60 Minutes has a legacy of long-lasting correspondents, including Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Bill Whitaker.

Off-screen, hosts Pelley and Whitaker are married, while Stahl's longtime husband, journalist and screenwriter Aaron Latham, died of Parkinson's Disease in 2022.

The broadcast also features Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim, Cecilia Vega and Norah O’Donnell, who have all been in public relationships.

The CBS news magazine broadcast — which airs on Sunday evenings — reports in-depth stories about politics, health and pop culture, among other topics.

In April, 60 Minutes had a shake-up when executive producer Bill Owens announced that he would be stepping down after 22 years. After the news broke, in a segment of “The Last Minute,” Pelley insinuated that the show’s parent company, Paramount Global, had started to push back on some of their segments, especially those about the current Trump administration.


Here’s everything to know about the real-life partners of the 60 Minutes correspondents.

Scott Pelley and Jane Boone

Scott Pelley, who has been with CBS News since 1989 and with 60 Minutes since 2004, has his own newsworthy romance with his wife, Jane Boone.

She first saw Pelley when she was studying journalism at Southern Methodist University, as she explained to New Canaan-Darien Magazine in 2010.

Boone later began interning at the same local news station as Pelley and they started dating.

“In the beginning, it was just very natural," she told the magazine. "He liked my friends, and you can kind of tell that way. He was very different from any of the guys I ever dated. When I met him, he was hang gliding and always taking pictures and developing them."

Boone continued, "He had so many interests. As a student I could get half-price tickets to the opera, and it was hard finding someone to go with, but he’d say, ‘Oh my gosh, the opera! Let’s go!’ He was a scuba diver, so I got certification so we could go diving together.”

After Boone graduated from college, she started working at a rival Dallas news station. The competition didn't get in the way of their relationship, though, and the couple married in 1983.


"When we got married, it was a story in the Dallas Morning News: ‘Competitors Tie the Knot,' ” she recalled.

Pelley and Boone now share son Reece and daughter Blair.

Lesley Stahl and her late husband Aaron Latham

Lesley Stahl married the late journalist and screenwriter Aaron Latham in 1977.

The couple met in 1973 while he was working at Esquire and she was a CBS reporter. Latham was looking for anecdotes about Watergate and was advised to contact Stahl, whom he called at home.

”'How dare you call me at home? If you want to talk, call me tomorrow at the office,’ she barked, and then slammed down the phone,” Latham recalled to PEOPLE in 1977.

"I thought, ‘She’s so beautiful.’ My heart stopped, my mouth dried up and I said, ‘What have I got myself into?’ ” he recalled.

The two continued to collaborate on projects about President Richard Nixon. When the former president resigned, they realized they enjoyed each other's company.

"Suddenly we started seeing something different from what we had been seeing — almost like the old story of the boss who marries his secretary after 35 years," Stahl said.

Shortly after they began dating, Stahl got pregnant and they married in February 1977. They went on to welcome daughter Taylor in September 1977.

Statham died from complications of Parkinson's Disease on July 23, 2022, at age 78.

"He was a very sweet man. He never got angry," she said during a January 2025 interview at the Annual Symposium on Positive Aging.

Bill Whitaker and Terry Whitaker

Bill Whitaker, who has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 2014, is married to his wife, Terry Whitaker. They have two children together.

The Whitakers lived in Los Angeles for two decades before they moved to New York City for his 60 Minutes gig in 2014. Bill has credited Terry for decorating their N.Y.C. apartment with care.


"It’s primarily my wife," he told The New York Times in 2017. "Some things I have gotten. And there are other things that she has banished. My office has a lot of things that didn’t make the cut."

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper, who has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 2004, was last publicly dating Benjamin Maisani.

The two met in 2009 and confirmed their relationship in 2015 after Cooper came out as gay in 2012. In 2018, the anchor revealed they had broken up.

Despite ending their romantic relationship, Cooper and Maisani decided to platonically co-parent two children.

Cooper had sons Wyatt Morgan Maisani-Cooper in 2020 and Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper in 2022 via surrogate.

"While we were a couple, he wasn't sure he wanted kids, which was one of the issues we'd always had," Cooper told PEOPLE in the first-ever Pride issue in June 2020. "But when I decided, 'I'm just going to do this,' he started to be interested."

Cooper added, "I've always believed that if you've been with somebody and that ends, in terms of an intimate relationship, if you love somebody, there's no reason why that love shouldn't continue."

Cooper confirmed in a September 2023 interview with Howard Stern that while he and Maisani are no longer romantically involved, they live together.

"He's my partner in parenthood," he explained. "We're best friends. We're family. We love these kids." Cooper added that he was "not dating" and was focused on being with his "kids right now."

Sharyn Alfonsi and Matt Eby

Sharyn Alfonsi, who has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 2015, is married to Matthew Eby.

The journalist and her husband, who is a Naval Academy graduate, met in Washington, D.C., through a mutual friend, as she told Meek School Magazine in 2013.

The couple went on to welcome son Wyatt and daughter Flynn. They've raised their family in New York City.

“My son’s first word was ‘TAXI!’ " she told the magazine.

Jon Wertheim and Ellie Wertheim

Jon Wertheim, who started working with 60 Minutes in 2017, has been married to Ellie Wertheim since 1999.

The sports reporter and the lawyer live in the Chelsea neighborhood of N.Y.C. and share two adult children, son Ben and daughter Allegra. Jon shared insight into their lives as empty nesters in a 2023 interview with The New York Times.


“A few years ago, this routine would have been very different: coaching girls’ softball, recitals, trying gently to make sure homework gets done," he said. “Now we’re empty nesters."

Jon and Ellie spend their Sundays going on "very romantic" Trader Joe's dates, as he told the newspaper.

Cecilia Vega and Ricardo Jimenez

Cecilia Vega, who has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 2023, is married to Ricardo Jimenez.

The couple married in August 2008 and celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary in 2020 by adopting a Boston Terrier.

"And on our 12th wedding anniversary ... this happened! 🐶 Welcome to the family Jalisco ❤️ (named after where @ricardozjimenez grew up in Mexico). He is a very (very very) energetic 3-month-old #bostonterrier," she captioned the post.

In March 2021, Vega told PEOPLE how supportive her husband has been of her career.

"By 5, God bless my husband, he's got a cup of coffee in my hand," she said.

Norah O’Donnell and Geoff Tracy

Norah O'Donnell, who has been a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes since 2013, met her husband, Geoff Tracy, when they were in college.

O'Donnell and Tracy were both attending Georgetown University when they met in the cafeteria line during their first week of school.

"In retrospect, it’s a little unbelievable that I met the person I’ve been married to my entire life," Tracy told Georgetown's website in February 2023. "It was kind of a sweet, fun way to meet someone and start a relationship. The rest was history. We’ve got three kids now and two dogs."

They honored their college's role in their love story by getting married at the school's chapel, Dahlgren, on June 9, 2001.

O'Donnell and Tracy later welcomed fraternal twins Grace and Henry in 2007 and daughter Riley in 2008.