Katie Couric is
engaged: Katie Couric, 56,
has ultimately got love again.
The talk show host and mother of 2, who lost husband Jay
Monahan to colon cancer in 1998, acquired engaged to financier John Molner, 50,
across the Labor Day weekend."Katie's calling it her labor of love," said
People editor Larry Hackett on Good Morning America declaring the news.
Molner, head of fusions and acquisitions at Brown Brothers
Harriman, popped the question with a diamond ring at sundown on the beach in East
Hampton, Empire State., reports People.com. said
me in May she and Molnar were "having a great time. He's truly funny and
really successful in his own right. In a different line of work. A bit various
age appropriate."Katie Couric
How old is he? "He's six younger than I am," said Katie Couric, who's dated younger men
in the past letting in trumpeter Chris Botti (five years younger) and
entrepreneur Brooks Perlin (seventeen years her junior). "But hey, I have
aimed a lot of energy, you acknowledge. I require somebody who can keep up with
me!"
Perhaps since daughter Ellie, 22, just graduated from
college and daughter Carrie, seventeen, is a senior in high school, the timing
seems right at home. In the Feb issue of numerous magazines, Katie accepted,
"it is genuinely surprising to me that it has been almost fifteen years
and I have not remarried. I think life is more amusing when you've somebody in
your life."