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‘Emotional’ Jenna Bush Hager called dad George W. Bush crying about Hoda Kotb leaving ‘Today’

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Hoda Kotb is leaving “Today.”During Thursday’s episode of “Today with Hoda and Jenna,” the pair tearfully talked about the former president’s reaction to the news that Kotb, 60, is departing the NBC show in early 2025.“I don’t know if you’re embarrassed to say this or not, but I think you should,” Kotb said to Bush Hager, 42.Kotb went on, “You called your dad.

And I remember when we first started working together you were afraid.”Bush Hager, in tears, recalled talking to her 78-year-old father when she replaced Kathie Lee Gifford as Kotb’s co-host on the entertainment-focused 10 a.m.

hour show on “Today” in 2019.“I called my dad when i started. He said, ‘I’m so happy for you — and Hoda’s the star. You’re gonna be okay with that, right?

You’re gonna be okay with sharing the spotlight with the star?'” Bush Hager said.“I said, ‘Yeah. Of course.'”Bush Hager then revealed that she reached out to the former president to talk through Kotb leaving the show.“I called him last night.

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