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Savannah Guthrie was forced to exit the Today show studio mid-broadcast this morning after testing positive for COVID-19 for the third time - while her co-host Hoda Kotb remained off the air for the seventh day in a row. Despite appearing on the show for the first 30-or-so-minutes, viewers were left confused when Savannah, 51, suddenly disappeared with no explanation after a commercial break. Her co-host Sheinelle Jones - who was sitting close beside Savannah for the half hour that she was on-set - later explained that she 'wasn't feeling great' so she decided to take a COVID-19 test, which...

Savannah Guthrie fled from the “Today” show mid-broadcast Tuesday amid her co-anchor Hoda Kotb’s unexplained absence. It was business as usual for Guthrie, 51, when she began hosting the NBC morning show at 7 a.m. ET, but she quickly sparked concern among viewers when she failed to return after a commercial break around 7:30. This is Guthrie’s third time battling COVID-19, having previously contracted the virus in January 2022 and May 2022

On November 4, NBC’s “Today Show” had a blockbuster report on the strange attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In the report, National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer cited an anonymous source close to the ongoing criminal investigation into the home invasion and assault that claimed Pelosi didn’t immediately ask for help or seek protection from police when he greeted them at his door the fateful night of the attack.“After a ‘knock and announce,’ the front door was opened by Mr. Pelosi. The 82-year-old did not immediately declare an emergency or try to leave his home....

The Department of Justice claimed in their indictment of Paul Pelosi's alleged nudist attacker that "two officers opened the door" to his San Francisco home before witnessing him getting attacked but body cam footage reportedly shows Pelosi himself opened the door for police and stayed inside the home with his alleged assailant rather than run to safety.NBC Bay Area reported on Saturday that they "spoke with a source familiar with the Pelosi investigation" who "personally viewed body camera video recorded by officers responding to the Pelosi's San Francisco home" and it shows Pelosi "opened the door with his left hand.""The...

VIDEOMatt Lauer joins such other former television luminaries as Dan Rather and Charlie Rose for being given the Stalin airbrush out of network history as you can see in this Today Show 70th Anniversary where he was laughably absent.

Former New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said Monday he would vote to convict President Donald Trump if he were in the Senate, but added that he views impeachment as “not good” and “a political process.” The billionaire 2020 hopeful’s comments came during an interview with NBC’s “Today Show,” when host Craig Melvin asked how he would advise senators who are acting as jurors in the upcoming impeachment trial. “The president’s actions, eventually, as information came out, it convinced me he should be impeached,” Bloomberg answered, adding that he thinks there should be a fair trial....

Former first lady Michelle Obama defended her friendship with former President George W. Bush in a new interview with Bush's daughter, Jenna Bush Hager. Speaking on the Today show on Tuesday, the former first lady, 55, said that while she and Bush, 73, may disagree on matters of politics, they actually have plenty in common — something that's true of most people, she believes. 'Our values are the same. We disagree on policy, but we don't disagree on humanity. We don't disagree about love and compassion,' she said. 'I think that's true for all of us. It's just that we...

We'll miss you, Kathie Lee! It's the end of an era, as Kathie Lee Gifford said goodbye on Friday after 11 years on TODAY, complete with laughs, tears, hugs, champagne — and an amazing giveaway to everyone in the audience.

O n Friday morning I was sitting alone gumming a bowl of oatmeal in the breakfast area of a Hampton Inn in Pontiac, Illinois, when I was assaulted by an absurdity on the widescreen TV. There I was, calmly minding my own business, keeping my big mouth shut for a change, opening it only for the next scoop of tastelessness. Just then, a group of maniacs from the Today show ruined my tranquility by babbling obliviously and ecstatically about International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day? Seriously? Had I slipped back in time a hundred years ago to, er, Leningrad, March...

There is no reason to believe Buzzfeed, Salon, or any of those far left “news organizations.” They are full of a supposition that is intended to paint President Trump in a bad light, make him look anti-American and drive down his public polls numbers. Anything full of so much blatant opinion with no supporting facts is garbage. On Friday, Buzzfeed proved that to be true.Buzzfeed released a “bombshell report” this week. The article claimed that there was evidence proving Trump told his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump Tower project plan in Moscow. The...

