{"id":1165,"date":"2026-05-07T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/mystery-swirls-as-savannah-guthrie-returns-to-today-show-after-abrupt-exit-for-appointment\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:55:00","slug":"mystery-swirls-as-savannah-guthrie-returns-to-today-show-after-abrupt-exit-for-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/mystery-swirls-as-savannah-guthrie-returns-to-today-show-after-abrupt-exit-for-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery swirls as Savannah Guthrie returns to &#8216;Today&#8217; show after abrupt exit for &#8216;appointment&#8217;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127180780.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Savannah Guthrie is back on TV.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cToday\u201d show host said \u201cgood morning\u201d on Thursday\u2019s episode after <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/06\/entertainment\/savannah-guthrie-abruptly-leaves-today-mid-show\/\">abruptly leaving the show halfway through the previous day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without explaining her sudden exit, Guthrie introduced the day\u2019s news coverage while sitting beside Willie Geist, who was sitting in for Craig Melvin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Today\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Today\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cGood morning and welcome to \u2018Today\u2019 \u2014 so happy you\u2019ve gotten up with us this morning \u2014 \u2018what, like it\u2019s hard, Willie?&#8217;\u201d she said, referencing her favorite movie, \u201cLegally Blonde.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say that line enough!\u201d the 54-year-old added as Geist noted her \u201cgiddiness this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur chief \u2018Legally Blonde\u2019 correspondent,\u201d he called her before reminding her that she had previously dressed up like Elle Woods for Halloween. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love \u2018Legally Blonde,\u2019 I connect with this character and now we get to see her in high school,\u201d Guthrie gushed, talking about the upcoming prequel show, \u201cElle,\u201d which is set to premiere in July on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Today\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, after 90 minutes of the broadcast show, Melvin announced that Guthrie was done for the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSavannah had to leave a little early,\u201d he told viewers. \u201cShe\u2019ll be right back tomorrow, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savannah\u2019s abrupt exit comes as the search for her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, approaches 100 days. <\/p>\n<p>Nancy, who has\u00a0been <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/02\/celebrity-news\/savannah-guthries-mom-84-reported-missing-in-southern-arizona-homicide-detectives-involved\/\">missing since Jan. 31<\/a>, is believed to have been kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">savannahguthrie\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">FBI via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/10\/celebrity-news\/watch-disturbing-video-of-armed-nancy-guthrie-suspect-breaking-in\/\">A horrifying video<\/a> showed the moment a masked and gloved person approached the front door and started fidgeting with the front door surveillance camera hours before she was reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>Police also<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/03\/celebrity-news\/new-video-shows-apparent-blood-trail-outside-savannah-guthries-moms-home\/\"> found blood along the front door<\/a>, while Savannah revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/26\/entertainment\/savannah-guthrie-recounts-chilling-new-clues-from-the-night-mom-nancy-disappeared\/\">the back door had also been left ajar<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>After taking two months off from the NBC morning show amid her family emergency, Savannah\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/06\/celebrity-news\/savannah-guthrie-tears-up-greeting-today-fans-on-first-day-back-since-mom-nancys-disappearance\/\">returned to \u201cToday\u201d\u00a0<\/a>on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good to be home,\u201d she said at the beginning of the show.\u00a0\u201cReady or not, let\u2019s do the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">savannahguthrie\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview with her former co-host and close friend, Hoda Kotb, she explained how she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/27\/entertainment\/inside-savannah-guthries-hard-decision-to-return-to-today-show-as-mom-nancy-remains-missing\/\">made the hard decision\u00a0<\/a>to return to the show despite her mother still missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine [coming back] because it\u2019s such a place of joy and lightness. I can\u2019t come back and try to be something I\u2019m not, but I can\u2019t not come back because it\u2019s my family,\u201d she said. \u201cI think part of my purpose now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to smile and when I do, it will be real,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer, and being there is joyful and when it\u2019s not, I\u2019ll say so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/07\/entertainment\/mystery-swirls-as-savannah-guthrie-returns-to-today-show-after-abrupt-exit-for-appointment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Guthrie is back on TV. 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