Tony Dokoupil Says Wife Katy Tur Made Him a 'Believer in Love at First Sight': 'I Just Lit Up' (Exclusive) Sean MandellJanuary 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM 0 Tony Dokoupil/Instagram Tony Dokoupil (R) and wife Katy Tur (L) in an Aug. 14, 2024 Instagram post. Tony Dokoupil says his wife, MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, made him "a believer in love at first sight" The CBS Evening News anchor met Tur while working at MSNBC in 2016; the pair eloped in 2017 CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m.
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Tony Dokoupil (R) and wife Katy Tur (L) in an Aug. 14, 2024 Instagram post. -
Tony Dokoupil says his wife, MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, made him "a believer in love at first sight"
The CBS Evening News anchor met Tur while working at MSNBC in 2016; the pair eloped in 2017
CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m. local time
Tony Dokoupil credits his wife, MS NOW host Katy Tur, with giving him a new outlook on love.
Speaking with PEOPLE ahead of his first broadcast as anchor of CBS Evening News, Dokoupil, 45, says a passing encounter with Tur, 42, during their time working at MSNBC in 2016 made him "a believer in love at first sight."
"She came around the corner of this long hallway at 30 Rock, and our eyes locked. It was totally unexpected," the former CBS Mornings co-host recalls. "I just lit up, and she lit up, and we were in a music video, and from that moment on, I was like, 'This is electric.' Something is special here."
Tur asked him out first because "she was tired of waiting for me," Dokoupil admits. He later proposed in their New York City apartment. The couple eloped in Utah in October 2017.
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Katy Tur and Tony Dokoupil
"Our thinking was if you take a small fraction of the cost of the average American wedding and you just pour it into a weekend getaway for two people, you could have a lot of fun," Dokoupil says of the decision to elope.
"She's made me the luckiest man on the face of the earth," he adds. "I wish it for everybody, I really do."
He explains Tur technically first saw him a little before their hallway encounter while he was on air.
"I made an appearance [on Al Sharpton's show] as an environmental writer for the website, and Katie saw it in the makeup room," he says. "Lucky for me, the sound was off, so she couldn't tell I was terrible at TV. She just saw my image and she thought, 'Oh, I'm interested in that guy.'"
She was introduced to him after his segment, but he admits he was "so oblivious and in my own head about how bad I was at TV that it didn't occur to me until that night that maybe she introduced herself to me because something was sparking."
The pair welcomed their first child together, son Theodore "Teddy" Dokoupil, 6, on April 13, 2019. Two years later, their daughter, Eloise Judy Bear Dokoupil, 4, arrived on May 13, 2021.
In addition to Theodore and Eloise, Dokoupil has two children from a previous marriage — a son, 16, and a daughter, 13 — who currently live in Israel with their mother (she and the journalist divorced in 2015).
Dokoupil moved to CBS News in 2016 and, in 2019, joined CBS Mornings, where he co-hosted the daily broadcast alongside Gayle King and Nate Burleson. Prior to the official launch of CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil on Monday, Jan. 5, the newsman anchored a special edition of CBS Evening News on Saturday, Jan. 3, following the U.S. strike in Venezuela and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
He's also made headlines in his few days on air. On Jan. 5, he mixed up a segment transition when he started speaking about Gov. [Tim] Walz, as an image of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly appeared on the screen. "No, we're gonna do Mark Kelly. First day, first day, big problems here," he said.
On Jan. 6, he kicked off his "Live from America" tour in Miami and got emotional, wiping away tears while talking about his return to the city where he lived as a child.
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Tony Dokoupil in Los Angeles during the Palisades fire, Jan 2025
"Florida is where I grew up," Dokoupil explained.
"We didn't get a lot of sleep," he said as he explained how he felt "robbed of the full Miami experience" after he moved away when he was a child.
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Elsewhere in Tuesday's broadcast, Dokoupil sparked controversy for paying tribute to Trump's Miami-born secretary of state, who is at the center of the administration's aggressive actions in Venezuela, ending the broadcast, "Marco Rubio, we salute you. You're the ultimate Florida man."
The CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m. local time.
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Published: January 09, 2026 at 11:36PM on Source: MORNING MAG
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