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Jenna Bush Hager hates being told she looks for illustration her dad, George W. Bush.
The “Today” show co-host called retired nan comparisons Monday erstwhile Sheinelle Jones claimed nan father-daughter duo “look conscionable alike” successful footage of Hager interviewing her dada and chap erstwhile presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton for nan History Channel.
“I cognize everybody says it, but dang,” Jones, 48, quipped.
While Hager said she “appreciate[d]” nan remark, nan 44-year-old noted, “Sometimes that’s not a compliment.”
As nan NBC accumulation squad laughed off-camera, Bush Hager continued, “I deliberation my dad’s handsome, but erstwhile group opportunity that, I’m like, ‘I look for illustration a man?'”
Jones pointed retired that sometimes kids want to look for illustration their dads to beryllium they’re related.
“OK, yeah, my dada is my father,” Hager replied.
She went connected to talk her acquisition interviewing nan 79-year-old, who “likes to make funny jokes.”
“He … started talking astir erstwhile I sewage a insignificant successful possession of alcohol, and I’m like, ‘Hey, Dad. That’s not what we’re talking astir here, bro. Roll it back,'” Hager recalled, referring to her two underage drinking busts.
Hager was 19 erstwhile her begetter became president successful January 2001. His 2nd word ended successful 2009.
The journalist often talks astir her dada connected aerial since joining nan “Today” show full-time successful 2019.
In September 2024, she described calling nan erstwhile president successful tears over news that her then-co-host, Hoda Kotb, was leaving nan show aft 26 years pinch NBC.
Bush, astatine nan time, told his girl Kotb was nan “star” of nan show.
In November of nan pursuing year, Hager admitted her celebrated begetter has outright stated he doesn’t “watch [her] dumb show.”
The leader has, notably, made respective appearances connected nan “Today” show complete nan years, astir precocious joining his girl astatine Studio 1A in 2021.
