Jenna Bush Hager & Dolly Parton.Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty; Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty; Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty
Just likeDolly Parton,Jenna Bush Hagerhas had her own experience with a “Jolene.”
On Monday’s episode ofToday with Hoda and Jenna,the talk show personality, 42, was discussingBeyoncé’s latest coverof Parton’s classic hit when she revealed that she was once in a situation that involved another girl trying to take her man.
“Everybody’s had a Jolene,” Bush Hager said in the episode, to which her co-hostHoda Kotb, 59, responded, “Of course. You know what it is now though. If your man is takable and if the girl wants to take him…”
“Take him,” Bush Hager joked, referencing one of her own relationships that seemingly didn’t end well. “If we were going to record our own ‘Jolene,’ it’d be like, ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene/Go ahead and take that stupid man.'”
“I didn’t end up with the man that Jolene tried to take because he was takable and I should have just known when he kissed the person in front of me… just to let him go,” she said. “Let him go!”
“Right in front of me,” she added, demonstrating how blatant the kiss was. “Here I am, there they are. Go! Take him!““I think you’re right,” Kotb added. “When you’re trying to desperately hang on to someone…““And he wants to go with Jolene? Go!” Bush Hager responded. “Had I let him go then, I would have prevented a lot of issues.”
Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on “Today with Hoda & Jenna”.Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty
Bush Hager did not end up with that “stupid man” in the long run — she’s now married toHenry Chase Hager, with whom she shares kids Mila, 10, Poppy, 8, and Hal, 4. In fact, in another recentTodaydiscussion about relationships, she revealed shesometimes likes it when other women flirt with her husbandthese days.
“This may be weird, but sometimes I like it when people flirt with Henry,” the former first daughter said in a previous episode.
“So I’m like, ‘Oh, there you are,'” she added.
Still, the daughter of former PresidentGeorge W. Bushadmitted that there’s a fine line, and she wouldn’t want Henry flirting back with anyone who gave him attention.
“If it’s a very small amount [of flirting], I find it attractive,” she said. “He wouldn’t do it a lot.”
“Jolenes” have been a topic of discussion since the release of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album on Friday, which includesa reimagining of the original story from Parton’s song.
On Friday, Parton celebrated the new trackon social media, writing in a post: “Wow, I just heard Jolene. Beyoncé is giving that girl some trouble and she deserves it!”
“Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene/I’m warning you, don’t come for my man/Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene/Don’t take the chance because you think you can,” Beyoncé sings.
“You’re beautiful beyond compare/Takes more than beauty and seductive stares/To come between a family and a happy man,” she continues,switching up the lyricseven more. “Jolene, I’m a woman too/Thе games you play are nothing new/So you don’t want no hеat with me, Jolene.”
source: people.com
