Savannah Guthrie 'Today' Show Return Date Announced as Mom Nancy Remains Missing
Savannah Guthrie is getting ready to return to work at Today.
The 54-year-old news anchor has been off the air for several months following the disappearance of her mother Nancy Guthrie on February 1.
On Friday (March 27), Hoda Kotb announced Savannah‘s official return date to Today.
Keep reading to find out more…Savannah will be returning to Today on Monday, April 6.
“We cannot wait to welcome her back with open arms here in Studio 1A,” Craig Melvin added.
Shortly before her return date was announced, the second part of Savannah‘s pre-taped interview with Hoba aired, in which she explained her decision to return to work as her mom remains missing.
“It’s hard to imagine doing it because it’s such a place of joy and lightness and I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not,” Savannah said of returning to Today. “But I can’t not come back because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now. I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real. And my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful. And when it’s not, I’ll say so. I have been so grateful to have this family. I consider this my family, my greater family, and when times are hard, you want to be with your family. And I want to be with my family.”
She admitted, “I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try. I’m not gonna be the same, but maybe it’s like that old poem, more beautiful in the broken places.”
Earlier this month, Savannah briefly returned to the Today studios to spend some time with her colleagues.
In the first part of her interview with Hoda, Savannah detailed the moment she learned her mother was missing.