\u201cToday\u201d co-host Savannah Guthrie is on the mend after vocal surgery and has been keeping her \u201cnew voice\u201d under wraps \u2014 mostly.<\/p>\n
Guthrie returned briefly to the NBC morning show, calling in to Tuesday morning\u2019s broadcast to share an update about her recovery with her \u201cToday\u201d crew and viewers. The news anchor, 54, has been absent from the \u201cToday\u201d desk since mid-December because of her vocal chord surgery. <\/p>\n
The longtime \u201cToday\u201d personality and journalist began her cameo<\/a> smiling and showing off her white board to her co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager, Carson Daly, Sheinelle Jones<\/a>, Craig Melvin and Al Roker. Shortly after writing \u201clove you,\u201d Guthrie decided to do away with the whiteboard completely and began to talk. <\/p>\n \u201cSo I am still on vocal rest but I\u2019m allowed to talk for about five to 10 minutes every hour,\u201d she told her co-hosts. \u201cThis is my new voice \u2014 or my old voice. But my new voice.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSounds the same,\u201d Roker observed, while other co-hosts also discussed Guthrie\u2019s sound. <\/p>\n Guthrie explained that her recovery will be \u201cslow\u201d and that she needs to be cautious about how often she talks while on the mend. She joked with Daly that the long weekend with her children tested just how much she can raise her voice post-surgery. <\/p>\n She also used her time on Tuesday\u2019s broadcast to share details about her official return to \u201cToday.\u201d Guthrie told Bush Hager and their co-hosts that she will return to her duties on Monday. Before then, she will be featured in a \u201cToday\u201d story about her surgery set to air on Friday, she said. <\/p>\n Guthrie announced her surgery and her break from \u201cToday\u201d duties on Dec. 19. During that broadcast she told viewers that her \u201cvoice has been very scratchy and started to crack a little bit.\u201d At the time, she said she learned she had non-cancerous growths on her vocal cords. <\/p>\n During Guthrie\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d stop, Jones \u2014 who underwent the same surgery in 2020<\/a> \u2014 said \u201cwe take our voices for granted.\u201d Guthrie ended her \u201cToday\u201d appearance expressing gratitude for her \u201cToday\u201d family and showing off gift mugs from her supporters. <\/p>\n \u201cSee you Friday,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n