Nutjob accused of storming ‘Today’ set spotted in background of show before being busted: video

The brazen nutjob accused of storming the “Today” show set appeared to be in the background of the show just minutes before allegedly sneaking into the studio and demanding to see anchor Al Roker and hurling a racial slur at anchor Craig Melvin, according to a video.

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Andrew Truelove, 41, is accused of slipping past 30 Rock security and entering an unauthorized area near Studio 1A on Thursday around 9 a.m. — allegedly shouting “Where is Roker?” before calling Melvin the N-word.

Video from the “news at 8” segment of Thursday’s four-hour show captured what appeared to be Truelove while Melvin and Savannah Guthrie reported on a great white shark headed for Cape Cod.

Someone resembling Truelove is seen over the right shoulder of Guthrie through the window of the set of “Today” — with a police officer over Melvin’s left shoulder.

The man paces and puffs from a vape while wearing the same sopped-with-sweat, drab colored collared shirt and gray shorts that Truelove wore while being arrested, photos show.

Truelove allegedly followed a staffer who used their ID badge to get into an “employee’s only area,” according to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Millicent Kastenbaum.

He was held on $10,000 bail by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny who issued an order of protection barring the maniac from the vicinity of the “Today” anchors.

Guthrie fled New York after the jarring incident, with the host spotted at LaGuardia Airport on Friday while trying to keep a low profile.

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She will take a weeks-long absence to film her upcoming game show based on the New York Times game Wordle.

Guthrie had returned on April 6 from a two-month leave of absence after her mother Nancy went missing in February.

Meanwhile, NBC News fired a security guard who allegedly let the intruder slip into 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.

His criminal history outside of New York includes a 2012 arrest in Virginia for stealing signs from playgrounds that honored the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, sources confirmed. 

Truelove was previously sentenced to four years in prison for abduction when he went to a Virginia high school with a lug wrench in 2007 and grabbed an 8-year-old girl by the straps of her backpack, the Virginian-Pilot reported at the time.

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