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  • Katie Couric Gets Married: Small Ceremony in the Hamptons

    Katie Couric got married on Saturday. She and fiance John Molner tied the knot in a small ceremony in the backyard of her summer home in the Hamptons. In a twist of wedding preparations the groom did most of the planning for the big day.

    “I call John ‘Groomzilla!’ ” Katie Couric joked. “We’re a very modern couple.”

    The beloved former anchor of The TODAY Show and first woman to anchor the CBS Evening News, Couric recently embarked on a new endeavor as a Yahoo! News Global Anchor. She has also been working on releasing a new documentary about obesity. All this work left very little time for play, meaning John really did plan most of the couple’s wedding. Katie even asked him for help in picking out her wedding dress.

    “I hope this isn’t bad luck but I actually tried it on for him,” Couric said during an interview prior to their wedding. “I tried on a number of dresses and I was so busy. I had a crazy spring.”

    She wound up walking down her back yard aisle in an ivory beaded and embroidered Chantilly lace halter gown by Carmen Marc Valvo

    Katie Couric’s daughters Ellie and Carrie Monahan–who are 22 and 18, respectively–gave readings during the ceremony in front of about 50 close personal friends and family members, as did John Molner’s children Allie and Henry. Carrie Monahan sang during the ceremony.

    Couric and Molner got engaged back in September 2013 following a two-year courtship. She was married for several years to Jay Monahan who died of colon cancer in 1998. Molner is divorced. Since being widowed Katie Couric has performed a balancing act of sorts–working in very high profile positions while being a very hands on mother and a crusader for colon cancer awareness and screening.

    Congratulations to both Katie Couric and John Molner. Katie’s fans are no doubt thrilled for the dearly loved TV personality and hard-hitting journalist. May they enjoy many happy years as husband and wife.

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  • Katie Couric: No Third Season for Talk Show

    Katie Couric’s talk show has been cancelled in what the network is calling a mutual decision. Word came Thursday that ABC will continue production of Katie through June of 2014, however at that time her talk show will end. Katie has hosted news or talk shows on all three major television networks in the past couple of decades.

    Among Katie’s most famous titles was co-anchor of The TODAY Show. A beloved personality, Couric lent her sincerity and gentle kindness to a world wrought with frightening and often tragic news. She went on be the first woman ever to host the CBS Evening News, and then over to ABC where she presently hosts Katie.

    Reuters reports that in 2014 Couric will make yet another monumental move–this time away from TV and on to Internet news, when she joins Yahoo as a global news anchor.

    The really is very little remaining that Katie Couric hasn’t already done.

    Katie tweeted her staff following confirmation of the show’s cancellation.

    There isn’t much that Katie Couric touches that doesn’t leave a profound impact on her viewers. Her work with Yahoo next year will likely yield similar results. And to top it all off, Katie is going places no other top-tiered news personality has ever gone.

    Yahoo clearly expects big things in its collaboration with Katie. Certainly her fans do, too.

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