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Jenna Bush Hager<\/a> seemingly extended her long weekend into a lengthier break from Today<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n 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<\/em> colleagues out on the 30 Rockefeller Center plaza, Thursday and Friday\u2019s episodes of Today With Jenna & Friends<\/em> were also prerecorded.<\/p>\n Her hiatus continued into this week, as Bush Hager was once again absent from Today<\/em>\u2018s earlier hours before a new prerecorded episode of Jenna & Friends<\/em> aired. The reason behind Bush Hager\u2019s break was not shared, nor was her return date given.<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie<\/a> stepped in as Bush Hager\u2019s guest host on Monday\u2019s Jenna & Friends<\/em>, which re-aired old interviews and segments featuring celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a>, Winnie Harlow<\/a>, Martha Stewart<\/a>, Sof\u00eda Vergara<\/a>, and Mel B<\/a>.<\/p>\n She hinted at another absence at the end of Monday\u2019s episode, sharing that the Tuesday, August 19, broadcast will feature appearances from Dwyane Wade<\/a>, Olivia Munn<\/a>, Halle Berry<\/a>, and Van Hunt<\/a>, all of whom have been on the show in recent months.<\/p>\n NBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As of Monday, the show\u2019s official website<\/a> does not list any celebrity cohosts for this week\u2019s episodes. Jenna & Friends<\/em> previously aired a handful of \u201cbest-of shows\u201d in late June and early July while Bush Hager enjoyed some more time off from Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n This time last year, Bush Hager and her then-cohost, Hoda Kotb<\/a>, had recently returned to the fourth hour of Today<\/em> after Today With Hoda & Jenna<\/em> was put on pause amid NBC\u2019s coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics. The series returned on August 12, 2024, for Kotb\u2019s 60th birthday special.<\/p>\n The former hosting duo ended that week with a prerecorded episode, followed by two whole weeks of prerecorded shows. The series returned with new episodes on September 3, 2024, with the third hour of Today<\/em>\u2018s Sheinelle Jones<\/a> stepping in for Kotb for the day. Kotb appeared on the remainder of the week\u2019s episodes, the last of which was prerecorded. (Jenna & Friends<\/em> is often prerecorded on Fridays.)<\/p>\n During a recent episode of Jenna & Friends<\/em>, Bush Hager teased that she may bid farewell<\/a> to her Today<\/em> gig once her kids become teenagers. \u201cI have a dream, I don\u2019t know how realistic it is, but when this chapter, when the Jenna & Friends<\/em> chapter has come to a close\u2026\u201d she told her guest host, Matt Rogers<\/a>, on August 6.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I\u2019m ready to go to my next chapter, I think it\u2019d be so nice to move back to Texas and let my kids \u2014 I went to a big public high school \u2014 like, have a different life,\u201d she added, noting that she had 1,000 in her own first-year high school class. (Bush Hager shares her daughters Mila, 12, and Poppy, 10, and son Hal, 6, with her husband, Henry Hager.)<\/p>\n Today With Jenna & Friends<\/em>, Weekdays, 10 a.m. ET, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gjsentinel.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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