Sheinelle Jones ‘Focus on her family’ After the death of the man: Source

Sheinelle Jones remains absent Today In her husband’s aftermath Uche ojehdeath.
“There is no timing about when she will be back,” says a source exclusively US Weekly. “Everyone is shocked and just so sad. Everyone cannot imagine what she has experienced. She left in December and [has] so quiet [and] Focus on her family. ‘
The insider noted that “nobody knew what was going on, except very selected people, the top managers and the most important anchors.”
Jones, 47, has been absent Today Since December 2024. The following month, she explained via Instagram That she took a break from the NBC morning show to “deal with family health matters.”
Details about the health problem were unknown until Savannah Guthrie announced Friday, May 23That Ojeh died at the age of 45 after a private struggle with an ‘aggressive form of brain cancer’ that is known as glioblastoma.
“There are no words for the pain we feel for Sheinelle and their three young children. Uche was an incredible person. We all loved him,” said Guthrie, 53, in the air. (Jones and Ojeh shared son Kayin, 15, and twins Clara and Uche, 12.)
At the announcement was a video package about the relationship between Jones and Ojeh. The couple met in the 90s when Jones gave her future husband a tour of Northwestern University. Ojeh put the question on the Northwestern campus in their relationship for eight years, and the two made the Knoop in Jones’ birthplace Philadelphia in 2007.
Sheinelle Jones, Uche Ojeh.
Thanks to Sheinelle Jones/InstagramThey became parents with the birth of Katin in 2009, followed by Clara and Uche three years later. The couple was each other’s biggest supporters over the years, where Uche encouraged his wife when she led her first New York City Marathon in 2023 and Jones supported him when he completed a triathlon earlier that year.
Follow the video package, Jones’ Today Colleagues paid tribute to their deceased friend on-Air. “We just want Sheinelle, Kayin, Little Uche and Clara, the Ojeh family, we are with you,” said Guthrie. “We love you. You are our family and we are now sending all our love to you.”
Craig Melvin Share that Ojeh loved his three children “more than anything in this world”, and added: “[He] Was just so proud. He was that father who was on the sidelines at every football game, he was at all concerts and recitals. He was that guy. “
Already smoker OJjeh described as a “private man” who was “wicked funny” and “modest” while Jenna Bush Hager Jones praised for finding “The Grace in the Rief” in the midst of the difficult time of her family.
Jones broke her silence about her husband’s death by sharing the Today Cast’s Friday tribute via Instagram. “Thank you, for all your love and support ❤️,” she wrote next to the showclip.