{"id":2511344,"date":"2026-07-21T18:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2511344"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:28:28","slug":"al-roker-absent-from-today-show-as-savannah-guthrie-craig-melvin-remain-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/al-roker-absent-from-today-show-as-savannah-guthrie-craig-melvin-remain-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker absent from &#8216;Today&#8217; show as Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin remain out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/09\/savannah-guthrie-today-show-absent\/90861588007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/17\/today-show-intruder-craig-melvin-response\/90949655007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Melvin<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/07\/17\/craig-melvin-al-roker-protection-order-today-show-intruder\/90956271007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Al Roker<\/a> were all absent from the &#8220;Today&#8221; show broadcast on Tuesday, July 21, days after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/16\/today-show-intruder-arrested-craig-melvin\/90942581007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the show faced an intruder incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/04\/10\/willie-geist-sunday-today-nbc-10-year-anniversary\/89509243007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Geist<\/a> greeted viewers at the top of NBC\u2019s morning program with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2026\/05\/18\/sheinelle-jones-parenting-grief-journey-mom-caregiving\/89946856007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sheinelle Jones<\/a>, who co-hosts \u201cToday with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for joining us on this Tuesday morning,\u201d Geist, 51, said. \u201cWe are in for Savannah and Craig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the episode, meteorologist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/07\/07\/dylan-dreyer-miscarriage-today-show\/90834498007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Dreyer<\/a> filled in for Roker.<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie, 54, previously announced that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/16\/savannah-guthrie-today-show-absence-wordle-game-show\/90941522007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019d be missing from \u201cToday\u201d for a \u201cfew weeks,\u201d<\/a> while she filmed the first season of the \u201cWordle,\u201d a game show inspired by The New York Times game, in which players guess a five-letter word. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/todayshow\/reel\/Da2qUbFCJzL\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Guthrie predicted the new series<\/a> would likely air on NBC \u201cin the New Year.\u201d Her absence comes amid the ongoing search for her mother <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/07\/15\/nancy-guthrie-case-qr-code-scam\/90930949007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Guthrie<\/a>, who disappeared from her Arizona home on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/20\/today-show-craig-melvin-absent-intruder-savannah-guthrie\/90980682007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Guthrie also mentioned<\/a> during the July 20 broadcast of \u201cToday\u201d that Melvin, 47, was out for a &#8220;little family vacation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Roker, 71, has recently shared moments from a trip to Chicago <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alroker\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">with his followers on social media<\/a>, including a trip to Wrigley Field. While in The Windy City, Roker hosted the Chicago International Film Festival\u2019s Cinema Soir\u00e9e on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie, Melvin and Roker\u2019s absences follow a July 16 incident when a person identified as\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/07\/17\/craig-melvin-al-roker-protection-order-today-show-intruder\/90956271007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Truelove<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/16\/today-show-intruder-arrested-craig-melvin\/90942581007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">slipped past &#8220;Today&#8221; security<\/a> and managed to confront Melvin off-air, allegedly calling him a racial slur, according to records reviewed by USA TODAY. There was &#8220;no altercation, and no one was injured&#8221; during the incident, per a &#8220;Today&#8221; show statement.<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY has reached out to \u201cToday\u201d for comment on when the anchors would return.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, Roker expressed his appreciation for those who reached out after the incident <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alroker\/reel\/Da5FU8IpJRv\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA really heartfelt thank you to all who reached out over the last 24 hours to check in on my brother, [Craig Melvin],\u201d Roker captioned a montage of images of the two. \u201cWe are both okay. It\u2019s moments like these that serve to pull us together. You all, like Craig, said \u201cYou come after one of us, you come after all of us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributing: Taijuan Moorman and Liza Esquibias<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <\/em><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/07\/21\/today-show-al-roker-absent-savannah-guthrie-craig-melvin\/90997290007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Where are Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Al Roker on &#8216;Today&#8217; show?<\/a><\/em><\/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.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Al Roker were all absent from the &#8220;Today&#8221; show broadcast on Tuesday, July 21, days after the show faced an intruder incident. Willie Geist greeted viewers at the top of NBC\u2019s morning program with Sheinelle Jones, who co-hosts \u201cToday with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle.\u201d \u201cThank you for joining us on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199148,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2511344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Melissa-Gilbert-Celebrates-Dick-Van-Dykes-100th-Birthday-With-Throwback.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511344","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=2511344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511345,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511344\/revisions\/2511345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}