{"id":514415,"date":"2026-03-10T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514415\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:35:08","slug":"kathie-lee-gifford-ready-to-guest-host-today-amid-savannah-guthries-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514415\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathie Lee Gifford Ready to Guest Host ‘TODAY’ Amid Savannah Guthrie’s Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kathie Lee Gifford<\/a>, who formerly co-hosted the fourth hour of “TODAY” for 11 years, suggested she’d get back in the saddle in a heartbeat if the show needed her amid Savannah Guthrie<\/a> being off the air.<\/p>\n

We caught up with the TV legend in NYC on Monday amid Savannah’s absence due to the tragic kidnapping of her mom.<\/p>\n

Even in the middle of the nightmare, Savannah managed a few smiles … doing her best to carry on after\u00a0briefly returning<\/a>\u00a0to the “TODAY” studio last Thursday for an emotional visit.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0we reported<\/a>, Nancy<\/a> was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night on February 1. She was last seen entering the house just before 10 PM on January 31 after having dinner with her daughter\u00a0Annie<\/a>\u00a0and Annie\u2019s husband,\u00a0Tommaso Cioni<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZ.com Kathie Lee Gifford, who formerly co-hosted the fourth hour of “TODAY” for 11 years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-514415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514415","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=514415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}