From Saturday Night Live to The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon has had a very special someone
by his side throughout his rise to fame: his wife, Nancy Juvonen. She prefers to remain
behind the camera, but they've shared a happy marriage for over a decade. Here's everything
you need to know.
With an estimated net worth of $60 million and four Emmys to his name, Jimmy Fallon is
one of the most successful late-night talk show hosts of his generation. But he isn't
the only big-shot in his household. As it turns out, Fallon's wife Nancy Juvonen is
a Hollywood heavyweight in her own right.
Alongside close friend Drew Barrymore, Juvonen launched the Flower Films production company
back in 1995. The duo's first big screen project was 1999's Never Been Kissed, and since then,
they have produced most of Barrymore's movies together, including the Charlie's Angels reboot,
50 First Dates, and Barrymore's Netflix series, Santa Clarita Diet.
Juvonen also has a penchant for reality TV and has helped co-create dating shows, culinary
competitions, and more.
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen have enjoyed a long, happy marriage since tying the knot
in December 2007, and it turns out they have one Drew Barrymore to thank for that.
The couple first met on the set of the 2005 rom-com Fever Pitch, which starred Barrymore
and Fallon and was co-produced by Barrymore and Juvonen.
"She handed me a script called Fever Pitch, where she ended up meeting her husband."
It's unclear exactly when Fallon and Juvonen began dating, but by August 2007, Fallon was
getting down on one knee to propose to her. The pair got married just four months later.
Barrymore's connection to the Fallon clan runs deep to this very day, as their kids
are now growing up to be friends. When the former child star stopped by The Tonight Show
in 2014, the host couldn't resist showing off adorable photos of their children's play
dates.
"Our babies play with each other as babies-"
"That's true."
"They're pals!"
Fallon found the perfect opportunity to propose to Juvonen while vacationing at the bride-to-be's
summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire in August 2007.
Fallon recalled the occasion in a 2018 interview with People's Jess Cagle.
"I went out to the dock and I said, 'Don't cry. Don't cry. Let her cry first.' I'm a
pretty mushy guy."
But unfortunately, his emotions didn't listen to his mind. He got down on one knee and immediately
started weeping, to which Nancy responded with more concern than celebration. As the
comedian recalled,
"She's like, 'Are you having a stroke?' My face was like I was smelling burnt toast."
Luckily, the tears didn't deter his future bride. As he put it,
"She said yes and we celebrated and it was fun. The rest is history."
Juvonen may have made Fallon weep, but the day was so special, the couple actually commemorated
it when their first daughter was born in 2013. Telling the Today show why they chose the
name Winnie Rose, Fallon said,
"My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever,
and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee."
In July 2013, the Fallons announced that they had become parents to a baby girl. However,
the couple's journey to parenthood wasn't without struggle and heartbreak. As Jimmy
Fallon told Savannah Guthrie of the Today show, there was good reason for their secrecy.
Revealing that he and wife Nancy Juvonen welcomed daughter Winnie Rose via surrogate, Fallon
said that her birth followed a five-year fertility struggle. He said on Today,
"Anyone who's tried will know, it's just awful. We tried before, we told people and then it
didn't happen. And it's just really depressing. It's really hard on everybody."
Fallon said the couple decided to keep their plans quiet as they thought about welcoming
a child via surrogate.
"We said, 'We're not going to tell anybody.' It'd be just more fun if it's just private
between me and my wife. And then we get to introduce her to everybody."
Fallon went on to share some encouraging words with anyone going through a similar struggle.
"Just hang in there. Try every avenue; try anything you can do, 'cause you'll get there.
You'll end up with a family, and it's so worth it."
In 2014, the Fallons surprised the world yet again when they revealed the birth of their
second child via surrogate: Frances Cole Fallon, born on the morning of December 3.
As the world began practicing social distancing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic in
March 2020, late-night hosts all tried to find creative ways to stay on the air while
their shows were put on indefinite hold. Jimmy Fallon, for one, decided to broadcast right
from his lavish house with a little help from his wife.
On March 17, 2020, Fallon uploaded his very first episode of The Tonight Show: At Home
Edition to offer what he called "some levity in these bizarre times."
As he soon told viewers, the St. Patrick's Day episode was being filmed in a room of
his house, with his wife stepping in as his temporary production crew.
"My camera operator is my wife."
"Hi!"
"Hi, honey, thank you for doing this."
Without a crowd to feed off of, Fallon had no choice but to try out his latest jokes
on his real-life partner. Luckily for the comedian, Juvonen proved to be a receptive
audience, regularly chuckling at her husband's antics amid equally hilarious interruptions
from their daughters and their dog.
Given her longtime marriage to Jimmy Fallon, Nancy Juvonen is certainly qualified to offer
relationship advice. But as her BFF Drew Barrymore has learned, it's quite unforgiving. Speaking
with Good Housekeeping in 2016, the actress revealed that her business partner doesn't
like to sugarcoat things...like, ever. As Barrymore recalled of one brutal diagnosis,
"She's like, 'I did notice that there's a common denominator problem in all of your
relationships and I'd like to identify it right now.' And I'm like, 'What!? I've been
waiting! Show me the light!' She's like, 'It's you.'"
Ouch.
However, Juvonen's advice, as well as her personal mantra, "Happiness is a choice",
has changed Barrymore's life for the better. As she told Good Housekeeping,
"I first loved Nan because she loved the word 'happiness' so much. But last year, I called
her with tears in my eyes, going, 'Nan! I've finally figured it out! It's not the word
'happiness' that's so powerful. It's the word 'choice!'"
Given that Nancy Juvonen is a successful Hollywood producer, you might expect her to cruise around
in a flashy car, but while her ride does turn heads, it's not for the reason you'd think.
During a March 2020 episode of The Tonight Show: At Home Edition, Jimmy Fallon asked
his wife to appear in front of the camera for a Q&A session. Playing double duty as
camerawoman with a selfie stick, she was asked by one viewer if she thought her hubby was
particularly romantic.
"'Nancy, is Jimmy a romantic? Please provide examples.'"
Juvonen replied by saying that she thought he was plenty romantic. As just one example
of his kindness as a partner, she shared the touching 50th birthday surprise she received
from him, which started with 20 cassette tapes of her favorite albums. But that was just
part one:
"As I ran out to find the boombox to play my cassettes, my brother drove in the VW Bus-"
"With the cassette player in the bus."
"-with the cassette player in the bus."
Explaining why the Volkswagen Bus was so special to her, Juvonen said it was the car she first
learned how to drive in, and one she kept on driving all the way through high school
and college.
And it definitely gets them noticed.
"More people stop us for that thing, they don't even care that it's me in the car."
"No. They don't even notice you."
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