Savannah Guthrie update: TV host announces new hosting role alongside Jimmy Fallon Wordle gameshow

Three months after the tragic disappearance of her mother, an American TV presenter Savannah Guthrie has announced a surprising new TV appearance.

Guthrie, long-time co-host of the US Today showwill present a game show version of the game Wordle, which took the world by storm in 2021.

The show is co-produced by NBC, The New York Timeswho owns the game, and Jimmy Fallon. Guthrie and Fallon announced the new game show during a televised appearance Today to be seen in the US on Monday.

“We’ve been developing Wordle as a game show over the last two and a half years The New York Timesand it’s official: we’re creating Wordle Game Show with our host, Savannah Guthrie!” said Fallon.

Guthrie told viewers that she has “carried this secret between us for a long time” and revealed that the show was postponed following her mother’s still-unsolved disappearance in February.

“We’ve been working on this for a really long time and it wasn’t until February that we actually found out that we were being arrested and that we were going to start filming in March,” she said.

Guthrie thanked those involved for waiting until she was ready to resume the new role after her mother disappeared from her home in the US state of Arizona.

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“Hollywood is a very difficult business, and I didn’t expect that, and I just want to thank you, it means so much to me,” she said.

Guthrie took a leave of absence after her mother’s disappearance before returning to work last month.

She reportedly told The New York Times that the game Wordle was something she had in common with her mother, and she had shown her the pilot of the show in December.

“Everything is strange right now,” Guthrie said.

“It’s strange to get up and do the next thing Today show every day, and it’s strange to say I’m going to do a game show when your heart is broken.”

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing since February 1 and police are treating her disappearance as suspicious.

It is believed she was kidnapped from home, with the family receiving multiple ransom letters after her disappearance.

Despite efforts by local police and the FBI, Guthrie has not been found, but blood found at the scene turned out to be hers and video from a doorbell camera appeared to show a masked and armed intruder at her door prior to her disappearance.

She was last seen the night before her disappearance when her son-in-law dropped her off at home.

The family later announced a $1.4 million reward for information that helped find her

Wordle took the world by storm in 2021 after Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle created the game for his partner.

The web-based game gives players six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with one game released each day.

The New York Times paid seven figures for the game in 2022.

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