Wayne Brady’s Ex-Wives: Everything To Know About His 2 Previous Marriages

Wayne Brady, 50, is simply a palmy comedian and media property who roseate to fame successful the precocious ’90s. He landed his ain assortment show, connected which helium cracked jokes, interviewed celebrities, and adjacent sang each erstwhile successful a while, called The Wayne Brady Show, successful 2001. It aired arsenic as a primetime assortment bid and past a syndicated daytime bid until 2004.

He past recovered long-lasting occurrence successful 2013 erstwhile helium was formed connected the American mentation of Whose Line Is It Anyway? successful 2013 and then Let’s Make A Deal successful 2020. He besides got to amusement disconnected his singing chops connected the 2nd play of The Masked Singer, which helium won. He noted that his teenage daughter, Maile, and her mother, his ex-wife, Mandie Taketa, primitively gave him the courageousness to motion up for the show.

Maile is the lone kid of Wayne, though helium has been joined twice. He archetypal wed Diana Lasso successful 1993, and they separated conscionable 2 years later. The Dancing with the Stars Season 31 contestant was past joined to Mandie betwixt 1995 and 2007. Read connected to larn much astir Wayne’s exes and their marriages.

Wayne Brady has been joined twice, with some unions lasting little than 8 years (Photo: Christopher Smith/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Diana Lasso

Wayne and Diana joined young, which Wayne said was the crushed for their demise. “My archetypal woman is simply a large person, but you should not beryllium getting joined erstwhile you’re 20 oregon 21 due to the fact that you inactive don’t cognize yourself. I deliberation the acquisition was not to unreserved into things,” helium told Closer Weekly successful 2019.

There is precise small other known astir their marriage, considering is was short-lived and earlier Wayne became a star. Diana does not unrecorded her beingness successful the limelight, truthful it is unclear what she does with her beingness nowadays.

Mandie Taketa

Although Mandie, 46, and Wayne person been divorced for much than a decade, the brace stay friends and adjacent work together. The duo made headlines successful 2020 erstwhile the television personality revealed they were quarantining unneurotic with their daughter, Maile, present 19, and Mandie’s fellow amid the coronavirus pandemic. “My ex-wife Mandie and I, we person a antithetic and a precise peculiar concern than a batch of radical that co-parent,” helium told Access Hollywood successful March 2020. “For the full duration of [Malie’s] life, we person co-parented arsenic champion friends. We’ve besides lived similar 7 minutes distant from each different astatine the most. Right now, we unrecorded virtually adjacent doorway to each other, truthful our quarantining is simply a small different, we quarantine betwixt some of our homes and I’ve got a large backyard and tons of land, truthful we some stock this onshore and this space.”  He added, “Mandie, her fellow Jason, my girl Maile, we are a family, truthful we’re similar this new, atomic family.” How sweet!

Wayne Brady and Mandie Taketa were joined for 7 years and welcomed 1 girl unneurotic (Photo: Bei/Shutterstock)

In his Closer Weekly interview, Brady praised Mandie for teaching him however to beryllium a “better man” and more. “I’ve learned however to go a amended antheral and someone’s person from Mandie, however to listen, and erstwhile you person idiosyncratic who’s genuinely connected your team, that you request to beryllium grateful,” helium recalled. “She’s idiosyncratic who knows maine amended than my family, who ever has my back, and we anticipation the mode we co-parent tin beryllium a exemplary for others.”

Wayne shared the aforesaid sentiment successful an interrogation with Us Weekly successful Nov. 2019. “[Mandie] is the astir astonishing pistillate successful the satellite and 1 of the astir astonishing moms, I think, that has ever walked the planet,” helium gushed. “Our daughter’s impervious of that and the information that she slaps maine into shape. She’s the crushed I deliberation that I’ve had the occurrence I have.”

Maile was 3 years aged erstwhile her parents separated successful 2006. Luckily, it was an amicable divorce. “The divided is precise amicable and they proceed to stay the champion of friends and committed parents,” Wayne’s typical told PEOPLE at the time.