AL ROKER’S EMOTIONAL FAMILY SECRET SLIPS OUT LIVE ON AIR — The Today Show Weatherman Unexpectedly Reveals His Daughter Leila Quietly Married In Europe, Leaving Fans Shocked By How Long The Family Kept The Celebration Private. What started as a routine discussion about a dangerous hantavirus outbreak suddenly turned deeply personal when Roker casually dropped the life-changing news during a live broadcast.

Leila Roker, the daughter of Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, has married Sylvain Gricourt.

The Today show meteorologist, 71, broke the news himself during the Tuesday, May 12, broadcast. While discussing the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius, Roker mentioned that he had recently returned from Europe for his daughter’s wedding.

“I was coming from Europe this weekend from my daughter’s wedding, and the CDC was asking people to voluntarily test,” Roker said. “But they didn’t say for what, so I just wonder if it was a precaution here.”

Roker also mentioned that Leila and Gricourt would be tying the knot on Mother’s Day weekend during a May 1 interview with Swooon.

“Our daughter, Leila, is getting married, just before Mother’s Day. That Mother’s Day weekend, actually,” Roker told the outlet. “So, that’s kind of her Mother’s Day gift, I guess.”

Leila, 27, and Gricourt announced their engagement in March 2025. The two met seven years prior, a year after Leila moved to Paris to study at the American University of Paris, she said in an Instagram post at the time.

“8 years ago, I moved to Paris 🇫🇷, 7 years ago I met my person and best friend 💖, and 2 days ago, that person took me on the most amazing surprise trip to Venice 🇮🇹 to ask me to spend the rest of our lives together 💍 💕💕,” Leila wrote alongside a collection of photos from the Venice restaurant where Gricourt proposed.

Al also celebrated the engagement news last March by sharing more photos from Gricourt’s proposal. “We could not be happier, and look forward to planning for these two wonderful young folks coming together,” the Today show meteorologist wrote.

During a stop on Live with Kelly and Mark in October, Roberts, 65, said Leila and Gricourt planned to have a small wedding in Paris before hosting a bigger ceremony in the U.S., where “we’ll blow the budget.”

“We have to do a small ceremony in France because she lives in Paris,” Roberts explained. “And so they have to do something small there, and I said, ‘Let’s keep it teeny tiny’— and then she wants to come home.”

In May, Roberts told PEOPLE she was “excited to go dress shopping” with Leila, and was also excited to see her daughter “so happy.”

Al and Roberts are also parents to son Nick, 23. Al also shares daughter Courtney, 37, with his late ex-wife, Alice Bell. Courtney and Wesley Laga married in June 2021 and welcomed daughter Sky Clara Laga in July 2023.