Savannah Guthrie Admits She Was Part of ‘the Underage Drinker Crew’

Whoops! Savannah Guthrie made a seemingly unintentional confession live on the Today show.

The 53-year-old journalist was discussing the viral sorority rush videos with weatherman Al Roker during the Tuesday, Aug. 12, episode. Eventually, the conversation turned to the groups they were a part of during their high school and college years. 

“We were the geeks,” Roker, 71, quipped of his AV Club pals. 

“That doesn’t matter, you find your people!” Guthrie assured him. 

“You do, and that’s all you have,” Roker joked. “Because nobody wants to be with you.”

Guthrie then dropped some details about her own adolescence, admitting, “Mine were the underage drinker crew. The fake ID crew….”

However, after Guthrie’s co-hosts began to raise their eyebrows at the comment, she quickly backtracked, saying, “I know, I know, my kids could be watching.”

Roker teased that Guthrie’s two kids — daughter Vale, 10, and son Charley, 8 — whom she shares with husband Michael Feldman, might use the confession against her in the future. “I was just gonna say, ‘Mom was an underage drinker!’” Roker said, laughing. 

This isn’t the first time Guthrie has been candid about her youth. In April 2024, she told Entertainment Tonight at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, “I was kind of a loser, undermotivated — I’m serious — I ditched a lot of class.”

During the same interview, Roker asked Guthrie if she was “goth” during her teenage years, and she replied, “Some days I was goth when I borrowed my sister’s clothes, and then other days I was just … Like, we were really into wearing boxer shorts back then. I would ditch class all the time to go and smoke cigarettes at Carls Jr. It was the ‘80s, you know.” 

Of course, Guthrie went on to transition into her role as co-anchor of the Today show, a dream she sparked in her 20s. 

“I’m very grateful and I’m very aware. I really am. I know how blessed I am,” Guthrie told PEOPLE in February of her high-profile role. “I know how improbable it is that of all people on planet Earth, that it would be me. That this little spark of a secret dream that I might’ve had in my twenties could actually come true, so specifically.”

Today airs weekdays on NBC (check local listings).