NBC reportedly has a contingency plan in place for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie — including a three-word phrase — in the event that news breaks live about her mother Nancy’s disappearance while she’s on the air.
An insider at “Today” told the Daily Mail that if a major development in Nancy Guthrie’s abduction case breaks while Savannah is on air, a producer would tell the 54-year-old “Today” host that she’s “needed off set” — a code word that Guthrie is well aware of.
“We would pull her immediately, mid-segment if we had to,” the insider told the outlet.
“She knows if one of the producers tells her she’s ‘needed off set’ that there’s a development,” the insider said.
“She would understand that there was news about her mom and we’d take her into an office and tell her, at the same time that another anchor would report it as a breaking story.”
The insider added that the daily morning news show would “never in a million years” have Savannah report on any news of her mother’s disappearance unless she wanted to.
