Savannah Guthrie is back in Studio 1A after a four-day absence from the Today show.
The journalist, 54, returned to the NBC morning show on Tuesday, July 14, where she was welcomed back by co-host Craig Melvin.
“So glad that Savannah’s back in Studio 1A,” said Melvin, 47, who noted that Guthrie had “some much-deserved time off” while she was away.
Guthrie then explained to viewers that she had spent her time off watching “all those World Cup matches,” telling her shocked co-star, “I watched quite a few of them, and you should know, the France and Spain semifinal is today.”
Guthrie didn’t go into any further details about her absence, and PEOPLE reported last week that her time away from the show was not related to any developments in the case of her missing 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie.
Nancy was abducted from her home in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 1, and an investigation is ongoing into her whereabouts. Following Nancy’s abduction, Savannah took an extended hiatus from Today, returning in April after an emotional sit-down with Hoda Kotb, who helped fill in while she was away.
“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 told Kotb of returning to Today at the time. “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,” she continued. “I will have joy. 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. And I have been so grateful to have this family. I consider this my family, my greater family.”
The TV personality added of her return, “And so 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.”
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