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Maury Povich says wife Connie Chung was “making 10 times” his income when they were married in 1984.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
When playfully referred to as a “gold digger” in a recent interview, the talk show icon remarked, “Absolutely.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The super-couple, who once coanchored a Los Angeles news program together, have remained happily married for 42 years and have raised three children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Go ahead and call Maury Povich<\/a> a gold digger. He wears the label with pride.<\/p>\n The tabloid TV icon got candid about the early days of his decades-long relationship with the equally iconic broadcast news journalist Connie Chung<\/a> in a conversation with Adam Friedland, a member of the rising class of talk show hosts, for Interview<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “You have the best life ever,” Friedland told the 87-year-old, who responded, “Only because I married Connie Chung.”<\/p>\n When Friedland playfully threw the “gold digger” badge his way, Povich happily pinned it to his vest: “Absolutely. My wife was making 10 times what I was making when we got married. How\u2019s that?”<\/p>\n Povich and Chung married in 1984, seven years before Povich would become a household name as the host of his eponymous talk show. He had worked as a reporter and broadcast news anchor for two decades before that, even coanchoring a segment on the Los Angeles CBS affiliate KNXT with Chung for a number of months in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n Chung’s path was similar to Povich’s; though her career began about a decade after his and shot into the stratosphere in half the time. By 1984, Chung was working for CBS as a national anchor of the programs “NBC News at Sunrise” and the Saturday edition of “NBC Nightly News.” When Tom Brokaw was out, it was Chung who’d fill in.<\/p>\n Povich and Chung have remained married for 42 years, rearing three children in that time \u2014Susan and Amy, Povich’s daughters with his first wife, Phyllis Minkoff, and Matthew, a son Povich and Chung welcomed via adoption.<\/p>\n The couple worked on the air together again in 2005, when MSNBC launched the weekend news program Weekends with Maury and Connie<\/em>. The series was canceled just a year later, but Povich and Chung remain each other’s biggest cheerleaders.<\/p>\n Chung enthusiastically helped Maury announce the launch of his podcast<\/a>, On Par with Maury Povich<\/em>, in a sweet video jointly shared by the couple on Instagram last March.<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “Hey Maury, you’re launching a podcast,” Chung tells him in the video. “Maury, on pod, par,” she struggles to say, but eventually gets the title right with Povich’s encouragement.<\/p>\n When she appeared as the first guest on that podcast the following month, Chung asked her husband when he feels “sexiest.”<\/a> Povich replied, “On Sundays,” prompting Chung to suggestively joke, “Never <\/em>on Sunday.”<\/p>\n “Not in our<\/em> house,” Povich insisted. “It’s always been, everyone says, ‘Can we play golf on Sunday?’ Nope. Sundays [are] with Connie.”<\/p>\n Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n