Jenna Bush joins NBC's Today
Jenna Bush Hager with husband Henry Hager
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Bad news for out-of-work journalists, but good news for anyone who's been served with an M.I.P. at an Austin Tex-Mex eatery: On Sept. 14, former first daughter and UT alum Jenna Bush Hager will begin contributing a "variety of human interest and feature stories" to NBC's Today. Hager impressed the show's producers in previous appearances, and her résumé includes vaguely journalistic endeavors like Ana's Story, the biography of an HIV-positive teenage mother Hager met during a UNICEF internship, and the pro-literacy children's book, Read All About It, co-authored by her mother. Besides, do you know how hard it is to fill four hours of morning television?
Long after the fateful night when Hager was busted for sidling up to the Chuy's bar with a fake I.D., she quietly completed her studies at UT, married fellow politician's kid Henry Hager, and settled in Baltimore, where she currently works as a teacher. Will working from the city of David Simon's urban nightmares plunge Hager into a line of gritty investigative reporting? Sort of: "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about, because I think I'd do the best job on them—education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy," she told the Associated Press. So season four of the The Wire, basically. Best of luck, Jenna. We know the newly mature, socially conscious, teetotaler version of you will do your former hometown proud. (After all, it would be hard to embarrass us more than you already have.)
