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Updated · USA TODAY · Jun 21

Savannah Guthrie Calls Husband Mike Feldman Family's 'Hero' in Father's Day Post, Amid $1 Million Search

Updated

Updated · USA TODAY · Jun 21

Savannah Guthrie Calls Husband Mike Feldman Family's 'Hero' in Father's Day Post, Amid $1 Million Search

Q: Why was Savannah Guthrie's new 'Wordle' game show secretly paused by NBC and Jimmy Fallon?

NBC and Jimmy Fallon’s team paused Savannah Guthrie’s new “Wordle” game show because her mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared in Arizona in early February, and Guthrie needed to step away to be with her family during the search. The show had been scheduled to begin production in March 2026, but Guthrie later said NBC, Fallon, his production company Electric Hot Dog, The New York Times, and Universal Television Alternative Studio agreed to halt the rollout rather than push ahead without her. She publicly thanked them for “stopp[ing] everything” and waiting. The pause was not tied to creative or ratings concerns. It was a personal accommodation made after Nancy Guthrie, 84, vanished from her Tucson-area home in a case authorities continue to investigate as a suspected abduction. Savannah Guthrie then took a roughly two-month leave from “Today” before returning in April. Production has since resumed planning. Guthrie was absent from “Today” on June 17 and 18 for “Wordle” production meetings, and filming is now expected to begin later this summer, with the NBC game show slated to premiere in 2027.

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Savannah Guthrie marked Father’s Day with an Instagram post calling husband Mike Feldman the family’s “hero,” sharing a photo of Feldman with their two children, Vale, 11, and Charley, 9.
The tribute comes as Guthrie’s family is still searching for her mother, Nancy Guthrie, 84, who disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home in late January and remains missing five months later.
A pinned post on Guthrie’s Instagram urges the public to help in the unsolved case and says a family reward of up to $1 million will be paid for Nancy Guthrie’s recovery under FBI criteria.
Guthrie, 54, returned to the “Today” show in April after a two-month absence tied to her mother’s disappearance and was also off air on June 17 and 18 for NBC’s upcoming “Wordle” game show production meetings.