Savannah Guthrie will host Wordle TV game show
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- Prefer the Guardian on Google Savannah Guthrie is to present a TV game show based on the New York Times’ hit word game Wordle, the newspaper announced Monday.
- It will be the first new onscreen venture for the host of NBC’s Today show since her return in April after the disappearance two months earlier of her mother.
- In her own reveal on the Today show, Guthrie, 54, said the project had been in the works for some time – but was delayed by her leave of absence after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Arizona home on 1 February.
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Savannah Guthrie said she is an ‘avid’ player of the hugely successful viral word game Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Savannah Guthrie said she is an ‘avid’ player of the hugely successful viral word game Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Getty Images New York Times Savannah Guthrie will host Wordle TV game show Jimmy Fallon will produce show, which will begin filming over the summer, based on New York Times’ hit word game
Prefer the Guardian on Google Savannah Guthrie is to present a TV game show based on the New York Times’ hit word game Wordle, the newspaper announced Monday.
It will be the first new onscreen venture for the host of NBC’s Today show since her return in April after the disappearance two months earlier of her mother.