Savannah Guthrie is making plans to return to the Today show, according to recent reports.
The morning show anchor, 54, is reportedly hoping to come back into her role, according to a report by Page Six, after a seven-week absence from the show that began when her 84-year-old mom disappeared from her Arizona home in January.
NBC did not return The Independent’s request for comment about the report.
The outlet says the host wants to get back into her anchor chair once her two children — her 11-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son — are back in school after their spring break.
Most New York schools are back in session by April 10, meaning that Guthrie could be on TV again in just a couple of weeks.
However, a Today show source told Page Six that there is no update on the NBC staple’s return date, and that Hoda Kotb will continue filling in for her in the meantime.
Guthrie has been a staple on the Today show for over 14 years. She has been a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show since 2012.
Page Six reported that Guthrie’s plans to come back to the show could change depending on how her mother’s case develops.
The TV personality’s mom, Nancy, has been missing from her house outside of Tucson since February 1 in what investigators believe was a targeted abduction. No further details have been released and no suspects have been identified.
Guthrie and her siblings issued a desperate new plea Sunday to the residents of Tucson, Arizona, begging neighbors to “search their memories” and security camera footage to help find their missing mom.
“It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant,” Guthrie wrote on Instagram. “We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11.”
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“We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case — please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations, or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance,” the statement added. “No detail is too small. It may be the key.”
Guthrie returned to the set of the daily show for the first time since her mom’s disappearance in an emotional visit March 5, where she was seen hugging staff and crew at Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
During her visit, the anchor reportedly thanked her colleagues for “caring about my mom as much as I do.”
“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope, and I’m still me,” she said, according to People. “And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be. I’m holding onto my faith. I still believe. And as my mom would say, ‘Where else would I go?’
She continued: “I have every intention of coming back. 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.”
