Katie Lee (born Katherine Rebekah Lee on September 14, 1981) is a television food critic and chef.
Lee is from Milton, West Virginia. She is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism. While there she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She spent a semester abroad in Florence, Italy at The British Institute.
She met Billy Joel when she was 22 years old, working as a restaurant correspondent f...
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Katie Lee (born Katherine Rebekah Lee on September 14, 1981) is a television food critic and chef.
Lee is from Milton, West Virginia. She is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism. While there she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She spent a semester abroad in Florence, Italy at The British Institute.
She met Billy Joel when she was 22 years old, working as a restaurant correspondent for George Hirsch: Living it Up! on PBS in 2003. After dating for a year, she and Joel married at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, on October 2, 2004. Alexa Ray Joel, Billy Joel's daughter from his marriage to Christie Brinkley, served as maid of honor.
After nearly five years of marriage, Billy and Katie Lee separated in June 2009. The separation came after months of rumors that Lee was having an affair with Israeli fashion designer Yigal Azrouel.
Since graduating, Lee was a TV restaurant critic for PBS's healthy lifestyles and cooking TV...
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