Jenna Bush Hager is setting the file straight.
On the Wednesday, Sept. 25 episode of At this time with Hoda and Jenna, the 42-year-old defined why her ring finger was naked.
In the course of the present section “Social Dilemmas,” she and cohost Hoda Kotb have been responding to a viewer who had written in about an engagement ring debacle. The viewer defined that they knew their associate can be proposing quickly with a “hideous” household heirloom ring, and requested the hosts’ opinions on how you can navigate the scenario.
In response, Bush Hager held up her personal hand, which was noticeably lacking a hoop. “I am not carrying my ring however don’t be concerned… we’re nonetheless comfortable collectively, however I broke my finger,” she defined, referring to her husband, Henry Chase Hager.
The host went on to say that Chase Hager “redid” a relative’s ring when he proposed to her.
“I feel [it was] his grandmother’s, or any individual’s… I imply, we have been married a very long time,” Bush Hager stated, earlier than advising the viewer to “work out a method” to have an sincere dialog in regards to the ring earlier than their associate proposes to them.
Final week, Bush Hager recalled one other engagement ring mishap that occurred after fellow At this time broadcaster Savannah Guthrie’s fiftieth birthday celebration in 2022.
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“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s fiftieth birthday, the place I wakened the subsequent morning and one of many stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out?” she stated to Kotb.
The anchor continued that she was “not precisely certain” the place the stone went and that she on the time, she frightened about telling her husband.
“I additionally had this panic like, ‘Do I inform Henry now, proper after I get up? Or do I inform him after perhaps he’s had some meals.’ I simply stated, you gotta inform him instantly. And he was…”
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“Not comfortable,” Kotb interjected.
“A bit of grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, including that the stone was “by no means discovered.”
Bush Hager beforehand shared one other story about dropping the ring at a John F. Kennedy airport on the best way to a shoot, per Brides.
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“I used to be confused. I get to the shoot and I’m wanting round,” she stated throughout an April episode of At this time. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a complete bag of bijou.’”
Fortunately, a “pretty man” introduced the ring to safety and it was returned to Bush Hager.
“I couldn’t even inform Henry as a result of if I misplaced our engagement ring, it’s priceless,” the host admitted. “So, I harbored a secret from Henry, too, which was laborious.”
Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he was working for her father, former president George W. Bush. They received engaged in 2007 and tied the knot in Might 2008. Collectively they share three youngsters: daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5.
