26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Star
Jenna Bush Hager reacts to prom date prank in viral TikTok trend
TODAY show host Jenna Bush Hager is
the latest victim
of the "I'm so hungry I could eat" prank that's been making waves on social media. The prank involves mentioning a random person
from the person's past
.
Julia Plant, Jenna's assistant, captured the host of With Jenna & Friends
reacting to a joke
that included her high school prom date's name.
"God, I'm so hungry I could eat Richard Gentry,"
Plant said in a TikTok video posted on April 24
. "Who's Richard Gentry? My prom date," Jenna asked, grinning broadly.
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The video, which shows Jenna's assistant laughing and Jenna asking follow-up questions, has garnered over 550,000 views. It's part of a larger TikTok trend where people play detective, finding a random person from their past to include in their joke.
Jenna Bush's assistant played a viral prank on her
(Image: Tiktok/@jenna_bushhager)
The format is consistent: the person filming starts by expressing their hunger, then says "I'm so hungry I could eat ...," adding the name of the random person they've dug up from the other person's past.
The names can range from an old high school crush to a coworker from several jobs ago. The reactions of people hearing a name they didn't expect the other person to know are causing quite a stir on social media.
Penn Badgley, star of Netflix's "You," was among the many who fell prey to this prank on TikTok. "I'm so hungry I feel like I could eat Jeff McGhee," a Podcrushed employee told Badgley in a TikTok posted on April 24, referring to one of the actor's childhood friends.
Numerous other individuals have been pranked, and the reactions are all equally as hilarious, including a dad hearing his child could eat someone he found in his high school yearbook.
Hager has always had a knack for humor. During another recent episode Hager was joined by guest cohost Tiffany Haddish on Thursday.
During the episode, Jenna was busy introducing Tiffany, to viewers when the actress accidentally bumped into a small table that was on stage next to the big table that the cohosts sit at.
"Grammy winner, what else are you," the former first daughter asked before the table went crashing to the ground. "Clumsy, I'm clumsy. That's what I definitely am," Haddish said. Both women shared a laugh at the moment.
