What To Know
- Sheinelle Jones and Jenna Bush Hager shared how the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, affected relationships on Today.
- They spoke about prioritizing Savannah amid Shienelle starting as the permanent fourth-hour co-host.
- Despite ongoing efforts, Nancy Guthrie remains missing since January 31.
Sheinelle Jones and Jenna Bush Hager just opened up about how the abduction of Savannah Guthrie‘s mother, Nancy Guthrie, has impacted their relationships on Today.
During an interview with Page Six published on Sunday, June 7, Sheinelle, 48, and Jenna, 44, reflected on NBC morning show hosts supporting Savannah, 54, and each other over the past four months.
“We’re going to rally around our sister,” Sheinelle told the outlet. “She rallied around me. We know how to do that here.”
Sheinelle was referring to Savannah being there for her when her husband, Uche Ojeh, was sick — and then after he died in May 2025, following a battle with brain cancer.
“There was one day Savannah came up to the hospital, and she said, ‘You need to get out of here,’” Sheinelle recalled. “We went to this little restaurant around the corner from the hospital and had margaritas, and I said, ‘You were my oxygen for the day, and sometimes I never know where my oxygen’s going to come from.’”
Meanwhile, Jenna acknowledged that Savannah’s “heart is broken, and we love her.”
Additionally, Sheinelle discussed the timing of Nancy’s disappearance, which happened just weeks after she joined Jenna as the permanent co-host of Today‘s fourth hour.
“In any other matrix, it would’ve just been about us and the show,” she explained. “But we didn’t have time for that. I didn’t have time to worry about my hair or whether I was being funny. Real life was happening.”
Sheinelle pointed out that getting through those first few months of Jenna & Sheinelle amid Nancy’s abduction “continues to bond us in ways we can’t even describe or make sense of.”
“Every day we were thinking about her,” Jenna added. “How could we not talk about it? It was what was happening off camera… We’re not going to act like things are OK if they’re not. We’re bringing ourselves to the audience. It was a really hard time because we adore her so much, and it still is.”
Nancy was last seen at her Tucson home on the evening of January 31. Since then, the FBI has released videos and photos from a doorbell camera of a masked suspect on the 84-year-old’s front porch. Although Savannah offered a $1 million reward and DNA evidence from a hair sample is being processed, no suspect has been named in Nancy’s case.
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