Ellin to marry WPIX anchor
“ENTOURAGE” creator Doug Ellin’s love life is as eventful as his hit shows. Ellin is engaged to beautiful blond WPIX sports anchor Andy Adler, who hosts PIX11 Sports Desk and the Yankees’ and Giants’ pregame shows.
Ellin said they first met two years ago, when Adler interviewed him on her show, but didn’t connect again until January of this year. He said, “I reached out to Andy and I said, ‘I don’t know your life situation, but I’d love to meet you.’ Thankfully, she was open to meeting me. We spoke on the phone for three weeks, then I went to New York, and since then it’s been a whirlwind.” He continued, “I don’t know if she was as excited about meeting as I was, but we ended up having a 12- hour date. We walked around the city, talked and went from breakfast to lunch and then dinner.
“Andy is amazing and I feel very lucky. She is genuine. Not in any way pretentious. Smart, beautiful. She’s in the media, but has no social-media presence. She went to Stanford and speaks three languages. Everything about her I love.”
Ellin said after their January NYC date, he immediately told friends that she was “the woman I am going to marry, and they all thought I was crazy.” He proposed in New Orleans on April 30 on a balcony overlooking the city. Ellin said, “I had the ring ready and I think she was pretty stunned, but she accepted.” The wedding will take place on June 18 in San Diego, where Adler’s family lives. Ellin added, “I’m 49 and I don’t have any time to waste. The wedding will be small, just family, then we’ll throw parties in New York and LA.”
Ellin is currently developing a boy-band comedy at CBS with Donnie Wahlberg and Nick Lachey. He said, “Andy is based in New York, and while I’m mostly in LA, I can write from anywhere. We’ll split our time in both places.”
Ellin was married to Melissa Dana Hecht for 13 years until 2009, and they have two kids. He broke off his engagement to real-estate agent Maddie Diehl last year.
He added of Adler, “When you know about someone, you just know. I am so excited about sharing the rest of my life with Andy.”