Bush Hager, who was wearing a uniquely patterned set, wasted no time at all after taking the stage on Today With Jenna & Friends to announce that some members of the Today crew had teased her about her outfit before the show. “Earlier, all the boys on the show said I look like a pack of cards,” she told Ego Nwodim, her guest host for the week.

Bush Hager, 43, launched her own new show, Today with Jenna & Friends, last month after her former co-host, Hoda Kotb, left Today with Hoda & Jenna. In the new program’s first few weeks, Bush Hager welcomed several actors and musicians onto the set as the show began taking shape.

In March 2019, she picked the inaugural novel in the Read with Jenna book club, and every month since then, she’s highlighted one book (or two, during select months) and that bo