Hoda Kotb Says She Once Had a ‘Totally Sexy’ Make-out Session in a Furniture Store

Hoda Kotb recalls a past public display of love that could have cost her her job, but says it was worth it!

In the episode from Friday Today with Hoda and Jennathe television reporter, 59, and her co-host Jenna Bush Hager, 42, discussed how Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were spotted sharing a sweet kiss on the sofa while furniture shopping in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Surprisingly, this situation is not unknown — at least for Kotb!

“I think I should admit that one time, when I was in New York here, living here, working here, and dating someone here, we were in a furniture store and we had a lot of love,” she said. Hager said.

Stunned by the confession, Hager wanted to know more about Kotba’s definition of “full will,” asking if her co-host and her mystery partner had gone “all the way.”

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager.

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“No, no, no, but you know, like true love for a while,” Kotb said.

Careful not to divulge the details of when the retail encounter took place, she admitted that the spontaneity of the kiss briefly took precedence over her career.

“It was so nerve wracking because I was like, ‘I could lose my whole job and it’s just happening’, but I was kind of excited, you know that feeling?” continued Kotb.

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Although she was amused by her colleague’s recognition, Hager added that today she would probably save her relationships for a more private environment.

“We used to be [be like that],” she replied, referring to her husband, Henry Chase Hager, whom she married in 2008. “But it’s like at some point you can save it, you know?” Bush Hager said. “You don’t have to do it in the store, because you have your own bedroom.”

The couple has three children: son Hal (4) and daughters Poppy (8) and Mila (10).

Jenna Bush Hager and family.

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Kotb jokingly suggested that Jenna be a little more adventurous and “stop acting like” she never had fun in her younger years. “It was totally sexy and hot,” Kotb said.

Kotb — who was married to Burzis Kang from 2005 to 2008 — has two children, daughters Hope, 4, and Haley, 6. She became a mother through adoption in 2017 at age 52 after a battle with breast cancer that left her thought she had children were not in the cards.

Hoda Kotb daughter.

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“Family is everything to me—and having my own is something I never thought I’d have,” she told PEOPLE last year. After a challenging year — (she broke off her two-year engagement to financier Joel Schiffman, 64, in January 2022) — Kotb shared that she and her girls are “doing really well and I feel very at peace.”

The couple weathered the pandemic together, changing their destination wedding plans three times before calling it off, and Schiffman continues to help raise the girls.

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