EMOTIONAL COMEBACK

‘Today’ Show Co-Host Set to Return After the Death of Her Husband

Sheinelle Jones’ spouse of 17 years died of brain cancer in May.

Today host Sheinelle Jones is set to return to NBC’s morning show following the death of her husband in May. Jones, who co-hosts the 3rd Hour of Today, will take part in an emotional interview with Savannah Guthrie on Friday to discuss how she and her children are coping following the death of her husband Uche Ojeh, 45, of an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. Jones, who was married to her husband for 17 years, revealed in January she had been off presenting duties to an unspecified “family health matter.” Jones is set to tell Guthrie that the months leading up to Ojeh’s death were a “beautiful nightmare,” for her and her three children and hopes that her upcoming interview will offer hope to those going through a similar situation, reported NBC News. In May, Guthrie told viewers that Ojeh was an “incredible person,” and the “perfect partner in life” for Jones. The couple met in the late 1990s, when Jones was an 18-year-old freshman at Northwestern University, who was showing Ojeh, then a high-school senior, around the campus. They eventually married in Sept. 2007 during a ceremony in Jones’ hometown of Philadelphia.