Halle Berry Thought Jenna Bush Hager Asked Something Very Different on Live TV — and the Whole ‘Today’ Set Lost It
Halle Berry, 59, appeared on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle on May 28 and misheard Jenna Bush Hager’s ‘biggest ick’ question as something far more NSFW — bursting into laughter and nearly taking the show down with her.
- Halle Berry, 59, appeared on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle on Thursday, May 28, and during the show’s “Pink Chair Questionnaire” segment, misheard Jenna Bush Hager’s question about her “biggest ick” as something considerably more explicit
- Berry burst out laughing and began to answer the question she thought she’d heard before Sheinelle Jones slapped her with her cards; “I was like, ‘What?’ It sounded like that, didn’t it?” Berry said — Jones shot back: “No! You are naughty!”
- Bush Hager, insisting she had said “ick,” was briefly censored when she repeated the supposed phrase on-air: “Ick! I said ick!” The show cut to a commercial through nonstop laughter
- Berry shared the clip on her own social media; the moment went viral during a busy press stretch for the actress, who has been promoting her 2026 film Crime 101 alongside Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo
Halle Berry came to play on Thursday’s Today with Jenna & Sheinelle — and accidentally created one of the better live TV moments of the year. The 59-year-old Oscar winner joined Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones for a segment called the “Pink Chair Questionnaire,” a breezy game of questions about guilty pleasures, secret nicknames, and trending topics, per Today.
Things were going fine until Bush Hager asked Berry about her “biggest ick.” Berry did not hear “ick.” She heard something else entirely, processed it for a beat, and then started to answer. The studio caught on immediately. Jones slapped Berry with her cards. “I was like, ‘What?’ It sounded like that, didn’t it?” Berry said, still laughing. Jones’s response: “No! You are naughty!”
Bush Hager tried to clarify — but when she repeated the word she’d actually said, she was censored on air. “Ick! I said ick!” she insisted, per OK Magazine. The segment ended with the show cutting to commercial as the laughter continued. Berry later posted the clip herself.
The Clip in Context
The moment landed during a particularly busy stretch for Berry, who has been doing the rounds to promote Crime 101, her 2026 film co-starring Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo. Per The Wrap, the viral exchange also landed in good company: the segment highlighted Today‘s history of live TV slip-ups, including Valerie Bertinelli’s recent accidental on-air cursing. Berry’s version may have been accidental, but her reaction — and her willingness to post it — suggested she wasn’t exactly mortified about it.
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