NEW YORK — Jenna & Friends announced actress and comedian Heather McMahan will be next week’s guest co-host with Jenna Bush Hager.
KSHB 41 News Today anchors Lindsay Shively and Taylor Hemness got a chance to chat with Jenna Bush Hager while they were in New York last month about to discuss guest co-hosts the show has lined up since Hoda Kotb’s departure and more!
“We’re actually kind of booked through the spring,” Bush Hager said. “We have such fun ideas so I think you’ll see sort of like thematic weeks that you aren’t expecting, a lot of amazing different co-hosts that I cannot believe. Fifteen years ago, I’d be pinching myself.”
“So it’s going to be fun, I think, joyful, which I know we all want and need and so I hope people will tune in.”
“It’s not going to go on forever. At some point, we’ll have another co-host but for now, it’s a blast.”
“What do you love about getting to share joy like that every morning?” Shively asked.
“Well I just think it’s a privilege, I’m sure you guys feel that way too, to be part of people’s days. We used to kind of be self-deprecating about it, Hoda and I. I’d be like, ‘oh you know, my sister works in the nonprofit world. I mean, she’s the hero’ but after the pandemic, when people would say, like, ‘you guys were my friends, you got me through’, we stopped doing that.”
This wasn’t the only interview Lindsay and Taylor while they spent time at 30 Rock. You can see more of their stories with Today Show co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin as well as Kansas City native and Saturday Night Live star Heidi Gardner! Plus get a behind-the-scenes look at their morning on The Today Show!
