'Today' host Savannah Guthrie wants to return to work, but question remains 'when and how': insider

NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie wants to return to work and the network wants her back too, but it still remains a question of "when and how," an insider tells Fox News Digital.

"She wants to come back and everyone wants her to come back," an NBC insider told Fox News Digital.

"It's just a question of when and how — whether, given what she is living through, she feels like she can do a show that requires cheeriness."
"She is an amazing, faithful person with everyone’s support and I have every confidence she will figure out a way back," they added.

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NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"I have every intention of coming back.

I don’t know how to come back, but I don’t know how not to.

You’re my family and I would like to try," Guthrie told colleagues during her visit, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

There has been industry speculation that Guthrie could return to "Today" sometime next month.

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This week, Guthrie sat down with Hoda Kotb, who's been filling in for her on "Today," for her first interview since her mother's disappearance.

"Someone needs to do the right thing.

We are in agony, we are in agony," a tearful Guthrie told Kotb in a preview of the interview that aired Wednesday.

"Today" will air the remainder of the interview in two parts on Thursday and Friday.

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The "Today" anchor has posted several videos to social media pleading for her mother’s return.

She asked anyone with information to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Guthrie, 54, first joined NBC News in 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent, and she later served as chief White House correspondent.

Fox News' Brian Flood and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.