Lauren Sanchez is an Emmy-winning television host and longtime love of Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos. She’s about to get a promotion on that last title, as Page Six reported that Jeff popped the question to his longtime girlfriend. Lauren and Jeff are engaged and will reportedly get married in December 2024 in an expensive wedding.
One might wonder if Jeff and Lauren might become the first couple married in space. Lauren revealed in a Jan. 25, 2023 interview with the Wall Street Journal that Jeff’s space company, Blue Origin, plans to send an all-female crew into space in 2024 and that she will be leading it. Just a few months before in Nov. 2022, she told CNN she would make it into space in 2023 — two years after her partner first left Earth’s atmosphere.
Lauren, 55, doesn’t only share an interest in space with the 60-year-old entrepreneur, though. They are both passionate about climate change, and both have families to raise So, who is Lauren, a woman who wears many hats? Read on to learn about Jeff Bezos’ future wife.
I try to put my money where my heart is. I will do my best to do good things with this money ❤️ Thank you @JeffBezos #LaurenSanchez https://t.co/8RHh51z3jT
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) November 13, 2022
Lauren, Jeff, and Jeff’s ex-wife of 25 years, Mackenzie, had been friendly for years before Jeff and Lauren’s relationship was revealed to the public (which was the same day Jeff and Mackenzie announced their separation). Jeff and Mackenzie’s divorce was settled in April 2019, while Lauren’s separation from Patrick Whitesell was finalized in October of that year. Jeff had also been fairly friendly with Patrick and was even photographed with him and Lauren shortly before Jeff announced his divorce, according to PEOPLE. “Patrick and Lauren have been on and off for a while and have been separated. [Patrick] knew they were seeing each other,” a source told the outlet.
In her chat with The Wall Street Journal, Lauren gushed that she and Jeff enjoy doing everything in life together. “We love to be together and we love to work together. We fly together. We work out together. We’re together all the time,” she said.
She also raved about some of her favorite things about Jeff, who is among the five richest people in the world at the time of this writing. “He’s really funny. He makes me laugh all the time. He can be goofy,” she noted. She later revealed their special Sunday morning ritual: Jeff wakes up early and makes “the best pancakes in the world.”
The New Mexico-born journalist started her professional career as a Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter for Fox News, according to IMDb. She then moved to sports reporting in 1996 and notably hosted the premiere season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2005. She has also worked as an entertainment reporter on Extra and hosted Fox’s Good Day LA between 2011 to 2017. Her on-camera career has also landed her several anchorwoman roles in films and television shows over the years, although she has played a few different characters as well.