Savannah Guthrie’s Expected Future With ‘TODAY Show’ Revealed

ByJason Hall

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Savannah Guthrie is reportedly expected to never return to her role as co-anchor of the TODAY Show after her mother Nancy‘s disappearance and suspected kidnapping, multiple television veterans told Status News.

“There’s no way Savannah’s coming back,” one source said. “I can’t imagine she would even want to.”

Another television executive acknowledged Guthrie’s importance to the show, claiming, “If you could pick one person across the span of morning TV that a show would not want to lose, it would be Savannah.”

“Savannah was always the glue on that show, and without that, this whole paradigm of our morning anchor team as a family, that connective tissue has just been ripped out,” the source added.

Guthrie’s longtime former co-anchor, Hoda Kotb, has appeared on the show in her absence despite her own exit from NBC in January 2025. Kotb is reported to be back again next week, though there’s no plan to keep her for the foreseeable future as NBC executives are taking the situation week by week, according to Page Six.

The investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has no clear suspects nor strong leads two weeks after being launched. Savannah Guthrie made a plea to her mother’s alleged kidnapper, claiming “it’s never too late” to “do the right thing” in a video shared two weeks after she went missing on Sunday (February 15).