Key Insights
- Work Relationships: Sheinelle Jones considers her colleagues on Today as family.
- Support During Hard Times: During her husband’s illness, her colleagues provided essential support.
- Genuine Bonds: The connection seen on TV reflects real relationships behind the scenes.
- Community Care: Sheinelle emphasized that help came from her colleagues even when no one was watching.
Everyone knows about work wives, those trusted colleagues that makes the eight-hour office day just a little easier.
But for Sheinelle Jones, her colleagues on Today—including Savannah Guthrie, Jenna Bush Hager, Al Roker , and Craig Melvin—are truly family. And that bond was never more on display than when Sheinelle’s husband Uche Ojeh was fighting glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, for 18 months before his death in May 2025.
“When my husband was sick, they were my family,” Sheinelle told E! News in an exclusive interview. “Al was bringing breakfast sandwiches into hospice for us, Savannah was right with us after the first surgery.”
She emphasized that the bond people see on TV, “It’s not just pretend.”
And while that bond between the morning show’s anchors can be felt through the screen, Sheinelle—who is mom to three kids with Uche—stressed how much of that love is felt behind closed doors.
“We do it when no one’s watching,” she said, pointing out that publicly, “nobody knew what I was going through—they all knew. Every day I was never alone. They were always there helping the kids, helping me with dinner.”
