Tamron Hall chats up her Tam Fam about everything — except her hubby!
So what's the deal with Steven Greener?
From a one-way crush to a secret baby, here's why losing her dream job led Tamron to her
dream man.
It wasn't love at first sight for Tamron Hall when she first laid eyes on Steven Greener.
But it certainly was for him!
The two were friends for four years before they ever dated, and Greener had made several
attempts to connect.
As Hall told Parade,
"My husband had approached me and had conversations, and I didn't realize he was asking me out
for a date."
It turned out Hall was picking up something other than what Greener was putting down.
As she recalled on Live!,
"My husband is in music management, so I thought he was trying to represent me.
And I'm like, 'I can't sing.'"
By 2017, Hall and Greener had reconnected in Los Angeles when he asked her out for pizza.
She told Parade,
"We started talking, and it just came at the perfect time in my life."
Earlier that year, Hall had officially left her post on NBC's "Today" show.
But she would have never met her dream man if she hadn't stepped outside of 30 Rock.
She later shared with People,
"When I was working, given the competitive environment I was in, you don't always see
people for who they are.
[…] The fear factor of 'What's going on with my spot?
Am I going to keep this job?'
fell away, and I could really see Steven."
After the couple's first date, the two fell fast and hard for each other.
And they moved in together just three weeks later.
But, in the hopes of not upsetting her mother, Hall admitted on Live!,
"My mother is a Southern, old school, so I kept saying he was visiting."
When her mom first came to visit, Hall even moved all of Greener's clothing out — and
he slept at a friend's house.
She recalled,
"It was like a comedy special.
And my mother said later she always knew."
Proving yet again that they're champs at keeping things low-key, in 2019, Hall revealed on
the "Tamron Hall Show" that she and Greener had secretly tied the knot at their home.
She joked with Good Housekeeping,
"It's proof you can keep things private."
Even so, their home life was about to get much more public.
A year later, when the pandemic hit, the two were forced to shoot Hall's talk show at their
home.
As she shared with People,
"My husband ​has been an enormous help.
Even though he's also working from home, he does our camera work ​and wrangles our bird.
Yes, we have a bird — her name is Josephine Birdker, Jojo for short."
Only a few weeks after tying the knot, Hall and Greener shocked Instagram with another
big announcement: They were expecting.
And Hall sang a little "Baby Shark" to celebrate.
But it was the culmination of a long and difficult process.
"The journey is filled with many ups and downs.
I never knew that it would end like this."
Hall had been through fertility treatments for decades before getting pregnant at age
48.
She explained to Parade,
"We'd gone through the last round of IVF [in vitro fertilization], and when I got the call
from the nurse that we were [pregnant], it was unbelievable, surreal."
"These are the needles that it took to make Moses."
But while she was over the moon to be expecting, she was anxious about going public with the
news.
She told People,
"I was terrified I would lose this baby and I would have to go back and tell everyone
that now it was bad news, and after this pregnancy had gone so far."
In April 2019, the two welcomed their son Moses.
Though Hall describes her husband as her "deepest, greatest love," she's always been hesitant
to talk about him on TV.
Revealing her reasoning, she shared with People,
"I always thought, 'One day I'll get married, and I don't want my husband to have to look
at old episodes of me gushing over the last guy.'
So I've always been very cautious."
But this couple seems to be in it for the long haul.
As the host told Good Housekeeping, her relationship with Greener is similar to that of Dolly Parton
and her husband Carl Dean.
Fans hear loads of news about the country superstar — and not much about the man who
supports her quietly behind the scenes.
"When people ask me what's the key to my long marriage and lasting love, I always say, 'Stay
gone.'"
But while Hall remains vigilant, keeping her marriage completely hidden has never been
her intention.
As she confirmed to People magazine,
"People say he's my 'secret husband.'
But we were going everywhere together.
It was just a private thing I needed to protect."
From their Baptist and Jewish religions to their favorite sports teams, there are a lot
of differences that Hall and Greener have managed together over the years.
As she told Good Housekeeping,
"We're an interracial couple, we're both older parents, he's from the Bronx, I'm from Texas,
that alone is a divide."
But while disagreements are an inevitable part of any relationship, this is exactly
what inspired Hall and Greener to make an honest promise to each other.
It was during their first vacation together that Hall says they agreed to:
"Never turn on each other [and] always be on each other's side."
And it appears they've kept that promise!
Today, the couple looks happier than ever as parents to Moses.
And it seems they're truly grateful for the gift of having finally found each other.
As Hall shared with People,
"My story is not one I could've ever expected.
I never thought I'd have to lose everything to gain even more.
But I lost my spot and I gained a husband who roots for me, a beautiful baby boy who
looks at me like I'm his entire world."
Check out one of our newest videos right here!
Plus, even more List videos about your favorite celebrity couples are coming soon.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the bell so you don’t miss a single one.