{"id":1966918,"date":"2025-08-18T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1966918"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:16:33","slug":"why-is-jenna-bush-hager-absent-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-is-jenna-bush-hager-absent-from-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Jenna Bush Hager Absent From \u2018Today\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1679606\/\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a> seemingly extended her long weekend into a lengthier break from Today. The TV personality was noticeably absent from the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\">NBC<\/a> morning show on Thursday, August 14, and Friday, August 15. In addition to not joining her Today colleagues out on the 30 Rockefeller Center plaza, Thursday and Friday\u2019s episodes of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt18884302\/\">Today With Jenna &amp; Friends<\/a> were also prerecorded. Her hiatus continued into this week, as Bush Hager was once again absent from Today\u2018s earlier hours before a new prerecorded episode of Jenna &amp; Friends aired. The reason behind Bush Hager\u2019s break was not shared, nor was her return date given. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2789663\/\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a> stepped in as Bush Hager\u2019s guest host on Monday\u2019s Jenna &amp; Friends, which re-aired old interviews and segments featuring celebrities including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000572\/\">Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6663210\/\">Winnie Harlow<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0829644\/\">Martha Stewart<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005527\/\">Sof\u00eda Vergara<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12092746\/\">Mel B.<\/a> She hinted at another absence at the end of Monday\u2019s episode,&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Bush Hager seemingly extended her long weekend into a lengthier break from Today. The TV personality was noticeably absent from the NBC morning show on Thursday, August 14, and Friday, August 15. In addition to not joining her Today colleagues out on the 30 Rockefeller Center plaza, Thursday and Friday\u2019s episodes of Today With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1966919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1966918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Why-Is-Jenna-Bush-Hager-Absent-From-\u2018Today.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}