Maury Povich opens up about marriage to broadcast pioneer Connie Chung

Maury Povich is giving full credit to his wife, Connie Chung, for the life they’ve built together, jokingly calling himself a “gold digger” along the way.

In a candid conversation with comedian Adam Friedland for Interview magazine, the 87-year-old television personality explained that his life as a “snowbird,” splitting time between Florida, New York, and Montana, is possible “only because I married Connie Chung.”

When Friedland teased him about being a gold digger, Povich didn’t skip a beat. “Absolutely,” he said, before revealing, “My wife was making 10 times what I was making when we got married. How’s that?”

The couple met at WTTG in Washington, D.C., where Povich was starting his television career and Chung, now 79, was an aspiring journalist.

Chung later became the first female co-anchor of CBS Evening News and the first Asian American to anchor a major network newscast, while Povich transitioned into daytime talk, eventually hosting the controversial yet iconic Maury show.

“After bouncing around the country from job to job, I ended up in Los Angeles by 1977, and at that time, I was the second banana to Connie,” Povich recalled in a 2020 interview. “Connie was the big anchor star at the CBS affiliate, and I was her co-act before they cleaned house.”

The couple dated for seven years before tying the knot in 1984 and later adopted their son Matthew in 1995. Povich also has two children, Susan and Amy, from his first marriage.

Despite Povich’s often sensational Maury segments, Chung has been a steadfast supporter.

“More than anything else, Connie was a big supporter and she loved it,” he told People in January 2026. “I accepted people as they are, I was never judging them.”

On maintaining a strong marriage for over four decades, Povich told Today in 2025, “If we’re arguing, if there’s a big argument going on, when your head hits the pillow at night, it’s over. You start fresh the next day.”

He added, “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.”