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Daily Mail
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Savannah Guthrie, the morning show style queen: Insiders reveal what sets Today anchor apart from her rivals
Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie has been waking up the nation with the latest headlines from across the country and around the world for the best part of 13 years. The accomplished broadcast journalist, 53, is onscreen every weekday from 7am ET alongside fellow presenter Craig Melvin, 46, and the rest of the Today show team, which includes the likes of Al Roker, Carson Daly, Jenna Bush Hager, Dylan Dreyer, Willie Geist, Laura Jarrett, and Sheinelle Jones. The program has rotated and changed over the years, but Savannah has remained a constant presence. From breaking the news of disgraced co-host Matt Lauer 's sudden departure from the show, to making history alongside Hoda Kotb as the first female pair to front the program, she is the beating heart. So much so that a source close to the network exclusively told the Daily Mail: 'She's warm and pleasant... She's always got a smile. Everyone likes her, she rolls with the punches.' And Savannah has also won over a legion of fans outside the studio too. Among the plaudits is an overwhelming appreciation of her sense of style - a quality also spotted by fashion guru Liz Teich, who runs The New York Stylist. Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail about Savannah's sartorial choices, she gushed about how her outfits are 'what set her apart from the majority of the news world.' 'Savannah's style is professional, yet approachable, has personality, and doesn't feel as tired as the expected jeweled tone shift dress that most people in news tend to gravitate towards,' Liz shared. 'She keeps it classic, yet still trend forward (never trendy), tailored, as well as isn't afraid of unexpected color or patterns.' 'Savannah's style exudes her confidence in her position on TV, as she doesn't feel the need to dress like every other anchor,' she concluded. And as Savannah continues to thrive as NBC's new lead star, Femail has delved into her history on the Today show – including her friendships with her costars – as well as her life outside of the Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center. Savannah has been a main fixture on the Today show since 2012, when she began her co-anchoring the program with Matt Lauer. Together they fronted the show for five years, until November 2017 when his contract was terminated after he was reported for sexual harassment by an NBC employee. Savannah fought back tears as she shared a statement from their NBC News boss Andrew Lack about his exit on the show at the time. 'As I'm sure you can imagine, we are devastated, and we are still processing all of this,' said the choked-up host. 'I will tell you, right now we do not know more than what I just shared with you.' Savannah and her co-host that morning, Hoda Kotb, who became Lauer's replacement, were later seen comforting each other and sharing an on-set hug as they tried to come to terms with the news. Despite the scandal that ripped through the program, the dust soon settled, and Savannah brought the Today show into a new era with Hoda, 60, in January 2018. Together, they fronted the show for seven years, until January 2025 when Hoda stepped away from hosting duties to focus on raising her two young daughters, Hope and Haley. The two, both working mothers with two young children, fast became friends – and their friendship continues to this day. In 2022, Savannah credited Hoda with saving the Today show following Lauer's termination. 'All I know was in that moment, it felt like I could drown if Hoda hadn't reached down and grabbed my hand,' she said at an event celebrating the show at The Paley Center. 'I will always say she saved the show full stop. And holding hands with her and being like, "We're going to do this together," meant everything to me. I don't think I had the confidence by myself.' Beside her on-screen and off-screen friendship with Hoda, Savannah is particularly close with Jenna Bush Hager. 'We clicked right away when we met in person,' Savannah previously said on the show about their bond. 'There was something sort of in our DNA that spoke to each other, and I felt like even though I was meeting her for the first time, I'd known her for many, many years,' Jenna, 43, added. The pair grew close shortly after Savannah became co-host of the Today show in 2012. Savannah is godmother to Jenna's youngest child, Henry Harold 'Hal' Hager, whom she welcomed with her husband in 2019. Similarly, Jenna is godmother to Savannah's daughter Vale, who was born in August 2014. 'It's the greatest compliment that a person could receive,' Savannah gushed about being asked to be Hal's godmother. 'I know she knows what it means to me. I also wanted to just say to Jenna, you are one of my closest friends, and I am handing you my heart because my little girl is my heart.' For the past seven months, Savannah has been hosting the Today show with Craig Melvin. After it was announced that Craig would be stepping into the role, Savannah gave her seal of approval and called his promotion 'one of the most popular decisions NBC News has ever made.' Besides her role as host, Savannah has made two television cameo appearances this year. In January, she revealed her cameo in season two of the action thriller Netflix show, The Night Agent. 'I just act like Savannah Guthrie all day and all night,' she joked to her Today show colleagues. 'I even sleep as her. It's extremely method. I go to work as her. That's how I got into the role. I just was very method.' The following month, Savannah popped up in Netflix drama Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro. Commenting on her role, De Niro said: 'I want to give no notes. It was very good. It was terrific.' She previously appeared in the likes of 30 Rock and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Savannah is happily married to her husband Michael Feldman, whom she wed in March 2014. This year, the couple – who share daughter Vale, 10, and son Charles, eight – celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary. Before Michael, Savannah was briefly married to BBC News presenter Mark Orchard – although she recently stated that it 'the one thing I didn't ever want to talk about.' Speaking on Monica Lewinsky's Reclaiming podcast on July 1, she said the end of the marriage 'broke my heart.' 