Al Roker and Wife Deborah Roberts celebrates anniversary day

• Al Roker met his now-wife, Deborah Roberts, backstage at Today in 1990.
• He proposed to her on January 1st, 1994. The couple share a daughter, Courtney, born in 1987.
• They met during their time working on the Today show set.

Many years of love! After first meeting on the Today show set, Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have been dating for more than 20 years.

“It was funny [because] we were in the ‘friend zone,’” the Today meteorologist recalled of romancing his now-wife, an NBC correspondent, during a February 2021 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “We were friends and she was like, ‘Let’s not ruin that friendship,’ and, you know, she was covering an event for a couple of weeks and asked me to keep an eye on her apartment. So, I did and I had to snoop around.”

Roker continued: “I was in the kitchen and I opened up the fridge and there’s nothing in there. … I open up the oven expecting to see a mess [and] she still has the cardboard was still on the oven grates. I thought, ‘This woman’s never used this oven.’ So, a day before she got back from her trip, I stocked her pantry, I stocked her refrigerator and left some flowers on the table.”

One week later, Roker boasted to Clarkson, “I got my first date with her,” and when Roberts arrived, she also discovered a handwritten note he had left for her, saying, “Welcome home.”

The weather expert and Roberts initially met backstage at Today in 1990, and two years later, in 1992, the couple started dating. The weather expert and Roberts share a daughter, Courtney, born in 1987. In the end, Roker got down on one knee on January 1st, 1994.

Many years of love! After first meeting on the Today show set, Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have been dating for more than 20 years.

During a February 2022 visit on the Rachael Ray Show, the New York native said, “I had already planned a year ahead to do it because I wanted to do it at the Grand Canyon.” As we were eating breakfast after New Year’s Eve, she asked, “If one were to receive a ring, when would one be expecting it? I said, “Well, by Groundhog Day at the latest.”

After travelling for several hours, Roker finally shocked Roberts when they arrived at the Arizona landmark. The Never Going Back author “fell to [his] knee and started mumbling” as the sun began to set.

“I believed he fell!

Roberts teased the famous chef, saying she was prepared to end things with her boyfriend if he hadn’t proposed. “I was assisting him to stand up. [After he asked me to marry him] I broke down in tears. It was stunning.

Before eventually growing their family, the couple was married in September 1995, over a year after being engaged. Nicholas and Leila, the couple’s children, were born in 1998 and 2002, respectively.

“The sumptuous journey began 26 years ago today. It has been a true and delicious adventure. Ups. Downs. Better. Worse. Coasting … Joyriding. And holding on tight along the way,” the ABC journalist captioned a September 2021 Instagram tribute to her husband. “So thrilled to share this full life with you @alroker Happy anniversary dear ❤️. Here’s to so many more! ”

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