Sheinelle Jones’ colleagues are sending her love from afar.
Amid the Today cohost’s continued absence, Craig Melvin, Dylan Dreyer and Al Roker shared an update with viewers, with Craig confirming he’s spoken to her recently.
“I just talked to her a couple days ago—she’s taking some time to be with her family and we talk to her all the time,” he told Access Hollywood. “We love our girl. It’s been nice to see how much everyone else loves her, too.”
Dylan, meanwhile, confirmed Sheinelle would eventually return to Rockefeller Center.
“She misses being here,” the 43-year-old noted. “She wishes she was here with us, but she’s doing what she needs to do.”
To which Al added, “We’re just praying for her.”
E! News has reached out to reps for Today and Sheinelle for comment but has not heard back.
The update comes three months after Sheinelle, who last appeared on the NBC Morning show in December, shared she’d be taking a step back from the morning news show through a message shared to social media.
“Hi everybody…I sincerely appreciate all of you who have reached out while I’ve been absent from the show,” she wrote on January 15 . “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.”
The 46-year-old’s message was echoed on-air by Craig and Savannah Guthrie at the time, who shared, “We know so many of you have been asking about Sheinelle and missing her, and we miss her too.”
Sheinelle has long been an important part of the Today Show family.
In fact, when it was announced Craig would be stepping into his role as co-anchor following Hoda Kotb’s departure, he shared how important Sheinelle’s support was to him.
“You and I had a great conversation yesterday that I needed,” Craig told his cohost during a November episode. “You were like, ‘Today, just receive it.’”
He added, “I said to you a few weeks ago, ‘I’ve worked with you longer than anyone else in my career at this point.'”
For more of the Today Show family’s sweetest moments, keep reading.
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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.
