{"id":283348,"date":"2019-11-11T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1092079"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:10:28","slug":"jenna-bush-hager-and-hoda-kotbs-today-reunion-is-the-best-thing-to-wake-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jenna-bush-hager-and-hoda-kotbs-today-reunion-is-the-best-thing-to-wake-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb&#8217;s Today Reunion Is the Best Thing to Wake Up to"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191011\/rs_600x600-191111095409-600-jenna-bush-hager-mv-11119.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.765432098765\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.382716049383\">\n<p>Reunited and it feels so good!<\/p>\n<p>It was a very special Monday morning on <em>Today<\/em> when <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jenna_bush_hager\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hoda_kotb\">Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong> reunited and continued co-hosting the fourth hour of <em>Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m already crying. Thank you all for waiting. I miss all of y&#8217;all. There&#8217;s no place I&#8217;d rather be,&#8221; Jenna shared while holding back tears. &#8220;I feel really good. Evidently I&#8217;m very emotional, but that&#8217;s no surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proud mom continued, &#8220;It feels so good and I hope you all have these places in your life where you want to go back to because I wanted to come back. Y&#8217;all didn&#8217;t have to drag me and that feels so good. I think we should find those places we want to be and stick with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before returning back to work after maternity leave, Jenna explained that she held her baby boy &#8220;a little tighter&#8221; and &#8220;cried on his little head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>But Jenna assures viewers she&#8217;s so excited to be back with the viewers and her co-host.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.41922005571\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.518105849582\">\n<p>&#8220;[My husband] <strong>Henry Hager<\/strong>, who is rational, said it&#8217;s the passing of time. Something has come to an end. All things come to an end. I&#8217;m like, \u2018No! Do they have to? Does everything have to come to an end?&#8217; But it&#8217;s true,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that he&#8217;s here and that I get to be his mom. It feels like this unbelievable miracle to get to be this little person&#8217;s mom and watch his sisters love him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During Jenna&#8217;s return, the morning show host received well wishes from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gwen_stefani\">Gwen Stefani<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Patti LaBelle<\/strong> and her own mom <strong>Laura Bush<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kathie_lee_gifford\">Kathie Lee Gifford<\/a><\/strong> called in from her mammogram to send her well wishes and alert viewers that she&#8217;s coming tomorrow to promote her Hallmark movie.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re starting today. Today is the beginning of what is going to be a fun, fun ride,&#8221; Hoda explained to Jenna. &#8220;The only thing we really want for our show is that you feel better at 10:59 or whenever then you first turned on the TV. That&#8217;s the only goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished on this Funday Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Today<\/em> with Jenna Bush and Hoda airs weekdays at 10 a.m. on NBC.<\/p>\n<p>(E! and NBC are part of the NBCUniversal family)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1092079\/jenna-bush-hager-and-hoda-kotb-s-today-reunion-is-the-best-thing-to-wake-up-to?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reunited and it feels so good! 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There&#8217;s no place I&#8217;d rather be,&#8221; Jenna shared while holding back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-13 18:33:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}