{"id":2271961,"date":"2026-02-08T00:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271961"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:33:11","slug":"savannah-guthrie-offers-to-pay-moms-ransom-as-she-makes-3-word-plea-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/savannah-guthrie-offers-to-pay-moms-ransom-as-she-makes-3-word-plea-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie offers to pay mom&#8217;s ransom as she makes 3-word plea &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Savannah Guthrie and her family say they will pay the ransom to secure their 84-year-old mom, Nancy Guthrie.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, February 7, the seventh day of Nancy&#8217;s disappearance, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/savannah-guthrie\">the Today Show host<\/a>, 54, and her siblings released another video in which they directly addressed their mother&#8217;s potential kidnappers and urgently pleaded, &#8220;We will pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside>\n<p>&#8220;We received your message, and we understand,&#8221; Savannah said in the video posted to her Instagram account, sitting alongside older sister Annie Guthrie and older brother Camron Guthrie. &#8220;We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The new video, which follows the siblings&#8217; first emotional video in which they pleaded with possible kidnappers, comes after a first apparent ransom note was sent to several media outlets earlier this week \u2013 including TMZ and celebrity.land affiliate KOLD-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The letter demanded millions of dollars in bitcoin for Nancy&#8217;s return, but KOLD said it received a second, shorter, message on Friday, February 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The first note had two deadlines \u2014 one that has since passed and one for Monday, an official said (per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/savannah-guthrie-mom-nancy-missing-02-07-26\" rel=\"nofollow\">celebrity.land<\/a>). The second included sensitive information but no deadline, according to KOLD anchor Mary Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>In the first wrenching video, shared on Wednesday, February 4, Savannah said they &#8220;need to know without a doubt that she\u2019s alive and that you have her.&#8221; She also noted that her mother is in &#8220;constant pain&#8221; and needs her medication to survive.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a day later, on what was the first deadline given in the ransom note sent to media outlets, Camron Guthrie made another plea in a video posted on his sister&#8217;s Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t heard anything directly. We need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But first we have to know that you have our mom. 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