It takes a certain quantity of braveness for daytime speak present hosts to do their job in entrance of a reside viewers every single day. Reside TV is usually a scary and harmful place, and whereas Jenna Bush Hager has been co-hosting the fourth hour of NBC’s At the moment Present since 2019, she had a tough outing on the July 24 version. Hager had an terrible slip-up when she stated a curse phrase on At the moment with Jenna & Associates after which was unable to let it go.
On the episode that aired on the 2025 TV schedule this Thursday, Jenna Bush Hager welcomed fellow NBC anchor Willie Geist because the co-host on her newly rebranded speak present. Sooner or later, she’ll in all probability assume twice about consuming margaritas initially of her present, as a result of she actually tousled when recalling the primary time she met Geist’s spouse, Christina, and their then-3-year-old son George. Hager stated:
Christina goes — I do not know in case you can say this — however she was like, ‘God, George is appearing like an asshole.’
Instantly, producers reacted to inform her she was not allowed to say that, prompting confusion from Jenna Bush Hager that matched Willie Geist’s shock at her remark. The previous first daughter stammered:
All of them are like, ‘You’re not allowed to say that.’ Are you able to say it one time? No? Sorry. … Everyone’s taking a look at me like, ‘Why did you say that?’
Willie Geist responded light-heartedly:
No, you may say it zero occasions. I am taking a look at you want, ‘Why did you say that?’ I would wish to go on the document that my spouse by no means stated such a factor about my valuable 3-year-old son.
Jenna Bush Hager caught to her weapons, arguing that not solely did Willie Geist’s spouse confer with her baby like that, however that Hager was sure you had been allowed one curse phrase on tv. She stated she was blushing, as she continued:
I assumed you had been allowed to say it one time. That’s simply Schitt’s Creek?
With out the spelling of the Dan Levy comedy — a good choice to your subsequent lengthy binge — to accompany her remark, nevertheless, Jenna Bush Hager had successfully uttered one more swear phrase, and various folks could possibly be heard shouting, “No!” I feel I communicate for everybody after I say:
Once more, Willie Geist stepped in to close it down, explaining:
That’s the title of a present spelled in a different way. And don’t preserve taking place the road of expletives. This stops right here. And we’re reside on NBC this morning.
What an absolute nightmare state of affairs for The At the moment Present host, and in case you haven’t met your each day quota of cringe, you may see all of it play out beneath:
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Wow, it isn’t bleeped or something!
So when you have got such a monumental gaffes as 1) cursing on reside TV, 2) calling your colleague’s toddler an asshole, and three) cursing a second time in attempting to determine what’s and isn’t OK to say, one would hope Jenna Bush Hager would be capable to decide herself up by her boot straps. This isn’t Bush Hager’s first awkward reside TV second, in spite of everything, so she was in a position to get on with the present, proper?
Unsuitable. The host remained flustered by her mistake, saying:
I really feel fearful like I will get a name from the boss or one thing.
On a section after, Willie Geist reminded her to “watch your language,” and even NBC correspondent Peter Alexander, who was filling in for Craig Melvin on TODAY’s early hours, acquired in on the enjoyable by giving Jenna Bush Hager a tough time.
She admitted that she was spiraling, saying:
I am nonetheless caught in a second and I am attempting to get out of it. I am nonetheless caught in a second, and here is Peter Alexander from the White Home coming over to disgrace me. I used to be informed you would say it one time!
Willie Geist rejected the notion that anybody informed her she may use one curse phrase, however informed Peter Alexander he was making it worse. The scenario didn’t die there, both, as she referred to as the disgrace “all-encompassing” and referenced “ruining my job, ruining my profession.” She requested her co-host:
I wish to be in a disgrace ball and go eat some Smashburger tacos … why did I do it? Why did I do it? The place did it come from?
I’ve acquired a sense she could also be asking herself these questions for a very long time. Nonetheless, I am additionally certain that each one will likely be completely wonderful in the long term.
We’ll must see how rapidly Jenna Bush Hager bounces again from this snafu. Examine her out every morning on NBC in The At the moment Present’s fourth hour.