Tabloid television legend Maury Povich gave a rare look into his personal life and even blasted fellow city slickers in the process.
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Tabloid television legend Maury Povich gave a rare look into his personal life and even blasted fellow city slickers in the process.The 87-year-old host - who r...
The 87-year-old host - who recently addressed longtime - took to his Instagram to show off how he, wife Connie Chung, and family have enjoyed summers over the last three decades.
He and the 79-year-old journalist call home but spend the hotter months breathing in the crisp mountain air in Big Sky, .
He gave a rare glimpse into his life as he posted a video on Instagram while saying: 'There are a lot of people who ask me from time to time, "So what are you doing this summer?"
'Well, for the last 30 years, we’ve come to Montana — the great State of Montana, the Big Sky country.'
The former host of Maury wanted to make clear to his near 50K followers that he and his family are longtime frequenters of the unincorporated community as he also took a shot at city folk who flocked there during Covid.
Tabloid television legend Maury Povich gave a rare look into his personal life and even blasted fellow city slickers in the process
The 87-year-old host took to his Instagram to show off how he, wife Connie Chung, and family have enjoyed summers over the last three decades
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Povich continued: 'We are not newbies, like a lot of people, during Covid, who came here. They wanted to get out of the big city. They wanted a new kind of life. We’ve been living here for the last 30 years, about four or five months of the year, and it’s great! We’re in Northwest Montana, in Flathead Valley.
'We’re about 40 minutes from what I happen to think is the most beautiful park there is in the country, Glacier National Park, and we live here in the mountains. We kind of like that.'
He and the 79-year-old journalist call New York City home but spend the hotter months breathing in the crisp mountain air in Big Sky, Montana
He gave a rare glimpse into his life as he posted a video on Instagram while saying: 'There are a lot of people who ask me from time to time, "So what are you doing this summer?" 'Well, for the last 30 years, we’ve come to Montana — the great State of Montana, the Big Sky country'
The former host of Maury wanted to make clear to his near 50K followers that he and his family are longtime frequenters of the unincorporated community as he also took a shot at city folk who flocked there during Covid
Povich continued: 'We are not newbies, like a lot of people, during Covid, who came here. They wanted to get out of the big city. They wanted a new kind of life. We’ve been living here for the last 30 years, about four or five months of the year, and it’s great! We’re in Northwest Montana, in Flathead Valley'
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The television personality went on to introduce his followers to his dog Taxi who he said was tired from swimming in the ponds
He has been married to journalist Chung for over four decades as they tied the knot in 1984. They share an adopted son named Matthew Jay Povich; they are seen in June 2022
The admitted that he 'wanted to do some things over the years' but hesitated to do so.
Povich also insisted that he does not wear a wig and said his full head of hair is completely real.
On his podcast, the former talk show host admitted that he 'wanted to do some things over the years' but hesitated to do so
He suggested that he briefly considered it but ultimately had 'zero' plastic surgery
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He was chatting to fellow talk show veteran Ricki Lake on his podcast about 'aging like fine wine'
On their talk show, Lake opened up about her face lift and how she lost 40 pounds in the past
Povich also reflected on how he started in news journalism before becoming a talk show host.
'For the past 30-plus years, everybody has thought of me as a kind of a talk show host who [discusses] certain themes,' he explained.
'That was a great career, and I love the storytelling, and I think that I was able to do successfully because of my earlier career as a journalist and a storyteller when it came to news, and rather traditional talk shows that I did,' he added.
'If I was sitting at a desk back anchoring a newscast, I would never unveil myself. And so this is, I think, a perfect medium.'
