Carson Daly can’t wait to learn who is going to take over as Jenna Bush Hager’s cohost of the fourth hour of the Today show—but he can at least rule one Hollywood star out.

“I ask all the time,” Daly, 52 — a feature anchor on the morning show—told Us Weekly exclusively at Broadway’s Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride in New York City on Monday, August 18, when asked if he has any insight on the matter. “I think they want to keep this rotating thing going.”

Hoda Kotb ended her 17-year run on the NBC morning show in January, and while Craig Melvin replaced her as Savannah Guthrie’s news coanchor, Bush Hager, 43, relaunched the show’s fourth hour—previously called Today With Hoda & Jenna—as Today With Jenna & Friends, featuring a rotating slate of cohosts.

“I’ve loved a lot [of the cohosts],” Daly continued. “I loved Dwayne Wade. I thought he was awesome. Every time Erin Andrews is on, I’m like, ‘She’s amazing.’ Scarlett Johansson is everybody’s favorite, but she happens to be Hollywood’s most expensive actor. We can’t afford her, but she loves doing it.”

“Jenna’s had a lot of really good people,” he said. “I kind of like the rotating cast. It keeps things fresh.”

In addition to Johansson, 40 — who is, in fact, the highest-grossing actor of all time, according to Variety—Wade, 43, and Andrews, 47, Bush Hager has also been joined by Taraji P. Henson, Keke Palmer, and Amy Poehler.

“Whoever sits in this seat is going to have the easiest job in the world ‘cause they’re sitting next to you,” Kotb, 61, told Bush Hager while announcing her exit in September 2024. “The only thing they have to do is not laugh so hard that they pee their pants. That’s it. They just have to hang on. You are this bright light, you always have been, and it’s your turn.”