Jenna Bush Hager Calls Out Hoda Kotb for Not Tuning Into Her 'Today' Segment After Leaving the Show: Watch

Jenna Bush Hager playfully called out pal Hoda Kotb on live TV.

After Kotb left Today in January, she returned for the Tuesday, September 8, episode, where she reunited with Bush Hager, Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Carson Daly.

"Everything's great," Kotb shared of her new life. "My kids are in first grade and third grade. I now wake up at 5:30. I feel really good."

"It's just a different life, but it's funny how easily you can find yourself starting something new. I miss you guys like crazy," she told her costars. "Being here made my heart hurt a little bit."

"You can always come back!" Bush Hager declared, as she has rotating guest co-hosts for her Jenna and Friends hour.

"You look really — it’s been going really, really well," the mom-of-two told the former first daughter of her segment, who replied by stating, "Thank you. You pretend you’ve been watching!"

"I don’t, I don’t," Kotb admitted as they both cracked up. "But I hear it’s amazing! But you guys have been doing so, so well. It’s been fun to watch."

Kotb then dished on her day-to-day again, noting her daughters "love school" and adore playing with their new puppy.

"So our life has started this rhythm where I walk the girls to school then I walk to my office. I have an office in my town," she spilled. "And I’m just kind of building something. Building a business is hard. I had no idea all the stuff, but it’s been so fun, challenging."

As OK! reported, Kotb announced her decision to leave the NBC series in 2024 after nearly three decades with the network.

"I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60, and to try something new," she expressed in September 2024 after hitting the milestone birthday. "I remembered standing outside looking at these beautiful bunch of people with these gorgeous signs, and I thought, 'This is what the top of the wave feels like for me.' And I thought it can't get better, and I decided that this is the right time for me to kind of move on."

"Obviously I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have," the author noted of her adopted daughters, whom she co-parents with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman. "I feel like we only have a finite amount of time. And so, with all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world."