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Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Savannah Guthrie will return to the Today Show on April 6. The anchor took an extended hiatus from the show following the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, in late January. After two months, she is returning with an awareness of how the harrowing situation has changed her.
“I don’t know if I can do it,” Guthrie told Hoda Kotb in a recent interview. “I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, and I would like to try. I would like to try. But I’m not going to be the same. But maybe it’s like that old poem, ‘More beautiful in the broken places.’”
Guthrie first joined Today in 2011 and took on the co-anchor role the following year. “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,” Guthrie said. “But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now.”
Kotb completed her run on Today in 2025 after nearly 20 years. She previously worked alongside Guthrie as co-anchor for nearly a decade. She returned to the series to fill in for Guthrie as investigations continued into the disappearance of her mother. She also conducted Guthrie’s first interview since her family reported Nancy, 84, missing. She was last seen on Jan. 31.
