Although it’s nonetheless a number of months early, Hoda Kotb’s eldest daughter, Haley, left the sweetest Christmas present for Jenna Bush Hager backstage on Immediately!
“This morning once I walked into my dressing room and it was nonetheless sort of darkish out, there was just a little Christmas current wrapped for me,” Jenna, 42, started throughout a Monday, October 21, phase on Immediately. “Now I assumed, ‘Is it Christmas nearly?’ Have we hit … Halloween hasn’t occurred. Thanksgiving has but to be.”
The previous first daughter defined that Haley, 7, left the current for her backstage as a shock. A photograph of the current with wrapping paper was then proven on the display screen earlier than Hoda, 60, defined the that means behind the candy decoration.
“I’m gonna let you know just a little bit about this current,” Hoda, who additionally shares daughter Hope with ex Joel Schiffman revealed. “So we have been in Worth Medicine, and so they have the entire ornaments with the names on them. And Haley discovered one which spells her identify correctly, the way in which she does.”
Haley liked wanting on the ornaments, however they didn’t have an decoration that mentioned Hope. As an alternative, she picked up an decoration that mentioned Little Sister on it for Hope, and located one other one which mentioned World’s Greatest Mother. Haley seen there was an decoration with Jenna’s identify on it and felt like she needed to get it in honor of her mother’s Immediately costar.
“I am going, ‘OK, guys. You will get three,’” Hoda defined. “So we try, and I’m assuming it’s World’s Greatest Mother and Little Sister. I unpack to Worth Medicine bag and what comes out? Haley, Little Sister and Jenna!”
“She left ‘World’s Greatest Mother’ on the rack, so she may purchase a Jenna,” Hoda mentioned, inflicting everybody to snort. Jenna mentioned that Haley was saving the World’s Greatest Mother decoration for Mom’s Day maybe.
Jenna then held up the decoration to point out viewers at residence. It was an lovable little penguin carrying a winter hat. Hoda mentioned that Haley took initiative and located the Christmas wrapping paper and wrapped the present herself.
“I don’t suppose she realizes what this implies to me, as just a little child, and you may perceive this, the identify Jenna was not fashionable,” Jenna, who shares children Mila, Poppy and Hal with husband Henry Hager, instructed Hoda. “I might go to the airport and Barbara, again within the day, it’s now slowly changing into extinct, my sister’s identify, sadly. … The identify Jenna again within the ‘80s, I might go to the airport like ‘I’m certain there’s a magnet that’s Jenna someplace.’”
Each Hoda and Jenna mentioned that “Haley knew” Jenna would admire the decoration along with her identify on it. And he or she actually did, as she couldn’t wipe the smile off of her face all through all the phase.
This yr will mark the primary time Hoda shall be celebrating Christmas along with her daughters in her new suburban home simply outdoors of New York Metropolis. And by the sound of it, it looks as if the TV persona’s household is actually wanting ahead to spending the vacations collectively and spreading the Christmas spirit!
