Craig Melvin is serving as a pillar of support for Sheinelle Jones as she returns to business as usual on Today .

“I can’t tell you how excited I am about her return to the show,” Melvin shared in a recent interview with Parade . “And not just because she is just part of the heart and soul of the place. And her smile just has always a brightened [studio] 1A.”

Melvin noted that returning to the NBC morning show would “help her return to a sense of normalcy,” adding, “It’s going to help her kids, I think, as well. And I was telling someone a couple of days ago in our line of work — Oftentimes, the place needs us, [but] we need the place, and she needs the place right now.”

Jones had previously been absent from Today since December 2024, explaining via Instagram the following mont

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