Scarlett Johansson has some questions relating to her husband Colin Jost’s upcoming journey to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“Is that even – how did he get this gig? I simply need to know,” Johansson, 39, mentioned throughout her Monday, July 8 look on the Today show to advertise her new film with Channing Tatum, Fly Me to the Moon. Johansson inquired about Jost, 42, secured the brand new gig after host Savannah Guthrie talked about the Saturday Night time Stay comic helps NBC Sports activities cowl Olympic browsing competitions from the island of Tahiti, within the South Pacific Ocean.
“It is even worse of a boondoggle than Paris, which we’re already getting away with – he’ll Tahiti to cowl browsing. What?” Guthrie, 52, mentioned.
“I am like, ‘Is that this a job? How is that this?’ Once they introduced the Paris Olympics, he instantly came upon that they have been doing the surf competitors in Tahiti, which is so cool,” Johansson, who has been married to Jost since 2020, mentioned of her husband, “He likes to surf, we have now a spot in Montauk, he is all the time on the market browsing.”
“Someway the dream grew to become a actuality and now he’ll be in Tahiti for 2 weeks. I am like ‘poor you,’ ” she added, mimicking a tear rolling down her face.
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NBC announced Jost’s participation in its browsing protection on June 26; the game will make its second look ever on the Olympics after it debuted when Tokyo hosted the Summer time Olympics in 2011, because the outlet mentioned on the time. Browsing occasions are scheduled to run between July 27 and July 31 in Teahupo’o, Tahiti, in keeping with the Olympics’ website.
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“He is working – he is like, ‘Poor me, I will be far and wide.’ I am like, ‘Are you?’ I believe in the event you can have a Pina colada on air when you’re working, that is not technically work,” Johansson joked of Jost’s upcoming reporting job throughout her At present present interview.
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Johansson and Jost have identified one another since they first met throughout certainly one of Johansson’s Saturday Night time Stay internet hosting stints in 2006. The pair tied the knot in 2020 and welcomed their first little one, Cosmo, in August 2021; Johansson additionally shares her older daughter Rose Dorothy, 9, along with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
Jost beforehand highlighted his curiosity in browsing in his 2020 memoir A Very Punchable Face, wherein he recounted that Jimmy Buffett as soon as saved him from drowning whereas browsing in St. Bart’s in 2014.
Johansson’s newest film, the Sixties-set romantic comedy Fly Me to the Moon, is in theaters July 12.
