{"id":564012,"date":"2026-02-03T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/564012\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:57:11","slug":"nancy-guthrie-is-a-familiar-face-to-today-show-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/564012\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Guthrie is a familiar face to ‘Today’ show viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than a decade, loyal viewers of NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show have come to know Nancy Guthrie<\/a>, the beloved mother of longtime host Savannah Guthrie.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s lived a life of integrity and loyalty,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said four years ago, beaming as she paid tribute to her mom on her 80th birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a truth teller, whether you really want to hear the truth or not,\u201d Guthrie said, calling her mom an inspiration and a woman of great of faith.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Savannah Guthrie asked for prayers to help find her 84-year-old mother after authorities said they believe she was taken against her will<\/a> over the weekend from the Tucson, Arizona, home where she lives alone.<\/p>\n

Authorities don\u2019t believe the abduction was part of a robbery or kidnapping-for-ransom plot, according to a person familiar with the investigation, who was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the case and spoke to the AP on condition of an anonymity.<\/p>\n

Her disappearance has shaken NBC\u2019s flagship morning show, where Nancy Guthrie made occasional appearances. She once took part in a cooking demonstration and has shown up on the set to surprise her daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor all of us who\u2019ve gotten to know her and love her, it is personal,\u201d an emotional Jenna Bush Hager, one of the show\u2019s hosts said during Tuesday\u2019s broadcast. <\/p>\n

Savannah Guthrie, who was not at the anchor\u2019s desk Tuesday, has described her mom over the years as adventurous, curious and selfless.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has met unthinkable challenges in her life with grit, without self-pity, with determination and always, always with unshakeable faith,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said in 2022.<\/p>\n

She credited her mom with holding their family together after her father died of a heart attack at age 49, when Savannah Guthrie \u2014 the youngest of three siblings \u2014 was just 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my dad died, our family just hung onto each other for dear life because it was such a shock. We were just trying to figure out how to become a family of four when we\u2019d always been a family of five,\u201d she said on \u201cToday\u201d in 2017. <\/p>\n

The loss of her father, a man Savannah Guthrie described as having a big personality and unshakeable integrity, brought the family closer. <\/p>\n

Both daughters decided to live at home during college and made sure that their mother wasn\u2019t alone on weekends, Savannah Guthrie said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom did such a unique and amazing job to create this foundation for us,\u201d Savannah\u2019s older sister Annie said during an appearance on \u201dToday\u201d nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press reporter Mike Balsamo reported from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than a decade, loyal viewers of NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show have come to know Nancy Guthrie, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":564013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5643,11029,171,57,157581,22938,246063,245270,403,94373,235115,399,17741,173,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-564012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-az-state-wire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-jenna-hager","13":"tag-kidnapping","14":"tag-mike-balsamo","15":"tag-nancy-guthrie","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-savannah-guthrie","18":"tag-send-to-apple-news","19":"tag-television","20":"tag-tucson","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-u-s-news","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116008468606628581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}