Now 58 years old, Lemon spoke to People magazine about her marriage “I’m a last-minute person, and there are a lot of things I just don’t worry about. But this one I’m secretly busy with, but I’ll let Tim take the reins because he’s very good at planning.”

The Don Lemon story

Malone and Lemon were already 5 years engaged, just before the Covid-19 pandemic began, with the couple having met in 2017. Lemon opened up about his private life in his 2011 memoir, ‘Transparent,‘ mentioning that people close to him and in the media knew of his preferences before doing so publicly.

In 2023, Lemon was fired from his position at CNN after several allegations of misogynistic behavior with several female colleagues over the years.

“We wanted to make a public statement, and we wanted to involve our loved ones,” Malone told People magazine. “For a lot of them, it’s going to be their first gay wedding.”

As expected, there were some celebrity guests including Matt Lauer, Clive Davis, Joy Behar, Tamron Hall, Dana BashAlec, and Hilaria Baldwin.

While opening up on how everything happened, Lemon wrote a social media post on why he couldn’t refuse “He gave me a present on his birthday, How could I say no?”