Don’t give Jenna Bush Hager a job at the North Pole!
The Today with Jenna & Friends co-host, 43, admitted during a round of “We Listen and We Don’t Judge” on Tuesday, Jan. 7, that she lost the Christmas present she recently received from Hoda Kotb — but Kotb couldn’t stop laughing at the hilarious revelation.
“You gave me a beautiful Christmas present this year and I think it somehow got thrown out,” Bush Hager, 43, said. “I can’t find it anywhere. I’ve been searching and searching and searching.”
Before that, Kotb, 60, told Bush Hager, “I borrowed your pink blazer a long time ago and now I own it. It’s mine.”
“I was wondering,” the mom of three replied.
Their fun social media moment comes three days before Kotb’s final day on the Today show, following her announcement in September that she’d be leaving after 25 years with NBC.
Kotb said on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday, Jan. 6, that after her exit, she plans to start a wellness app and a company, which will involve retreats and a podcast and will launch this spring.
“We can get together, do things that I love and when you’re done, it’s not like going to Mexico with your girls, which is fun, but this is something that when you leave, you’ll go like, ‘Oh my gosh. I feel transformed. I feel different,’ ” she told Kelly Clarkson. “So I’m in the building process of that.”
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The Today show deemed Kotb’s final week a “Hoda-bration”, and kicked off the fun by reuniting Kotb with 70 of her former Tri Delta sorority sisters from Virginia Tech on Monday, Jan. 6. Bush Hager also teamed up with one of Kotb’s favorite authors, Charlie Mackesy, author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, and gifted her a special painting.
Bush Hager revealed that, after Kotb departs, she’ll have a lineup of celebrity guest co-hosts, including Taraji P. Henson, Eva Longoria and Keke Palmer. “Nobody will ever fill this chair, but the three of them sure can try,” Bush Hager said on the Today show on Monday, Jan. 6, calling January “our month of wonder women.”
The Love Comes First author also shared with PEOPLE that Scarlett Johansson will take a turn at co-host beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
“Scarlett Johansson is the queen! First of all, I’ve been obsessed with her movies since forever. The Girl with a Pearl Earring, I mean that shows you I’m a nerd who loves to read,” Bush Hager said. “She’s also a big reader, which will be so much fun. We have so much in common.”
“It’s just a wild dream. But that’s what I’m saying, the fact that she’s coming to give us a week of her time, she could be doing anything, is a testament to the show that we have built. So I am beyond thrilled. I cannot wait,” Bush Hager added. “We’ve never seen Scarlett Johansson host a daytime show before!”
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Kotb’s final episode of Today and Today with Hoda and Jenna will air on Friday, Jan. 10. The Today show airs weekdays on NBC beginning at 7 a.m. ET.
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