Savannah Guthrie knows Hoda Kotb is cooking up something really special.
Over three months after Hoda exited Today following nearly 17 years at the NBC morning show, her former colleague shared insight into her upcoming return.
“She’s coming back,” Savannah told E! News’ Carolina Bermudezin a joint interview with co-anchor Craig Melvin at the celebration for the launch of Today Loves Food: Recipes from America’s Favorite Kitchen. “She’s going to come and reveal her next chapter on theToday Show. So you’ll see her there.”
Meanwhile, Craig, 45,admitted that her upcoming cameo feels like she’s simply “coming back from vacation.”
Although Hoda—is now building her own wellness app and company—bid farewell to Today viewers in January, she’s still kept in close touch with her former cohosts. “We see her all the time,” Savannah added. “She’s great. We just had breakfast last week.” (For more with Savannah and the Todaycrew, tune into E! News, tonight, May 1 at 11 p.m.)
After all, the team knows that food is the perfect way to bring people together. And in their new cookbook, each person brought a part of their personality for their chosen recipes. For instance, Savannah, 53, admitted that she prefers snacking over a full meal.
“It’s girl dinner,” she told Craig and Carolina. “I brought a lime drink, a cheese plate, some guac and pigs in a blanket.”
When it came to each person’s collection, she believes there’s no single winner, although Al Roker has “the most elevated recipes.”
As Savannah put it, “The reason there actually was no real competition is because everybody comes at it with a different level.”
Craig, with the help of his mom, highlighted the Southern meals passed down in his family. However, it wasn’t easy getting the measurements or directions for the book since, like many home cooks, she often eyed it all.
“The hard part was getting her to actually write down the recipe,” he admitted. “It took a couple of months and she was a little stressed about it.”
Even Hoda has a few recipes including her upside down salad. She’s no stranger to cooking, as she was often in the kitchen on set. As she told Today.com in an interview published April 29 about that time, “Doing the cooking segments is one of my favorites memories from my time on the show.”
Now, take a closer look at all the stars who make up the Today family.
(E! News and Today are part of the NBCUniversal family.)
Sheinelle Jones
The cohost of the third hour of Today shares son Kayin as well as twins Uche and Clara with her late husband Uche Ojeh, who passed away in May 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.
“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they’re ALL a team, and they have to take care of each other,” Sheinelle wrote in a 2015 essay for Today. “At the same time, I’m learning that they each like to know they’re special on their own.”
Craig Melvin
Three years after the anchor married fellow broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak in 2011, he earned his most cherished title yet: father.
And now, he seizes every opportunity to gush about their son Delano and daughter Sybil.
“When I wake up in the morning,” Melvin said to his son during a May 2024 episode of Today, “part of the reason I work so hard is for you and your sister.”
Jenna Bush Hager
The Today with Jenna & Friends cohost and her husband Henry Hager are proud parents to kids Mila, Poppy and Hal.
As she put it during a March 2025 episode of the morning show, “I’m pretty sure I’ve come to terms that three, even though it’s an imperfect number, it’s the perfect number for our household.”
Hoda Kotb
“Another Halloween in the books,” wrote the former host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy.
She is also mom to daughter Hope Catherine.
Lester Holt
The former NBC Nightly News anchor shares sons Stefan Holt and Cameron Holt with his wife Carol Hagen.
But more recently, he became a proud “granddude” to three grandchildren: Henry, Samuel and James.
“When my daughter-in-law was pregnant with her first baby … she said, ‘Well, what do you guys want to be called?’” Holt said on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2021. “I said, ‘I think I want to be ‘Granddude’ because ‘grand,’ it bows to the fact that I’m older. But ‘dude’ says, ‘I still got a little bit. I still got a little,’ you know?”
Carson Daly
In 2020, the anchor and his wife Siri Pinter welcomed their fourth child, Goldie. The little one joined the couple’s older kids Jackson, Etta and London.
Kathie Lee
Hoda’s former cohost 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 mom to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles “Charley” Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman.
Al Roker
The anchor and his wife Deborah Roberts are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife Christina Geist since 2003. They’re parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
