I wanted to say a word on the photos and video released last week of Savannah Guthrie back on the Today show set in New York. TMZ obtained the footage of Savannah in Studio 1A thanking all of her colleagues. I have to say, this struck me as an extremely cynical thing for NBC to do.
I am intimately familiar with Studio 1A and the facilities all around it. There was plenty of space for them to do this reunion without putting it on camera for all of us to see. Obviously, they wanted to show us Savannah in there hugging everybody and everybody hugging her. In my view, NBC turned this moment into a PR opportunity because, throughout this tragedy, they have been pushing the lie that it is just one big, happy family at the Today show.
Meanwhile, just read The Daily Mail. At least once a week there is some backstabbing article about what is really happening behind the scenes there. How they are eye-rolling that she is back; how she is like their boss and they are going to have to behave differently when she returns; how Hoda is desperate to get back on the set and get back in her seat.
NBC did not need to do this. First of all, there are covers for those windows. If they really didn’t want to move the crew, they could have lowered the window covers. Second of all, there is plenty of space right outside of the studio. But they put this on display, which, in my view, is just voyeuristic.
❤️🩹 Savannah Guthrie has returned to the 'TODAY' show studio for the first time since her mom Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her bed in the middle of the night more than a month ago. pic.twitter.com/J2LTZiFibw
— TMZ (@TMZ) March 5, 2026
As you can see in the video above, they had Savannah basically facing out the windows and all the crew standing around like her court. This is very, very vile to me. If she wants to put out a statement on camera the way she has, everybody is going to listen to that. But what they are trying to do is image-building for NBC and the Today show here, and I find it abhorrent.
I think Savannah should have said no to it, and I think the executives should have known better than to take an intimate moment like that and make sure cameras caught it just to pump up their image because, in the end, it is all about ratings. It is just so cynical and reinforces what we have been reading in the press and, frankly, as I pointed out to you before, my own experience. It is not one big happy family. It is a bunch of backstabbing you-know-whats over there, who are worried about themselves.
I am sure there is a lot of, ‘Now what? She wants to come back.’ What does that mean for Hoda, who has gotten awfully warm in the seat, and for the others who are enjoying being their own queen bees when Savannah has been out. I include Craig Melvin in that, too. I am sure he has been enjoying being the elder statesman – which he is not – while she has been off the set.
I just thought this was horrible. I forgive Savannah for it because she is in a compromised state. I am sure she just kind of went along with whatever they said. But I think the classy move would have been for NBC to say, ‘Let’s allow her privacy she deserves. We will have a thanking of the cast and crew behind closed doors’ – like an actual family would have done.
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