When a marriage seems as happy as Steve Harvey and Marjorie Harvey’s, it’s perhaps inevitable that people will try to meddle in it. Since last year, unfounded rumours have been swirling in the US tabloids that Marjorie had been unfaithful to her husband of 17 years, and that the couple were getting a divorce. But Marjorie is having none of it.
Last August, she took to Instagram, saying: “My husband and I don’t usually stop to address all the foolishness and lies that have been spread about us. However, to whom much is given much is required,” she added, sharing an article entitled “How to handle being lied about”. Since then, Marjorie has taken a show-don’t-tell approach to the problem by simply being herself, packing on the usual PDA and – most recently – posting plenty of photos from their July family holiday in Europe.
Here’s what you need to know about the Family Feud host’s long-time wife, Marjorie Harvey. How did Marjorie Harvey and Steve Harvey meet? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Marjorie Harvey has been posting many photographs of her marital bliss with Steve Harvey.
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jpg"} Marjorie Harvey has been posting many photographs of her marital bliss with Steve Harvey. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram The Harveys’ meet cute is one straight out of a romcom. Steve had already begun performing on stage at a comedy gig in Memphis in 1990, per People, when Marjorie walked in late with her friend.
As she took her seat at the front, Steve fell completely silent. “He was just staring at me. I thought I was going to become part of the show,” Marjorie said of the encounter.
“He finally realised, ‘Oh, I gotta say something,’ so he said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I don’t know who this is, but I’m gonna marry her.’” They have a big family {"@context":"https://schema.
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Steve reportedly “disappeared” because he wasn’t in a good place financially and felt the timing wasn’t right, according to an interview Marjorie gave to Essence in 2014. They reconnected 15 years later, but by then they’d both married – and had even children with – other people. {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/08/c16c8e91-90b1-4074-88f9-05da81a931e5_de019856.jpg"} Both Steve Harvey and Marjorie Harvey have children from other marriages. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram After the pair wed in 2007, Steve legally adopted Marjorie’s three children from her previous relationships – Lori, Jason and Morgan – and brought them into the fold with his children from his two other marriages – Brandi, Karli, Broderick and Wynton – according to Us Weekly.
As the recent holiday snaps show, they’re all doing great now – but it wasn’t easy at first, Marjorie told People in 2016. “When you’re dealing with a blended family , everyone is coming from a place of broken,” she said. “But I just told them, ‘Everyone is included .
.. now we’re mum and dad to everybody.
’” She’s been dubbed the “queen of slaycations” {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Steve Harvey and Marjorie Harvey have been holidaying in Taormina and St Tropez with their blended family. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram The family’s ultra-glam yachting holiday – which so far has taken them to Taormina and St Tropez, according to Essence – is in fact just the latest in a parade of incredible trips Marjorie has been on in recent years. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Marjorie Harvey has been travelling all over the world and is dubbed “queen of slaycations”.
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jpg"} Marjorie Harvey has been travelling all over the world and is dubbed “queen of slaycations”. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram In fact, the outlet made a list of her top 16 most impressive holiday snaps to prove that “when it comes to seeing the world, nobody does it quite like Marjorie Harvey”. And it’s true – she’s got stuck into local culture everywhere from Japan , Russia and the Dominican Republic, to South Africa and the UAE.
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Aside from having a strong travel game, Marjorie Harvey also runs a charity with her husband. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram She runs a charity {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Marjorie Harvey leads a programme called “Girls Who Rule the World” in her and her husband’s foundation. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram In 2010, Steve and Marjorie started The Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation to “provide youth outreach services that help cultivate the next generation of responsible leaders”, according to its website. Marjorie’s main project within the organisation is called “Girls Who Rule the World” – a programme designed to enhance young girls’ development through cultural enrichment, educational achievement and mentoring. She’s big into fashion {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/08/46351e11-f1e0-4eff-a501-4b223b4a3dd0_de019856.jpg"} Marjorie Harvey, Steve Harvey’s wife, is also a fashionista. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram Those who have followed Marjorie for a while will know that fashion is her real passion.
For years, she posted regularly to her The Lady Loves Couture blog and Instagram, which mostly featured iconic fashion moments of women she admired, including Beyoncé , Cardi B and her model daughter Lori. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Marjorie Harvey in all pink for Paris Fashion Week.
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jpg"} Marjorie Harvey in all pink for Paris Fashion Week. Photo: @marjorie_harvey/Instagram She’s also a fan of going big at Paris Fashion Week each year, showing up to Valentino’s show in 2023 in head-to-toe pink feathers, per WWD. This July, the Harvey blended family has been cruising around Italy and France on a yachting trip to celebrate Steve and Marjorie Harvey’s 17th wedding anniversary – haters be damned Marjorie Harvey, the philanthropist, fashion lover and mum of model Lori Harvey, has clearly been having a ball .
.. but then she is known as the ‘queen of slaycations’.
