{"id":2314364,"date":"2026-03-05T19:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2314364"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:14:38","slug":"hoda-kotb-kisses-savannah-guthrie-during-emotional-today-show-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hoda-kotb-kisses-savannah-guthrie-during-emotional-today-show-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoda Kotb kisses Savannah Guthrie during emotional &#8216;Today&#8217; show reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hoda Kotb was seen comforting Savannah Guthrie as she made <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/05\/entertainment\/savannah-guthrie-visits-today-show-for-first-time-since-mom-nancys-disappearance\/\">an emotional first visit<\/a> back to the \u201cToday\u201d show studio.<\/p>\n<p>Photos show Kotb \u2014 who has been filling in while Savannah has been in Arizona following her mother Nancy Guthrie\u2019s disappearance \u2014 with her arm around her former co-host as she kissed her cheek. <\/p>\n<p>Kotb, 61, exited the network in January 2025, but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/25\/celebrity-news\/hoda-kotbs-future-at-today-show-revealed\/\">returned to Studio 1A<\/a> in her former co-host\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>A source tells Page Six that Savannah, 54, thanked the staff and crew for all their \u201clove, prayers and support, and for \u2018caring about my mom as much as I do.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Savannah Guthrie visited the \u201cToday\u201d show set on Thursday, March 5, for the first time since her mother\u2019s disappearance. <span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Hoda Kotb gave Savannah a heartfelt kiss during the visit on Thursday. <span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>She told the team she she\u2019s \u201cstill standing\u201d and still has \u201chope\u201d they will find Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still me. And I don\u2019t know what version of me that will be, but it will be,\u201d she said, per our source, adding that she has every intention of returning to the network and referred to the team as her family.<\/p>\n<p>Our source says Dylan Dreyer led a \u201cbeautiful\u201d group prayer and Savannah hugged everyone in the studio before she left.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah\u2019s emotional visit was discussed on the show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Savannah\u2019s March 5 visit to the studio was emotional as she wiped tears from her eyes. <span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cToday\u201d show co-host hugged everyone in the studio when she visited. <span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones were visibly moved as they talked about their colleague during the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSavannah has come back to her home here at 30 Rock, and we got to see her this morning,\u201d Bush Hager shared. \u201cIt felt so good to get to hug her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/14\/celebrity-news\/sheinelle-jones-shares-painful-truth-of-life-after-husband-uche-ojehs-death\/\">lost her husband last year to cancer<\/a>, shared that she was \u201cproud\u201d of Savannah.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Jenna Bush Hager shared on the \u201cToday\u201d show that \u201cit felt so good to hug her.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She was later spotted leaving the \u201cToday\u201d show after her visit on Thursday. <span class=\"credit\">Robert Miller for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI know the strength it would take to even come in here to be amongst all of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah has not appeared on the morning show since her mother, Nancy, 84, vanished from her Tucson, Ariz., home last month.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/02\/celebrity-news\/savannah-guthries-mom-84-reported-missing-in-southern-arizona-homicide-detectives-involved\/\">reported <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">missing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u00a0on Feb. 1 after she failed to show<\/span> up for church services.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah has used her social media platform to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/24\/celebrity-news\/savannah-guthrie-cries-she-may-already-be-gone-in-new-video-offers-1m-reward-for-missing-nancys-return\/\">post several devastating videos<\/a>, begging the perpetrator to \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Savannah, seen here with mom Nancy, has not been on the \u201cToday\u201d show since Nancy\u2019s disappearance on Feb. 1. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/savannahguthrie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Nancy (pictured with Savannah) was taken from her Arizona home. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/savannahguthrie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The journalist confessed in her most recent video last week that she and her loved ones have accepted that Nancy may \u201calready be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in Heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if this is what is to be, then we will accept it, but we need to know where she is. We need her to come home,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Guthrie family recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/24\/celebrity-news\/the-tactic-savannah-guthrie-is-using-with-1m-reward-for-mom-nancys-safe-return-experts\/\">increased the reward to $1 million<\/a> as the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/26\/celebrity-news\/nancy-guthries-home-to-be-returned-to-family-as-search-nears-1-month-mark\/\">investigation into her kidnapping<\/a> continues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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 pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoda Kotb was seen comforting Savannah Guthrie as she made an emotional first visit back to the \u201cToday\u201d show studio. Photos show Kotb \u2014 who has been filling in while Savannah has been in Arizona following her mother Nancy Guthrie\u2019s disappearance \u2014 with her arm around her former co-host as she kissed her cheek. 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