How Today’s Craig Melvin Scored a Winning Partner in Sportscaster Wife Lindsay Czarniak

Craig Melvin talks for a living, but he forgot his words for a second when he met his future wife, Lindsay Czarniak.

The Today co-anchor knew who Czarniak was when he joined Washington, D.C.’s NBC affiliate WRC-TV in 2008, where she already worked as a sportscaster, but she had been in Beijing covering the Olympics when Melvin started at the station. One night they were coming back from commercial and he was expecting to see the guy who’d been filling in for her, but she was there instead.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, hey, uh,’ and so I got a little tongue-tied,” Melvin recalled to Today host Jenna Bush-Hager in November. “I was like, ‘Hey, welcome back from the Olympics,’ and she’s like, ‘Welcome to Channel 4, loser.'”

But, he quickly clarified, “She didn’t say ‘loser.'”

And because they were in the middle of a broadcast, cameras were rolling the whole time.