

Hoda Kotb Teases Jenna Bush Hager For Getting “Married Early” At Age 26: “You’re Like A Child Bride”

It’s always a fun day on Today when Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb dish on their love lives.
After the co-hosts gushed over whether Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) will finally end up together on Law & Order: SVU, Kotb asked her co-host if she’s ever dated a coworker.
“Have you ever dated someone at the workplace?” she asked. When Bush Hager said she hadn’t, Kotb replied, “Oh, because you only worked here.”
“No, I was a teacher,” Bush Hager said.
Kotb replied, “Well, did you date another teacher?”
“No! Because I was dating Henry,” Bush Hager said.
“Alright, I get it! That’s right, you’re like a child bride. You were married early,” Kotb teased.
Her co-host seemed to disagree, as she said they got married at a “normal” age. Bush Hager was 26 years old when she married her longtime boyfriend in 2008.
She may not have had a juicy dating story to share, but Kotb certainly did. She admitted it can be “awkward at times” when you date someone you work with and “you have to sit next to them.”
“[Like] at a meeting, have you had that?” Bush Hager asked.
“Yes, I’ve had it on the air before in a local market. You know you date someone in the local market, you’re in an argument, you’re dating, and now you have to throw to sports, and he does sports,” Kotb admitted, much to the shock of Bush Hager. “That happens!”
She continued, “It can get uncomfortable because there you are, sitting on the set, [saying] ‘Over to you,’ and the person leaves you hanging sometimes. It happens.”
Bush Hager asked, “Like you can feel the tension in the air?”
When Kotb confirmed that it was, indeed, very tense, Bush Hager joked, “Aren’t you glad we never dated?”
“It would be hard to fake this. Like if I was mad at her and I had to come sit right here, it could be hard. That’s why we just can’t do it,” she continued as Kotb laughed.
They quickly segued into a different topic after Kotb recovered from her laughter and noted how “awkward and unusual” their conversation had become.
It’s never a dull day with these two!
Today with Jenna and Hoda airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.