{"id":2269677,"date":"2026-02-06T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269677"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:58:17","slug":"today-hoda-kotb-gets-emotional-as-she-makes-unexpected-return-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/today-hoda-kotb-gets-emotional-as-she-makes-unexpected-return-to-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Today\u2019: Hoda Kotb Gets Emotional as She Makes Unexpected Return to Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hoda Kotb<\/a> returned to the Today show on Friday (February 6) to support her friend and former co-host, Savannah Guthrie<\/a>, whose 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie<\/a>, disappeared on January 31. \u201cWell, first of all, I just want to say this whole thing is breaking my heart, and I\u2019m happy to be sitting here with you,\u201d Kotb said, per Variety, as she joined Craig Melvin<\/a>, Sheinelle Jones<\/a>, and Carson Daly<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been wandering around, going, \u2018Where do we go?\u2019 And I picture Savannah sitting there,\u201d an emotional Kotb continued, pointing to the Today desk. \u201cAnyway, I just want to say good morning, and everybody\u2019s hoping and praying for Nancy\u2019s safe return.<\/div>\n

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Hoda Kotb returned to the Today show on Friday (February 6) to support her friend and former co-host, Savannah Guthrie, whose 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared on January 31. \u201cWell, first of all, I just want to say this whole thing is breaking my heart, and I\u2019m happy to be sitting here with you,\u201d Kotb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2269677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Today-Hoda-Kotb-Gets-Emotional-as-She-Makes-Unexpected-Return.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269677","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=2269677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269679,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269677\/revisions\/2269679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}