The Reason Jenna Bush Hager Is Choosing Not to Wear Her Engagement Ring | Celebrities

Jenna Bush Hager is setting the report straight.

On the Wednesday, Sept. 25 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna, the 42-year-old defined why her ring finger was naked.

During the present section “Social Dilemmas,” she and cohost Hoda Kotb have been responding to a viewer who had written in about an engagement ring debacle. The viewer defined that they knew their accomplice can be proposing quickly with a “hideous” household heirloom ring, and requested the hosts' opinions on how to navigate the scenario.

In response, Bush Hager held up her personal hand, which was noticeably lacking a hoop. “I'm not wearing my ring but don't worry… we're still happy together, but I broke my finger,” she defined, referring to her husband, Henry Chase Hager.

The host went on to say that Chase Hager “redid” a relative's ring when he proposed to her.

“I think [it was] his grandmother's, or somebody's… I mean, we've been married a long time,” Bush Hager mentioned, earlier than advising the viewer to “figure out a way” to have an trustworthy dialog concerning the ring earlier than their accomplice proposes to them.

Last week, Bush Hager recalled one other engagement ring mishap that occurred after fellow Today broadcaster Savannah Guthrie's fiftieth party in 2022.

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“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s 50th birthday, where I woke up the next morning and one of the stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out?” she mentioned to Kotb.

The anchor continued that she was “not exactly sure” the place the stone went and that she on the time, she anxious about telling her husband.

“I also had this panic like, ‘Do I tell Henry now, right when I wake up? Or do I tell him after maybe he’s had some food.’ I just said, you gotta tell him right away. And he was…”

“Not happy,” Kotb interjected.

“A little grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, including that the stone was “never found.”

Bush Hager beforehand shared one other story about dropping the ring at a John F. Kennedy airport on the way in which to a shoot, per Brides.

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“I was stressed. I get to the shoot and I’m looking around,” she mentioned throughout an April episode of Today. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a whole bag of jewelry.’”

Luckily, a “lovely man” introduced the ring to safety and it was returned to Bush Hager.

“I couldn’t even tell Henry because if I lost our engagement ring, it’s priceless,” the host admitted. “So, I harbored a secret from Henry, too, which was hard.”

Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he was working for her father, former president George W. Bush. They received engaged in 2007 and tied the knot in May 2008. Together they share three youngsters: daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5.