Jenna Bush Hager has admitted that she once forgot to pick up a towel at the NBC fitness center before hopping into the shower — and ran into three people naked.

The Today host opened up about the embarrassing moment on Thursday’s show while talking about actor Barry Keoghan posing naked for Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue as an homage to his famous Saltburn dance scene.

Hoda Kotb, 59, pointed out that Bush Hager, 42, ‘likes being naked,’ which she initially protested before admitting it was true. 

‘But here’s the thing, you’ve shamed, me, Dad, about being naked a lot,’ she told her co-star, noting that she ‘calls Hoda “Dad” sometimes.’

Jenna Bush Hager, 42, revealed on the Today show that three people accidentally caught her naked at the NBC fitness center locker room 

The Today host (pictured on a spa day) admitted that she forgot to grab towels before hopping into the shower and had to walk out nude 

‘You’ve shamed me because you’ve said this. Go ahead, say what you’ve said to me on multiple occasions about being naked in the work gym.’

After Bush Hager’s prompting, Kotb explained that she makes it a point to keep herself covered up when she is getting changed after a workout. 

‘When I’m at the work gym where I see all my colleagues and I have to get dressed, I look around [to make sure] nobody’s here,’ she said. 

‘I’m going to get dressed as fast as I possibly can because I don’t want someone walking in who I work with and [‘I’m] naked. 

‘So when I’m halfway pulling up my things, if someone walks in, I’m like, “Please no, please no, please no.” Like I’m praying it’s not someone who I work with directly.’

Kotb added that she will also sometimes get changed in a room with a curtain because she doesn’t ‘like that image to be in someone’s head.’

Bush Hager explained that this wasn’t something she thought about until her co-host warned her that nudity may make some of her colleagues uncomfortable. 

‘I go to the gym every morning, and I wasn’t aware that I needed to be so worried about everything and pulling the curtain and hiding,’ she said as Kotb laughed. 

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Bush Hager opened up about the embarrassing moment while talking about Barry Keoghan’s naked dancing scene in Saltburn, saying Hoda Kotb ‘shamed’ her for being naked a the gym 

Kotb, 59, explained that she makes it a point to keep herself covered up when she is getting changed after a workout because she doesn’t want one of her colleagues to see her nude 

‘But after Hoda told me about a shocking experience where she saw a colleague in the buff, then I realized that I was actually probably harming some of our colleagues with all of this.’

Bush Hager recalled how a couple of days after Kotb ‘shamed’ her, she made a grave mistake that led to being caught completely nude in the locker room. 

‘We have towels that we’re able to use. I had forgotten to grab them. I was in the shower. I was all wet and slippery and slimy,’ she said. 

‘Okay, why all the detail?’ Kotb interjected before telling her to ‘keep going.’ 

‘And I realized [I had forgotten towels]. I was wet. I had to dry myself,’ Bush Hager continued. ‘So I listened carefully because I had your voice in my head. “Don’t scar those people. Don’t scar those people.” 

‘So I listened, and I didn’t hear anybody. So with wet feet, I scampered, scampered, and there were three people in the room.’

‘I go to the gym every morning, and I wasn’t aware that I needed to be so worried about everything and pulling the curtain and hiding,’ said Bush Hager (pictured with dance fitness instructor Amanda Bartolomeo) 

Bush Hager explained that she had Kotb’s warning in her head when she tried to sneak out of the shower and grab a towel without anyone in the locker room seeing her 

Kotb threw her head back and groaned at the thought, saying, ‘Oh, that is the absolute [worst].’  

‘Just as naked as yesterday morning. Whatever the cliché is,’ Bush Hager joked. 

‘By the way, you make me laugh,’ Kotb told her before moving on with the segment. 

This isn’t the first time Kotb has called out Bush Hager’s love of nudity on the morning show. 

In 2022, the Hope is a Rainbow author told their live studio audience that the Read with Jenna founder ‘never wears underwear’ after she ‘promised’ not to air her dirty laundry.

Kotb explained that she ‘got a little shock’ after she got changed with Bush Hager before the show and discovered she doesn’t wear underwear.’ 

Bush Hager seemed a bit embarrassed about her anti-underwear stance going public, but she defended her choice.

‘So I listened, and I didn’t hear anybody. So with wet feet, I scampered, scampered, and hongkong grand 4d there were three people in the room,’ she said. 

Kotb threw her head back and groaned at the thought, saying, ‘Oh, that is the absolute [worst]’

‘I think it makes a more pretty silhouette. I also think you don’t have to pack as much. There’s a lot of pros to it. I’m sure my mom has never been more proud,’ she joked.

Kotb noted the show’s wardrobe supervisor did say that not having to worry about underwear makes ‘life a lot easier.’

‘But it’s a lot of washing of clothes, over and over,’ she added.

Bush Hager confirmed that she washes her clothes and didn’t see what the big deal was about her underwear-less lifestyle.

‘It’s also not like I’m sharing your jeans with you,’ she told her co-host. ‘Though I do steal Savannah [Guthrie]’s pants on occasion. I do want to borrow that red suit of yours. Can I?’

‘Yes, you can, anytime,’ Kotb replied.

‘I’ll wear underwear,’ Bush Hager promised.

A few weeks later, the former first daughter revealed that she went commando while having dinner with King Charles, then-Prince Charles, in Scotland.  

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