'It was horrible and sad and it broke my heart,' she said of the divorce. 'It took me years to recover. I'm not blaming anyone, but I don't really want to get into it.' Savannah was married to Mark from 2005 to 2009. In her conversation with Monica, she revealed that interviewees have respected her decision to avoid any talk about the marriage breakdown. 'Pretty much everyone I ever did an interview with and sat down with respected that boundary,' she said. 'I appreciate that. I don't take that for granted.' The same year that her divorce was finalized, Savannah met former Democratic political adviser Michael at his 40th birthday party which she 'crashed,' attending as her gal pal's plus one. She and Michael hit it off and they began dating after he sent her an email 'a few days later.' In February, Savannah revealed that she broke up with Michael hours before he proposed because she thought he would never pop the question. In an interview with Kelly Clarkson, she recalled: 'I did break up with him the day we got engaged.' 'I certainly did not think we were getting engaged,' she added. 'When you've been dating for five and a half years, you no longer think a trip to the beach is the day. Like, you're not getting your nails done.' Remembering her conversation with Michael, Savannah said she told him: 'Well, honey, you know we love each other... but this had been going on too long, so I think let's just say goodbye. Let's just let each other go.' He instead urged them to 'go enjoy the day' and Savannah recalled feeling 'weepy' – until he got down on one knee. She continued: 'Little do I know, he has an engagement ring in his pocket. So, he has a choice at that point: forget it, nobody knew he hadn't told a friend, didn't tell his parents, nobody knew he was gonna propose. 'So, he could've easily just let the whole thing go, we break up, that's the end of the story. But at sunset he said, "You know, [the resort] sent us this champagne lets go sit outside and have a drink."' The couple ultimately exchanged vows just outside of Savannah's hometown of Tucson, Arizona in March 2014, a year after their engagement. Five months after saying 'I do', the pair welcomed their first child together, daughter Vale Guthrie Feldman, on August 13. And two years later on December 8, 2016, the host gave birth to their son, Charles Max.
CNN
26-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, a former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson who turned into a longtime broadcast journalist and champion of public media, has died at age 91, his family confirmed to CNN. This is a developing story and will be updated.
CNN
26-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, a former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson who turned into a longtime broadcast journalist and champion of public media, has died at age 91, his family confirmed to CNN. This is a developing story and will be updated.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything' on Hulu, A Documentary Profile Of The Ultimate Celebrity Profiler
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything hits Hulu after its Tribeca Festival premiere this past June. From Ron Howard's Imagine Documentaries (Jim Henson: Idea Man) and ABC News Studios, and directed and produced by Jackie Jesko, Tell Me Everything profiles Walters, who died in 2022 at age 93, as a broadcast journalist who busted open broadcast media's male establishment, single handedly developed the in-depth celebrity interview concept, created and co-hosted The View, and who tried – not always successfully – to balance marriages, family, and her personal life along the way. With access to interviews with Barbara Walters and a ton of archival footage, Tell Me Everything also includes appearances by Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Andy Cohen, Connie Chung, Cynthia McFadden, Bette Midler, and Monica Lewinsky. The Gist: 'That was part of her process. I think Barbara would be friends with the devil if it would get us the interview.' In Tell Me Everything, the tenacity and approachability of Barbara Walters defines it all, from her rise in the business of TV news to how she carved her own perch as a profiler and interviewer. In 1961, as a junior member of The Today Show on-air staff, Walters was relegated to fluff and women's interest stories, like trying on the costume of a Playboy Bunny. But she also fought for more substantive opportunities, for the right to develop her own interview questions, and to simply be taken seriously as a professional instead of being dismissed as a token or tea pourer. 'I'm a good editor,' Walters says in her Tell Me Everything voiceover. 'That's what I do best.' Tell Me Everything assumes a certain base of knowledge about its subject. The doc doesn't establish a linear timeline, either in Walters' professional life or her personal relationships, but it does connect her biographical info to its sense of her growth. Like: 'a lot of the relationships she developed were career moves' (from her biographer) and 'both are sacrifices' (from Oprah Winfrey, on Walters' attempts to balance a career with motherhood). And in the early 1970s, as Walters leapt from NBC and Today to ABC and a prime spot as the first woman co-anchor of the network's evening news flagship, her bold, piercing interview style – Bette Midler: 'She'd put you at ease, and then go for the zinger' – became not only her calling card, but the standing format of an emerging celebrity profile industry. So what, much of the hard news establishment still said. A woman could never ask the tough questions. But Connie Chung, one of several women journalists interviewed who recognize Walters as a mentor, says differently. Barbara Walters asked tough, personal questions of presidents, foreign dictators, and Hollywood movie stars alike 'to make them human. Because they are.' At times in Tell Me Everything, it can be difficult to figure out if Barbara Walters' quotes came first, or if her thoughts – heard exclusively in the voiceover – were fleshed out with the doc's access to its deep well of archival footage. But this lack of attribution doesn't diminish Walters' opinions. 