Lauren Sanchez: All the things to Know About Jeff Bezos’ Fiancée

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Lauren Sanchez is an Emmy-winning tv host and longtime love of Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos. She’s about to get a promotion on that final title, as Page Six reported that Jeff popped the question to his longtime girlfriend. Lauren and Jeff are engaged and can reportedly get married in December 2024 in an costly wedding ceremony.

One would possibly surprise if Jeff and Lauren would possibly change into the primary couple married in house. Lauren revealed in a Jan. 25, 2023 interview with the Wall Street Journal that Jeff’s house firm, Blue Origin, plans to ship an all-female crew into house in 2024 and that she can be main it. Just some months earlier than in Nov. 2022, she informed CNN she would make it into house in 2023 — two years after her accomplice first left Earth’s atmosphere.

Lauren, 55, doesn’t solely share an curiosity in house with the 60-year-old entrepreneur, although. They’re each captivated with local weather change, and each have households to lift So, who’s Lauren, a girl who wears many hats? Learn on to study Jeff Bezos’ future wife.

How Did Lauren And Jeff Meet?

Lauren, Jeff, and Jeff’s ex-wife of 25 years, Mackenzie, had been pleasant for years earlier than Jeff and Lauren’s relationship was revealed to the general public (which was the identical day Jeff and Mackenzie introduced their separation). Jeff and Mackenzie’s divorce was settled in April 2019, whereas Lauren’s separation from Patrick Whitesell was finalized in October of that yr. Jeff had additionally been pretty pleasant with Patrick and was even photographed with him and Lauren shortly earlier than Jeff introduced his divorce, in keeping with PEOPLE. “Patrick and Lauren have been on and off for some time and have been separated. [Patrick] knew they had been seeing one another,” a supply informed the outlet.

In her chat with The Wall Avenue Journal, Lauren gushed that she and Jeff take pleasure in doing everything in life together. “We like to be collectively and we like to work collectively. We fly collectively. We work out collectively. We’re collectively on a regular basis,” she mentioned.

She additionally raved about a few of her favourite issues about Jeff, who’s among the many 5 richest individuals on the planet on the time of this writing. “He’s actually humorous. He makes me chuckle on a regular basis. He could be goofy,” she famous. She later revealed their special Sunday morning ritual: Jeff wakes up early and makes “the most effective pancakes on the planet.”

How Did Lauren Land Upon the Stars?

The New Mexico-born journalist began her skilled profession as a Los Angeles-based leisure reporter for Fox Information, in keeping with IMDb. She then moved to sports activities reporting in 1996 and notably hosted the premiere season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2005. She has additionally labored as an leisure reporter on Additional and hosted Fox’s Good Day LA between 2011 to 2017. Her on-camera profession has additionally landed her a number of anchorwoman roles in movies and tv exhibits over time, though she has performed a couple of completely different characters as nicely.

Regardless of having an enviable profession, Lauren mentioned she skilled her greatest disappointment in 1999 when she didn’t land a co-hosting spot on The View. “It was one of the crucial devastating days of my life,” she informed The Wall Avenue Journal. “It turned out to be a superb factor as a result of I wouldn’t have had Nikko,” she added, talking of her firstborn son.

Earlier than being rejected from The View, although, Lauren skilled one other heart-wrenching rejection. She moved to Los Angeles on the age of 18 to be a flight attendant with Southwest Airways, and she or he claimed they dismissed her in 1989 as a result of she was too heavy. “Again then, they weighed you, and I weighed 121 kilos,” she remembered. “They mentioned, ‘You want to be 115.’”

After her desires of working with Southwest had been crushed, she enrolled in courses at El Camino Faculty in Torrance, Calif. In line with the college’s website, although, Lauren had a special identify whereas she was working towards her diploma: Wendy.

Lauren Is a Mother

As she talked about, Lauren had her first son, Nikko, shortly after getting rejected from The View. She shares Nikk, with former NFL tight finish Tony Gonzalez. She went on to have a daughter, Eleanor, and a son, Evan, together with her ex-husband. In the meantime, Jeff has three organic sons and one adopted daughter with MacKenzie, per E! News.

Lauren in contrast her and Jeff’s blended household to the Brady bunch in her chat with the WSJ. Giving a glimpse into their household life, she mentioned, “On a typical Saturday, we hang around, we’ve got dinner with the youngsters, which is all the time enjoyable since you by no means know the place the dialog goes to go along with this many children.”

Lauren And Jeff Are Tremendous Into Philanthropy

After they aren’t elevating their children or planning their subsequent flight to house, Lauren and Jeff focus quite a lot of time and power on attempting to raised the world. The mom of three is the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, a corporation devoted to serving to stop the disastrous results of local weather change. Plus, in 2021, Lauren and Jeff met with King Charles (then Prince Charles) to debate methods to assist combat local weather change. “Discussing local weather change with the Prince of Wales. The assembly happened at Dumfries Home, his pretty residence in Scotland,” Lauren captioned her Instagram put up from the journey, which could be seen here.

Moreover, in November 2022, they awarded Dolly Parton with a $100 million grant as part of her Courage and Civility Award. They gifted her the cash to disperse to organizations and charities she wish to assist. “I attempt to put my cash the place my coronary heart is. I’ll do my finest to do good issues with this cash,” Dolly mentioned in a November tweet after she was honored by Jeff and Lauren in particular person.

I attempt to put my cash the place my coronary heart is. I’ll do my finest to do good issues with this cash ❤️ Thanks @JeffBezos #LaurenSanchez https://t.co/8RHh51z3jT

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) November 13, 2022

Lauren spoke about her and Jeff’s activism to the WSJ and mentioned they plan to donate way more cash throughout their lifetimes, however famous they may be certain that to take action strategically. “You wish to give cash away and also you wish to know that it’s serving to individuals and it’s going to proceed to assist individuals and that it’s going to the appropriate locations,” she defined. “You might give it not-strategically. You may simply give it away! However, we take it severely.”

Lauren Is ‘Nervous’ to Fly Into Area

The lady of many passions obtained her pilot license in 2016 and even based Black Ops Aviation, an aerial movie manufacturing firm. “I had my job, I had a profession, after which I discovered a calling. I cherished leisure and I cherished filming, and so I acquired to mix all of it,” Lauren informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2017.

Regardless of her flight expertise and keenness, she admitted to the WSJ that she is a bit “nervous” to go to house in 2024. Nevertheless, she additionally mentioned she is raring to go as nicely, particularly as a result of it’s an all-female journey. “It’s going to be girls who’re making a distinction on the planet and who’re impactful and have a message to ship,” she proudly acknowledged. In the meantime, she gushed that Jeff is “thrilled” about her first trip into house. “He’ll be cheering us all on from the sidelines,” she famous.