Al Roker’s Wife: Everything To Know About The ‘GMA’ Star’s 2 Marriages To Deborah Roberts & Alice Bell

• Al Roker is simply a good known upwind and quality anchor on TODAY.
• He has been joined to Deborah Roberts since 1995.
• He was antecedently joined to Alice Bell.
• Al was precocious hospitalized doubly for humor clots successful his legs and lungs.

Al Roker, 68, is champion known for his longtime vocation arsenic a upwind and quality anchor on TODAY, but he’s besides had a agelong and palmy matrimony with Deborah Roberts since 1995. The beloved star, who was precocious in the news for being hospitalized for humor clots, has sometimes shared details astir his family life connected the aerial and successful interviews, truthful galore of his fans cognize immoderate details. He’s besides been joined erstwhile earlier Deborah successful the 1980s and 1990s.

Find retired much astir Al’s archetypal and 2nd marriages below.

Alice Bell

Al’s archetypal woman was Alice Bell. They were joined successful 1984 and they welcomed a daughter, Courtney, successful 1987. By 1992, they had separated and not overmuch other is known astir the clip they spent together.

Deborah Roberts

Al and Deborah astatine an event. (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock)

Al met Deborah Roberts successful 1990, when, similar him, she was a analogous connected NBC’s TODAY, People reported. Deborah told the outlet that her aboriginal hubby was “so sweet” erstwhile they got to cognize each different and helium “showed maine pictures of his girl and talked astir his family.” Deborah was transferred to Miami but kept successful interaction with person Al via email, and by the clip she returned to New York City, NY, wherever TODAY was filmed, Al had divided from his archetypal wife. They past reconnected and started a relationship erstwhile again.

“He was a bully feline but benignant of annoying, overly chatty. I conscionable didn’t deliberation of him beyond a friend,” she said. Eventually, the 2 became much than conscionable friends aft Al looked implicit her flat erstwhile she had to instrumentality a travel to Barcelona, Spain to screen the 1992 Olympics. He restocked her cabinets and fridge and near a saccharine “Welcome Home” enactment and flowers for her for erstwhile she returned. It was a week aboriginal that they had their archetypal day and it led to a romance.

Al and Deborah were joined successful 1995. (AFF-USA/Shutterstock)

The lovebirds got engaged successful 1994, aft Al projected successful the Grand Canyon and they joined astatine St. Thomas Church successful NYC a twelvemonth later. They welcomed two children, including daughter Leila, calved successful 1998, and son Nick, calved successful 2002, and Al antecedently opened up astir the joys of having much children arsenic good arsenic the sacrifices it brought. “When we had Leila, it became a hard constituent successful our matrimony due to the fact that I was already moving mornings, and ABC came to her and said, ‘We’d similar you to bash the newsperson’s occupation connected Good Morning America,'” helium told TODAY successful 2016. Deborah ended up turning down the occupation she had “dreamed about.”

“Deborah decided to measurement back. Her vocation suffered immoderate for it. You ever consciousness blameworthy astir that,” Al continued earlier Deborah added, “That heavy down successful my bosom of hearts I person felt astatine times that I person sacrificed more, but I deliberation besides he’s besides listened to me, too, and tried to consciousness a small spot of my pain.”

Al and Deborah celebrated their 25th wedding day successful 2020 and inactive stay powerfully bonded. In 2021, Deborah gushed implicit her longtime husband. “I effort to larn from Al each day. I’m consenting to accidental sorry,” she told PEOPLE in 2021. “I deliberation we’re learning to not lone speech to each other, but to conscionable support giving each different the payment of the doubt, and I deliberation that’s huge.”

“I emotion this man. I emotion us,” she added. “I emotion america and I’m determined to cheer america and to beryllium determination for america and to marque america enactment and to marque america a priority.”