{"id":2244764,"date":"2026-01-21T23:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244764"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:24:58","slug":"wanted-to-make-it-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wanted-to-make-it-official\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wanted to Make It Official&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section id=\"cb-4b1a6c4d2389702c78906a660c38c21d\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"image-block image-block-aspect-2by3 \">\n<div class=\"img-container image-block__img-container \">\n          <br \/>\n                      <span class=\"media-credit image-block__media-credit\">Instagram<\/span>\n                            <\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-4b1a6c4d2389702c78906a660c38c21d--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-cd8bbc8c94c1028b46f089f02636c2ce\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>\u201cWheel of Fortune\u2019s\u201d Vanna White and her longtime love John Donaldson have gotten hitched!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-cd8bbc8c94c1028b46f089f02636c2ce--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-7ee26550c75745d395dc6f5fb5349a17\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>On Wednesday, White announced the marriage on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTyQ3pskii5\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-7ee26550c75745d395dc6f5fb5349a17--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-2919e8b9649c1a878ef61162030d9ca1\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>She wrote, \u201cSurprise! We got married!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-2919e8b9649c1a878ef61162030d9ca1--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-1eb2e336cfabd1b46c77cff71ce0779d\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>\u201cJohn and I have been in love for more than a decade, and a little while back, we wanted to make it official in a private ceremony,\u201d Vanna went on. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to share this new, joyful chapter in our lives with all of you! Love, Vanna and John.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-1eb2e336cfabd1b46c77cff71ce0779d--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-1b10b49c58542bf78384a87dfd7d45d8\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>In 2023, Vanna explained why they hadn\u2019t married yet.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-1b10b49c58542bf78384a87dfd7d45d8--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-2634def3405677b6151df861823f0f1a\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>She told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/why-vanna-white-has-not-wed-boyfriend-john-donaldson-exclusive-8357838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People magazine<\/a>, \u201cI mean, we\u2019ve been together 12 years, and I feel like we are married. Do we have to get married? No, because we feel comfortable in our relationship. You know what I mean? I know that he\u2019s the one. He knows I\u2019m the one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-2634def3405677b6151df861823f0f1a--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-3abf88270f2c7a938a8787ba85e57d88\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>Vanna and John met in 2012 through a mutual friend.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-3abf88270f2c7a938a8787ba85e57d88--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-0b8ca3932693d861c6f714dd4c0593ee\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>Seven years later, she told People magazine, \u201cI remember looking at him and thinking, \u2018He\u2019s really cute.\u2019 We ended up talking for a long time that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-0b8ca3932693d861c6f714dd4c0593ee--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-84027184050fa932c2c061e0edbc2433\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<p>At the time, she noted that their relationship \u201cjust works,\u201d adding, \u201cHe lets me be me, I let him be him&#8230; There is no drama in our relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-84027184050fa932c2c061e0edbc2433--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-73e849e6a3601c76dd348af2cc7a63a3\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \">\n<p>Vanna was previously married to restauranteur George Santo Pietro for 12 years until 2002.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-73e849e6a3601c76dd348af2cc7a63a3--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source extratv.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram \u201cWheel of Fortune\u2019s\u201d Vanna White and her longtime love John Donaldson have gotten hitched! On Wednesday, White announced the marriage on Instagram. She wrote, \u201cSurprise! We got married!\u201d \u201cJohn and I have been in love for more than a decade, and a little while back, we wanted to make it official in a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[434480,346633],"class_list":["post-2244764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-john-donaldson","tag-vanna-white"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wanted-to-Make-It-Official.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244766,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244764\/revisions\/2244766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}