Missing This TODAY Host? Here’s Why She’s Been Off Air

Published: January 16, 2025

Missing This TODAY Host? Here’s Why She’s Been Off Air

By Movieguide® Contributor

TODAY host Sheinelle Jones shared that she has taken a step back from the show in recent weeks as she attends to a health problem affecting her family.

“Hi everybody… I sincerely appreciate all of you who have reached out while I’ve been absent from the show,” Jones wrote in an Instagram post that Savannah Guthrie read on the show. “I want to share with you that I’m taking time to deal with a family health matter. It’s not lost on me how lucky I am to have not only the support of my TODAY SHOW family, but to also have all of you. Your kindness means so much to me. I’ll see you soon. Love, Sheinelle.”

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Jones’ co-hosts were quick to share their support for her and revealed that they have missed her while she has been gone, though they back her decision to step away from the show.

“We know so many of you have been asking about Sheinelle, and missing her, and we miss her too,” Guthrie said after reading Jones’ statement.

“Sheinelle, we all love you, and we are so looking forward to having you back,” added Craig Melvin.

Jones joined the show in 2014 and serves as a co-host during the third hour. Please keep Jones and her family in your prayers as she walks through this difficult time.

Jones has previously discussed her family while on the show, explaining the philosophy she takes to being a mother.

“I try to say, ‘Okay, I want to be the mom that I can look back at. I want to be proud of how I mommed.’ So if that means there are going to be clothes on the floor, but I was down there playing with them, then so be it.” she said. “There’s some quote about how, you know, ‘I don’t want to be the mom so busy cleaning the grass stains off their jeans that I’m not in the grass with them,’ right?”

“We’re all doing the best we can,” she added. “We take what we had and what we liked about [our childhood]. We bring that with us, and some things that maybe we wanna tweak a little bit.”