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>> and we are holding hands undernea me. and now you slide over. >> >> there we go! >> it is tryday friday december 18th, and also free shoppi sh. d not shopping. i mean, it could be free, but it is actually free shipping day. >> and it is ugly sweater day, and this is g really, because i have been pregnant most of the year. so i have bn een very nice. >> and it is hot underneath he jenna is here and we are listening to brenda lee singing "rocking around the christmas tree." >> i love brenda lee. okay.

>> we will have kurt russell on and he is known for being with xwoel di hahn and what else? >> and "glee" every time we see him matthew morphin, and mr. shoe on broadway. >> he was in "finding neverland" and he was a ten. >> i hav n it ends. >> and we are announcing a surprise vacation getaway for two besties, and so we asked six finalists flown into new york, and it is all part of the bravo's girl show. and among those, we are gog ing to pick a winner. we are so close together. where this would have looked%very chic? >> where?

>> we had a fun christmas party yesterday on 58th street, and this is how it started out, slow. >> and you w progressively more and more people piled in. i did something stupid, i posted it is up, but we were in the photo booth and my toeday pas it, but it s is for all to see, but now we fixed it. and your chr still wish i had that, but at one point willie jumped on top of me. h a sandy lee and the whole gang. and so we had a lot of fun. we know how the party at "today" >> yes.

people is that we party at 11:00 >> it is the best andh said i don't know if i can day drink like i three glasses put her over. sed how the staff felt this morning. >> not u fast company, take a look. ah. i -- >> let's not talk about it. >> do you want to meet in the copy room? >> yes. >> hey, ellen, i have -- >> hey, what's going on, mr. q. you quit. what? you just came by to pick up a a your stuff, a and that great idea of making musical ideas out

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>> and people look at you, and say, is that what you lo like? mm-mmm mm-mmm-hmm, 100%. >> are you hot? if you wanna. >> you are right, i can't. an sent out the holiday cards. >> do you send them out? >> yes, but they are new year's and this is from kensington and they usually take a nice pose, but look at this. >> they are palace, and prince george is 2 and princess charlotte looks just like her mom, and the prince george just like his dad. this a fun photo they used for their kris christmas card.

>> yes. >> and i am sure thi and which it is not often, but they never look like that in the park. >> and i have to totally cross my legs. >> are you hot? >> yes. an and look at that, normal coup ml the woods. that is love. >> you can tell if a couple is tactile and touches, they are close. >> ld to see "fuller house." >> i grew up on the "fullerer house." >> "full house." >> well, it was "fuller. i am not overexcited, but -- >> well shgs , this netflix promo is making people very francisco.

>> okay. i know they say you can't go home again i just had to come back >> gosh, it feels good to be back again. boxes. >> max. max, cut it out. >> cut it out. >> jax, watch your brother. >> you have keys? >> you don't need movers, but have us. ain't nothing but awe mem memory >> oh, that is going t the watch the trailer over and over. >> that miranda lambert song, it so good. have you gone back? >> yes, we went back to dallas

>> is there somebody living there? >> they didn't say who are you, but are you? and this used to be on when we were little kids and barbara and i used to watch peo like the nostalgia of going back to an old house. >> speaking of loving your home and your kids, and the a woman over there in the corner by the tree, and this is one of jenna's favorite people in the world. >> that is net-net. and in our family we love her and call her the pink care bear, and she spread so much love in our house -- >> she takes care of your kids? >> she takes care of my kids and i love her so much. i love you, netty. >> i love you, baby girl. >> oh, she is so beautiful. tells me that my pants look too tight just about everyday.

eat. anyway, i love you netters. >> thank you for coming over. >> and henry and hugs. oh, here. >> one more. >> thank you for using your hand hand. >> here, i can el help you. oh. and tonight, if you like music, you will like what is on tonight, billboard music and women and to a awards are on lifetime and we had a chan to be there, and it was so fun. our own brittany schriver was on the awards and savannah and tamron hosted. >> there you are, and hoda got up there and changed the energy. you did. >> and e it is so fup, and we will se of the per performances. >> there is brittany. beautiful. and lady gaga and salena gomez, and demi lovato, and so many great performances. >> and we will catch up with kurt russell.

