It takes a certain kind of person to be able to handle the limelight, but these husbands
definitely know how to support their famous wives. From journalists to athletes, and worship
singers to cartoonists, these seriously gorgeous guys won the hearts of some of our favorite
ladies of TV!
Part of why Giuliana Rancic decided to leave E! News is because of her husband, Bill Rancic.
The TV host told People that she and Bill were excited to be able to spend more time
together and to work on their own passion projects.
The power couple produced and starred in their own hit reality show Giuliana and Bill for
seven seasons. But before Bill met the former Fashion Police host, he made a name for himself
as the winner of the first season of The Apprentice. It was because of his newfound fame that he
first met Giuliana, when she interviewed him after his victory.
"What do you guys think, do we make a good couple?"
Today, Bill spends most of his time as an entrepreneur and public speaker, as well as
being a devoted dad to their son Duke.
A former co-host of The View, Candace Cameron Bure met her hubby, Val, thanks to her Full
House co-star Dave Coulier inviting her to a charity hockey game he was playing in, along
with Val.
"Val had just come from Moscow, Russia and it turned out that he would watch Full House
because it helped him learn English."
According to Candace, it was love at first sight. She told HuffPost,
"Dave Coulier still has a hockey stick that my husband signed for him that says, 'Thanks
for Candace.'"
Although they were both young when they first met, Candace and Val were already enjoying
incredibly successful careers. While she had been starring on Full House, Val was playing
for the Montreal Canadiens. He also played for several other franchises before retiring
in 2004.
The View's Sunny Hostin boasts an impressive resumé. She's a journalist, lawyer, and host
of a podcast and TV show. And her husband happens to be quite successful as well. Dr.
Emmanuel Hostin is an orthopedic surgeon in New York, earning his medical degree from
Johns Hopkins University. Considering his profession, Sunny admits her husband gets
on her case for her footwear. She told Into the Gloss,
"My husband is a sports doctor. Whenever he sees my shoes, he is like, 'How are you wearing
these heels? You're going to have all of these problems!'"
"My husband's, y'know, don't tell him this, but he's probably the smartest person I've
ever met."
The couple, who share children Gabe and Paloma, are known for hosting huge holiday parties
at their home in Purchase, New York. Hostin told People,
"We host an annual Easter egg hunt for 200 kids. We have a Halloween party every year.
We've had a wedding. We've had an engagement party. We've done it all. Our house is always
filled with people, and for a big house, it's really important."
Hoda Kotb kept her relationship with longtime partner Joel Schiffman under wraps until one
particular interview on Watch What Happens Live. For a while, she had referred to him
only as "Boots" when she spoke about him in public. And when she finally revealed his
identity, she said that he had already gotten the stamp of approval from Kathie Lee Gifford
and Gifford's late husband, Frank. Kotb told Andy Cohen,
"That went well. Look, he loved [Kathie Lee]. He met Frank — he was enamored."
"Her initials are Hoda Kotb and she's engaged. What!"
In 2019, Kotb told People that Schiffman had proposed to her in Mexico that November and
that they planned on getting married the following year. Kotb and Schiffman may be older than
the average bride and groom, but Kotb says that the timing of it all was perfect in its
own way. She told the outlet,
"Everything may look out of order, and it kind of feels it, a little bit, but it is
all right on time."
The happy couple share two children together.
From all the Live! With Kelly iterations to her time as an actress on All My Children,
it's easy to see why everyone loves Kelly Ripa. On top of all her popular work, the
TV host also happened to tie the knot with one of the most beautiful men working in TV
today: Mark Consuelos. People even named the Riverdale star one of the hottest men of the
year in 2019.
The pair originally met at a screen test for All My Children, where Consuelos was auditioning
to play Ripa's character's lover. He ended up getting the part, but wasn't concerned
with landing a date, telling HuffPost,
"I thought [Kelly] was adorable. […] I didn't really think I had a chance with her, so I
wasn't really focused on that."
"Were you love interests on the show?”
“We were, but after we were love interests in real life."
