The Untold Truth Of Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie became co-anchor of NBC's Today show in July 2012. Since then, she's helped keep the morning show at the top of the ratings in the critical 25-54 age group demo, which drives the most lucrative ad rates. While Guthrie sometimes reveals tidbits about herself on the show, she generally keeps it professional, preferring to probe her interview subjects' personal lives rather than revealing her own. So let's turn the tables on her and dive into the untold truth of this popular member of the press.   

As of this writing, Guthrie is married to consultant and PR guru Michael Feldman. They wed in March 2014, and have two children together, a 3-year-old daughter, Vale Guthrie Feldman, and an 11-month-old son, Charles Max Feldman. Guthrie was previously married to BBC News producer Mark Orchard until, according to Radar Online, their marriage ended as dubiously as it began.

A National Enquirer story alleged Guthrie came between Orchard and his first wife, reporter Anne Kornblut of The New York Times. Radar reported that Guthrie and Orchard's 2005 marriage began to unravel relatively quickly, citing divorce documents that stated they were "living apart" in Washington DC by August 2008. The Hollywood Reporter said the split took place when Guthrie was working long, stressful hours as a White House correspondent for NBC News. 

Perhaps the drama surrounding her first marriage was the reason Guthrie and Feldman decided to keep their wedding (and first pregnancy) a secret until after they walked down the aisle.   

We already mentioned that Guthrie and Lauer have a close professional and personal relationship, but that bond took an awkward turn when Guthrie accidentally referred to her husband as "Matt" while discussing her maternity leave on Today. "Where is my Freud texbook?" Guthrie jokingly asked after the slip, while also admitting that she's mixed up her at-home and on-air other halves before.  

Everyone had a good sense of humor about the slightly embarrassing gaffe. Lauer jokingly said, "Shh, that's our secret!" and later, "Matt at work, Mike at home. I'm not paying for college for Vale and Charlie, all right?" Guthrie's actual husband didn't even seem to mind, especially when he brought both kids to the set for a visit and joked that he'd instructed their daughter to say "Hi Daddy!" upon seeing Lauer.

In August 2011, long before Guthrie welcomed her first child, she hosted a segment on Today called "The Professionals." It was a panel discussion in which Donny Deutsch, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, and Star Jones discussed trending topics, one of which happened to be breastfeeding in public. Guthrie segued to the topic by asking, "You have to go to the bathroom, but you don't do that in public— hopefully. Is there a difference?"

Deutsch seemed to pick up on her loaded words, saying, "If I said that, I would get in big trouble," but Snyderman and Jones didn't really mention it. Moms on Twitter, however, had a field day with Guthrie's remark, slamming her offensive comparison under the hashtag #NIP (Not In Public), reported People.

Guthrie seems to have reversed her feelings on the matter after breastfeeding her own daughter, Vale, who was born in 2014. According to the Daily Mail, Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb revealed as much when she said she visited baby Vale at a feeding time. Kotb said Guthrie "just whips it out and she goes, 'What? It's like a toe. I don't even care anymore.'"

During a 2016 Hollywood Reporter interview, Guthrie revealed that her father died of a heart attack while in Mexico on a "scouting trip" as part of his job as a mining engineer. She was a teenager at the time. "When you're 16, you think you're so grown up, but the first thing I thought was, 'We still need him,'" Guthrie said of the tragedy.

Her faith helped guide her through the loss. In her blog for Guideposts, she wrote, "To me, at 16, it felt like a betrayal of everything I'd believed in. How could God let this happen to my dad—a good man who was only in his forties? How could he do this to our family?" Her anguish gradually led to acceptance. "Somehow, God comforted me," she wrote. "And there were blessings amid the grief. Mom found a job in public affairs at the University of Arizona, which made tuition more affordable for my sister and me. Both of us lived at home during our college years. We arranged our weekend plans so there was always one of us home with Mom." 

During a Today segment (via Twitter) that featured the team sharing throwback prom photos, Guthrie had to share a picture from her 9th grade winter dance instead. She said she was "never invited" to her prom. 

The show hosts shared their photos as part of a discussion about an Illinois high school that decided to institute a prom lottery, in which students were randomly assigned dates. Both Guthrie and Carson Daly—who also did not attend his prom—thought the lottery idea was great.

Guthrie still feels some kind of way about her big dance snub. "Once you're there it's not like you're locked to that person, you can mix and mingle but I like that it involves everyone," she said, adding, "Again, not asked to prom so I think it's explained." Aww, poor Savannah!

It's probably not a huge surprise that the co-anchor of a flagship network TV show lives in an expensive home, but it's kind of rare to get a glimpse inside said abode. And that's just what nosy Today fans—and prospective buyers, we suppose—got in June 2017 when Guthrie and Feldman put their Tribeca condo on the market via a public listing.

According to Sotheby's, who listed Guthrie's plush Lower Manhattan pad at $5,995,000, it only has three bedrooms, but it also features an Italian-designed custom kitchen, great room with "floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking coveted Reade Street," 10-ft ceilings and hardwood floors throughout, and a master bath that includes a "deep soaking tub and rainfall shower."

The condo also features the added bonus of being right next door to another Today personality, Jenna Bush Hager, so if you happen to be in the market, and $6 million plus $1,291 in monthly taxes are in your price range, you could be the new neighbor to the daughter of a former president!

Guthrie shared in a 2017 profile for The New York Times  that she is a practicing Christian who regularly attends Sunday service at Trinity Grace, a non-denominational church in Manhattan. 

"It's a casual church, and I can go in jeans or a simple dress," she said, adding, "Michael is Jewish and usually doesn't come with us so I take Charley and Vale there in our double stroller. The service is about an hour and a half. Vale sits with me in the beginning when the songs are going on, and then goes to Sunday school."

Guthrie previously discussed her faith in a blog for Guideposts, writing, "At 42, I'd been waiting my whole life to have a baby. Every time I woke in the night for a feeding or heard Vale sigh in her sleep, I felt a fresh rush of gratitude for this incredible blessing from God." 

She also revealed that throughout the early, uneasy years of her career, she turned to the Bible, copying passages that "particularly spoke to her" into a notebook for future reference. She eventually filled three notebooks, but came to rely on a particular passage in times of stress. 

"Psalm 62:8, became my watchword: 'Trust in him at all times. Pour out your hearts to him,' Guthrie wrote. "I certainly did. I turned my loneliness, my frustration, my mistakes, over to God and told myself to be patient."

Guthrie has two siblings: a brother, Camron Guthrie, who is a pilot in the Air National Guard, and a sister, Annie Guthrie, who is a poet, as well as a teacher and marketing director at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. In 2014, Annie recited a poem she wrote for Savannah at her wedding, reported People.

In 2015, Savannah supported her sister's craft in a big way by proudly hosted a party to celebrate Annie's first book of poetry, The Good Dark, which took her 15 years to write. "I'm excited for the world to get a taste of the sister I know and grew up with in our little Brady Bunch family," Savannah told People. "Annie was always writing, always so interesting and deep and thoughtful." She added, "In college, we would take some of the same classes–like a humanities course–and Annie would read the same book twice because she was so interested and devoted, and I would barely read it at all."   

Savannah's kids will have to wait a while to get acquainted with their aunt's work, as it explores some complex territory. "The book might be a little complicated for Vale right now, but when she's 25, she may be ready," Savannah joked.