Savannah Guthrie was absent from the Today show for a second consecutive broadcast.
“So happy that Sheinelle [Jones] is here while Savannah is on assignment,” Guthrie’s co-anchor Craig Melvin began the Thursday, June 18, episode of the morning show.
Jones, 48, subsequently joked that Guthrie, 54, was, instead, among the thousands of New Yorkers packed in the lower Manhattan crowd ahead of the New York Knicks’ victory parade after winning the 2026 NBA Championships.
Guthrie, meanwhile, is actually away working on another work assignment, which Melvin, 47, confirmed on the se...
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