Jenna Bush Hager is getting her weathermen mixed up.
While the 43-year-old—whose parents are George W. Bush and Laura Bush—shared the news that her late grandmother Barbara Bush was being honored with a commemorative stamp during the June 10 episode of Today, she accidentally insinuated that her co-host Al Roker may have had a special relationship with the former First Lady.
“Remember when you made out with her, Al?” Jenna asked the 70-year-old weatherman as he, Craig Melvin, Savannah Guthrie and Carson Daly all looked at her with confusion on their faces. “Didn’t you kiss her?”
Within moments, Jenna realized that she was mistaking Al—who shares kids Courtney, 37, Leila, 26, and Nick, 22, with wife Deborah Roberts—for former Today weatherman Willard Scott.
“That was Willard,” she noted, to which Al quipped, “That was Willard, other bald weather guy.”
But after Jenna apologized for the confusion, Al admitted that it wasn’t all that far-fetched.
“It was awkward on so many levels, so many levels,” he said of the moment Jenna said his name. “I’m thinking, ‘Did I make out with her grandmother?’”
With a laugh, he added, “Not that I wouldn’t have!”
As for why Willard had shared a smooch with Jenna’s late grandmother in the first place? Well, during the 1989 Inaugural Parade, then-President George H.W. Bush waved at the late weatherman—who passed away in 2021 at 87 years old—as he walked past. But for her part, Barbara rushed over to plant a quick kiss on his lips.
“How ‘bout that?” Willard said at the time. “I’ve been kissed by the best!”
And three years after Barbara passed away in 2018, Jenna deemed the memorable kiss “one of her life highlights.”
“That was on the lips,” Jenna said of the unexpected moment during a September 2021 episode of Today. “My grandpa might’ve been jealous.”
“I emailed somebody that worked with her and she said, ‘You know, they just really liked each other,'” she continued of her grandmother. “They said there was some sort of chemistry there where she said, ‘I feel like they were flirting,’ and obviously we have the proof.”
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Sheinelle Jones
The cohost of the third hour of Today shares son Kayin as well as twins Uche and Clara with her late husband Uche Ojeh, who passed away in May 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.
“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they’re ALL a team, and they have to take care of each other,” Sheinelle wrote in a 2015 essay for Today. “At the same time, I’m learning that they each like to know they’re special on their own.”
Craig Melvin
Three years after the anchor married fellow broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak in 2011, he earned his most cherished title yet: father.
And now, he seizes every opportunity to gush about their son Delano and daughter Sybil.
“When I wake up in the morning,” Melvin said to his son during a May 2024 episode of Today, “part of the reason I work so hard is for you and your sister.”
Jenna Bush Hager
The Today with Jenna & Friends cohost and her husband Henry Hager are proud parents to kids Mila, Poppy and Hal.
As she put it during a March 2025 episode of the morning show, “I’m pretty sure I’ve come to terms that three, even though it’s an imperfect number, it’s the perfect number for our household.”
Hoda Kotb
“Another Halloween in the books,” wrote the former host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy.
She is also mom to daughter Hope Catherine.
Lester Holt
The former NBC Nightly News anchor shares sons Stefan Holt and Cameron Holt with his wife Carol Hagen.
But more recently, he became a proud “granddude” to three grandchildren: Henry, Samuel and James.
“When my daughter-in-law was pregnant with her first baby … she said, ‘Well, what do you guys want to be called?’” Holt said on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2021. “I said, ‘I think I want to be ‘Granddude’ because ‘grand,’ it bows to the fact that I’m older. But ‘dude’ says, ‘I still got a little bit. I still got a little,’ you know?”
Carson Daly
In 2020, the anchor and his wife Siri Pinter welcomed their fourth child, Goldie. The little one joined the couple’s older kids Jackson, Etta and London.
Kathie Lee
Hoda’s former cohost is a loving mommy to her own two children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her late husband Frank Gifford.
Savannah Guthrie
The TV personality is a mom to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles “Charley” Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman.
Al Roker
The anchor and his wife Deborah Roberts are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife Christina Geist since 2003. They’re parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