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to talk to him about his new movie "the hateful 8." and he plays a bountyman. >> now, you and me have been reading a lot of newspapers printed in washington, d.c. any hoo, i am just trying to let y'all know how grateful i am. i was a goner, and y'all saved me. >> you want the show me how grateful you are? shut up. >> ooh. >> shut up. >> you learned that at home talking that way, didn't you? both of you. >> great. >> was that a real mustache by the way that you are sporting? >> yes, i let it grow. goal di was not a big fan of that. >> a real turn on. >> oh no, forget it. >> and you find stuff in those things after a while, you know. >> well, you know what is hard in that, i had a big coat on, and ever are i time you turn, it slap s slaps you.

kw just what he wanted quinton tarantino. >> and he wrote it as a look, the walrus look. and i have my own feeling of a walrus mustache, so i decided to grow a big sweeper. but the characters in those kinds of movies in those day they wanted you to see who they were right away, especially this guy. you and how fun and sweet and nice you are, it is hard to see you in a role like this where you are a rough and tumble and mean i am nicer than the last time i starred in a quinton m where where i was l when you have the opportunity to work >> what is about him? >> it is the energy, and besides the talent. fantastic. i look at it, and i think that he has a e tremendous sense of humor, and it taps into mine, d my apologies if that is the

>> and that is sick. >> and in a backyard kind of way, and throwing ketchup at each other, and swords, but a day on the set with him is just a blast. great director, and i hope i have a with all of them again, but it is just that quinton loves what he he does so much, it is infectious. >> i have to tell you something, and i don't know if i have to tell you this before, but you were the hugest crush of my life "the travels of jamie m mcspeeders." >> 1963. >> what was the role? >> i will say it, you don't look lild seen that. >> the old baby and i was just like, and i think it is the one dimple right over there. >> are not smet ymmetrically perfect, but it works. >> no, i am not symmetrically perfect. interestin looking as some

>> and now, you are going to be in drop dead gorgeous colorado. >> yes, we have a a place there that is great, and it is only three or four hours away from where we shot "hateful 8." >> and we were reading in the notes that you d the richard gere role. >> yes. >> in "officer and a gentleman." >> and another really, really great drek irector taylor hackford. i don't like the sex scenes and if you are having fake sex, you know it, they know it, the audience knows it, and if you do it. it. >> i don't want to look like -- and the horrible thing to me about it is that i see that this is what think they think sex looks like, huh?

listen, if you have a storid picture called "unlawful entry" -- >> hmm. >> and which when you r are talking about the sex scenes, that i u know, but it with because cop, and he is watching me having sex wokay, you have to make it work. >> and who was your wifet ta time? >> in real life? >> no, in the movie. >> madelyn stow, so it can be comfortable, and in silkwood meryl streep and i were supposed to look like we were in love. >> and that is good acting to carry that off. ok, but it is just in that one "officer and the gentleman" and i said, tell mgrea he said, i just want to go past the point of good taste.

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it is tryday friday and jenna bush hagar is sitting in for kathie lee, and it has been a whirlwind yee for superstar and tv star matthew morrison. >> just this past spring he wrapped up 16 seasons as the "glee" director will shoo in the tv show "glee." >> and he has been on broadway in "finding neverland. i " ""hi. >> how are you? >> happy. you? >> wow.

>> are we will be beginning with breaking news on the program, and now, we have just learned that kelsey grammer is going to the be returning to " finding neverland." and you two will be overlapping. >> yes. >> and you have worked with him? >> well, we started together, a and we did it for three months, because he left in june, and so it is a gr t holidays, and you are doing this show, and one of the hardt working men in show biz, because doing broadway is much more difficult than tv. >> it is tough. i highly doubt that i am one of the hardest working men in, but anyway, you go to work three hours night, there is a lot of the preparation for that night's performance and restinge voice and everything, but this show takes a toll on me and

