Who was Savannah Guthrie’s first husband Mark Orchard? All we know as Today co-host opens up about horrible divorce

Savannah Guthrie recently opened up about her difficult marriage to her ex-husband, Mark Orchard, who is a producer and journalist. In her appearance on the "Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky" podcast, Guthrie labeled her first marriage as "horrible" and discussed how long it took her to recover. She said:

"It was horrible and sad, and it broke my heart, and it took me years to recover. And I'm not blaming anyone, but I don't really want to get into it."

Savannah Guthrie married Michael Feldman in 2014, after her divorce from Orchard in 2008, and the couple has two children. Savannah Guthrie and Mark Feldman, who is a partner at FGS Global, celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary earlier this year in March.

More about Savannah Guthrie's husband, Mark Orchard, as the Today Show host reveals more about her marriage

Savannah Guthrie's ex-husband, Mark Orchard, was born in the UK and previously worked as a White House Correspondent during President George Bush's term from 2000 to 2004, according to Closer Weekly. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mark Orchard attended University College London, where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy in 1992. According to Full Measure, he later served as a trainee broadcast journalist with Independent Television News (ITN).

He later worked as a Senior News Editor at Al Jazeera for seven years, from 2006 to 2013. He then joined Al Jazeera America, where he worked specifically on the award-winning flagship program "America Tonight," hosted by Joie Chen, and served as its executive producer from 2013 to 2016, after which the channel shut down.

According to Closer Weekly, Mark Orchard met his future wife, Savannah Guthrie, who previously worked as a lawyer, when they were both covering a case for the BBC. In her discussion on the "Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky" podcast, Savannah Guthrie reflected on why she chooses not to share details about that particular period in her life. She said:

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"I set that boundary because I felt like it needed to be set. Some of it was just too personal and too embarrassing."

He currently works as a senior broadcast producer for "Full Measure with Sharyl Atkinson," a position he has held since 2016. Mark Orchard and Savannah Guthrie married in 2005 and were together for four years before divorcing in 2009. According to The New York Times, Orchard was previously married to fellow journalist Anne Kornblut, with whom he married in September 2001; however, the couple later went their separate ways.

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