Friday on NBC’s “Today Show,” NBC and MSNBC host Chuck Todd boasted about the significance of a Buzzfeed story reporting President Donald Trump directed his then-legal counsel Michael Cohen to lie about a real estate project in Russia. Todd told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that one couldn’t “overstate” the significance of the report. “In the Trump era we have a hard time sometimes under-calibrating — and everybody is like, ‘Oh my God, oh my God — this is it, this is it,'” Todd said. “You can’t overstate how significant this development is, with the caveat of if true. I mean, a...

Matt Lauer is struggling to cope with his life away from the TV cameras — but isn’t thinking of making “a comeback” or getting back to work anytime soon, according to a new report. The scandal-scarred former morning talk show host has been keeping a low profile since he was fired from the “Today” show precisely one year ago amid a torrent of sexual misconduct allegations. “It has been hard for him. He went from being a super busy person to having nothing but time on his hands,” the source close to Lauer told People magazine. “He is not doing...

Megyn Kelly’s ouster at the Today Show was great for the franchise’s viewership, according to Variety, with Nielsen reporting an impressive 10% bump in advertiser’s coveted 25-54 demographic during the third hour Kelly used to host. There’s been a 4% jump in viewership for Today as a whole. But will the boost endure? Kelly was booted on October 26, just two days after defending the use of blackface on her program. The cancellation of Megyn Kelly Today topped off 12 months of tumult that’s plagued Today, beginning with Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct and ouster in October 2017. But it...

On the Today show, discussing the Situation Room meeting in which she was fired, Omarosa accuses White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly of "false imprisonment."

Today breathlessly made the teacher walkout in Oklahoma and other states its “top story” this morning, touting the “wildfire” as “thousands are rising up and walking out.” The reporter on the ground in Oklahoma claimed it’s “turning out to be more than a protest, but a movement,” and host Hoda Kotb billed it as “a powerful movement that’s sweeping the country.” A clip showed a student claiming that the walkout is “all for us.” Except it’s not. It’s really about teachers demanding higher salaries, though some window dressing has been added about increasing overall school funding. One inconvenient fact that...

Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, advertising executive Donny Deutsch and psychotherapist Robi Ludwig both agreed that the American people should not stop being "shocked" by political sex scandals. Deutsch declared: "...we have to stop being shocked and amazed....when men who are conquerors by nature also chase women....we as a society have got to become a little more anesthetized to this." Moments later, as Duetsch one again proclaimed, "Let's stop being shocked at this stuff!," Ludwig blamed American moral values for the attention the scandal received: "We're a very puritanical country and so we're a little bit sexually repressed. So on...

NBC has issued strict new anti-sexual harassment rules to employees — including that staffers must snitch on any misbehaving colleagues — in the wake of the firing of disgraced “Today” show host Matt Lauer. A source tells Page Six that NBC employees have been ordered to report any inappropriate relationships in the workplace — and if they fail to do so, they could be fired for covering up for colleagues. Detailed rules also have been issued about conduct in the office, including how to socialize and even how to hug colleagues. A source says, “Romantic relationships at work are not...

Just saw on Today show. Matt Lauer Fired!!!

They’re not gonna take it! Both Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are taking off from their TODAY show post this month, and neither have plans to return, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. While Kotb, 52, is on maternity leave following the surprise adoption of infant daughter Haley Joy, Gifford, 63, is celebrating her 26-year-old son Cody’s graduation from his master’s program in the United Kingdom for two weeks. TODAY producers are panicking as the “inexperienced” Jenna Bush Hager and guest cohosts handle the 10 am eastern fourth hour, and have begged the two women to come back — but neither...

Megyn Kelly left FOX News earlier this month, and she now has a new job. Kelly will be hosting an hour of the Today show, likely to begin sometime in the fall. Along with her other hosting duties at NBC News, Kelly will either be taking over the third hour of Today, replacing Al Roker and Tamron Hall, or she’ll be taking over the fourth hour, which belongs to Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, according to People.