{"id":602877,"date":"2023-01-30T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/matt-lauer-and-girlfriend-shamin-abas-hold-hands-on-nyc-date-night\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:36:00","slug":"matt-lauer-and-girlfriend-shamin-abas-hold-hands-on-nyc-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/matt-lauer-and-girlfriend-shamin-abas-hold-hands-on-nyc-date-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Lauer and girlfriend Shamin Abas hold hands on NYC date night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<p>\n\t\tJanuary 30, 2023\t\t\t\t <span>|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t2:36pm\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Matt Lauer and Shamin Abas are still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>The couple of more than three years was seen enjoying a romantic date night Saturday in New York City\u2019s Upper East Side, according to photos obtained by Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>The former \u201cToday\u201d show host, 65, and the marketing guru, 53, kept close and held hands as they shopped on Madison Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>For the intimate outing, Lauer kept warm in a gray beanie and matching hooded sweatshirt, which was layered atop a baby blue collared button-down and beneath a black sport coat.<\/p>\n<p>He completed his look with dark-wash blue jeans and black dress shoes, holding his phone and a shopping bag in one hand, and his girlfriend\u2019s in the other.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_10.jpg\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"1045\" alt data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=300 300w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=640 640w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/a><figcaption>Matt Lauer and girlfriend Shamin Abas enjoyed a romantic date night Saturday in New York City.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>TheImageDirect.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Abas, for her part, went with a mustard yellow ensemble featuring a peacoat, a tea-length skirt and chic pumps. She pulled her outfit together with a black-and-white-patterned blouse and a black clutch.<\/p>\n<p>Lauer and Abas <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/12\/31\/matt-lauer-dating-marketing-guru-shamin-abas-after-finalizing-divorce\/?utm_campaign=iphone_p6&#038;utm_source=pasteboard_app\">began dating<\/a> in late 2019 amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/09\/06\/matt-lauer-and-annette-roques-divorce-finalized\/\">finalization of his divorce<\/a> from wife of 20 years Annette Roque, 56.<\/p>\n<p>As Page Six previously reported, the journalist \u2014 apparently overcome with guilt after cheating with multiple women at work \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/08\/14\/matt-lauer-agrees-to-pay-annette-roque-up-to-20m-in-divorce\/\">agreed to pay<\/a> the former model and equestrian as much as $20 million in their settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The exes \u2014 who share sons Jack, 21, and Thijs, 16, along with daughter Romy, 19 \u2014 split in 2017 after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/11\/29\/matt-lauer-fired-from-nbcs-today-over-inappropriate-sexual-behavior\/\">NBC executives axed Lauer<\/a> over a string of sexual misconduct allegations, which torpedoed his career.<\/p>\n<p>As for his relationship with Abas, the pair were friends for a decade before deciding to give romance a shot.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1448\" alt=\"Matt Lauer and Annette Roque\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=300 300w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=640 640w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Matt-Lauer-Shamin-Abas_04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/a><figcaption>Laure\u2019s divorce from wife of 20 years Annette Roque was finalized in September 2019.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMatt and Shamin have known each other for many years; she spends a lot of time in the Hamptons, as does he,\u201d a source told Page Six in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey very recently began dating. She is a lovely woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/01\/30\/matt-lauer-and-girlfriend-shamin-abas-hold-hands-on-nyc-date\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bernie Zilio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 30, 2023 | 2:36pm Matt Lauer and Shamin Abas are still going strong. The couple of more than three years was seen enjoying a romantic date night Saturday in New York City\u2019s Upper East Side, according to photos obtained by Page Six. The former \u201cToday\u201d show host, 65, and the marketing guru, 53, kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,2957,3701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-financial","category-girlfriend","category-lauer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}