“Apparently I have a lot of exes still living in Texas, and it might as well be,” Bush Hager joked.

Jenna Bush Hager He returns home, but not without some explosions from the past.

42-year-old Bush Hager and his wife Todayshow co-host Hoda Kotb This week, they headed to Austin, Texas, and shared on the Oct. 24 episode that they were following in their former first daughter’s childhood footsteps. Kotb, 60, even joked that they ran into one of Bush Hager’s ex-boyfriends everywhere they went.

“Being with Jenna in Austin is incredible,” Kotb said of Bush Hager, who was previously married. Henry Chase Hager Since 2008. “First of all, it feels like a small town even though it’s the 11th largest city… But if you turn any corner and see Jenna’s 7th grade date, her prom date turned up at Don’s the other night.”

Bush Hager laughed: “Apparently I still have a bunch of exes living in Texas, and I might.” “Austin was my home from middle school until college. I couldn’t leave, I had to go to UT.

“My mom even said the other day: ‘Why did you always apply to those schools you went to in Texas? he added. “I’ve lived outside of Texas longer than I did there, it’s still in every bone of my body, I love it so much.”

The duo even met up with all of Bush Hager’s friends who were there to watch the show.

“I think the great thing about Jenna is that her best friends are here and they show up, too,” Kotb said before a photo of the group appeared on the screen. “We were at the bar the other night, all our high school friends came.”

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Kotb also revealed that they returned to Austin High School, where Bush Hager attended high school from 1996 to 2000, when his father was Governor of Texas.

“Jenna was crying; being home was the best thing,” Kotb said.

“If you watch the show, I know you’ll be surprised that I cried,” Bush Hager said. “But if any of you haven’t gone back to your high school, go back, because there was something about walking into this gym on Fridays where we had our pep rallies for Texas football, which is what this is. “It was such a strange feeling to be in a place that shaped me so much that I couldn’t stand it.”

Kotb added that they also visited the co-host’s former teachers, and Bush Hager yelled at them, joking, “I’m sorry for my behavior.”

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Bush Hager moved to Texas in 1994 when his father died. George W. Bush He was elected as governor. Bush the year he graduated won the election He served as President of the United States and moved to Washington, D.C., while remaining in Austin to earn his degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin.

while he was worked for several years Bush Hager, who served as a teacher in DC and Maryland, later became a teacher. writer and later a television presenter changedKathy Lee Gifford as co-host Today In 2019.

“It feels organic and right, I don’t know if I would do it if it didn’t,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “If it wasn’t, they probably wouldn’t have asked me for this. But it feels like the right time for me.”

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