THE TODAY Show host Craig Melvin has ditched his on-air desk duties again after being absent on Monday.
He did drop a hint as to why he might be away from the show.
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Craig was not on the TODAY Show again on Tuesday.
Although he wasn’t at the desk on Monday, he did appear via video as he was in Kansas City.
He and his son, Del, interviewed Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce after the Chiefs game.
However, fans figured he would be back on the show on Tuesday.
That was not the case, as Tom Llamas filled in for the host behind the desk again.
Craig posted photos to his Instagram of him and his wife, Lindsay, for her birthday.
“Y’all please join me in wishing the happiest of birthdays to my favorite human @lindsaycz. Amazing wife. Incomparable mother. Loyal friend. She’s the glue that holds it all together. These kidless pics are deliberate. We had so much free time to be carefree,” he captioned the post.
The post was accompanied with three pictures of Craig and Lindsay in multiple locations.
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Although he did not specify where they were exactly, it seems as though Craig took some time off to celebrate his wife.
The couple spent the day with no kids, after he hung out with his son the past two days.
It is unclear when Craig will return to the show.
GIRL POWER
Although Tom filled in for Craig this week, Sheinelle Jones took his spot last week.
She sat with Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb as well, making up an all-female panel for the first time in a while.
Sheinelle is typically an anchor during the third hour of Today, along with Craig, Al Roker, and Dylan Dreyer.
She filled in for him earlier in October as well as she sat at the main desk again.
The others days that Craig was absent that week, Tom filled in for him.
BREAK IT UP!
Before Craig took his extended break, he and Al made NSFW comments on air.
Their guest Stephanie Gosk, who is a correspondent for NBC News, was forced to “bring civility back to the panel.”
A big topic of discussion on Thursday’s episode of the Today Show was the size of airplane seats and how senators want to stop them from getting smaller.
Al led the segment on travel while his co-hosts grinned around him.
“Getting ready for travel for the holidays. A frequent complaint of flyers is shrinkage in airline seats,” he said.
“The shrinkage, Jerry!” Craig yelled and Al repeated the joke after him.
Their outburst was a line from the TV show Seinfeld.
Craig couldn’t compose himself as Al kept talking about shrinkage.
He sat back in his seat and folded his arms with a huge smile on his face.
“Several senators want the FAA to put a stop to the shrinkage,” Al continued.
Craig and Dylan laughed as Sheinelle shook her head.
The meteorologist then moved the segment over to Stephanie who had more information on the topic.
“What is happening with this panel today?” she asked.
Al told her to “bring them back,” and she told them she would do her best.
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