{"id":2493917,"date":"2026-07-08T19:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2493917"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:57:04","slug":"jenna-bush-hager-kept-prank-calling-george-h-w-bushs-office-with-twin-sister-barbara-when-they-were-5-my-parents-were-so-mad-at-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jenna-bush-hager-kept-prank-calling-george-h-w-bushs-office-with-twin-sister-barbara-when-they-were-5-my-parents-were-so-mad-at-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager ‘Kept Prank Calling’ George H.W. Bush’s Office With Twin Sister Barbara When They Were 5: ‘My Parents Were So Mad at Us’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jenna Bush Hager<\/strong><\/a> recalled getting in trouble at just 5 years old for repeatedly prank-calling the vice president of the United States with her twin sister.<\/p>\n

Bush Hager revealed the hilarious childhood anecdote on the Wednesday, July 8, episode of TODAY With Jenna & Sheinelle<\/em><\/a> while discussing prank-calling in the 1980s with her co-host Sheinelle Jones.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Prank calling is so fun,” Bush Hager recalled, before revealing how the gag got her into trouble.<\/p>\n

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Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush repeatedly called their grandfather’s office.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Bush Hager revealed that the “first time” she almost got spanked as a child was due to a rampant prank-calling scheme with her twin sister, Barbara Bush.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I didn’t get [spanked], but I was very close,” she explained. “Barbara and I, we were 5, and we kept prank calling the vice president’s office. And we were like ‘Where’s the president?'”<\/p>\n

The president, at the time, would have been Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> for whom their grandfather, George H.W. Bush<\/strong><\/a>, served as vice president for from 1981 to 1989.<\/p>\n

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Jenna Bush Hager said her parents were ‘so mad’ when they realized what their daughters had been up to.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

“And my parents came home and we were actually at a friend’s house… and I don’t know how we got the number,” Jenna added.<\/p>\n

Her father, George W. Bush<\/strong><\/a>,<\/a> and mother,Laura Bush<\/strong><\/a>, were livid when they discovered what the mischievous twins had been up to.<\/p>\n

“My parents were so mad at us,” Jenna recalled. “We kept calling my grandpa’s office over and over and over again, being like ‘Where’s the president?’ and hanging up.”<\/p>\n

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Sheinelle Jones said Jenna Bush Hager’s prank call story totally beat her own.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Her childhood escapades reduced Sheinelle to a laughing fit.<\/a><\/p>\n

“That beats my Pizza Hut,” Jones responded.<\/p>\n

Sheinelle revealed that she, too, loved to make prank calls as a kid, often pretending to order a pizza as a gag.<\/p>\n

“If I hadn’t done any prank calls, then I hadn’t lived,” she quipped. “I had a childhood. Especially because we didn’t have cell phones, we didn’t have entertainment, so all we had was our imaginations.”<\/p>\n

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Sheinelle Jones recalled reprimanding her children for making prank calls.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

However, Sheinelle confessed she’s caught her kids doing the same thing and immediately put a stop to it.<\/p>\n

“I caught my kids doing that once, and I was like, ‘Guys, you can’t,'” she said. “These days…”<\/p>\n

She gave the camera a knowing look before she and Jenna moved on with their segment.<\/p>\n

Sheinelle has three teenage children whom she shared with her late husband, Uche Ojeh<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>The couple welcomed Kayin<\/strong> in 2009 and fraternal twins Clara<\/strong> and Uche<\/strong> Jr. in 2012.<\/p>\n

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