{"id":127321,"date":"2025-09-02T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:39:06","slug":"sheinelle-jones-to-return-to-nbcs-today-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127321\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheinelle Jones To Return To NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Today&#8217; On Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sheinelle-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sheinelle-jones\" data-tag=\"sheinelle-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheinelle Jones<\/a> will return to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/today\/\" id=\"auto-tag_today\" data-tag=\"today\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today<\/a> on Friday, her first day back on the show since her husband, Uche Ojeh, died of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/savannah-guthrie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_savannah-guthrie\" data-tag=\"savannah-guthrie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a> announced her return on Tuesday\u2019s show. Guthrie\u2019s interview with Jones also will air on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe shared a really personal conversation talking about how she has carried on and found the strength these past few months,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cShe calls this experience \u2018a beautiful nightmare,\u2019 and she has thoughts on grief that are so touching. She\u2019s got a special message of hope for anybody facing their own struggles, and we will share that with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJones has been with the network since 2014. She became co-host of the third hour of the show in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJones announced in January that she was taking time off from the show for a family health matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOjeh, a consultant, and Jones had been married for 17 years, having met in the late 1990s, when Jones was a freshman at Northwestern University and Ojeh, then a high school senior, offered to give him a tour of campus, Guthrie said in a tribute to him in May. Ojeh proposed to Jones eight years later during a visit to the campus. They married in 2007. Ojeh was 45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheinelle Jones will return to Today on Friday, her first day back on the show since her husband,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5109,88,66501,81150,7349,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-127321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-electionline","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-savannah-guthrie","11":"tag-sheinelle-jones","12":"tag-today","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}