Sheinelle Jones is taking a step back.
The Today cohost shared that she taking time away from the morning show due to a personal matter in a message shared to Instagram Jan. 15.
"Hi everybody...I sincerely appreciate all of you who have reached out while I've been absent from the show," Sheinelle shared in her message posted to social media. "I want to share with you that I'm taking time to deal with a family health matter. It's not lost on [me] how lucky I am to have not only the support of my Today Show family, but to also have all of you. Your kindness means so much to me. I'll see you soon."
Her cohosts Craig Melvin and Savannah Guthrie also announced the news during the show's Jan. 15 episode, noting, "We know so many of you have been asking about Sheinelle and missing her, and we miss her too."
Sheinelle's personal update comes after fans expressed concern over her absence from the show's recent episodes, one of which included cohost Hoda Kotb's final day.
After it was announced late last year that her colleague Craig would take over as coanchor, the NBC Nightly News host shared the words of encouragement Sheinelle gave him amid this new chapter in his career.
"You and I had a great conversation yesterday that I needed," Craig told his cohost during a November 2024 episode. "You were like today, just receive it,'" adding that he'll still remain by Sheinelle's side during the third hour of the morning broadcast.
"I said to you a few weeks ago," he continued, "'I've worked with you longer than anyone else in my career at this point.'" Sheinelle's simple response to that fact? "It's so nutty."
Indeed, the mom of three has been open about just how much her time on the show means to her, which came after she joined in 2015.
"I’m thankful for good mornings and I’m thankful for you!" she wrote in a March 2024 Instagram post featuring a photo of her and her cohosts. "Even when I don’t feel like it some days walking in, these folks make my heart happy and I always leave encouraged! I hope we can do the same for you too."
Keep reading for a look at the Today show's best moments together...
Sheinelle Jones
The cohost of the third hour of Today shares son Kayin as well as twins Uche and Clara with her late husband Uche Ojeh, who passed away in May 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.
“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they're ALL a team, and they have to take care of each other," Sheinelle wrote in a 2015 essay for Today. “At the same time, I'm learning that they each like to know they're special on their own."
Craig Melvin
Three years after the anchor married fellow broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak in 2011, he earned his most cherished title yet: father.
And now, he seizes every opportunity to gush about their son Delano and daughter Sybil.
"When I wake up in the morning," Melvin said to his son during a May 2024 episode of Today, "part of the reason I work so hard is for you and your sister."
Jenna Bush Hager
The Today with Jenna & Friends cohost and her husband Henry Hager are proud parents to kids Mila, Poppy and Hal.
As she put it during a March 2025 episode of the morning show, “I’m pretty sure I’ve come to terms that three, even though it’s an imperfect number, it’s the perfect number for our household."
Hoda Kotb
"Another Halloween in the books," wrote the former host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy.
She is also mom to daughter Hope Catherine.
Lester Holt
The former NBC Nightly News anchor shares sons Stefan Holt and Cameron Holt with his wife Carol Hagen.
But more recently, he became a proud "granddude" to three grandchildren: Henry, Samuel and James.
“When my daughter-in-law was pregnant with her first baby ... she said, ‘Well, what do you guys want to be called?’" Holt said on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2021. "I said, ‘I think I want to be ‘Granddude’ because ‘grand,’ it bows to the fact that I’m older. But ‘dude’ says, ‘I still got a little bit. I still got a little,’ you know?"
Carson Daly
In 2020, the anchor and his wife Siri Pinter welcomed their fourth child, Goldie. The little one joined the couple's older kids Jackson, Etta and London.
Kathie Lee
Hoda's former cohost is a loving mommy to her own two children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her late husband Frank Gifford.
Savannah Guthrie
The TV personality is a mom to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles "Charley" Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman.
Al Roker
The anchor and his wife Deborah Roberts are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife Christina Geist since 2003. They're parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.