Savannah Guthrie<\/strong><\/a> was initially nervous about joining the hit morning show Today <\/i><\/a>in the midst of a \u201ctransitional period.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was waiting to do my live shot on a Supreme Court case on Nightly News, <\/i>and the president of NBC at the time called me down to his office at 6:00,\u201d Guthrie, 53, said on the Friday, September 12, episode of Jason Kennedy<\/strong>\u2019s eponymous podcast<\/a>, referring to her 2012 job offer. \u201cThe news goes on at 6:30, [and] I thought it was a little odd.\u201d<\/p>\n When Guthrie entered the then-network president\u2019s office, he handed her a news article discussing then-Today <\/i>anchor Ann Curry<\/strong>\u2019s plans to leave the show<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201c[This] was news to me, and then he started talking to me about that job,\u201d she said. \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t even know what he was saying. \u2026 He was, kind of, talking around it, \u2018It\u2019s not an easy situation, but this is good, and any other day we\u2019d be jumping up and down for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie Was \u2018Terrified\u2019 to Replace Ann Curry on \u2018Today\u2019 Show, Feared She \u2018Wouldn\u2019t Last\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n After Guthrie was formally offered the anchor job, she wasn\u2019t sure whether to accept the position.<\/p>\n \u201cHe said, \u2018Do you want it?\u2019 And I said, \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019\u201d Guthrie explained. \u201cOf course I wanted it [because] it was my lifelong dream \u2014 actually higher than my lifelong dream, but I also knew that it was a terrible moment for the network and the show. It was the worst possible moment for the network and for the show, and it was a terrible time.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Guthrie, it would be \u201cthe worst possible scenario\u201d to start a job on the broadcast amid Curry\u2019s abrupt departure.<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie on the ‘Today’ set in April 2025.<\/span> Nathan Congleton\/NBC<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI could see it all clearly [that I\u2019m] going to be a flash in the pan,\u201d she said of her internal monologue at that moment. \u201cI\u2019m going to be that transitional figure that gets kicked to the side. They\u2019re going to throw me in there, I\u2019ll totally be rejected internally and externally, and then I\u2019ll lose everything. I [was] so happy where I am, so I really wasn\u2019t sure. I was terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie\u2019s Ups and Downs Over the Years: Multiple COVID-19 Diagnoses and More<\/a><\/p>\n Guthrie\u2019s then-boss promised that her career would \u201cbe OK,\u201d so she accepted the offer. Guthrie has now been anchoring Today <\/i>for 13 years, surviving other scandals and abrupt exits, including the controversy surrounding former coanchor Matt Lauer.<\/p>\n \u201cI know now is that I have the best job with the best people, both on camera and behind the scenes,\u201d Guthrie exclusively told <\/a>Us Weekly<\/a> <\/i>in a February cover story. \u201cWe\u2019re doing important work and [it\u2019s] fun. Who knows what the future holds? I\u2019m open, but I\u2019m pretty darn happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Savannah Guthrie was initially nervous about joining the hit morning show Today in the midst of a \u201ctransitional period.\u201d \u201cI was waiting to do my live shot on a Supreme Court case on Nightly News, and the president of NBC at the time called me down to his office at 6:00,\u201d Guthrie, 53, said on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2022006,"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":[25173],"tags":[351836],"class_list":["post-2022005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-savannah-guthrie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Savannah-Guthrie-Thought-She-Was-Going-to-be-a-\u2018Flash.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022005","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=2022005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/div>\n