Jenna Bush Hager Gets a Dramatic Haircut While on Air
Jenna Bush Hager wanted a little more life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in college.
The former first daughter revealed that there was a time she escaped from the Secret Service while attending the University of Texas at Austin during her father George W. Bush’s first term as president.
“I would be kind of embarrassed—and I hesitate even saying this,” Jenna confessed on the Oct. 23 episode of Today, “but I dated a football player at Texas for a brief time. And I was embarrassed that the Secret Service would know that.”
The 43-year-old added, “I don’t know why, but I was.”
But as she thought about it, the daytime personality shared with guest co-host Savannah Guthrie, “I just didn’t want them to know I had a new boyfriend because senior year was active for me.”
As Savannah joked, “Lots of walks of shame,” Jenna quipped with a laugh, “Lots of them.”
“So I had my friends sneak me,” Jenna recalled. “I was in the back of the car and they snuck me past the Secret Service.”
And she was shocked she finally revealed the truth all these years later, saying, “I’ve never admitted this.”
Savannah meanwhile was delighted to learn one of her best friend’s secrets.
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“Wait a minute. You snuck out from the Secret Service?” the 53-year-old exclaimed. “So they thought you were at home in bed reading the Bible or whatever and you were at the football player’s house?”
As Jenna responded in the affirmative, Savannah held up her hand for a high five, saying, “Put it right here. That’s my girl.”
But Jenna didn’t make a habit of evading the Secret Service.
“It was only time I escaped them,” she shared, “and then we broke up soon after.”
Jenna—who is now married to Henry Hager, with whom she shares children Mila, 12, Poppy, 10 and Hal, 6—has been candid about the challenges of life in the public eye, as her father’s presidency meant she even needed a Secret Service alias as a teen.
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“I didn’t love it,” she admitted on Today in September, joking that she was ready to “declassify” the information.
“My name was Holly Crawford,” she shared. “I know, Holly sounds like a good time, doesn’t she?”
And while she didn’t come up with the name, she did have an idea as to where it might have come from.
“Crawford was the name of where we would go—or where my parents had the house,” she explained. “But also: holly, bush. You know, Holly, like holly.”
“I mean I don’t know, I just made [that] up,” she said with a laugh. “But all I know is that if Holly Crawford shows up, she’s ready to order a margarita.”
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Jason Kelce Doesn’t Regularly Wash His Feet
“What kind of weirdo washes their feet….” Jason Kelce tweeted in June 2024 after a fan noted the athlete “looks like he doesn’t wash his legs or feet.”
The retired Philadelphia Eagles player later doubled down on his comments.
“What kind of psychopath washes your feet?” he deadpanned on an episode of his and brother Travis Kelce‘s New Heights podcast, adding, “If there’s visible dirt on them, I’ll scrub the dirt off.”
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Robert Pattinson Did Not Watch a Clown Die at the Circus
Over a decade after the Twilight star revealed that he saw a clown die in a car explosion during his first visit to the circus as a child, he admitted that wasn’t true.
“There was absolutely no hesitation at all [in my voice],” Robert recalled to The New York Times Style Magazine in a December 2024 interview. “I’m like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?'”
As for what he said during the 2011 Today interview promoting his film Water for Elephants?
“One of the clowns died,” he explained at the time. “His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him, seriously. Everybody ran out. It was terrifying.”
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Kim Kardashian Reveals How She “Honored” Grandma MJ During Sex With Pete Davidson
Grandma knows best.
Kim Kardashian got candid about how her grandma Mary Jo “MJ” Campbell influenced one intimate moment between her and then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, during an October 2022 episode of The Kardashians.
“Pete and I were staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel last weekend, and we were sitting in front of the fireplace, just talking for hours,” the SKIMS founder recounted to MJ, mom Kris Jenner and sister Khloe Kardashian. “And I was like, ‘My grandma told me that you really live life when you have sex in front of the fireplace. And so, we had sex in front of the fireplace in honor of you.”
Grandma’s reaction? A nod of approval.
“How creepy to think about your grandma before you have sex?” Kim said, to which MJ replied, “I know, but I was younger once.”
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Mila Kunis Reveals Why She and Ashton Kutcher Keep Bathrooms Doors Open at Home
The love shared in Mila Kunis and husband Ashton Kutcher‘s tight-knit family—which includes 8-year-old daughter Wyatt and 6-year-old son Dimitri—knows no boundaries.
So much so, that the Black Swan actress revealed they keep an open-door policy at home.
“That includes the bathroom,” she told E! News in September 2022. “It’s just one of those where, for better or for worse, as a family and the kids have all kind of embodied bodily function as a very standard norm.”
Mila said she arrived at the decision after her family kept knocking on the door and asking to come in, which prompted her to oblige: “I was like, ‘Oh, forget it. Just keep the door open.'”