>> and we heard that after the, you hav take time for yourselves, and do you really take ice baths? >> yes. i never leave the stage pretty much in this show, and i am going, and being dropped six feet from the air, and hurdling, and i feel like an nfl running back just going everywhere all over the stage, but it is a journey. >> and a lot of us miss "glee." do you miss it? >> well shgs , no. it is one of the things they t year but it is -- i can't believe i finished it this year in february. i was look years and i was like, oh, i was still doing "glee" this year. >> is that one of the things that you are most proud of. and we also read that you talk about your wife in a lovingly way. >> and can we read the quote. >> tell me what wants her husband to say that. i feel more in love with her than i ever have been.

sorry. >> oh, my gosh. >> she is an amazing -- and she is beautiful person, but on the inside, she is from hawaii and we call it the aloha spirit. and she is just glowing all of the time. >> that is so sweet. >> do you guys want kids? >> yeah, we v have talked about it. >> you are and only and only child, and we want some kids and we were going start soon, d then we had the 5-year-old niece stay with us for a week, and we were like, well, let's push it back a little bit. >> and let me give you my 3-month-old, and you will real areally know n thayou. >> and you k can catch matthew on broadway until november 24 tl her to tune in right now, because we have girlf i use what' s already inside me to reach my goals. so i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood

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we are so excited about this segment. bravo's first scripted season "girlfriends guide to divorce" is half haway through the first se season, and it is captioning attention of yes, it is showing the importance of the bff, the girlfr laugh and cry with through the special times of life. request you and your besty and how each other out in

>> and so we have a set of three finalists here to be with us today, and t of these lady s will be winning a trip to a surprise location. >> and here they are. kara and nicole. hello. >> gabby and patricia. >> oh, my god, i'm so excited. and kathy and shelly. >> and where are you from? >> virginia. >> atlanta. >> louisiana. >> okay. we are going to be talking to all of you guys in a minute, but fi check o story of kara and nicole. >> my besty nicole has been there for me quite literally through the thick and the thin. she has personally helped me to lose nearly 100 pounds, and held my hand every step of the way. nicole has always been there for me me, and treated me with the same amount of size. she deserves a trip to new york city followed by a surprise girls' trip.

we have so much to celebrate. nicole's constant loyalty, our friendship and my size. >> oh, my gosh. >> how long did it take you the way? >> eight months. crying. >> and now we have to patricia. >> okay. >> let me tell you about my best friend patricia. i love her with all of my heart and then with all of my gut. she is a woman of all grace and courd living her childhood dream saving lives as a physician. a true georgia peach, brilliant and brave and never too busy to text with me throughout the day. most women are lucky enough to y a man who is loving and supportive, but i have been blessed with best of whole

person is my best friend. >> she is my sister n -in-law, and my sister in love and i love herucher. >> and you are going to be probably on our i told that baby not before. >> it is okay, i'm a dock i can deliver. >> and now, we have and shelly from louisiana. >> with a husband and four kids, i don't get much me-time anymore, but i do try to hang with my best friend shelly at least once a week. we sit on each other's porches and talk about everything under the sun. we call it porch therapy. shelly and i shared so much over the last year and half. she got divorce and turned the big 4-0 and became a grandma. and since shelly's family is grown with a home of their own,

so i can drop in any time i want. we are besties and i can't imagine life without her. she deserves and trip not to mention that she can drop in any time. >> and i love that, you sit on each other's porches and call it porch therapy. how long have you been friends? >> kindergarten. >> 11 years. >> you guys? >> 11 or 12 years. >> it is is cool, because you can meet each other as a chi a have a total connect, and you are awesome, and you guys were chosen so many who were winners all right now. >> and now, a drumroll please. >> all right.

gabby and patricia. a giftcard, $500. >> and the first runner up, tiffany and shelly. you get a $1,000 gift card. >> and who is the winner? >> read it. >> for the fun. >> one, two, three -- >> kara and nicole. >> a guess whe you are gog five-night trip to hawaii. >> aloha. >> and you are all awesome people. good luck with the baby. >> remember, you can catch girlfriends guide to divorce every tuesday at 10:00/9:00 central on bravo. >> and good things come to those who wait --

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we have a question for you. >> yes. >> have you finished the holiday shopping yet? >> eke, no. have you? >> no, no. >> you have time. >> if you are starting to stress out, we are going to tell you not to because you can have gifts delivered by christmas. >> you can still find the perfect gift online and some of them free shipping. and here with us is zulily's amy goodman. >> we have one more thing to bring out, but start here. >> yes, so many great boutique finds, and zulily loves these, and some that your loved with ones will adore, faux fur accessories and a way to get in on the trend, but a touch of them. this is adorable from the ann taylor, and the faux fur scarf and this is free shipping and a way to make it affordable.

