Jenna Bush Hager is already thinking about her next move after the Today show.
During the Wednesday, August 6, episode of Today With Jenna & Friends, Bush Hager, 43, and guest host Matt Rogers debated whether they would ever move back to where they grew up. For Bush Hager, a Texas native, the answer was an easy yes.
“I just think everybody should have chapters in their lives,” she explained. “So I have this dream, I don’t know how realistic it is, but when the Jenna & Friends chapters come to a close … I think it’d be so nice to move back to Texas and let my kids have a different life.”
Bush Hager shares three children — Mila, 13, and Poppy, 9, and Hal, 5 — with husband Henry Hager, whom she married in 2008.
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While her role on the NBC morning show has moved her family to the East Coast, Bush Hager’s Texas roots are still strong. Last month, she revealed on Today that her daughters were attending a summer camp in her former home state.
“Texas is a resilient, incredible state,” she said at the time, referencing the devastating floods that had just passed through central Texas. “You all know I’m a homesick Texan living in New York, and it always is in my heart.”
Today viewers previously followed along with a host’s move out of the city when Hoda Kotb revealed last year that she was heading to the suburbs with daughters Haley, 8, and Hope, 6.
“It’s interesting because think about how many times you’ve moved in your life,” Kotb, 60, told Bush Hager during a March 2024 broadcast. “Every time I moved in my life, and you moved in yours, it was like, all of a sudden, it was a huge adjustment. But the stories I tell about growing in my life come from those.”
Kotb shared more insight into her family’s move that fall, saying “everything changed” when she left the city. “I have a whole new town and a whole new school and all the new things,” she said on a September 2024 episode. “We went for our first day of school, I carried a coffee and I had sneakers [on], and I walked my kids to school like normal people. It was awesome.”
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That same month, Kotb announced her plans to leave the Today show after nearly 30 years of working at NBC. Her final episode aired in January.
“I have no FOMO, which is so funny because I knew 100 [percent]. I don’t have an ounce of it,” she exclusively told Us Weekly one month after leaving her cohost role behind. “[It] doesn’t mean I didn’t love it. At the end when my heart broke, I was like, ‘That’s love.’ But it also is, I feel like my gaze is set forward.”
Kotb insisted she “never had a second thought” about saying goodbye, telling Us, “I think if anyone’s ever gone through any kind of an ending and a beginning, sometimes it’s really difficult, but also 100 percent right. And I knew it in my heart. … I knew it was right.”
