Jenna Bush Hager
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Jenna Bush Hager is sharing insight into her early brush with the Secret Service.
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WATCH HEREThe "Today With Jenna & Friends" host reflected on a failed trick she once played on her family as a kid — one that led to the involvement of federal authorities.
"In the first grade, I faked my own kidnapping,” Bush Hager — whose parents are former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush — admitted to co-host Bowen Yang during the April 11 episode of the daytime talk show, “but my plan was derailed by Secret Service."
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SIGN UP As for the story she tried to cook up? Bush Hager — whose grandfather George H.W. Bush was Ronald Reagan’s vice president and then subsequently president while she was in grade school — that she fibbed about "a man in a van with some puppies and some candy."
"I did the ‘80s story because I was caught,” she continued. “I’d stayed too late after school and I thought my mom was going to be mad at me. She was wondering where I was."
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She added, "This was around the same time as 'Home Alone,' so I might have been inspired."
After her attempt at selling her lie had failed, Bush Hager — who shares kids Mila, 11, Poppy, 9, and Hal, 5, with husband Henry Hager — was tasked with righting her wrong.
"My mom knew I was lying but the Secret Service did not,” she explained, “so I had to go and apologize."
Though Bush Hager, whose dad was later president in the early aughts, was unsuccessful with her fake kidnapping ploy, she has noted that she and her twin sister Barbara Bush always had fun messing with their parents, including having them use fun feline names for each other.
“When we were little, we made our parents call us by our cat names," Bush Hager shared during the March 17 episode of "Today With Jenna & Friends," noting her name was Rosebud. “My mom was Marmalade. My dad was Tummy Tuff and I can’t remember what Barbara was... oh, Stripes!"
She continued, "We would crawl to my parents. I know, it's odd. It's become odder as time has gone by. But I am full cat. I like to lounge. I like to take names. I like to read."
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