Jenna Bush Hager Recalls Losing a Stone from Her Engagement Ring After Savannah Guthrie’s 50th: ‘Never Found’

Mar. 15, 2025

Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Chase Hager.Photo: Jenna Bush Hager InstagramJenna Bush Hager’s engagement ring is missing some bling.On the Monday, Sept. 16 episode ofToday with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager, 42, recalled a jewelry mishap that occurred after fellowTodaybroadcasterSavannah Guthrie’s 50th birthday party in 2022.“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s 50th birthday, where I woke up the next morning and one of the stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out?” she said to her co-host,Hoda Kotb.Bush Hager continued that she was “not exactly sure” where the stone went and that she worried about telling her husband,Henry Chase Hager.“I also had this panic like, ‘Do I tell Henry now, right when I wake up? Or do I tell him after maybe he’s had some food.’ I just said, you gotta tell him right away. And he was…““Not happy,” Kotb interjected.“A little grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, adding that the stone was “never found.“The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!This isn’t the first time the anchor has had an incident with her engagement ring.During an episode ofTodayin April, Bush Hager recounted losing the ring at a John F. Kennedy airport on the way to a shoot, perBrides.Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Chase Hager.Jamie McCarthy/Getty“I was stressed. I get to the shoot and I’m looking around,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a whole bag of jewelry.’”When a member of the talk show’s security team contacted the airport, it was discovered that the ring had been found and turned in.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Some lovely man who I’ve never met returned it to security,” Bush Hager recalled, before admitting that she didn’t tell her husband. “I couldn’t even tell Henry because if I lost our engagement ring, it’s priceless. So, I harbored a secret from Henry, too, which was hard.”Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he was working for her father, formerpresident George W. Bush. They got engaged in 2007 and tied the knot in May 2008. Together they sharethree children: daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, andson Hal, 5.Bush Hager isn’t the only broadcaster to misplace her engagement ring this year. On Jan. 7, E! News correspondent and Lady Gang podcastKeltie Knight, 42,lost the diamond stonefrom her 10-year anniversary ring on the2024 Golden Globesred carpet.“If you’re a celebrity and you see a 4-carat diamond on the red carpet, please return it to Keltie Knight at E!,” she said invideo posted that night“Cause it’s gone and, um… it’s real.”Knight says the Globes incident — a.k.a. “Diamondgate” — made her feel like “an absolute fool.““Losing the diamond was hard but realizing it hadn’t been put on our insurance was even worse,” she tells PEOPLE of what made the situation that much more upsetting.But Knight’s story had a happy (and sparkling) ending. Fine jewelry brandWith Clarityreached out to Knight and offered to replace her ring.

Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Chase Hager.Photo: Jenna Bush Hager Instagram

Jenna Bush Hager’s engagement ring is missing some bling.On the Monday, Sept. 16 episode ofToday with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager, 42, recalled a jewelry mishap that occurred after fellowTodaybroadcasterSavannah Guthrie’s 50th birthday party in 2022.“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s 50th birthday, where I woke up the next morning and one of the stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out?” she said to her co-host,Hoda Kotb.Bush Hager continued that she was “not exactly sure” where the stone went and that she worried about telling her husband,Henry Chase Hager.“I also had this panic like, ‘Do I tell Henry now, right when I wake up? Or do I tell him after maybe he’s had some food.’ I just said, you gotta tell him right away. And he was…““Not happy,” Kotb interjected.“A little grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, adding that the stone was “never found.“The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!This isn’t the first time the anchor has had an incident with her engagement ring.During an episode ofTodayin April, Bush Hager recounted losing the ring at a John F. Kennedy airport on the way to a shoot, perBrides.Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Chase Hager.Jamie McCarthy/Getty“I was stressed. I get to the shoot and I’m looking around,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a whole bag of jewelry.’”When a member of the talk show’s security team contacted the airport, it was discovered that the ring had been found and turned in.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Some lovely man who I’ve never met returned it to security,” Bush Hager recalled, before admitting that she didn’t tell her husband. “I couldn’t even tell Henry because if I lost our engagement ring, it’s priceless. So, I harbored a secret from Henry, too, which was hard.”Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he was working for her father, formerpresident George W. Bush. They got engaged in 2007 and tied the knot in May 2008. Together they sharethree children: daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, andson Hal, 5.Bush Hager isn’t the only broadcaster to misplace her engagement ring this year. On Jan. 7, E! News correspondent and Lady Gang podcastKeltie Knight, 42,lost the diamond stonefrom her 10-year anniversary ring on the2024 Golden Globesred carpet.“If you’re a celebrity and you see a 4-carat diamond on the red carpet, please return it to Keltie Knight at E!,” she said invideo posted that night“Cause it’s gone and, um… it’s real.”Knight says the Globes incident — a.k.a. “Diamondgate” — made her feel like “an absolute fool.““Losing the diamond was hard but realizing it hadn’t been put on our insurance was even worse,” she tells PEOPLE of what made the situation that much more upsetting.But Knight’s story had a happy (and sparkling) ending. Fine jewelry brandWith Clarityreached out to Knight and offered to replace her ring.

Jenna Bush Hager’s engagement ring is missing some bling.

On the Monday, Sept. 16 episode ofToday with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager, 42, recalled a jewelry mishap that occurred after fellowTodaybroadcasterSavannah Guthrie’s 50th birthday party in 2022.

“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s 50th birthday, where I woke up the next morning and one of the stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out?” she said to her co-host,Hoda Kotb.

Bush Hager continued that she was “not exactly sure” where the stone went and that she worried about telling her husband,Henry Chase Hager.

“I also had this panic like, ‘Do I tell Henry now, right when I wake up? Or do I tell him after maybe he’s had some food.’ I just said, you gotta tell him right away. And he was…”

“Not happy,” Kotb interjected.

“A little grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, adding that the stone was “never found.”

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!

This isn’t the first time the anchor has had an incident with her engagement ring.

During an episode ofTodayin April, Bush Hager recounted losing the ring at a John F. Kennedy airport on the way to a shoot, perBrides.

Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Chase Hager.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty

“I was stressed. I get to the shoot and I’m looking around,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a whole bag of jewelry.’”

When a member of the talk show’s security team contacted the airport, it was discovered that the ring had been found and turned in.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

“Some lovely man who I’ve never met returned it to security,” Bush Hager recalled, before admitting that she didn’t tell her husband. “I couldn’t even tell Henry because if I lost our engagement ring, it’s priceless. So, I harbored a secret from Henry, too, which was hard.”

Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he was working for her father, formerpresident George W. Bush. They got engaged in 2007 and tied the knot in May 2008. Together they sharethree children: daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, andson Hal, 5.Bush Hager isn’t the only broadcaster to misplace her engagement ring this year. On Jan. 7, E! News correspondent and Lady Gang podcastKeltie Knight, 42,lost the diamond stonefrom her 10-year anniversary ring on the2024 Golden Globesred carpet.

“If you’re a celebrity and you see a 4-carat diamond on the red carpet, please return it to Keltie Knight at E!,” she said invideo posted that night“Cause it’s gone and, um… it’s real.”

Knight says the Globes incident — a.k.a. “Diamondgate” — made her feel like “an absolute fool.”

“Losing the diamond was hard but realizing it hadn’t been put on our insurance was even worse,” she tells PEOPLE of what made the situation that much more upsetting.But Knight’s story had a happy (and sparkling) ending. Fine jewelry brandWith Clarityreached out to Knight and offered to replace her ring.

source: people.com