Jenna Bush Hager walks again affair joke: I went ‘too far’

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By Caroline Blair

Jenna Bush Hager admitted she went “too far” after joking she would have an affair if she noticed a pretty man studying.

Bush Hager and co-host Hoda Kotb had been discussing their love for males who learn throughout Monday’s pre-recorded episode of “In the present day with Hoda & Jenna” when the previous first daughter made the affair remark.

“It’s scorching,” Kotb, 59, stated of seeing a person learn a e-book.

Bush Hager — who has been married to Henry Hager for 15 years — agreed and teased that she turns into “dehydrated” when she sees a person studying.

“OK, you see a person with a e-book sitting on a park bench in Central Park studying, what’s the very first thing you’re considering?” Kotb requested.

Bush Hager, 41, started to consider the fantasy and added that if the thriller man was carrying any type of eyeglasses, it’d seal the deal.

“If they’ve little eyeglasses too, simply sitting studying, and in the event that they’re studying one thing I respect? I imply that might be a way for an affair,” Bush Hager joked.

The mother of three instantly took again her remark and made positive viewers knew she was “simply kidding” and he or she “would by no means try this.”

“I’d by no means,” she reiterated. “Henry and I are very completely happy, and he reads.”

Kotb requested Bush Hager why she was getting “defensive” over the joke.

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“As a result of I shouldn’t have stated that! I went too far,” she admitted.

The duo moved on from Bush Hager’s private appreciation for males who get pleasure from to learn and as an alternative fawned over a number of celebrities – together with Ryan Reynolds and Michael B. Jordan – who had been photographed with books.

Afterwards, every of them agreed that’d or not it’s a “turn-off” in the event that they went out with somebody who don’t get pleasure from a very good page-turner.

The tv persona has been married to Henry since Could 2008 after assembly throughout her father George W. Bush’s presidential marketing campaign in 2004.

They share three youngsters collectively: daughters Margaret “Mila” Laura, 10, and Poppy Louise, 8, and son, Hal, 4.