See the Books Jenna Bush Hager Has Gifted HerToday With Jenna & FriendsCelebrity Co-Hosts

Mar. 15, 2025

Jenna Bush Hager on ‘Today’ on Nov. 11, 2024.Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty

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Jenna Bush Hageris full of sweet surprises!

The news personality, 43, surprised each of hercelebrity co-hostsonToday with Jenna & Friendswith a new book based on their personality. The line-up — following the exit of longtime co-hostHoda Kotbwhosefinal episode was Jan. 10— includesScarlett Johansson,Taraji P. Henson,Eva Longoria,Keke PalmerandMichelle Buteau.

Bush Hager shared her picks in a jointInstagrampost with herRead with Jennabook club on Tuesday, Jan. 21, writing in the caption that she left the books in the dressing room of each new co-host.

All of the books were previouslyfeatured on Read with Jenna, a book club she founded in 2019.

On Jan. 13, the"Love Comes First" author joked about beingin her “dating era"as she welcomes new co-hosts to the show.

When asked how she was feeling about it all, the host quipped that she was a “child bride” having married her husband Henry Hager when she was 26 years old.

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“And so I haven’t dated, and this is kind of my dating era, and you’re my first date,” Bush Hager told Henson, who kicked off the succession of celebrity co-hosts.

And that’s not all Bush Hager has going on to start the year. The noted bookworm recently launched a new publishing initiative of her own. The new imprint, calledThousand Voices Books, “will work with storytellers writing in a wide range of genres, including romance, suspense, romantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction and memoir,” according to a press release shared with PEOPLE.

Bush Hager will collaborate with editors from Random House Publishing Group to identify emerging voices and guide them through the process of publishing their books.

“This new venture is a natural extension of my passion for books and reading, and an existing collaboration with writers and publishers, but still entirely new and exciting,” she said in a statement.

source: people.com