Today host Jenna Bush Hager was so eager for viewers to forget she was George Bush’s daughter that she was “ready” to nix her famous last name—until her bosses stepped in to stop her.

Bush Hager told her Jenna & Friends guest co-host Scarlett Johansson on Wednesday that leaving her last name behind to host Today wouldn’t have been the first time she’d done so.

“I was a teacher in inner city D.C….and I went by Ms. Jenna, because I didn’t want them to know” she was the president’s daughter. “Although, of course, they knew. And so I was, like, ready to go by Hager,” when she tied the knot with husband Henry Chase Hager in 2008.

She made her intentions known when she started as a correspondent on Today the following year, and Bush Hager said she got some pushback from producers. “They were

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