todayS ‘ Willie Geist Is he fully aware of his so-called “boyfriend TV” status-but do his children who are living with kings of television know?
“Surely my children are not aware of this,” Geist, 49, said exclusively The weekly As he talked about his income Sitdown Sitdown Live Visitor Ina. “Jenna (Bush Hager) It crowned me in the air, and it was based on someone else … Someone was the internet boyfriend. Something like that. So, I mean, there are other candidates. “
Geist Forever-Humble continued to add that it is “of course an honor” to capture viewers’ loves all over the world, though he is not completely sure what it means to be “boyfriend of TV”.
“I don’t know at all what you mean,” he admitted we. “But whenever Jenna Bush Hager puts you a wreath, you just get it, smile and waves.”
Geist and his wife of over 20 years, Christina, share two children together – daughter Lucie Joy, born in June 2007 and son George William, born in July 2009.
Now that he is the father of two teenagers, Geist admits that while viewers can fall in love from his impressive television career, million dollars and interviewing skills – skills he bowed every week Morning and long Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist – He is seen as the “annoying father” at home.
“I get it because I have a teen daughter, but always come late and I’m the annoying father,” Geist said we of his inquisitive knowledge of pop culture, including his meaning little to not understand current Real housewives Lore
“You can’t jump into the finals and start asking all the questions,” he continued, before he shared that if he had to choose a series of reality reality he was supported The Bachelor.
“I came late with two remaining episodes, and I was like,” I need a complete salvation of who these people are, “he continued SINGLE visibility. “When I look at housewives is when Andy (Cohen) by Look what happens directlyAnd usually I just go directly to him for a debrief, that is, I mean, talk about a great resource. “
When he is not the “annoying father”, Geist is the nostalgic father, it looks. Morning said co-president we For high school graduation “to come faster every day” for his children – especially his daughter – he is remembering the realities of being a parent and seeing your children grow up very quickly.
“It is such a cliché that every parent who has ever had a child will tell you, but after being in it, you really feel it,” he said we. “One minute you are leaving the hospital with a small person in a car spot asking yourself how to do it … and the next minute they are preparing to take measures for a high school lid and dress and you just can’t believe it.”
He went on to his daughter, “and while I am having my father’s feelings, because it is our first to go, I am simply so excited that she goes to do her things and go to do who will be. Because I know it will be someone really, really special.”