
Gio Benitez and Tommy DiDario, both 37, are making news for their beautiful relationship.
The Good Morning America host and the Extra TV correspondent have been going strong for nearly nine years after initially meeting online in January 2015.
“We’re both avid users of social media, so we had a perfectly modern first meeting: on Instagram. We decided to meet for a drink and that’s when we both realized this was more than a ‘like’ online,” Benitez previously told People. “The chemistry was instant.”
In a world where gay dating is often filled with endless texting and matches that never actually connect, Benitez and DiDario were on the same page since day one.
“By date two, the more we talked, the more we stared into each other’s eyes – completely aware that this was becoming far more than a crush,” he added. “For the first time in our lives, we were experiencing true love, and that’s where the adventure started. From that moment on, we were inseparable.”
Despite both having busy careers in front of the cameras, the pair soon found they had a mutual love of travel and routinely showcase their affection while visiting some of the most exotic locales around the world.
Things began to move rapidly and within nine months, Benitez was ready to pop the question.
In September 2015, the Cuban-American journalist got down on one knee and asked DiDario to marry him in one of the most romantic places on the globe: in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
“Time is what’s left behind in the wake of love,” Benitez captioned the image by photographer Pierre Torset.
On April 16, 2016, the pair made it official and walked down the aisle in front of friends and family at a ceremony held inside the historic Walton House in Benitez’s hometown of Miami, Florida.
For their first dance, the grooms choose Il Volo’s cover of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from Disney’s The Lion King. Swoon!
In the more than 7 years since that special day, the handsome husbands have continued to share their love story and warm-weather escapades on social media.
The duo are often accompanied on their adventures with Benitez’s extended ABC family, which includes GMA co-host Robin Roberts and wife Amber Laign, and weatherman Sam Champion and husband Rubem Robierb.
How do we get invited on that intinerary?!
Beyond their fantastic getaways, Benitez and DiDario do not shy away from sharing their vulnerable moments too.
Most recently, we saw this when DiDario supported Benitez on his emotional first day upon being promoted to weekend co-anchor on Good Morning America.
DiDario joined Benitez on the set. Wiping back tears, he gave his husband a big hug and told him how proud he was of him.
Grab the tissues!
While we’re sure Benitez and DiDario’s relationship isn’t perfect, it sure gives those of us still swiping away looking for their Mr. Right hope!
Cheers to you Mr. and Mr. Benitez-DiDario!
Check out a few more photos of Gio Benitez and Tommy DiDario looking absolutely gorgeous and all loved up together:
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Tommy DiDario currently appears on ‘Extra TV,’ ‘Good Day New York,’ and ‘The Rachael Ray Show.’
ShaverC
Thanks Queerty for featuring this ripped couple. I will do what they want me to do, and they are a mega-inspiration because they are good looking.
charlietex
I generally despise everything you put out there into the world but on this I agree.
DeltaOmega1982
I believe the more you post on social media of how happy you are, the more you are trying to convince yourself. LOL. Clout chasers. That is all.
frapachino
Oh brother!
Mr.Gavin Elster
HEY! Psst: I’ve been hearing rumors, that like Will and Jada Smith, Gio and Tommy are….. GAY? And swingers? If they were, I doubt they’d swing my way. But seriously folks: So nice to see such an attractive, successful gay, married couple out there, and proud! Growing-up I had Charles Nelson Riley and Paul Lynd as quasi-role models and those weird whispers about Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors being, SSSSHHH…….you know…..secretly married! How times have changed! Thankful I was able to survive the 1980’s. A LOT of us did not.
DK
Nice to see this relationship still going strong after 9 years, when so many of these performative Instacouples don’t last.
Gonna be hard for most guys to consider it “goals” tho. Within the American gay community, it’s just a lot easier for decent-looking to traditionally-hot white and Latino gays to find willing romantic partners. The pool is smaller for guys whose looks are consider average or below, and for races outside of European and Spanish heritage.
So these guys have a lot of “pretty privilege” that won’t translate to much of the community. Good for them though, and good luck to all.
mdrguy1
Label me bored asf with these two pretty white boy stereotypes. Sorry to be a dark cloud on your parade, but this is so typical of everything I hate about Queerty. Not the epitome of MY goals, that’s for sure.
getfletch
Really pretty guys. Love them and their relationship. They are @ the beginning of the salt n pepper stage so they should stop shaving their entire bodies. Of course when you have him to shave him and then he turns around and shaves him then you have a FABulous film.