>> yes, a cowl neck poncho from lace and grace and these are flying off of the shelves and brand-new from the amazing company, and it is one size fits all. free shipping on the item, if you want it, order it now today. >> today. >> yes, all of the shipping prices pertain to today. >> today. >> today, not tomorrow. >> today is the day. >> and the nice thing about these, you can give them to anybody, and it will fit, because i sometimes -- >> when it comes to clothing and women, yes. and personalized items, this is still time, pictures on gold. you take a picture of your child's artwork on the phone and upload it to the website and choose any one of the five jewelry items. >> so beautiful. >> you to order it by 11:00 pacific time tonight. >> okay. >> and these watches are so cool.

organic woods for men and women, and what is so lovely about this, at zulily, with we are about the great and affordable pricing, and these are 70% off. these watches are starting at $49. wonderful purchase price. >> i see something over here i like which is the state of texas. >> and texas and virginia and there was a louisiana on here, but these are foil pressed maps from minted.com, and another personalized gift that you can specify where a person lives. >> great. about a minute. >> and these are strong messenger bags, and everything from here to the end is free shipping. i love the bag, and made from the canvas cloth and machine washable from our kid go are great construction modern kids, and no glue or mess. a kid can tear this open, and get to work right away. >> how do they do this? >> well, they constructed, this and you can deconstruct it, and construct, and endless hours of fun. >> hi, guys. >> this is will. >> hi, will.

here, and these are the magnetic tile pieces for kids 3 years and older and free shipping, $24.95. >> jordan is here, too. i know your mom, jordan. >> and this is from zubells, and great knitted sweaters and caps with the matching, and this is emerson, and isn't that the adorable. starting at $20 for the cats. aren't they adorable. this is from newborns to 4 years of age, and free shipping today. >> and thank you, emerson. you have a great smile. >> and oh, my gosh, she would look great with this. >> and the bunny socks. >> and look at you, emerson. >> give us a nice smile. >> and the matching moose on the tum-tum. >> are you excited for christmas? >> yes. >> and will, come over to hang out with me. >> will. >> and by the way, jenna and i

sweater.com. >> you can buy some there, too. and we will be back in a moment, but this is "today" on nbc. >> will, can i have a hug?

all right. there are still a few days left to be part of the toy drive. so far we have sent out $30 million toys and gifts to children across the country. >> and with us is the president of national brands, and let's find out what the big donation is today. >> hello. >> shall we open up the box? >> yes. >> oh, kids. >> hi, guys. what are you giving, ed? >> well, at our national products we are e donating 3 300,000 great products like all and snuggle, and over 8,000 snuggle bear s s. >> this is the first year?

over $1.3 million in product, and 75,000 snuggle bears to family families in need. >> handsome, and next week is our final day to donate to the drive, tuesday. so go to k lshgs gshgs and hoe da g and hoda.com. >> and f the naval air station, le more sent this in. >> he is having fun finding regis everyday. >> and messy hair to keep the workout going to eat the pasta. >> and finally, here is kristin web's 3-year-old cutie spotting regis. >> and regis is here for a reason. and what is the department of corr and so matthew morrison was on earlier to the

"ending neverland" and we had inferred that it was closing, but it is not closing, and kelsey grammer is coming back to be on the show. >> jadiann: two breaking stories. a driver on a crash course with a home in foxboro leaving behind a path of damage. >> christa: an eight-year-old girl left home alone before her home goes up in flames. the department of children and families now investigating the parents' whereabouts. >> jadiann: a water main break causing serious problems in north brookfield. what caused the messy situation. >> christa: more trouble for chipotle after a norovirus >> jeremy: the weekend

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