Lauren Sánchez had a star-studded love life lengthy earlier than she obtained engaged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2023. She was beforehand married to leisure mogul Patrick Whitesell from 2005 to 2019, and collectively, they’ve two youngsters. Sánchez additionally has a son, who grew as much as be attractive, from her previous relationship with NFL legend Tony Gonzalez. She and the soccer tight finish dated throughout his time with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs again within the early aughts. They welcomed their son, Nikko Gonzalez, in 2001, however their relationship fizzled out shortly after Nikko was born.

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Since then, the pair has remained on good phrases as they proceed to boost Nikko collectively. In 2023, Sánchez mentioned their co-parenting relationship in an interview with the The Wall Avenue Journal about her and Bezos’ blended household. “Tony and his spouse Tobie are my greatest pals,” she gushed. “It wasn’t all the time that manner. There was friction [at the beginning]. However Tony and Tobie had been at Thanksgiving with us [this year], and we’re actually good pals.”

After splitting from Sánchez, Tony married his spouse, TV character October “Tobie” Gonzalez, in 2007, with whom he has welcomed three extra youngsters. In accordance with Sánchez, it was roughly 5 years earlier than she and Tony established the sort of co-parenting bond they’ve at this time, of which she is proud. “I am not saying that being greatest pals together with your ex is the end-all be-all. However you do want to have the ability to talk,” she informed WSJ. “My son seems at me, and he is like, ‘I am the luckiest boy on the earth as a result of I can have Thanksgiving with each my dad and mom they usually do not must be married.'”

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For Tony Gonzalez’s forty ninth birthday in 2025, Lauren Sánchez took to Instagram to have fun her ex-boyfriend, sharing a throwback snap of the NFL star with their son, Nikko Gonzalez. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF THE BEST DADS EVER!!!” she captioned the picture, in response to a earlier report by the Each day Mail. The previous Fox Information anchor additionally uploaded photographs of herself with Tony, his spouse, and Jeff Bezos throughout Nikko’s school commencement in 2024. “Nikko I’m so pleased with you! Congratulations to Class of 2024,” Sánchez wrote. “I could not assist however get emotional. We love you!”

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After Sánchez and Bezos went public in 2019, Tony expressed his help for the pair throughout a sit-down interview with Additional’s Billy Bush. “I am comfortable for them,” he stated. “I keep out of their private lives, but it surely’s been nice.” Of his co-parenting association with Sánchez, he added, “It is nice. … Clearly, we share Nikko. He’ll school subsequent 12 months, I will miss him.”

After 17 seasons within the NFL, Tony introduced his retirement from soccer in 2013 to give attention to life exterior the sector. He has since traded his cleats for the microphone, turning into a sports activities analyst for CBS and Fox Sports activities and attempting his hand at appearing. You would possibly acknowledge Tony as Particular Agent Tony Francis on “NCIS” or in BET’s “Lengthy Sluggish Exhale.” “I used to be simply finished,” the Chiefs legend confessed on “Arrowhead Addict” podcast in 2021. “Soccer is hard. … It’s a psychological and bodily drain on your self and your loved ones, and it is price it — I am not complaining about it. But it surely simply ran its course for me.” 

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