Carson Daly Recalls Unique Tattoo Cover-Up After Getting Inked for Ex Jennifer Love Hewitt While ‘Drunk in the Jersey Shore’

Catherine SantinoFri, November 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM UTC

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Carson Daly; Jennifer Love Hewitt.Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Gregg DeGuire/Variety via Getty -

On the Today show, Carson Daly recalled getting a unique tattoo to cover up his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt’s name on his ankle

The host said his tattoo artist covered up her name with a crab claw coming out of a pocket knife

Daly and Hewitt dated for a year in the late ‘90s

Carson Daly is opening up about a unique cover-up tattoo.

During a recent episode of the Today show, Daly, 53, recalled getting some of his ink altered after a breakup.

“I did have one ex-girlfriend tattoo on my ankle,” he told cohost Jenna Bush Hager. “And then I dated another girl who said, ‘That’s got to go’ ... I was getting a new tattoo in Hell’s Kitchen here, and I’d been under the chair for like, six hours and I told my guy, I was like, ‘Oh my god, I forgot. You gotta just do something with the ex.’”

Daly continued, “He goes, ‘Oh, there’s something I’ve always wanted [to do] ... an hour later I looked at it and now I have, it’s a crab claw coming out of a pocket knife.”

“The problem is, when you got that tat on the ankle, you didn’t think you were ever going to break up with that girl,” Bush Hager later said.

“No, I was drunk in the Jersey Shore,” Daly replied. “I was in Seaside Heights. I remember like it was yesterday.”

Carson Daly and Jennifer Love Hewitt at the ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ premiere in 1998.Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty

While Daly didn’t mention the ex-girlfriend by name, he has previously spoken about his ankle tattoo being for his ex Jennifer Love Hewitt. The couple dated for about a year in the late ‘90s.

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Daly has been married to Siri Pinter since 2015. The couple shares son Jackson and daughters Etta, London and Goldie.

Carson Daly’s tattoo cover-up.Credit: NBC

In 2005, Hewitt appeared on Daly’s talk show Last Call with Carson Daly. At the time, he showed his ex the tattoo cover-up he did to hide her name, which he had inked on his ankle.

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He jokingly asked Hewitt if it was hard for her to not have a steady boyfriend after their split.

“You know, it has been difficult to recover,” she quipped at the time.

Daly added that their romance “ended a little weird,” and Hewitt agreed, adding, “It did, but that doesn’t matter.”

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