Today fans forced to correct Savannah Guthrie after she makes flub live on air as Romeo Santos performs on show
TODAY fans have been forced to correct host Savannah Guthrie after she made a flub live on air during Friday’s broadcast. The 50-year-old TV personality had some difficulties while chatting about singer Romeo Santos, who was the show’s latest Citi Concert Series performer. The morning show has been bringing on artists as part of its […]
TODAY fans have been forced to correct host Savannah Guthrie after she made a flub live on air during Friday’s broadcast.
The 50-year-old TV personality had some difficulties while chatting about singer Romeo Santos, who was the show’s latest Citi Concert Series performer.
The morning show has been bringing on artists as part of its summer music series, and it was the 41-year-old took to the stage on Friday.
With Romeo being known as the King of Bachata, Savannah and the other hosts had to use that phrase a lot.
Unfortunately, fans noticed she seemed to have a problem with pronouncing the word “bachata.”
One Today viewer tweeted to her: “It’s Bachata – not – Borchata – you’re welcome Savannah.”
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Another begged: “Please pronounce it correctly it’s ba- cha-ta not bor- cha-ta.”
A third found it funny, writing: “It’s Savannah’s pronunciation of ‘bachata’ has me jajajajaja.”
“@SavannahGuthrie it’s bachata not orchata that’s a drink. Hehe,” a fourth told the host on Twitter.
Fans calling out Savannah for mispronouncing the word came after she called out her co-host Craig Melvin during the same broadcast.
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She let him know that he snubbed her during a bit of back-and-forth banter, which led to an awkward moment on live TV.
It all started after the two hosts cut to NBC correspondent Jesse Kirsch, who was reporting from Philadelphia at the top of the Rocky steps in a short-sleeve shirt.
When it was time for the cameras to switch back to the studio, Craig joked as he said goodbye to the T-shirt-wearing Jesse: “Sun’s out, guns out, Jesse Kirsch!”
He then went on to use that same phrase as the best way to transition over to their meteorologist for the weekend forecast.
Craig shouted over to his co-worker, who wore a sleeveless black and white ensemble: “Dylan Dreyer, also with the guns out.
“How we lookin’? How hot’s it gonna be this weekend?”
Before Dylan could begin her report, Savannah cut in to call out Craig for snubbing her.
“You didn’t say my guns were out,” she told her co-anchor, before adding, “because my guns are like flabby spaghetti.”
Craig playfully pushed her shoulder and told her: “Shut up, that’s not true. You’ve got great guns.”
Looking uncomfortable with the whole interaction, Craig turned back to Dylan and begged: “Now it’s awkward, save the show. Please do!”
And so she did, jumping right into the weather forecast, taking the heat off her co-workers.
Craig’s apparently not the only one Savannah has been having awkward moments with, as she’s rumored to be feuding with her co-host Hoda Kotb.
Even though Savannah and Hoda appear friendly toward each other on TV, a source close to production recently revealed to The Sun that the co-hosts secretly “can’t stand each other.”
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The insider revealed: “Savannah is the boss. After Matt Lauer was ousted, Savannah grabbed power, and she really wanted Willy Geist in Hoda’s role, but his ratings were just not up to par for the network.”
“Hoda out maneuvered Savannah and got the spot.”
