Jenna Bush Hager Shares Theory About Zoe and Channing’s Split Timeline

News of Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum’s split came as a surprise to fans, but not so much to Jenna Bush Hager.

“Somebody brought up this point. This is uncuffing season. We’re gonna say it right here. This season of October is uncuffing season,” Bush Hager, 42, said on the Wednesday, October 30, episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna, noting that there are a “lot of things stirring up” for couples around this time of year.

“We’ve got Halloween tomorrow. They don’t need to dress up in matching costumes. We’ve got the election. I got mad at my own husband [Henry Hager] last night because he was planning to early vote without me,” she explained. “We’ve got Thanksgiving, where [Tatum] would be sitting with [Zoë’s dad] Lenny [Kravitz]in his leather, saying the prayer and such. You know, that’s hard.”

Noting that Zoë, 35, and Tatum, 44, also won’t have to deal with holidays such as Christmas, New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day, she continued: “This is the best day to break up, the very best day of the year. We’ve also got the Super Bowl. You have to root for their team. You know what I mean?”

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Her cohost, Hoda Kotb, agreed. “You make good sense. You make a great argument.”

Bush Hager clarified that she was just repeating “somebody else’s brilliance” before adding, “They say January is cuffing season ‘cause you’re through with the holidays and such. This is uncuffing day, and we understand you Zoë and Channing.”

News broke on Tuesday, October 29, that Zoë and Tatum had broken off their engagement after three years of dating. The split came just hours after it was announced that the pair would be starring together in the upcoming film Alpha Gang. The alien invasion movie will also star Riley Keough, Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun and Léa Seydoux. (Us Weekly reached out to the exes’ reps for comment.)

“We loved them,” Bush Hager said of the duo on Wednesday. “We felt like they were perfect and they were ours, and it’s time for us to let them go. … They also felt like the perfect high school couple.”

Kotb, 60, joked that she and her cohost “romanticize other people’s relationships and then we get upset when it doesn’t work,” adding, “Sometimes it happens, and sometimes, we want good news. So, we want them to stay together.”

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Zoë and Channing began dating in 2021, the same year Zoë split from her ex-husband, Karl Glusman. They got engaged two years later and Tatum went on to star in Zoë’s 2024 directorial debut, Blink Twice. (Tatum split from his ex-wife, Jenna Dewan, in 2018, and the pair settled their divorce last month.)

“To get to create something with someone that you love is probably one of the most gratifying things other than having a kid with somebody I think,” Tatum told People of working with his former now-ex-fiancée in August. “You truly are creating something from nothing and it’s just like creating a marriage or creating something where you’re like, everything that we are is going into this thing and you want to make it with people that you love.”