Overview
- Savannah Guthrie announced Thursday that she will be away from the TODAY show for a few weeks to film the full season of NBC’s Wordle, which producers plan to shoot in Manchester.
- Guthrie told colleagues the break is for production work and explicitly clarified that this absence is not related to her mother Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
- NBC and Wordle producers previously delayed filming in March to accommodate Guthrie after her family emergency, and Guthrie has thanked them for pausing the schedule.
- Nancy Guthrie, 84, remains missing after an apparent abduction in late January; the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office are conducting forensic testing and tip follow-up while the family has offered up to $1 million and the FBI has offered a separate reward.
- A separate security incident at the TODAY studio this week involved a backstage intruder who lunged at co-anchor Craig Melvin and was arrested, a development that has heightened attention to on‑set safety.