Sheinelle Jones will be returning to “Today” this Friday after an extended break following the death of Uche Ojeh, her husband of nearly 18 years. Her co-hosts made the announcement Tuesday morning on the show.

“We’ve got some other great news that we are so excited to share with you and it involves a member of our own ‘Today’ family,” Craig Melvin said Tuesday on the show after the long Labor Day weekend.

“Yes, our beloved Sheinelle will be returning to the show,” co-host Savannah Guthrie said. “She and her family have been through so much after the devastating loss of her husband, Uche.”

Ojeh died in May of glioblastoma , an aggressive brain cancer, at age 45. Jones has been absent from the NBC morning show since last December, when she excused herself to handle “a family health ma

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