"When I was offered the job, I was in tears," Guthrie recalled of being promoted to co-anchor in 2012 Savannah Guthrie knows what it's like to fill someone else’s shoes on the Today show. This week marked the start of a new era of the weekday news program.

For Savannah, Hoda’s exit felt deeply personal. The pair had spent over a decade together on the Today show, forging a bond that went far beyond the studio.

It sounds like Guthrie is very proud of her now former co-anchor for choosing to “go into the great unknown” and try something new in her life. At the same time, when Kotb did tell Guthrie, not long before she shocked fans on TV, she also had to voice her own sadness regarding the loss of getting to work with her everyday.

Savannah Guthrie explained that she threw away several odd items Hoda Kotb left on the 'Today' show set after her exit

We go in and we sit on the set and there are these trays,” Guthrie joked, explaining that in the trays for their personal items, Kotb had left, “like, one contact and, like, expired

“I was like, ‘Are they forcing you out?’ She’s like, ‘No Craig, I’m OK. I’m leaving,’” he recalled. “I was legit stunned, so much so that after she left, I went back to her dressing room, and I was like, ‘Are you sure you’re OK?’ It takes a certain kind of courage to leave anything when you’re at the height of your game.”

Craig Melvin isn't even a week into his tenure as co-anchor of the 'Today' show and already his co-anchor has left him. Melvin, 45, joked about Savannah Guthrie's absence at the top of the Thursday, Jan.

Though Hoda Kotb has exited from the ‘Today’ show, Savannah Guthrie will continue to co-host the program. Learn her net worth and salary below.

Savannah Guthrie shocks co-hosts with the revelation that she hasn't watched two cult classic movies on The Today Show - see details.

Savannah Guthrie made her return to Today after missing an episode of the show during Craig Melvin’s first week as her official coanchor. Savannah, 53, was absent from the talk show on Thursday6. At the time of her absence,

Savannah Guthrie says she was 'the last to know' she was the one replacing Ann Curry on 'Today' in 2012: 'I was as terrified as I could possibly be.'

Savannah Guthrie says she threw away Hoda Kotb’s “s–t” after she departed the “Today” show last week. Guthrie recalled finding the various beauty products and items left behind by her former co-anchor while appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with Craig Melvin Wednesday.