Jenna Bush Hager is answering the hard-hitting questions.

After viewers noticed the Today personality was missing from the morning show’s first and second hours Aug. 10, she clarified that her absence was due to travel plans.

“I’m straight off a flight,” Hager said as Today With Jenna & Sheinelle kicked off the program’s fourth hour. “I was in Maine with my family, and my little nephew got baptized, which was so sweet.”

Though the 44-year-old missed out on the morning’s “Jenna’s Morning Boost” and “Pop Start” segments, which she is normally present for, she affectionately reflected on her family time in New England, including when she got “kind of weepy” at the baptism during her recitation of a poem by Mary Oliver.

“I was reading it, and it was in the church where I’ve gone with my grandparents my whole life, my kids were baptized there,” she continued. “There’s something sort of evolutionary about looking up and seeing your twin sister hold this big ol’ baby, and I couldn’t help it.” 

Plus, as she put it, “It was so fun to have all the cousins together.”

While Hager’s absence earlier in the morning was notable, she wasn’t the only Today anchor to be missing from the panel. In fact, Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer and Carson Daly were all out of office. 

Meanwhile, Savannah Guthrie returned to the show Aug. 10 after being out for multiple weeks. And though she took an extended break from Today earlier this year amid the ongoing investigation into her mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, her most recent absence was due to her role as host of an upcoming game show.

"I’m headed over to shoot Wordle over the next few weeks,” the journalist explained during the July 16 broadcast. “We’re going to shoot the whole season, and we’re super excited. Cannot wait for everyone to see it.”

But while she was out, she also made sure to spend time with her former co-anchor and bestie Hoda Kotb.

"My favorite place," Kotb captioned an Aug. 6 Instagram photo of herself with Guthrie sitting outside near a sunny pool. "Next to you."

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The cohost of the fourth hour of Today shares son Kayin as well as twins Uche and Clara with her late husband Uche Ojeh, who passed away in May 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer. 

“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they're ALL a team, and they have to take care of each other," Sheinelle wrote in a 2015 essay for Today. “At the same time, I'm learning that they each like to know they're special on their own."

Three years after the anchor married fellow broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak in 2011, he earned his most cherished title yet: father. 

And now, he seizes every opportunity to gush about their son Delano and daughter Sybil.

"When I wake up in the morning," Melvin said to his son during a May 2024 episode of Today, "part of the reason I work so hard is for you and your sister."

The Today with Jenna & Sheinelle cohost and her husband Henry Hager are proud parents to kids Mila, Poppy and Hal. 

As she put it during a March 2025 episode of the morning show, “I’m pretty sure I’ve come to terms that three, even though it’s an imperfect number, it’s the perfect number for our household."

"Another Halloween in the books," wrote the former host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy. 

The former NBC Nightly News anchor shares sons Stefan Holt and Cameron Holt with his wife Carol Hagen. 

But more recently, he became a proud "granddude" to three grandchildren: Henry, Samuel and James.

“When my daughter-in-law was pregnant with her first baby ... she said, ‘Well, what do you guys want to be called?’" Holt said on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2021. "I said, ‘I think I want to be ‘Granddude’ because ‘grand,’ it bows to the fact that I’m older. But ‘dude’ says, ‘I still got a little bit. I still got a little,’ you know?"

In 2020, the anchor and his wife Siri Pinter welcomed their fourth child, Goldie. The little one joined the couple's older kids Jackson, Etta and London.

Hoda's former cohost is a loving mommy to her own two children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her late husband Frank Gifford.

The TV personality is a mom to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles "Charley" Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman. 

The anchor and his wife Deborah Roberts are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.

The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife Christina Geist since 2003. They're parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.