Pre-kids, she might not have imagined she’d flush that particular boundary away.
She added, “I’d never thought that I would be the person that was able to go to the bathroom with the door open.”
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Joy Behar Admits She’s “Had Sex With a Few Ghosts”
Ghouls just want to have fun.
As The View panelists were reviewing footage about a woman who alleged she had “sexual ghosts” in her home, Sara Haines asked the group an important question during an October 2022 episode: “If you have sex with a ghost, can you get pregnant?”
Fortunately for her, co-host Joy Behar had an answer, adding, “I’ve had sex with a few ghosts and never got pregnant.”
“I’m just gonna let that ride,” Whoopi Goldberg said in response. “I don’t know how many of you just heard what Joy just said, but I’m going to let it ride.”
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Jenna Bush Hager Explains Why She Doesn’t Use Underwear
Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotab are a thick as thieves, though there is one thing Hoda didn’t know about her Today co-host. When the pair were getting ready for an episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna, Hoda discovered Jenna perpetually goes commando.
“We both had to change before the show and we were like, ‘Oh we have to go back into the changing room,'” Hoda said during a November 2022 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna. “But then I noticed, Jenna never wears underwear.”
Jenna’s rationale? Well, no underwear might just be more convenient to her.
“I think it makes a more pretty silhouette,” she said. “I also think you don’t have to pack as much. There are a lot of pros to it!”
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Britney Spears Reveals She Has “No Idea” Who Pete Davidson and Scott Disick are
Looks like someone hasn’t been keeping up.
Britney Spears found herself embracing Keke Palmer‘s viral saying “he could be walking down the street, I wouldn’t know a thing,” when she admitted she didn’t know who Pete Davidson and Scott Disick were.
Reposting a humorous March video of Pete—who was then dating Kim Kardashian—and Kourtney Kardashian‘s ex Scott enjoying a “boyz night,” to her Instagram, Britney said the two of them had her cracking up.
“Sorry had to repost this,” Britney wrote in the since-deleted post. “no idea who these people in the video are but it made me laugh so hard !!!!”
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Jana Kramer Explains Why “Asparagus Pee” Might’ve Lead To A Breakup With Chris Evans
Back before the world knew Chris Evans as Captain America and People‘s Sexiest Man Alive of 2022, Jana Kramer knew him as the “heartthrob, cutie” she went on a few dates with.
It happened more than a decade ago, the singer revealed on her Whine Down with Jana Kramer podcast in November, and though she can’t remember “how many dates it was,” she does recall their last encounter.
Jana, then about 26 years old, said Chris invited her over to his house while he had friends in town from Boston.
“The last interaction that I remember is him going into the bathroom after I just went with asparagus pee,” Jana remembered, referencing the veggie’s tendency to give urine a very distinct scent. “We didn’t hook up that night. He stayed up late with his friends and then [in] the morning I did the asparagus walk of shame out of his house.”
She added, “I never heard from him again.”
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Former Grey’s Anatomy Writer Elisabeth Finch Reveals She Lied About Having Cancer
Not all of these confessions are amusing.
Eight years after sharing in an ELLE article that she had been battling a rare type of bone cancer—her fake diagnosis even inspiring a storyline on Grey’s Anatomy—show writer Elisabeth Finch admitted in December it was all a ruse.
“I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me,” Elisabeth told The Ankler newsletter Dec. 7, adding, “I’ve never had any form of cancer.”
Summed up Finch, who was placed on administrative leave from the ABC medical drama before eventually resigning, said, “What I did was wrong. Not okay. F–ked up. All the words.”
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Kim Kardashian Admits—And Then Double Downs On—Why She Would “Eat Poop” to Look Younger
Beauty is pain, but Kim Kardashian might be able to stomach it.
Telling The New York Times the lengths she would go to for a more youthful appearance, the reality star cracked that she was willing to try just about anything.
“If you told me that I literally had to eat poop every single day and I would look younger, I might,” she said in June. “I just might.”
In a July 2022 interview with Allure, Kim said she was “kind of joking” about the comment, though the idea didn’t seem too terrible.
“But now that I think about it,” Kim added, “I would probably eat s–t if someone told me, ‘If you eat this bowl of poop every single day, you’ll look younger.'”
How much could she make room for? “Maybe just a bite,” she told the outlet. “I don’t think I can do a whole bowl.”
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Jelly Roll Admits He Once Pooped His Pants Onstage
Jelly Roll could’ve used some saving from himself.
The “Save Me” singer was asked about his most embarrassing moment during an April 2025 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show—and he definitely didn’t hold anything back.
“I pooped myself one time,” he admitted. “I did, I’m sorry.”
But to be fair, Jelly Roll (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) didn’t expect to deal such a lethal blow.
“I was confident it was all air,” he insisted. “I’m so sorry. I watched this crowd go from loving me to just being completely out.”
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