As the search for Nancy Guthrie continues, see what Savannah and Annie’s relationship is like—from childhood until now.
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As the search for Nancy Guthrie continues, TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is leaning heavily on her family. (84-year-old Nancy was last seen on January 31, 2026, at her residence near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities are treating her disappearance as an abduction case.)
During this incredibly difficult time, the 54-year-old TV star has been joined in public pleas for her mother’s return not only by her husband Michael Feldman, but also by her siblings: older brother Camron Guthrie and older sister Annie Guthrie.
Everything Guthrie has revealed in previously released books and interviews makes it clear that the group is a very tight-knit unit—and the bond between Savannah and Annie couldn’t be stronger. As the investigation into Nancy’s kidnapping continues, here is everything Savannah has shared about their sisterhood through the years.
Savannah honored Annie during a TODAY show segment in 2017
In October 2017, Savannah and Annie appeared in a special TODAY segment centered on sisterhood. (Fellow TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb also participated, with her own sister Hala.) In the interview, both Guthrie gals sat down together in front of cameras to detail their close relationship and share stories from their childhood. “Annie’s like the blood going through my veins,” said Savannah. “She’s my sister, she’s always been there, all my life.”
The siblings noted their differences, with Annie saying, “My sister and I are like the sun and the moon.” Savannah added that while she’s loud and a fast talker, Annie is more “thoughtful and reflective.”
“For me, Annie and I were more like twins than older sister and younger sister,” Savannah said of their younger days. “We were often in very similar clothes, same outfit—but you’d have red, I’d have blue, or yours would be green and mine would be yellow. Annie and I would be in a fight as little kids and my mom would separate us and say ‘Go to your room.’ And then about five minutes later, one of us would send a note under the door, you know, ‘You want to be friends again?’ or ‘What are you doing?’ … One of the best things about being sisters is you grew up in the same house, and you don’t have to explain.”
The women also revealed what they’ve learned from each other over the years. “No matter what’s happening, if I need clarity or wisdom, I call Savannah,” Annie revealed. Savannah praised her sibling for teaching her about generosity: “She is as happy for me if something good happens to me as if it had happened to herself, maybe happier.”
Annie and Savannah leaned on each other after their father’s death in 1988
In 1988, their father—Charles Guthrie—suffered a heart attack and did not survive. At the time, Savannah was just 16 years old. “Our whole family just hung onto each other for dear life because it was such a shock,” Savannah also shared in the TODAY segment. “We were just trying to figure out how to become a family of four when we’d always been a family of five.”
“Annie and I were both heading off to college and we both decided to live at home,” she continued. “One of us would always stay home on one of the weekend nights so that our mom wouldn’t be alone. That was just something that we did as sisters.”
For her part, Annie credited their mother Nancy with establishing such close connections within the family unit: “I feel like my mom did such a unique and amazing job to create this foundation for us,” she said. “To know how to be a good sister is to know how to be a good friend to anyone.”
Savannah called Annie her ‘forever partner’ in her 2024 book
“My sister is by far the most wise, intelligent, thoughtful, creative, generous and profoundly original person I know,” Savannah wrote in her book Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere.
Mostly What God Does was released on Feb. 20, 2024.Photo by Jamie McCarthy on Getty Images
In the 2024 memoir, the TODAY co-host shares her reflections on faith, family and life. “She is my forever partner in life,” she shared. “We know each other’s thoughts and ways. We know each other’s sadness and weakness. We know each other’s tickle spots and pain points.”
Savannah also highlighted how faith binds them together. “Sometimes, the way we have found each other in the hard times is God, the sixth member of our family, as my sister so memorably put it,” Guthrie added. “I know when she is praying for me, and I believe she knows when I am praying for her, too.”
Savannah always includes Annie in her daily prayers
Every morning before she clocks in for the TODAY show, Guthrie sets aside time for prayer and reflection. In Mostly What God Does, she shared that this routine involves feeling gratitude for her family—specifically mentioning her sister Annie.
“Some mornings, I pray names, just names, just like [Mister Rogers] did,” Savannah wrote. “I whisper my husband’s name to God and picture his image. Mike. Then my kids. Vale. Charley. I imagine them one by one, summoning their sweet faces. Mom, Annie, Cam. I see them in my mind.”
She continued: “This prayer experience is surprisingly powerful; it bonds us deeply to the ones whose names we utter, softening any edges. Praying their names feels like an act of love, an act of meaning, and an act of hope. Lifting up the people I love before the God I trust draws me closer to him and to them.”
Savannah hosted a star-studded book party for Annie
Like Savannah, Annie Guthrie is also a published author, having penned the 2015 poetry book The Good Dark. To celebrate its October 2015 release, Savannah threw Annie a launch party at New York City’s Little Owl event space—with notable guests like Matt Lauer, Natalie Morales, Willie Geist, Tamron Hall, Jon Bon Jovi and more in attendance.
During the bash, Savannah toasted her sister’s work: “The book is like Annie — good and dark and complicated, and captivating, never obvious, always challenging, speaking to you directly…pointedly and poignantly,” she said, according to Page Six.
Describing her sister as “deep as deep can be,” Savannah added: “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 Guthrie and daughter Vale in 2019
Savannah and Annie grew even closer after becoming mothers
Savannah had recently welcomed her first child—daughter Vale—when she told People how parenting toddlers had added a new layer to their sisterly bond. “Annie’s little boy is two-and-a-half, so she teaches me the rules of the road,” she said.
Annie added: “When I see Vale and I see the back of her head with her little curls, it brings me back to being the older sister and loving all over my baby sister—reaching back through time and seeing my sister, the curls and the face. It’s so sweet.”
