Savannah Guthrie was meant to be in Milan, Italy on Friday co-hosting the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics. However that each one modified over the weekend when her 84-year-old mom, Nancy Guthrie, went lacking. NBC commentators Mary Carillo and Terry Gannon kicked off the community’s Olympics protection by sending properly needs to Guthrie.
“We’re definitely with out a vital and beloved member of our staff tonight,” Gannon stated of Guthrie proper earlier than NBC’s broadcast of the opening ceremony started. “She is dearly missed by everyone.”
“She’s coated so many Olympics, and he or she loves it,” Carillo added. “Proper now, after all, Savannah and her household are in unspeakable, unfathomable ache. We all know that within the U.S., her prolonged household is legion. Savannah, my buddy, it’s the identical method right here.”
Gannon concluded, “We ship our love and prayers and all of our constructive power to Savannah tonight.”
NBC introduced earlier than the Olympics started that Guthrie would get replaced by Carillo, a veteran sports activities journalist.
Nancy Guthrie has been lacking since Jan. 31, when she was final seen at her Arizona residence. Native police and the FBI have been treating her disappearance as a attainable kidnapping, now offering a $50,000 reward for any vital leads on the place Nancy might be. They haven’t but recognized a suspect or individual of curiosity within the case.
On Wednesday, Savannah Guthrie posted a video to Instagram wherein she and her siblings pleaded with their mom’s kidnapper.
“She’s 84 years outdated. Her well being, her coronary heart, is fragile. She lives in fixed ache. She is with none medication. She wants it to outlive, and he or she wants it to not undergo,” Guthrie stated. “We, too, have heard the studies a few ransom letter within the media. As a household, we’re doing all the pieces that we are able to. We’re prepared to speak. Nonetheless, we dwell in a world the place voices and pictures are simply manipulated. We have to know undoubtedly that she is alive and that you’ve got her. We wish to hear from you, and we’re able to hear.”
