Kelly Clarkson deliberate a heartfelt reunion for As we speak‘s Willie Geist on her eponymous discuss present.
Geist recalled assembly his spouse, Christina, after they have been sixth-grade classmates on the Wednesday, June 18, episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present. “We have been buddies for a very long time, then we began courting our junior yr in highschool,” he shared. “After which, we truly went to school collectively, broke up in our twenties, as we lived in numerous cities, after which discovered one another once more later. So, it wasn’t a straight line right through, which I feel in the long term labored out higher.”
When requested who launched the pair, Geist credited his sixth-grade trainer, Mr. Kaplan. To his shock, Clarkson shocked him by revealing his former trainer was within the present’s studio viewers.
“Willie, you’ll be able to think about my shock that I’m right here as we speak [on] The Kelly Clarkson Present,” Kaplan stated to his previous pupil. “I received a name from them to return right here. I used to be very pleased to do it. I haven’t seen you in, what, 39 years? I do know I’ve modified rather a lot, however so have you ever.”
Kaplan added, “I don’t know whether or not it was kismet or karma that introduced you and Christina collectively in my homeroom [but] I had nothing to do with it.”
Along with thanking Kaplan for laying the groundwork of his marriage, Geist famous that he thought Christina was “cute” when he first met her as the brand new child at school. “With out Mr. Kaplan, with out that homeroom, there’s no me and Christina,” Geist stated earlier than he, Clarkson, and the present’s viewers gave Kaplan a spherical of applause.
Geist and his spouse tied the knot in 2003 and have become dad and mom with the start of their daughter, Lucie, in 2007. The couple grew their household once more by welcoming their son, George, in 2009. Geist started filling in for Matt Lauer and different As we speak hosts on the NBC morning present the next yr earlier than formally becoming a member of the sequence as a third-hour cohost in 2012.
Geist has been internet hosting Sunday As we speak since 2016, on which he covers the most recent information and sits down with popular culture’s largest stars for his well-known “Sunday Sitdown” interviews. In current months, Geist has stepped in as a As we speak With Jenna & Pals cohost following Hoda Kotb‘s departure from As we speak earlier this yr.
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