Brian Damage
01-19-2011, 11:50 PM
TV LEGEND: Richard Dawson married a contestant from the Family Feud.
STATUS: True
Richard Dawson was the original host of the very popular game show, the Family Feud, where two teams (each team consisting of five family members) would compete against each other based on their knowledge of what 100 Family Feud audience members would respond to different questions, such as “Name a U.S. President” or “Name something you save up for.”
In a 1981 episode, there was a very special guest…Richard Dawson’s future wife!
Yep, in 1991, Richard Dawson ended up marrying one of the contestants that he first met when she appeared as a contestant on the Family Feud ten years earlier!! The 78-year-old Dawson is still married to Gretchen (born Gretchen Johnson) and they have a 20-year-old daughter, Shannon Nicole Dawson.
Isn’t that neat?
It’s a fun way to meet your future in-laws, at the very least (even if they didn’t know that at the time)!
http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2011/01/14/tv-legends-revealed-35/
STATUS: True
Richard Dawson was the original host of the very popular game show, the Family Feud, where two teams (each team consisting of five family members) would compete against each other based on their knowledge of what 100 Family Feud audience members would respond to different questions, such as “Name a U.S. President” or “Name something you save up for.”
In a 1981 episode, there was a very special guest…Richard Dawson’s future wife!
Yep, in 1991, Richard Dawson ended up marrying one of the contestants that he first met when she appeared as a contestant on the Family Feud ten years earlier!! The 78-year-old Dawson is still married to Gretchen (born Gretchen Johnson) and they have a 20-year-old daughter, Shannon Nicole Dawson.
Isn’t that neat?
It’s a fun way to meet your future in-laws, at the very least (even if they didn’t know that at the time)!
http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2011/01/14/tv-legends-revealed-35/