Jenna Bush Hager joked that she regrets not hooking up with her Secret Service detail while living in the White House.
On the Wednesday, March 11, episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Today With Jenna & Sheinelle cohost shared details of her next venture, producing a television series inspired, in part, by her time in the White House.
“We have a show called Protection, that hopefully you’ll see on NBC,” Bush Hager, 44, told host Kelly Clarkson. “It’s based off of protective units, but some of my experience with Secret Service, who, now that I’m a full-grown adult, realize they sacrificed a lot to hang out with my family and me. I think it’s a tribute to them, but it’s a mystery and it’s fun.”
She then quipped, “I never hooked up with my Secret Service man!” alluding to a story arc in the series.
“I shoulda done it!” Bush Hager joked while Clarkson suggested that it could be the premise of her next book.
Bush Hager playfully pondered that the title of her book could be “I Never Hooked Up With My Secret Service Man and Other Regrets,” before adding, “Just kidding!”
Bush Hager is the daughter of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the U.S., and Laura Bush. She and fraternal twin sister Barbara Pierce Bush lived in the White House during their father’s presidency from 2001 to 2009.
Bush Hager is married to businessman Henry Hager, with whom she shares three children: daughters Mila, 12, and Poppy, 10, and son Hal, 6.
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The talk show host has previously opened up about her time in the White House, claiming that the presidential abode is haunted.
“The White House is haunted. My sister and I heard a ghost playing classical piano, but she seemed friendly,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in November 2022.
Bush Hager expanded further in a March 2025 interview with People, saying, “Barbara didn’t believe me the first time. I was sleeping in my room — this was in college — and I woke up and heard opera coming out of the fireplace. And I could feel it! I honestly had chills.”
“I’m like, ‘Barbara, Barbara!’ I woke her up,” she continued. “‘I heard something. I think there’s a ghost.’ I got in bed with her, and we went back to sleep. Two days later she came to sleep in mine and she was like, ‘There’s no ghost.’”
Barbara added, “Two days later I was sleeping in her room. We were dozing off, and then we heard olden times jazz music coming out of the fireplace again. We were so scared. We wanted to get in bed with our parents, but we were 22 and it felt inappropriate. And so then we calmed ourselves down and we thought, ‘Well, surely that was the cat. Willard [the cat] was playing the olden jazz music on the piano.’”