Jenna Bush Set Up Hoda Kotb With a Date: See Her Matchmaking Tips

Jenna Bush Hager has been enjoying matchmaker and serving to Hoda Kotb discover love.

“I’ve technique for hooking folks up,” Bush Hager, 42, shared on NBC’s In the present day with Hoda & Jenna on Friday, March 22. “Right here it’s … and I’m using this presently with pal of mine.”

Bush Hager then proceeded to disclose that the pal she was referring to was carrying “a white starch shirt,” which occurred to be what Kotb, 57, was wearing.

Kotb began to giggle as she playfully touched her prime because the digital camera zoomed in on her smiling.

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“So, right here’s what you do,” Bush Hager defined. “You don’t simply go, trigger right here’s what occurs: you find yourself asking the identical folks, like ‘Hey, Henry! Who’s cute at your work that might be good for Hoda?’ ‘Hey…ba ba ba….’ Identical, similar folks. You cease that. You go exterior your zone.”

Bush Hager then went on to level out that she had had success doing that earlier than when she ended up establishing Libby Leist, the chief vp of In the present day and NBC Information, together with her now-husband, Sayan Ray. “So, with Libby, I texted three folks, my sister who [was] in graduate college. One pal that had simply moved to Connecticut, so I had an entire new totally different world, and one other pal that had simply moved out of town too,” she famous. “And guess what? One of many mates had anyone. So ask exterior of your zone.”

Kotb nodded in settlement and mentioned that she thought that was the important thing to discovering somebody.

“Proper. You’re proper, as a result of should you hold trying and going to the identical three locations, [they’re] like, ‘I don’t know anyone at work.’ ‘I don’t have a single pal,’” she added.

Bush Hager then expressed that she had began to get pissed off when she had been asking round beforehand making an attempt to arrange her coworker with somebody in Manhattan as a result of nobody she reached out to at first may consider anybody who can be match for Kotb.

“It [got] form of lame as a result of folks [were] like ‘There’s no person in New York to set her up with,’” she shared.

Listening to that assertion shocked Kotb as she sarcastically repeated, “No person in New York.”

Nonetheless, Bush Hager made it clear that she disagreed with that assertion and instructed the viewers that she had, in reality, discovered Kotbe a match. “I used to be like, ‘Guess what? There are folks.’”

Whereas Bush Hager didn’t disclose the id of the thriller man, Kotb hinted that she was glad her coanchor went out of the way in which to search out her a date when others had given up.

“By the way in which, you might be actually good at setting folks up, as I’d know,” she proclaimed.

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This isn’t the primary time the In the present day star has publicly opened up about her love life not too long ago. When she was on the The Kelly Clarkson Present earlier this month, she instructed host Kelly Clarkson that she had been out with somebody.

“I do should say one thing did occur the opposite day that hasn’t occurred in two years,” Kotb mentioned on the episode. “I had a date! I had a date.’

Whereas Kotb was pleased with herself for getting again into the courting scene, she did make clear that it was “nothing however a date.”

Kotb’s latest romantic updates have come two years after she and Joel Schiffman referred to as off their engagement. The pair, who had been collectively for eight years, share daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 4.

Kotb introduced their break up throughout a January 2022 episode of In the present day With Hoda & Jenna, saying, “Joel and I’ve had loads of prayerful and actually significant conversations over the vacations, and we determined that we’re higher as mates and fogeys than we’re as an engaged couple. So we determined that we’re going to begin this new yr and start it form of on our new path as loving dad and mom to our lovely, pleasant youngsters, and as mates.”