Willie Geist

TODAY anchor Willie Geist and his wife Christina attend the "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's" event at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Nov. 9, 2013. Geist's father has been battling Parkinson’s disease.

TODAY show hosts Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Willie Geist and Natalie Morales learn how to dance like Rockettes in New York on Nov. 8, 2013.

Actress Carmen Electra and TODAY host Willie Geist reenact the opening scene from 'Baywatch' on Oct. 31, 2013. Willie Geist dressed as David Hasselhoff’s character Mitch Buchannon in TODAY's Throwback Thursday Halloween spectacular, as the anchors celebrated their favorite classic TV characters.

Willie Geist and TODAY anchors Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Natalie Morales take part in the show's "Summer Camp" competition on July 11.

Willie Geist works the crowd on the plaza in March 2012. The host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and "Way Too Early" became co-anchor of the 9 a.m. hour of TODAY in Oct. 2012.

Willie Geist appears on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" with Tiffani Thiessen in July 2012.

Natalie Morales and Willie Geist appear on TODAY on July 5, 2012.

Willie Geist was named permanent co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in September 2007.

Amy Roloff, left, and Matt Roloff of TLC's "Little People, Big World" talk with Willie Geist in TODAY on Feb. 16, 2012.

Willie Geist talks with Mitt Romney and Tom Brokaw at Java Joe’s in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 4, 2012.

Musician Elvis Costello chats with Willie Geist in the green room before "Morning Joe" on Nov. 3, 2010.

Willie on his first day of "Way Too Early," in 2009.

On May 24, 2003, Geist married his high-school sweetheart, Christina Sharkey, in Humacao, Puerto Rico. The couple has a daughter and a son.

Author and journalist Bill Geist and son Willie Geist at Bill's Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony on April 15, 2011.

Willie Geist appears on TODAY to talk about his best-selling book "American Freak Show" in October 2010.

Willie strikes a pose; at Ridgewood High in N.J., he was captain of the football and basketball teams.

Willie Geist was 17 when he was photographed at home with his mother, Jody (left), sister, Libby, and father, Bill Geist (right).

Geist was born in Evanston, Illinois, to author, columnist, and current CBS News correspondent Bill Geist and social worker Jody Geist.