Vanna White Drops Bombshell: Shocking Revelation Behind 12-Year Romance and Refusal to Wed! After over a decade together, the beloved “Wheel of Fortune” icon has finally revealed the astonishing truth about why she and her partner remain unmarried, sending shockwaves through Hollywood.

Wheel of Fortune’s Vanna White reveals why she doesn’t want to marry her boyfriend despite 12-year relationship

Vanna White has revealed she isn’t looking to make anything official with her longtime partner, John Donaldson.

The Wheel of Fortune icon shares two adult children from her previous marriage.


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Vanna White shared on her partner John: ‘I mean, we’ve been together 12 years, and I feel like we are married’Credit: Getty


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Vanna and her love met in 2012 through mutual friends: ‘He’s the male version of me’Credit: Getty


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Vanna, John, and her children Gigi, 26, and Nikko, 31, seem to get along greatCredit: instagram/officialvannawhite
Vanna, 66, told People this week that she’s secure in her relationship, ring or not.
She shared: “I mean, we’ve been together 12 years, and I feel like we are married.”“Do we have to get married? No, because we feel comfortable in our relationship. You know what I mean?

“I know that he’s the one. He knows I’m the one.”

Vanna and the JDC Construction + Development Group founder haven’t discussed the topic of marriage, according to the outlet.

‘HE LETS ME BE ME’

“We don’t really talk about it, but you never know,” she added.

“I mean, I guess we could, but in my eyes and his eyes, we are married.”

Vanna also said the relationship has lasted over a decade because John: “is the male version of me.”

“We really are very similar. We get along so well. He’s easy. He’s easy, and he lets me be me, and I let him be him.”

Vanna and the real estate developer met in 2012 when a friend brought him to one of her barbecues, they began dating soon after.

Vanna told People that a decade after splitting from her first husband she was won over by John right away.

“I remember looking at him and thinking, ‘He’s really cute,’” she said with a laugh. “We ended up talking for a long time that night.”

VANNA’S FAM!

Vanna shares daughter Gigi, 26, and son Nikko, 29, with her first and only husband – restaurant owner George Santo Pietro.

They got married in 1990 and amicably split in 2002.

Gigi works at a tattoo studio in Venice, California, and loves showing off her stick-and-poke illustrations on her Instagram.

Meanwhile, Nikko is a real estate agent in California who loves flexing his cooking skills and workout videos on his page.


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Vanna’s daughter Gigi is a tattoo artist in CaliforniaCredit: Instagram/gigisantopietro

7Her son Nikko is a real estate agentCredit: Instagram


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Vanna split from her only husband George Santo Pietro in 2002Credit: Getty

MATCHING TATS?

Vanna also shared she loves how her children both have creative sides and she’s not opposed to letting her daughter give her some ink.

“You know what, I want to have matching hearts where she’ll do a little heart on me and she’ll do one on herself,” Vanna added to People.

“I feel like I need to do that because it’s her and it would be her on me.”

Vanna admitted that she “never dreamed” that her daughter – who graduated from NYU with an art degree – would become a tattoo artist.

“I said, ‘Gigi, why tattooing?” She goes, ‘Mom, my art is on someone’s body for the rest of their lives.’ I was like, ‘That’s pretty cool.’ You have to be so good and confident. You can’t mess up.

“So she absolutely loves it. She’s been doing that for the past three years and is doing a great job. I’m so, so proud of her,” she continued.

“They’re both artistic. Nico does artwork for fun. That’s his escape from the real world, his real life is in real estate, which is good for him. So he’s loving that as well.”

“From the time they were born, I wanted them to do whatever they wanted to do in life,” she shared.

Vanna has had a winning month as she extended her Wheel of Fortune contract until 2026 after months of tense negotiations.

Vanna will stay on for the first two years that Pat Sajak’s successor, Ryan Seacrest, hosts.

She also launched a Wheel-themed makeup line which she called: “So cute” and “hopefully the start of something big!”


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Vanna, her boyfriend John, son Nikko and daughter Gigi make for a winning groupCredit: instagram/officialvannawhite