Personal Life
Roker's wife, his third, is fellow journalist Deborah Roberts, who has reported for both ABC and NBC, meeting Roker when she joined the latter in 1990 as a reporter. Roker has three children.
On November 7, 2010, he ran in the ING New York City Marathon.
In the July 2011 issue of Us Weekly in 25 Things You Did not Know About Me, Roker is a first cousin to late actress Roxie Roker (Helen Willis character on The Jeffersons television series) and a second cousin of rocker Lenny Kravitz.
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