{"id":1970102,"date":"2025-08-20T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1970102"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:46:56","slug":"no-al-roker-is-not-leaving-the-today-show-absence-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/no-al-roker-is-not-leaving-the-today-show-absence-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Al Roker Is Not Leaving the Today Show \u2013 Absence Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans are worried that <strong>Al Roker<\/strong> might be leaving the <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/today\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Today;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Today<\/a><\/strong> show after he hadn\u2019t appeared in the last couple of episodes. But that\u2019s not really the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s what a recent Instagram post from his wife, <strong>Deborah Roberts<\/strong>, indicates about the truth behind his absence.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\"><strong>Why do fans think Al Roker is leaving the Today Show?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emmy Winner, Al Roker, has been with the Today show since he joined it in 1997 and is quite the fan-favorite. But in recent episodes, Dylan Dreyer and Bill Karins took his place as hosts. This has the viewers worried that Al Roker is leaving the show. This is not true. Roker is currently enjoying a family vacation in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNac2eutat4\/?img_index=7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram post<\/a>, his wife, Deborah Roberts, shared a series of photos of their vacation. The caption said, \u201cThe beauty of Italy in August. Sunny. Quiet. Lovely. #grateful #heart\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This brings some sigh of relief to all his fans that their favorite host is just enjoying a holiday with his family and will return to host the show soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans can also rejoice as Roker\u2019s animated show, <strong>Weather Hunters<\/strong>, will premiere on September 8, 2025, on PBS Kids. Two years ago, he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o10fwMSF7XI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced that he was working on a passion project;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced that he was working on a passion project<\/a> that was ten years in the making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weather Hunters is about 8-year-old Lily Hunter, who, along with her family, goes on adventures to understand the nuances of various weather conditions. It also features Roker lending his voice as Al Hunter, Lily\u2019s father. The show currently has 10 episodes scheduled, each with a runtime of 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is aimed at kids to educate them on weather and STEM concepts through adventure and comedy. This is done to spark curiosity in kids about weather and climate, encouraging them to become active learners about the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/guides\/news\/2017957-today-show-al-roker-leaving-absence-explained\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No, Al Roker Is Not Leaving the Today Show \u2013 Absence Explained;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No, Al Roker Is Not Leaving the Today Show \u2013 Absence Explained<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV &amp; Streaming News, and More;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ComingSoon.net &#8211; Movie Trailers, TV &amp; Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans are worried that Al Roker might be leaving the Today show after he hadn\u2019t appeared in the last couple of episodes. But that\u2019s not really the case. Here\u2019s what a recent Instagram post from his wife, Deborah Roberts, indicates about the truth behind his absence. Why do fans think Al Roker is leaving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1970103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[57255,350133,319129,350134],"class_list":["post-1970102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-al-roker","tag-deborah-roberts","tag-dylan-dreyer","tag-today-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/No-Al-Roker-Is-Not-Leaving-the-Today-Show-\u2013.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}