‘Today’ Co-Host Sheinelle Jones’s Husband, Uche Ojeh, Dies Following Brain Cancer Battle

The couple met at Northwestern University in the late 1990s and shared three children.

Sheinelle Jones and Uche Ojeh attend the NAACP LDF 33rd National Equal Justice Awards Dinner in New York City on Nov. 7, 2019. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for NAACP LDF

Sheinelle Jones, co-anchor of the “Today” show, is mourning the loss of her husband of 17 years, Uche Ojeh Sr., who died at the age of 45 after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma.

Jones’s fellow co-hosts—Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, Carson Daly, Dylan Dreyer, and Jenna Bush Hager—announced the news on Friday during the program’s live broadcast.