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One thing Scarlett Johansson shares in common with Today’s Jenna Bush Hager is that they each have a twin sibling.
The actress, 40, shared rare comments about her lesser-known twin brother, Hunter Johansson, on the Wednesday, January 22, episode of Today With Jenna & Friends. Her brother came up in a conversation with Bush Hager, 43, about how they each struggled to find souvenirs with their names on them as children.
“A couple of years ago, we were in Montauk out in Long Island and we were at one of those surf shop places, and there were two mini keychain surfboards,” Scarlett recalled. “One said Scarlett, and then we found Hunter, and I legit think we cried.”
Scarlett said purchasing the keychains was a no-brainer decision. “We bought them and we looked at each other and it was like, ‘They see us,’” she joked, calling the moment an “overaction.”
Scarlett Johansson’s latest daytime TV appearance might have been a hugely beneficial one for her twin brother, Hunter. The actress appeared on Live With Kelly and Mark on Tuesday, November 26, where Scarlett was asked by cohost Kelly Ripa about the connection she and her twin, both 40, have with one another. “We know so […]
The Black Widow star and Hunter are the youngest of their parents Karsten Johansson and Melanie Sloan’s four children, including Adrian Johansson and Vanessa Johansson. The pair also have an older half-brother, Christian Johansson, whom their father welcomed during his first marriage, as well as a younger sister, Fenan Sloan, whom their mother adopted in 2010.
Unlike his sister, Hunter didn’t go into acting, instead founding the nonprofit organization Solar Responders in 2018. According to his LinkedIn profile, the group “exists to maximize the capacity of first responders to save lives with renewable energy.”
Bush Hager and her twin sister, Barbara Bush, are the only two children of former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. Both Bush Hager and Scarlett’s twin siblings are set to join them on the Thursday, January 23, episode of Jenna & Friends.
Jenna Bush Hager and Scarlett Johannson TODAY/NBC
Wednesday’s episode of the show marked Scarlett’s second day cohosting with Bush Hager. Scarlett is one of several celebrity guest hosts to sit alongside Bush Hager since Hoda Kotb left Today after nearly 30 years of working for NBC on January 10.
Hunter wasn’t the only family member Scarlett brought up on Wednesday, as she mentioned how her 10-year-old daughter, Rose, reacted to her cohosting debut the day prior. (She shares Rose with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and son Cosmo, 3, with her husband, Colin Jost.)
“I got a lot of comments. Well, my daughter watched the show. She’s 10 years old. She absolutely loved it,” Scarlett revealed. “She was saying that the Death Becomes Her performance was, like, amazing, [She was like], ‘That woman [Jennifer Simard] was incredible.’ I was like, ‘Yes.’ So much fun.” (Simard, 54, and Christopher Sieber performed the song “That Was Then, This is Now” from the Broadway musical on Tuesday’s show.)
When asked whether Rose gave her mother praise for her part on the show, Scarlett joked, “No, she just commented on the other people. … My daughter, I have to say, is very complimentary, but she was blown away by the performances. I was buzzing. I mean, it was just so fun, like, absolute dream job.”
Jost, 42, also appeared to present his wife with a bouquet of flowers, but not before clapping back at comments she made about him during Tuesday’s episode. “I feel like I had to bring flowers on because yesterday, out of the gate, she was like, ‘He never writes me a love letter. He just sends me, like, sexual emojis.’ I was like, ‘What?’” the Saturday Night Live star quipped.
On Tuesday, Scarlett joked that she felt “gypped” after Bush Hager said her husband, Henry Hager, “sometimes” writes her romantic letters, stating, “Not even gonna tell you which kind of emojis I’m getting,” she told her cohost.
