January 27, 2010 1:29 PM

Nancy Grace Is Married, Pregnant

By
Amy Bonawitz
(CBS)  TV's Nancy Grace revealed to the New York Post that she was secretly married in April and is expecting twins in January.

"I'm finally not keeping it a secret anymore," she told the newspaper.

Grace, 47, said she will officially make the announcement tonight on her Headline News show, "Nancy Grace," but says she hasn't told CNN yet (she thinks her bosses will be "thrilled" when they hear the news).

Grace wed David Linch, an Atlanta investment banker who she has known since their days at Mercer College in the late 1970s, the Post said.

"We've been in touch all these years and a lot of time we were separated by geography and time," she says. "It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to get married. I told my family only two days before (the wedding).

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"I never thought it would happen like this," she says. "I thought 'mother' and 'wife' was just not part of God's plan for me.

"This is such a blessing, and I just can't believe that, at my age, I would find such happiness."

The newspaper reports that Grace declined to say whether she'd had fertility treatments in order to become pregnant.

"But you tell women out there that there is hope," she said.

She left her post at Court TV last month after 10 years. "I knew something had to go, and that (something) was Court TV," she said. "I was firm that I wanted out of my option, but I didn't reveal that I was carrying twins."

Grace became a strong advocate for victims through the most tragic of circumstances: She was in college when her fiance Keith Griffin was murdered in 1980.

"He was gunned down," Grace told Sunday Morning correspondent Thalia Assuras. "He was shot five times in the face, the neck and the back. The guy took a wallet. I think it had about $35 in it. And that was the whole case."

It was that "senseless act of violence" that forever altered Grace's perspective. She abandoned her plan to become an English professor. She went to law school instead.

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by jodeepups June 28, 2007 8:05 PM EDT
Congratulations Nancy.
Like you, I have just found out I am pregnant. I am 41 and will be 42 when my baby arrives in Feb. 2008.
My career came 1st.
I met a wonderful man in 2003. We married in 2004.
We have been trying to conceive since 2004. We had decided it wasn't meant for us to be parents.
Then it happened.
So we may be a bit older when our kids graduate.
So what.
We may be the oldest parent at the school but we're still gonna look good cause we can afford to look good!
The life expectancy for us is so much greater then it used to be.
I am glad I waited. Things couldn't be more perfect for me in my life.
Blessings to you, the babies and you're new husband.
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by kgrech June 28, 2007 6:14 PM EDT
I agree with ThisandThat1...those poor kids!!!
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by thisandthat1 June 27, 2007 11:07 PM EDT
This is great news ......for viewers! Does this mean we won't have to listen to her annoying voice or see her being obnoxious on TV for a while? I hope so .....and by the way, the twins have my deepest sympathy!
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by fake-id-2009 June 27, 2007 6:23 PM EDT
"People in the military crack me up. Beside the fact that most of you are only there because you have no other options in life..." Posted by boldandblunt at 09:54 AM : Jun 27, 2007
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Do you have anything to say about Nancy Grace's marriage and forthcoming birth of twins? Or are you just "down" on the military?

What's your problem? You couldn't get in? Or you lack the spine?
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by fake-id-2009 June 27, 2007 6:17 PM EDT
Hmmmmm. Secretly married. Wonder what the "dis-grace" (no pun intended) was that she thought it had to be kept secret?

Hope her "twins" don't grow up and do what she does. Can you imagine TWO people who look and act like Grace doing a show like court TV? Wow! They would find all their subject "guilty" without a trial, and then they would hang 'em in the town square. LOL!!!

It's amazing to see how many people idolize people like Grace. Just demonstrates the number of sheep who can't think for themselves. And if you criticize people like Grace? Whoa!! You're demonized, castigated, despised, called childish names...

In the grand scheme of things Grace is trivial, and yet the sheep get so passionate about it.

But then she does have the power to destroy lives; and the sheep idolize that kind of power.

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by nyteryder2 June 27, 2007 6:01 PM EDT
"You would be right about me not being a U.S. citizen, I thank God for that everday! You have one screwed up country!" Posted by erasmus6 at 08:09 PM : Jun 26, 2007
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Just in case you forgot what you said about the "good ole U.S.A."

You never did tell me what a "dominion" is.
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by nyteryder2 June 27, 2007 5:54 PM EDT
"And I do not think that ALL people who dislike Nancy Grace are wimps. Just the ones who are so vehemently against her." Posted by erasmus6 at 02:26 PM : Jun 27, 2007

"I bet all you people that don't like her are the SPINELESS ones. Real WIMPS." Posted by erasmus6 at 06:44 PM : Jun 26, 2007
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I never said nor implied that I think I am the reason for all the things that are "right" with the world. Nor would I have the audacity to think that. I suppose even in Canada you can "dispise" whomever you wish to dispise.

However, as your two statement above show, you are contradicting yourself. You don't know what you believe.

"Vehemence" implies intense feeling. I have no intense feelings about Grace. I simply don't like her and don't think she should be convicting people on "court TV" before they've had their day in a real court. Unfortunately people like Grace have a lot of influence over people who can't seem to think for themselves.

If you, or anyone else dispises me for that, tough ***** paddy.




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by down-ndirty June 27, 2007 5:34 PM EDT
"People in the military crack me up. Beside the fact that most of you are only there because you have no other options in life..." Posted by boldandblunt at 09:54 AM : Jun 27, 2007
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There you go, making assumptions. You may be "bold and blunt" but you are pointless and lacking content. Just like Grace...
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by erasmus6 June 27, 2007 5:26 PM EDT
nyteryder2

What I "dispise" are people like you, who think they are the reason for all the things that are "right" with the world.

And I do not think that ALL people who dislike Nancy Grace are wimps. Just the ones who are so vehemently against her.
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by nyteryder2 June 27, 2007 5:25 PM EDT
"I find Nancy Grace a rude, abrasive, arrogant person who thinks she is God! I jumped for joy when she announced she was leaving Court TV! No longer would this creature be able to insult my intelligence every afternoon with her holier-than-thou attitude. I hope the woman's family wins their law suit against her! It's time people like Grace learned you can't verbally abuse people on television and get away with it." Posted by grumpas at 09:20 AM : Jun 27, 2007
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You nailed it, grumpas.
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