‘Dateline NBC’ correspondent Keith Morrison is married to Suzanne Perry, who’s the mother of every other NBC famous person: ‘Friends’ alum Matthew Perry.
As Chandler Bing might say, could we be more stunned? Dateline NBC correspondent Keith Morrison, who has reported for the newsmagazine for greater than two decades now, has every other NBC star as a stepson.
You see, Keith is married to Suzanne Perry. And in addition to being a creator, guide, and former press secretary to then-Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Suzanne is also the mother of Friends big name Matthew Perry.
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Keith and Suzanne married in 1981, and so they each had kids on the time: Matthew, Suzanne’s son with actor John Bennett Perry, and Michael, Keith’s son from a previous marriage. They’ve since welcomed 4 extra kids—Caitlin, Emily, Will, and Madeline—and so they had four grandkids at the time of a 2020 People interview.
“There’s no describing what a surprise it is,” Keith advised the magazine. “When we’re all together, it’s just a brew that it's essential to not mix, no matter how onerous you attempted if you happen to did it by hand.”
Matthew is “an intense, proficient, focused personality,” Keith mentioned.
The journalist instructed People that Matthew has at all times been “the middle of the room for a reason,” even all the way through the long run actor’s adolescence. “I used to take him off to his hockey video games on Saturday mornings,” Keith recalled. “It was like Matthew and the hockey team. He used to be the person who scored all the objectives. He was once the fellow.”
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Matthew was an overachiever in different pursuits, too. “He used to be extremely, extraordinarily good at the tennis court and very intense,” Keith mentioned. “He’s an intense, talented, focused persona. He’s very shiny. That was always the case as he was growing up.”
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Keith also noticed that position of Chandler matched Matthew’s “particular humorousness.”
The Dateline mainstay also informed People that Matthew was “wondering” his appearing profession on the time he landed his function in Friends, the ‘90s sitcom that became him and his cast mates into international superstars.
“Then, abruptly, boy did it ever [work out],” Keith added. “1,000,000 things have sprung from that, however him being decided on for a task like that does not wonder me one bit. It matched his specific sense of humor exactly, whether or not they wrote that for him figuring out what he was like or whether he tailored it more for himself, almost definitely a combination of the two. But that character is Matthew. Yeah, and it always has been him.”
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Keith stated that Matthew is “only a gifted soul, a wise man,” and he and Suzanne “love having him around.”
In a 2017 look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Keith mentioned that he did assume Matthew would develop up to be well-known however “almost definitely now not as an actor.”
And when host Andy Cohen requested if there are any perks to being Matthew’s stepdad, the 74-year-old answered, “Where should I start? There are dozens of them.”
One of the ones perks? The Porsche 911 sports activities automotive that Matthew as soon as proficient to pricey outdated stepdad. “I still drive it round,” Keith mentioned.
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