Hoda Kotb was seen comforting Savannah Guthrie as she made an emotional first visit back to the “Today” show studio.
Photos show Kotb — who has been filling in while Savannah has been in Arizona following her mother Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance — with her arm around her former co-host as she kissed her cheek.
Kotb, 61, exited the network in January 2025, but returned to Studio 1A in her former co-host’s absence.
A source tells Page Six that Savannah, 54, thanked the staff and crew for all their “love, prayers and support, and for ‘caring about my mom as much as I do.’”
She told the team she she’s “still standing” and still has “hope” they will find Nancy.
“I’m still me. And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be,” she said, per our source, adding that she has every intention of returning to the network and referred to the team as her family.
Our source says Dylan Dreyer led a “beautiful” group prayer and Savannah hugged everyone in the studio before she left.
Savannah’s emotional visit was discussed on the show.
Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones were visibly moved as they talked about their colleague during the show.
“Savannah has come back to her home here at 30 Rock, and we got to see her this morning,” Bush Hager shared. “It felt so good to get to hug her.”
Jones, who lost her husband last year to cancer, shared that she was “proud” of Savannah.
“I know the strength it would take to even come in here to be amongst all of us,” she said.
Savannah has not appeared on the morning show since her mother, Nancy, 84, vanished from her Tucson, Ariz., home last month.
Nancy was reported missing on Feb. 1 after she failed to show up for church services.
Savannah has used her social media platform to post several devastating videos, begging the perpetrator to “do the right thing.”
The journalist confessed in her most recent video last week that she and her loved ones have accepted that Nancy may “already be gone.”
“She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in Heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy,” she said.
“And if this is what is to be, then we will accept it, but we need to know where she is. We need her to come home,” she added.
The Guthrie family recently increased the reward to $1 million as the investigation into her kidnapping continues.
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