Consuelos has also made waves on American Horror Story, Broad City, and Queen of the
South.
Leah Remini's stint on The Talk was short-lived, but she's since moved on to bigger and better
things — like hosting the groundbreaking Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
In addition to her success on TV, she's also hit it big in her personal life with husband
Angelo Pagán, who is also an actor. He even appeared on King of Queens back in the day.
"A woman as beautiful as you should not be crying.”
“Why? What should I be doing? Dancing!"
The cute couple met at a Cuban restaurant, according to Redbook. Remini claimed,
"For me, it was love at first sight."
"I was like, 'Damn. What time do you get off?'"
Pagán was a former Scientologist along with his wife. He left the church with Remini in
2013, and has been fully supportive of her efforts in advocating for survivors of the
organization, and speaking out against its practices, according to Us Weekly.
Busy couples know it can be tough to maintain a relationship, and no one knows this better
than CBS host Jane Pauley and her husband, cartoonist Garry Trudeau. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
creator of "Doonesbury" has even gone on the record saying that his work on the comic would
occasionally get in the way of his personal life. The couple's honeymoon was even delayed
so he could meet a deadline. He told CBS News,
"Yeah, I had strips to finish up. And I would finish them often at the airport. It was always
working around the margins of family life."
"Look at a page of comic strips from those early days, Doonesbury did stand out.”
“It stood out for being so, um, bad."
Despite the packed schedule, it appears that Trudeau has been a devoted father. The couple's
son Ross explained that his dad was loving and affectionate, all while being focused
on his work. Ross wrote for Fatherly,
"[Inside] the studio, he seemed to me perceptibly more solemn, more focused, more staid."
The Kelly Clarkson Show host married talent manager Brandon Blackstock in 2013. But the
two had actually met at rehearsal for the American Country Music Awards all the way
back in 2006. Blackstock's dad was Kelly Clarkson's manager at the time, and Blackstock's stepmom
is none other than Reba McEntire, Clarkson's mentor. Even then, Clarkson told People, she
knew there was something special about him.
The two reconnected at the 2012 Super Bowl where Blackstock was there supporting his
client, Blake Shelton. And it was Shelton who was actually the one to push Blackstock
into proposing to Clarkson. He recalled with Hollyscoop,
"I told Brandon, 'Man, you need to grow up and you figure out that you need to marry
this girl. I will do the music at the wedding or whatever you want to do, I'll be that guy
[…] cause you need to get [your] head out of your a-- and ask that girl to marry you.'"
"We're always living in LA and doing so many jobs and working seven days a week sometimes."
Unfortunately, their relationship wouldn't last. In June 2020, Clarkson filed for divorce
from Blackstock, as reported by Entertainment Tonight.
Today show favorite Natalie Morales married businessman Joe Rhodes in 1998. Rhodes is
the owner and managing partner at Stockton Road Capital, in Los Angeles. He graduated
with a degree in finance from University of Colorado, Boulder and graduated from Columbia
Business School with a Master's in 2002 — proving he's got brains and beauty, just like his
better half.
"I feel like there's a lot on my plate, so I'm trying to juggle a lot and be a mom and
a wife."
Closer Weekly noted that Joe's father, Joseph S. Rhodes, was once the managing director
of Prudential Insurance Company's financial services division in Chicago. His father's
career trajectory certainly suggests that business-savvy skills just might run in the
family.
Today, many couples meet through online dating — even famous people, like Strahan, Sara
and Keke's Sara Haines. She met her now-husband, Max Shifrin, on OkCupid, and they hit it off
— even though he initially had no idea she was a famous journalist. While Haines has
talked about how she wasn't even sure if he was "The One," according to Brides, a couple
of years later, Shifrin proposed on a random Tuesday morning. He told Yahoo Lifestyle,
"I didn't have a big plan, I didn't have a big production. So I literally got up, crawled
out of bed in my pajamas and got on one knee on the floor next to the bed. And proposed
awkwardly and without much charm at all."
