Jenna Bush Hager Calls Out Hoda Kotb for Regifting Present Given to Her by Kathie Lee Gifford

Jenna Bush Hager has a bone to pick with longtime pal Hoda Kotb.

The TV personality, 44, called out her former cohost during the Tuesday, November 10, episode of Today, claiming Kotb, 62, once regifted a meaningful present originally given to her by Kathie Lee Gifford.

The gift in question was a bracelet that said “Hope and Joy” on it — the names of Kotb’s children, Hope, 7, and Haley Joy, 9, whom she shares with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman — inscribed with “Haley 2017.”

“She gave me a regift from Kathie Lee that said Haley and the year Haley was born,” Bush Hager explained. “I was like, ‘Hey Hoda, this isn’t for me bro.'”

Cohost Willie Geist chimed in, saying, “Let’s count the ways we love Hoda, but that’s very lazy, to not even look, and say, ‘Oh this was mine.'”

Despite the holiday faux pas, Bush Hager and Kotb — who hosted the fourth hour together for seven years following Gifford’s exit in 2019 — are able to laugh about it now.

In December 2023, the duo addressed a similar issue after a fan wrote in asking what to do after finding out a friend regifted a present she had given her the year prior.

“Everybody regifts,” Bush Hager said at the time. “Regifting is part of the girl code. If you don’t regift, what do you even have to give? You have to go to the store?!”

Kotb shared the same sentiment, adding, “You’re right,” adding that the recipient probably “didn’t like” the gift. Bush Hager theorized that it could also be due to a lack of time or space that causes a person to regift.