Jenna Bush Hager and Savannah Guthrie are shut buddies each on and off the small display screen.
The besties celebrated the primary day of their week-long Right now With Jenna & Associates cohosting gig on Monday, Could 19. Bush Hager, 43, and Guthrie, 53, mirrored on their longtime friendship in a candy video package, throughout which they opened up about being godmothers to one another’s children.
“When Jenna requested me to be Hal’s godmother, I simply felt so particular,” Guthrie mentioned within the clip. “I imply, it’s the best praise an individual might obtain.” Bush Hager shares her daughters Mila, 12, and Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5, along with her husband, Henry Hager.
Guthrie later returned the heartfelt gesture by asking Bush Hager to be her daughter Vale’s godmother. The Right now anchor shares Vale, 10, and her son Charley, 8, along with her husband, Michael Feldman.
Jenna Bush Hager and Savannah Guthrie earned their “cool mother” factors by taking their daughters on a ladies’ weekend to Florida. “We don’t see one another,” Bush Hager, 42, instructed Hoda Kotb of what impressed the women’ getaway in the course of the Monday, February 5, episode of Right now With Hoda and Jenna. Bush Hager defined that she […]
“It made excellent sense that the individual that I communicate to religion most about can be in [Hal’s] life to assist form him in that approach,” Bush Hager acknowledged. “After which, when she requested me to be Vale’s godmother, it was actually stunning.”
For Guthrie, she needed the act to suggest the closeness between them. “I do know she is aware of what it means to me,” she shared. “I additionally needed to only say to Jenna, ‘You might be certainly one of my closest buddies and I’m handing you my coronary heart,’ ‘trigger my little woman is my coronary heart.”
The pair’s connection started lengthy earlier than they joined Right now, as Guthrie reported on Bush Hager’s Texas marriage ceremony for NBC Information in 2008. In Monday’s video package deal, Guthrie mentioned she and Bush Hager “clicked instantly” when she joined the Right now household in 2011. (Bush Hager first joined Right now as a correspondent in 2009.)
Jennifer Miller, Jenna Bush Hager, Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie Courtesy of Hoda Kotb/Instagram
“There was one thing, form of, in our DNA that spoke to one another,” Bush Hager defined of the pair’s bond. “And I felt like though I used to be assembly her for the primary time, I’d recognized her for a lot of, a few years.”
Along with sharing related senses of humor and dwelling shut to one another in New York Metropolis, having children at across the identical time helped their friendship develop deeper. Guthrie gave beginning to Vale in 2014, one 12 months earlier than Bush Hager welcomed Poppy.
“We’ve actually raised our kids collectively. They’ve, like, a sister relationship, nearly,” Bush Hager mentioned of her and Guthrie’s daughters. “And our children went to the identical college, so we’d fill in for each other. If I used to be on a shoot, I’d say, ‘Oh, my gosh. I’m working late. Are you able to decide up the youngsters from the bus?’”
Guthrie, for her half, added, “We got here to essentially depend on one another. I believe we each love that this friendship is now multi-generational and it’s nicely past us.”
Following the video package deal, Guthrie referred to as Bush Hager her “favourite topic” to speak about, whereas Bush Hager mentioned the “luckiest factor” about her job on Right now was changing into buddies with the anchor.
Bush Hager has hosted the fourth hour of Right now with a lineup of superstar visitor hosts since Hoda Kotb exited the NBC morning present in January. Guthrie will proceed to sit down alongside Bush Hager via Friday, Could 23.