This April Fools’ Day, nobody is protected — not even our hosts.
During TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle on April 1, Jenna Bush Hager gave visitor co-host Willie Geist — and, consequently, herself — the shock of a lifetime.
During the section, the pair was joined by TODAY digital government editor Arianna Davis, who shared the newest matters trending on the web. After speaking about Lamar Odom’s upcoming documentary and Raye’s new single, all of them moved on to dessert.
“We’ve got to talk about this viral cake that’s being walked in,” Geist stated as TODAY culinary producer Katie Stilo slowly walked out with a tasty, intricately adorned two-layer cake speckled with gold flakes and topped with caviar. “Very carefully, I note.”
“This is a $20,000 cake,” Davis stated. “It is all the rage right now on the internet, because they only make one of these every single day.”
As Davis spoke, Stilo motioned for Jenna to lend her a hand due to the cake’s obvious weight — however that’s when tragedy struck.
“Oh my…” Jenna exclaimed as she dropped the expensive cake, slipped on the spilled icing and fell to the floor. Uproarious laughter echoed from behind the digital camera, and cake went in all places.
There’s just one factor to remember at this level: the bakery was imaginary, and TODAY’s sneaky meals group was behind the cake.
“Well, there goes the one cake,” Davis stated with amusing. “$20,000, Jenna.”
Geist was too wily to be bamboozled, nevertheless, saying to Jenna, “April Fools!”
“You knew it?” she replied.
“Only after you went down,” he famous.
“Well, I did get it all over my shoes. I really committed,” Jenna stated, including that the slip was not presupposed to be a part of the bit. “The fall was real. We tried to trick Willie.”
Geist, maybe, was primed for April tomfoolery: Jenna talked about at the high of the present that she and her daughter generated an AI picture of an cute pet in the backseat of their automotive and despatched it to the household group chat.
That trick fooled her husband, Henry Hager, who frantically texted her that the youngsters would by no means stroll the canine and he must do it himself.
“The commitment from Jenna Bush Hager to take this spill for the cause,” Willie stated, asking for a second time to see a sluggish movement replay. “Can we see that one more time?”
“Upstairs, I was like, ‘You know, it’s a crazy world out there, someone’s going to buy that for their wedding,” he continued. “Maybe it’s real. I was locked in until you went down,” Geist stated.
“I’m sorry, everyone,” Jenna stated, noting the present’s subsequent visitor, Sharon Stone, watched the entire prank from the wings.
“I’m so embarrassed. You want some caviar?” Jenna joked to Stone. “Sharon, please don’t judge us.”
