Are Maury Povich & Connie Chung Still Together? The Latest on Their Marriage
Three years after retiring and ending his talk show, Maury Povich is back in the ABC docuseries Dirty Talk: When Daytime Talk Shows Ruled TV. The three-part series explores “the rise, fall, and lasting impact of the most sensational era in television talk show history.” After more than 30 years on daytime television, Povich has first-hand insight to offer.
The 86-year-old former talk show host is keeping busy with his podcast, On Par With Maury Povich, which premiered in 2025, but what about his love life? He famously married fellow TV star Connie Chung, now 79, in 1984, but where do they stand now? Scroll down for the latest.
Are Maury Povich and Connie Chung still married?
Yes, the couple celebrated 40 years of marriage in 2024 and are still going strong. Their most recent public appearance was at a SiriusXM event that celebrated Andy Cohen in October 2025 (pictured below).
Povich discussed their years-long relationship on the Today show in April 2025. “If you have a spouse in the same profession, there’s a lot more understanding about what’s going on, and I think that really helps,” he admitted.
He also told People in 2020, “We’ve always respected each other’s careers, and we’ve always respected each other’s space and values. There’s no need for any do-overs. Maybe that’s the reason why we’re still married.” Chung agreed, adding, “I would go back and relive every moment.”
On his podcast in 2025, Povich explained, “We were never, ever jealous of each other in our careers. Even when she was a big news anchor, and I was just in local television. We were never that way. I always believed for the longest time, and still do, and maybe this is why our marriage is successful, is my name around New York City is Mr. Chung. That’s the way I started out. She had all of the rep, she had all of the popularity, and I was Mr. Chung.”
How did Maury Povich and Connie Chung meet?
Povich and Chung first met in 1969 when they were both working at a local news station in Washington, D.C. At the time, she was the News Director’s secretary, while he was reporting the news and doing a talk show, which he revealed on The View.
Povich admitted that he “didn’t pay any attention” to his now-wife at first, but she started catching people’s eyes when a job opened up on the writing desk, and she asked the News Director if she could fill it. “He says, ‘You can’t get the job until you replace yourself [as my secretary],'” Povich recalled. “She walks out of the newsroom, across the street into the bank, looks at the first woman teller, and says, ‘You want to be in TV? Come with me.’ And that’s how she started her career.”
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After about two years, Chung left the station to start working at CBS in Washington in 1971. The two didn’t reconnect until Chung was working in Los Angeles and Povich got hired at her station.
“I worked in five different cities in seven years, and one of the cities was L.A.,” he shared. “She was the big anchor supersta,r and I was her second banana. I got hired, and six months later, they change managers, and I get fired. I always say, ‘In honor for Connie Chung to love you, she must first pity you.’ She was the only one I knew in L.A., so she kind of pitied me, and we started dating.”
By the time Povich relocated to L.A., he had gotten a divorce from his first wife, Phyllis Minkoff, which opened the door for him to begin a relationship with Chung. The couple told People in 2020 that they dated “non-exclusively” for seven years before their 1984 wedding.
Do Maury Povich and Connie Chung have kids?
Povich and Chung have one child, an adopted son named Matthew Jay Povich. They adopted Matthew in 1995.
Povich explained on the Dumb Blonde podcast in November 2025 that he and his wife tried to have a child of their own before adopting. “This is over 30 years ago. Connie had to take time off from CBS, and it became a big story that we were trying to get pregnant,” he shared, while also remembering how “everybody was making fun” of them, wondering, “Are Maury and Connie doing it tonight?”
“There was all kinds of press and all kinds of stuff, so we finally adopted because we couldn’t do it,” Povich admitted. “It’s tough.”
Even once the adoption process got underway, the pair still hit some roadblocks. “Connie says to the lawyer that we hired, ‘So, we want a child who is half Chinese and half Jewish,'” Povich explained. “And the lawyer says, ‘You won’t live long enough. Nobody comes up like that. It’s not gonna happen.'”
In a 2024 essay for Business Insider, Chung confirmed that she and Povich sought “extraordinary measures,” including in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and artificial insemination, to have a child.”Daily injections and the extraction of my eggs under anesthesia on a strict schedule made traveling for stories a logistical nightmare,” Chung revealed. “My age and workload were working against me.”
Chung eventually learned that autoimmune issues were causing her to reject the embryos she and her husband created, which is when they chose to adopt instead.
Povich also shares daughters Susan Povich and Amy Povich with Minkoff. Through Susan and Amy, he has four grandchildren.
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