Savannah Guthrie Biography, Salary, Age, Height, Net Worth, Husband, Baby

Publish date: 2024-06-07

Savannah Guthrie is an attorney and journalist currently working for NBC News. She is a co-host of the popular NBC morning TV show Today which she hosts alongside Hoda Kotb. Read on to learn more about her meteoric rise to the pinnacle of her media career from an unlikely journey – as a lawyer.

Biography of Savannah Guthrie (Age)

Savannah Clark Guthrie as she was named at birth was born on December 27, 1971 in Melbourne, Australia. Her father, Charles Guthrie, who died of a heart attack in 1987, was working in Melbourne at the time of her birth but moved his family to the United States when Savannah was two. His mother, Nancy Guthrie, was a housewife, but returned to work after her husband’s death. Savannah Clark is also the name of her great-grandmother.

She was raised in Tucson, Arizona, where her family settled after moving from Australia. As a child, she grew up with her two siblings. a brother named Camron and a sister named Annie, Savannah learned to play the piano and play tennis. She was educated in high school in Tucson at Amphitheater High School. She graduated in 1989 and was friends with Michael Bates, now an NFL player and Olympic medalist.

She enrolled at the University of Arizona – and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi chapter of Arizona Alpha, where she graduated with honors in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She found a job and started working immediately after college. Savannah worked in television at KMIZ, an ABC affiliate, in Missouri. In 1995, she joined KVOA, an NBC affiliate, in Tucson.

She also worked in Washington DC with WRC-TV where she covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as the anthrax (Amerithrax) attacks in 2001, which targeted US senators and resulted in the deaths of five people. After working for a while, she decided to go back to school, this time to earn a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. She stood out on the Arizona bar exams and earned a JD in 2002.

Career

Armed with a law degree and member of the order, Savannah Guthrie decided to practice by joining a law firm. She worked as a litigation assistant for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, then as a trial correspondent for CourtTV. Prior to working for NBC News in 2007, she covered several lawsuits, including the 2005 trial of Michael Jackson.

Savannah worked as a chief legal analyst for NBC News before she began work on The Today Show in 2011. She was later named to replace Ann Curry as the show’s co-host after the show was promoted. She anchored the show with Matt Lauer before he left and was replaced by Hoda Kotb.

Salary and net worth

Savannah Guthrie was reported in 2017 to have a net worth of $2 million. It is expected that this amount has increased today even though there are no official documents at the moment. One of the reasons why his net worth is believed to have had to be increased due to his recent increase is due to his recent salary increase. Guthrie currently has an annual salary of $7 million.

Is she married? Husband, baby

Savannah Guthrie, lawyer and journalist, currently married to Michael Feldman but this is her second marriage. She first married English-born journalist Mark Orchard. Orchard, who works for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a TV presenter, was married to Savannah for four years (2005-2009).

The duo met while covering Michael Jackson’s trial for their respective media companies and at that time Orchard was married to fellow journalist, Anne Kornblut. Their marriage didn’t stand a chance after he met Savannah Guthrie and after he divorced Kornblut, Savannah was next and the rest was history.

Guthrie began dating Michael Feldman, a former political aide to Al Gore, the same year after her divorce from Orchard and after four years of dating, the couple got engaged in May 2013 and married the following year. in his hometown of Tucson. The first fruit of the marriage, a daughter, was born five months later, on August 13, 2014, and was named Vale Guthrie Feldman. She is not the only child in their union. On December 8, 2016, Guthrie and Feldman welcomed a boy they named Charles Max Feldman.

How tall is Savannah Guthrie?

A beautiful and gorgeous woman with blue eyes, Savannah Guthrie has not only attracted many fans due to her intellectual abilities but also her humility, manners, charm and physique.

Talking about her body, one cannot but notice her long legs which stand out among her other body features. With her blonde hair, Savannah has a decent height which is measured at 1.78m (5ft 8in). For her weight, she is 135 lbs and her body measures 34-27-32 inches for chest, waist and hips.