Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager shared a hilariously candid moment after they cut their favorite segment short on one of their final broadcasts together.
The Today hosts were answering viewers’ questions and offering advice when they reached one inquiry from someone who was writing in about her sister’s “gentle parenting.”
“Her kids are still unruly and definitely not gentle. I’m finding it hard to be around them. What can I do?” the viewer asked.
“Too ‘gentle’ gets on our jangly, too,” Bush Hager said as she read the question aloud. She then began to fan herself and appeared annoyed by the question.
“Why are you getting all hot?” Kotb then asked her co-host with a laugh. She searched for the answer to give their viewer: “Um okay, well I don’t know what you do. I actually don’t know. Don’t go over there. Life is short.”
Bush Hager laughed and suggested that Kotb’s answer may be a sign that it’s time to end their Social Dilemmas segment once and for all.
“She’s not gonna hang out with her sister Holly anymore?” she asked incredulously, before admitting, “We don’t know. We give up. This may be our last Social Dilemma. I mean, this is our last, but maybe we just retire the whole segment.”
Kotb, whose last day on the show is tomorrow (Jan. 10), began to protest.
“Oh no, this is fun! We love [Social Dilemmas],” she insisted. “They’re good, we’re just out of gas.”
The co-hosts had already admitted on the broadcast that they were “running on fumes” while preparing for Kotb’s final day on the broadcast, which is set to be one big “Hoda-bration.”
The Jan. 10 broadcast of Today With Hoda & Jenna will be a major production, complete with a live studio audience and several surprises as they bid Kotb farewell after almost 30 years at NBC.
Monday, Jan. 13, will usher in a whole new era of the fourth hour of Today. Bush Hager will stay on the air as a host, but she will be joined by a revolving panel of celebrity guest hosts on a new show called Today With Jenna & Friends.
And the show will be starting with a bang; that first week will feature Taraji P. Henson, Eva Longoria, and Keke Palmer as guest hosts. Scarlett Johansson will also return to Today to guest host.
Today with Hoda & Jenna airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.
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