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Man Accused of Entering Today Show Area and Shouting at Anchor
Andrew Truelove, 41, is accused of slipping past security at 30 Rock on Thursday and entering an unauthorized area near Studio 1A. He allegedly shouted for Al Roker and used a racial slur against Craig Melvin. A judge set bail at $10,000 and issued a protection order.
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Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Millicent Kastenbaum told the court. ” and called anchor Craig Melvin the N-word, according to the prosecutor. A person resembling Truelove appeared in the background of the Today show during the news-at-8 segment, pacing and vaping outside the studio while anchors discussed a great white shark headed for Cape Cod, New York Post reported.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny held Truelove on $10,000 bail and issued an order of protection barring him from the vicinity of the Today anchors. Savannah Guthrie was spotted at LaGuardia Airport on Friday. She will take a weeks-long absence to film a game show based on the New York Times game Wordle.
NBC News fired a security guard who allegedly allowed the intruder to enter the studio. Truelove has at least eight prior arrests in New York City dating back to July 2025, mostly for criminal mischief, according to police and law enforcement sources cited by New York Post.
He was arrested in Virginia in 2012 for stealing signs from playgrounds that honored Sandy Hook victims and was sentenced to four years in prison for abduction after approaching a Virginia high school with a lug wrench in 2007 and grabbing an 8-year-old girl by her backpack straps, the Virginian-Pilot reported at the time.
Guthrie had returned to the show on April 6 from a two-month leave after her mother Nancy went missing in February.
