2 days ago
10
Today's Craig Melvin and Savannah Guthrie shared their cohost Sheinelle Jones is taking time away from the show during the show's Jan. 15 episode due to a personal matter.
‘Today’ Announces Hoda Kotb’s Retirement and Official End Date
Sheinelle Jones is taking a step back.
The Today cohost shared that she taking time away from the morning show due to a personal matter in a message shared to Instagram Jan. 15.
"Hi everybody...I sincerely appreciate all of you who have reached out while I've been absent from the show," Sheinelle shared in her message posted to social media. "I want to share with you that I'm taking time to deal with a family health matter. It's not lost on [me] how lucky I am to have not only the support of my Today Show family, but to also have all of you. Your kindness means so much to me. I'll see you soon."
Her cohosts Craig Melvin and Savannah Guthrie also announced the news during the show's Jan. 15 episode, noting, "We know so many of you have been asking about Sheinelle and missing her, and we miss her too."
Sheinelle's personal update comes after fans expressed concern over her absence from the show's recent episodes, one of which included cohost Hoda Kotb's final day.
After it was announced late last year that her colleague Craig would take over as coanchor, the NBC Nightly News host shared the words of encouragement Sheinelle gave him amid this new chapter in his career.
"You and I had a great conversation yesterday that I needed," Craig told his cohost during a November 2024 episode. "You were like today, just receive it,'" adding that he'll still remain by Sheinelle's side during the third hour of the morning broadcast.
"I said to you a few weeks ago," he continued, "'I've worked with you longer than anyone else in my career at this point.'" Sheinelle's simple response to that fact? "It's so nutty."
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images
Indeed, the mom of three has been open about just how much her time on the show means to her, which came after she joined in 2015.
"I’m thankful for good mornings and I’m thankful for you!" she wrote in a March 2024 Instagram post featuring a photo of her and her cohosts. "Even when I don’t feel like it some days walking in, these folks make my heart happy and I always leave encouraged! I hope we can do the same for you too."
Keep reading for a look at the Today show's best moments together...
Hoda's Halloween
"Another Halloween in the books," wrote the host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy.
Carson and Siri's Bundle of Joy
The anchor and his wife announced the happy news when they welcomed their fourth child, Goldie Patricia Daly!
Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Megyn Kelly
Kelly has kept the lives of her three young children—Edward, Yardley, and Thatcher— relatively quiet, but she and her novelist husband make plenty of their own public appearances as a duo.
Steve Mack/Getty Images
Kathie Lee
Hoda's former co-host is a loving mommy to her own two children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her late husband, Frank Gifford.
Savannah Guthrie
The TV personality is a mommy to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman. She welcomed Charles into the world in December 2016.
Noam Galai/WireImage
Al Roker
The anchor and his wife, Deborah Roberts, are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
Paul Zimmerman/WireImage
Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife, Christina, since 2003. They're parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
English (US) ·