"I was like, 'I admire you so much,' and I started, like, my speech, and then Sara was
like, 'What the hell's wrong with you?"
Clearly, his low-key proposal was a hit. In addition to being a devoted father to the
couple's children, Shifrin is an established lawyer who focuses on commercial litigation
in New York City.
Tamera Mowry-Housley is known for keeping it real as a host on The Real, and it's obvious
that her husband, Fox News correspondent Adam Housley — whom she married in 2011 — is
all about it. At least, that is, according to their YouTube series, The Housley Life.
"Do you like my earrings?”
“I love them. Happy wife happy life."
Housley is known for his work as one of the first correspondents to cover the Haiti earthquake
in 2010. He also covered the Japanese earthquake in 2011 and the terrorist attack in San Bernardino
in 2015, among many other world events.
Parents to their kids, Aden and Ariah, the couple aren't afraid to be open about their
lives together. Housely said on their channel,
"If you follow us on social media or you see us on television, you know that it's all about
family and friends. We love getting everyone together, and what ensues is usually love
and chaos."
Good Morning America host, Lara Spencer, tied the knot with her second husband, tech entrepreneur
Rick McVey, in September 2018. The pair were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend,
and McVey proposed in January 2018, after two years together. At their wedding, Lara's
son Duff even walked her down the aisle.
"He even went to a Penn State game when he's an Ohio State fan, which, to me…"
Rick has had an impressive career as the founder, chairman, and CEO of MarketAxess, a successful
financial tech company that streamlines the bond trading process. Before he branched out
and launched his own company, he also spent time as the head honcho of the North American
investor relations department of J.P. Morgan in the '90s, according to LinkedIn.
Sometimes, "The One" has actually been in your life for years. At least, that's what
happened with friends-turned-partners Adrienne Bailon and Israel Houghton. Even when he officially
divorced his first wife and started dating again, Bailon had been setting him up with
her own friends. The host told People,
"He didn't think they'd want to go out with him but I told him, 'Don't be silly. You have
a great smile, you're successful, you're kind, super witty, funny and smart. Of course they'll
go out with you.'"
"We literally said, 'Hi, nice to meet you.' We hugged, no? Right? We hugged? Yeah, I think
we gave like a church hug. Let's show them what a church hug looks like."
Houghton is a worship singer, songwriter, and producer, whose records have earned him
multiple Grammy Awards, including best pop/contemporary gospel album and best traditional gospel album.
Because of his Christian background, he's also been open about his personal life and
his own shortcomings — even going as far as to pen a Facebook post to his fans about
his divorce from his first wife.
"Can anyone in the audience see anything different about me?"
Fox & Friends host Jedediah Bila told Parade that for the longest time she didn't know
if she wanted to get married and have kids. But all of that changed when she met her future
hubby, Jeremy Scher, who is a strategic planning and business development manager for Hachette
Book Group in New York City. The couple married in 2018.
While we haven't been able to dig up a lot on Scher himself, we do know that he swept
the TV personality off her feet. He's also been a rock solid hubby in the couple's fertility
journey. Bila told Parade,
"Jeremy was really supportive of my feelings and we decided that we were really okay in
a 'whatever will be, will be' space."
The couple welcomed their first son, Hartley, in November 2019.
How could we forget the most famous TV host husband of them all — Jenny McCarthy's husband,
Donnie Wahlberg. Although McCarthy only appeared on The View from 2013 to 2014, she definitely
made a mark in the show's history.
"Every single day, I go, 'Thank you God' for him popping into my life."
Most people know Wahlberg from his work as an actor on mega-hit shows and movies like
The Sixth Sense, the Saw series, and Blue Bloods. He's also widely known for being a
member of New Kids on the Block who gained mainstream success in the '80s. Even though
the band split in the '90s, they reunited in 2007 to record an album. And it was during
the band's revival that Wahlberg met McCarthy on Watch What Happens Live in 2012.
"Now I'm like C/D, depending on PMS. But I like 'em. I think they're, y'know, fun.”
“They're just great. Don't change anything. Don't change a thing."
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