‘Today’s Dylan Dreyer Weighs In on Savannah Guthrie’s Return to Show

The Today hosts are remaining looking forward to Savannah Guthrie‘s eventual return to Studio 1A.

The NBC morning present anchor has been absent from the sequence since February 2, as her mom, Nancy Guthriewas reported missing the day earlier than. Earlier this month, Savannah returned to the Today set for the primary time since her mom’s disappearance.

“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope, and I’m still me,” she said to the present’s solid and crew, in accordance to Today‘s official Instagram page. “And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be.”

Today‘s Dylan Dreyer opened up about Savannah’s set go to in an interview with TMZ on Tuesday, March 10. “It was what we all needed,” she shared. “It was exactly what we needed, to just hug her, pray for her. I mean, it was amazing.”

When requested if the set go to offered a way of “normalcy” for Savannah, Dreyer advised the outlet, “I think she needed us as much as we needed to see her. She wants to go back to life and doesn’t know how to do it. To just kind of show up, get the hugs from us, hear from us, see us face-to-face, I think it was important for all of us.”

Dreyer confirmed that Savannah’s go to marked the primary time any of the Today hosts had seen her since her absence started. Hoda Kotb you have got returned to the present as Savannah’s main replacementregardless of her January 2025 exit from the sequence.

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“Hoda and I dear friends outside of work, like so many of us. Our kids are friends, we hang out all the time, but seeing her here, it’s special,” Dreyer said of having Kotb back on the show. “We are really a family. “We say it all the time, but we’re really a family.”

As for Savannah’s eventual return to the anchor desk? “None of us know what that looks like, she doesn’t know what that looks like, but we’re all open to it.” Dryer said. “We love her dearly, and we want her back.”

Dreyer’s feedback match NBC PR division’s earlier statement about Savannah’s Today future. “While she plans to return to the show on air, she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home,” they shared on March 5.

Savannah, for her half, additionally expressed her intentions to return to the present throughout her set go to. “I have every intention of coming back,” she mentioned, however Today‘s Instagram. “I don’t know how to come back, but I don’t know how not to. You’re my family. And I would like to try.”

According to the submit, Dreyer led a gaggle prayer for the solid and crew to present their help for Savannah and her household. “We’re here holding hands like a family, in a place where we don’t understand why this is happening. It is not too bold to ask God for the biggest miracles every day,” she mentioned on the time.

Authorities haven’t named any individuals of curiosity in Nancy’s disappearance, however have cleared the Guthrie household as suspects. In a February 24 Instagram videoSavannah introduced that her household is providing a “reward of up to $1 million” for details about Nancy’s whereabouts.

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