Katie Couric finally has some good news to announce. She is engaged to John Molner and has the ring to prove it. This announcement follows a string of blows for the broadcaster, including negative press from her Kim Kardashian feud and low ratings. Fans were overjoyed to learn that Katie was able to find love again since her husband’s tragic death.
Katie Couric has been married once before to Jay Monahan. The couple wed back in 1989 and had two children together.
In 1998, nine short years later, Monahan passed away. Couric and her daughters were heartbroken after the death of Jay.
He passed away from colon cancer after the disease was not detected in time to save his life. This lead to Katie Couric’s famous television segment, in which she underwent a colonoscopy on air, in an effort to raise awareness about the deadly disease.
This sudden loss is one of the reasons why fans were so happy that Katie has been able to find love again. It was Larry Hackett from People Magazine who first broke the news.
Katie, herself, confirmed it on the set of Good Morning America. Couric admitted that she was engaged and that the invitation came as a bit of a surprise to her:
“It did come out of the blue a little bit. We hadn’t really discussed much recently and I’d kind of tabled the whole thing [and] thought, ‘Well, we’ll see what happens.’ He did it all on his own. At the last minute he brought in a wing woman to kind of give it the seal of approval. It was kind of a shock to me but an exciting shock.”
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