so she called her dad,” Kotb recalled, referring to Bush Hager getting the co-hosting gig in 2019. Jenna Bush Hager talked about calling her dad, former President George W. Bush , about Hoda Kotb ’s departure on Thursday’s episode of “Today With Hoda and Jenna.
“Then I called him last night. At first, he thought something really awful , like I lost a loved one, because of how emotional I was,” she said. “And then, he said, ‘Oh, she’s leaving, because it’s time, and you’re going to be fine. It’s your turn. It’s OK.'” “I said, ‘No! You can’t leave, because what we have here, with all of these people?” she said through tears. “It is magical and powerful and it feels like that here, and you’re who I come to when I’m feeling joyful, when I’m feeling unsure, you are who I come to, and you believed in me first.”
Kotb began her time on NBC as a “Dateline NBC” correspondent before starting co-hosting with Kathie Lee Gifford on “Today With Hoda and Kathie Lee.” When Gifford retired in 2019, Bush Hager took her spot.
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