Personal Life
Despite Wallace's blood relationship with his father Mike, his stepfather, Bill Leonard, had far more of an impact, Wallace stating that Leonard was "the single most important person in my life." Chris Wallace first developed a relationship with his father in his teens, after his older brother Peter died in 1962 climbing a mountain in Greece.
Chris Wallace has been married twice:
- In 1973, he married Elizabeth Farrell with whom he has four children: Peter, Margaret, Andrew, and Catherine.
- In 1997, he married Lorraine Smothers (nee Martin) (b. 1959), the former wife of comedian Dick Smothers. Lorraine has two children from her marriage to Smothers: Sarah Smothers and Remick Smothers.
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