'It was a mistake,' she says of her five-million-dollar contract to become the first female co-anchor of ABC Evening News, because Harry Reasoner, the incumbent male anchor, was an unabashed hater. And Tell Me Everything contrasts the candor of Walters' recollection with a quote from Katie Couric, who champions the move. 'It was at a time when the women's movement was really gaining steam, and suddenly we had a woman who was going to be delivering the news every single night.' What develops in the doc is a thorough composite picture, both of Walters as an industry trailblazer, and of the broadcast journalism industry itself as it reacted and changed across six decades of media history. What Movies Will It Remind You Of? Hulu also features Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge – fashion designer knew a thing or two about 'living a man's life in a woman's body.' Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold is also of note here. And of course, The View, Barbara Walters' unprecedented concept – a show for 'women who want to listen to other women' – remains an enduring force in daytime television. Performance Worth Watching: The directing and editing in Tell Me Everything, from Jackie Jesko and Andrew Morreale, keeps things moving with the speed of a news report. And it employs a smart visual aesthetic, with footage that appears in consecutive boxes – three different celebrity interviews, say, or converging news events – all connected through the constant of Walters' presence. It's as if the documentary itself was live from a control room where tape was being cut together around its subject. Memorable Dialogue: Who wants some more tea on what Barbara Walters was confronting in her workplace, across decades of dealing directly with male co-anchors? Because Walters brought receipts. 'Peter Jennings always put me down. I had a very difficult time working with Peter. Once in a while he said to me 'That was a good report,' like, oh what a surprise. I was used to working with bullies. He was the third bully that I'd worked with. Frank McGee, Harry Reasoner, Peter Jennings.' Sex and Skin: Tell Me Everything examines some but not all of Barbara Walters' marriages, and focuses especially on where her personal life intersected with her professional world. Did you know she dated Roy Cohn? And Alan Greenspan? Walters might have also slept with Richard Pryor. Our Take: Imagine if there was only one podcast, it only aired like once a month, and everyone in the country swore by that single source as the only real access to any person who happened to be in the public eye. It was like that once, when Barbara Walters was putting up numbers with her primetime specials and one-on-one interviews with celebrities, newsmakers, and celebrity newsmakers. You can take this in confidence from Walters herself, who notes with considerable pride in Tell Me Everything that her March 1999 sit-down with Monica Lewinsky 'was the highest-rated news interview of all time, and nothing has surpassed it.' Everything has lots of access to big-name takes, so Lewinsky herself reflects thoughtfully on that interview, her experience with Walters, and how it even came to be. And the latter part is another interesting aspect of this doc – it can get a little inside baseball-y. Like when Oprah Winfrey recounts her side of that interview, part of the biggest American scandal of the late 1990s. The rub? Walters stole it from Winfrey. But Winfrey is also along to emphasize how much of a game-changer Walters' work really was – for women, for journalists, and for American culture. 'There really is no place for a 'Barbara Walters Interview' now,' Winfrey says. With social media, 'Nobody needs an interviewer to get them to tell the story anymore.' But back then, the good get interview was the only name in the newsmagazine game. And after all of her hard work to get to the top, Walters for many years remained the only name in town to do it. Our Call: Stream It! Informative and at times very revealing, Tell Me Everything builds like a product of what its subject pioneered: the newsmaking celebrity profile, this time created around Barbara Walters herself. Johnny Loftus (@ is a Chicago-based writer. A veteran of the alternative weekly trenches, his work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, The All Music Guide, and The Village Voice.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brooke Shields reveals her daughter's surprising career choice
Brooke Shields has been telling her daughter to "never give up" as she pursues her own career. The 60-year-old actress - who has Rowan, 22, as well as 19-year-old Grief with her husband Chris Henchy - made her name with films such as Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon but revealed that her eldest is actually set to go into the world of journalism and has already started making waves in the industry. She told E! News: "She wants to go into broadcast journalism and news. "She's been at different outlets. She's done their carpet stuff. She's so she's so appealing as a person. "I mean, I'm her mother, you know, but people love her, and they tell me all the time. They come out of the woodwork, like when I'm doing a morning show. "I just say, 'Never give up. Just keep going. She's going to be just fine." The former Hannah Montana star previously admitted that she actually got to "meet" her daughters all over again once they reached adulthood and moved out to make their own in the world, even though she was "terrified" at the thought of them leaving home. She told People: "I'm terrified to be an empty nester! All of a sudden, they're not yours anymore. When you realize they are their own human beings, you get to meet them again. To have them reveal themselves to you, it's a new type of relationship. I didn't mold them but I protected them enough so that they could become who they are, and I got out of the way. "They're going to have each other's back. They're both tough and strong-willed. The world is not going to undo them. I'm proud of who they are. I'm really going to miss them. I want to stay on the periphery but I'm also excited about what's ahead."
