It appears folks wish to know: How outdated is Vanna White? Sufficiently old to know that John Donaldson, her beau of greater than a decade, was the person she needed to marry.
The 2 have tied the knot in a shock ceremony, the “Wheel of Fortune” co-host wrote on Instagram.
“Shock! We obtained married!” White, 68, mentioned in a Wednesday publish. “John and I’ve been in love for greater than a decade and a short time again, we needed to make it official in a personal ceremony. We’re excited to share this new joyful chapter in our lives with all of you!”
The message got here with a photograph of Donaldson carrying his bride below an arched walkway, plus a couple of pics from alongside their glad courtship.
She’s identified he was her eternally man for some time, it appears.
“We’ve been collectively 12 years, and I really feel like we’re married,” White informed Folks in 2023. “Do we have now to get married? No, as a result of we really feel comfy in our relationship. You recognize what I imply? I do know that he’s the one. He is aware of I’m the one.”
Calling Donaldson “the male model” of her, she added, “We get alongside so effectively. He’s straightforward. He’s straightforward, and he lets me be me, and I let him be him.”
The 2 met in 2012 when a good friend invited him to a barbecue she was attending, Folks reported. They wound up speaking all evening.
White has been turning letters on “Wheel of Fortune” since 1982, when she was 25. When co-host Pat Sajak retired in 2024 after greater than 4 a long time on the present, Ryan Seacrest took over co-hosting duties, regardless of some followers hoping White would get the job.
She was beforehand married to George Santo Pietro from 1990 to 2002. The 2 share son Nicholas “Nikko” Santo Pietro, 31, an actual property agent; and daughter Giovanna “Gigi” Santo Pietro, 28, a tattoo artist.
Donaldson, 60, was born in Santa Monica and got here up by means of the development ranks as a carpenter. Constructing on expertise gained after the Northridge earthquake, he in the end began his personal firm, JDC Building and Improvement Group, based on its web site. The corporate makes a speciality of restoration and rehab of older multifamily buildings in addition to constructing multifamily initiatives from the bottom up.
