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NextImg:Jenna Bush Hager And Brooke Shields Confess They Would “Leave” Their Husbands For Brandi Carlile: “We Have The Same Taste”

Jenna Bush Hager and Brooke Shields learned on Today that they share yet another thing in common with each other: They both have crushes on singer Brandi Carlile.

The co-hosts bonded over their not-so-secret crushes and boldly admitted that they would both leave their husbands for a chance with the singer.

Bush Hager was the first to admit she’s “obsessed” with Carlile after announcing her plans to collaborate with Elton John on a new album.

Shields responded, “I’m obsessed with both of them, but I think we both would leave our husbands for her.”

The ladies then shared a laugh after they both confessed to telling their husbands that they would leave them for a chance with Carlile. “He’s like, ‘Wait, wait. Do I have to worry?'” Shields said of her husband of 24 years, Chris Henchy.

“We have the same type in women!” Bush Hager remarked, which sparked a laugh from Shields, who agreed, “Yeah, we do. We have the same taste.”

The Today host then revealed that she once narrowly missed her shot with Carlile after seeing her perform at Madison Square Garden.

“I saw her in Madison Square Garden and I was texting her PR person and then I got in the taxi and I went home,” Bush Hager recounted to Shields. “And on the way home she’s like, ‘Brandi wants you to come backstage,’ and I was like aw, I’m already on my way home because maybe that – she’s married, but in my mind I’m like, ‘That could have been the moment!'”

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She then clarified, “I mean I’m married too, we’re both married, we’re all married! Why is she such a dream?”

Shields credited Carlile’s allure to her “beautiful feminine, masculine energy.”

This isn’t the first time Bush Hager has joked about crushes and affairs on the show. She once guiltily admitted that she may have gone “too far” when she joked about having an affair on the show.

She and Hoda Kotb were discussing how “hot” it is to see a man reading in public when Bush Hager remarked,  “I mean, if they’re reading something I respect, that could be grounds for an affair.” She then immediately walked her statement back as she clarified, “I’m just kidding, I would never do that. I would never. Henry and I are very happy. And he reads.”

“I shouldn’t have said that, I went too far,” Bush Hager later admitted when Kotb asked why she was becoming “defensive.”

Today with Jenna & Friends airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.