Today‘s Willie Geist Is it fully aware of his status as so-called “boyfriend of television”-but do his children know that they live with the royalty of television?
“Quite certain that my children are not aware of it,” said Geist, 49 years old US Weekly while discussing his next Sunday Sitdown Live Interview with guest IN INSA GARDEN. “”Jenna [Bush Hager] Crowned me that in the air, and it was based on someone else … Someone was the boyfriend of the Internet. Something like that. So, I mean, there are other nominees. »»
The Geist forever added that it is “certainly an honor” to capture the affections of viewers around the world, even if it is not entirely sure of what it means to be someone’s “boyfriend”.
“I don’t really know what it means,” he admitted to We. “But every time Jenna Bush Hager puts a crown, you take it, smile and vague.”
Willie Geist announced the host in Garten as his guest for his second Sunday Sitdown Live, and friends could not help but spark out how much they like to chat with each other. “Well, I could talk to Willie anywhere, at any time,” said Garten, 77, exclusively. “So he’s just fun and intelligent, and I love […]
Geist and his wife over 20, Christina, share two children together – her daughter Lucie Joy, born in June 2007, and her son George William, born in July 2009.
Now that he is the father of two adolescents, Geist admits that even if viewers could be in love with his impressive television career, the smile of a million dollars and interview skills – the skills on which he is flexing every week Morning Joe and during Sundown Sunday with Willie Geist – He is considered to be the “boring dad” at home.
“I understand, because I have a teenage girl, but I still arrive late and I am the boring father,” said Geist We of his terribly inept knowledge of pop culture, including his understanding little or not Real housewives Traditions.
“You cannot go to the final and start asking all the questions,” he continued, before sharing that if he had to choose a series of popular reality TV in which he is informed, it would be The baccalaureate.
“I arrived late with two episodes on the left, and I said to myself:” I need a full report on whom these people are, “he continued Bachelor audience. “When I look Housewives it is when Andy [Cohen] makes me Look at what’s going on liveAnd generally I just go to him for a report, who is, I mean, talk about a great source. »»
Willie Geist has carried out more than 530 interviews throughout his nine -year race on Sunday today, but there is always a name that he hopes to check his list of dreams of those questioned. “Taylor Swift is still on the list,” Geist, 49, told Us Weekly, discussing his next interview with Sunday Sitdown Live with Guest Ina Garten. “”[She] […]
When he is not the “boring dad”, Geist is the nostalgic father, it seems. THE Morning Joe Co-host says We that with the secondary school diploma “coming faster every day” for his children – in particular his daughter – he remembers the realities of being a parent and looking at your children grow too quickly.
“It is such a cliché that each parent who has already had a child will tell you, but once you are really there, you really feel it,” he said We. “One minute, you get out of the hospital with a small person in a car seat as you ask you how you will do it … And the next minute, they are preparing to obtain measures for a cap and a dress for obtaining the secondary school diploma and you just can’t believe it.”
He continued from his daughter: “And even if I have feelings of my father, because she is our first to leave too, I am so excited for her to go to do her thing and to become who she will be. Because I know it will be someone really, really special. ”
