Who Is Carson Daly’s Wife? All About Cookbook Author Siri Pinter

The former 'TRL' host met Siri Pinter on the set of his talk show

Carson Daly and his wife, Siri Pinter, are more than just spouses: they’re frequent co-collaborators on TV, too.

Pinter, a food blogger and cookbook author, was working as a writer’s assistant on Last Call with Carson Daly when she met the former TRL VJ, who was instantly smitten with her. They started dating in secret, but eventually got more serious and took their relationship public. A few years later, they were raising their first child together.

Today, the couple are married with four children, and while Pinter didn't return to writing for TV, she found a new spot in front of the camera — cooking as a food contributor for the Today show, where husband Daly is a longtime co-host and often joins her for cooking segments.

“She’s a superstar, she’s a superhero. I wake up enamored by her,” Daly said of his wife on the Today show, following the birth of their youngest daughter.

So who is Carson Daly's wife? Here is everything to know about Siri Pinter and her relationship with The Voice host.

They met on his show

Pinter was working as a writer’s assistant on Last Call with Carson Daly when she and Daly met and started dating in 2005.

“She would walk into our meetings and I would look at the other dudes in the room, like, ‘Do you see what I see?’ It was undeniable,” he told PEOPLE.

As their relationship took off, Daly tried to keep it low-key by meeting Pinter after work at a local dive bar to play pool. In a 2012 interview with Elle, he said they attempted to maintain their relationship secret “until [they] realized [they] were in love and it wasn't just an office romance.”

He also discussed his past relationships with models and actresses, saying he stopped dating people from Hollywood because he “realized [he'd] have more in common with a regular person than with a celebrity."

On Valentine’s Day in 2019, Pinter shared a throwback polaroid photo from the couple’s early dating days, writing, “One of the first times @carsondaly came over to my apartment in LA and I was all, NBD. But my sister knew that it WAS a big deal and documented it.”

Pinter decided to stop working on Last Call in 2009 after she gave birth to the couple’s first child, opting to focus on motherhood and her food blog.

They got married in 2015

While Daly and Pinter started dating in 2005, they took their time before making it official.

Daly proposed in 2013, and spoke about their engagement a year later with PEOPLE, saying that their lives were “crazy” and that they planned to get married when they had time.

“The husband and wife thing is just the bow around something. Our end game is we want to be together forever,” he added.

The pair tied the knot in a surprise ceremony, surrounded by family and friends on Dec. 23, 2015. The couple’s son, Jackson, walked Pinter down the aisle.

“Our families were visiting. We surprised our moms,” Daly revealed on the Today show.

For their sixth wedding anniversary, Pinter shared a sweet message about her life with Daly.

“Six years + I can’t even remember how many more... that’s because life with you and our family has felt like forever. I can’t even remember a before,” she wrote on Instagram.

They share four children

Together, Daly and Pinter are parents to four children: Jackson James, Etta Jones, London Rose and Goldie Patricia.

“I don’t consider myself a strict parent. However, I feel like I’m always sort of ‘bad cop’ and that my husband Carson is ‘good cop,’ ” Pinter told PEOPLE. “He gets to be fun dad and I’m the one that probably has to nag them.”

Jackson, the couple’s firstborn and only son, was born on March 15, 2009, and has followed in his dad’s footsteps of interviewing talent. In August 2023, he spoke with LL Cool J about his new album and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, admitting to PEOPLE he was nervous but that he was “the nicest guy.”

Etta Jones, the couple’s first daughter, was born on Sept. 6, 2012.  She was named for Pinter’s grandmother, Henrietta, as well as Daly’s mother, whose maiden name was Jones, Daly told PEOPLE.

“Anything having to do with the performing arts, she loves,” Daly said of his eldest daughter, speaking to Today, noting that she is the most “reserved” of their children.

London Rose arrived on Aug. 20, 2014. She’s affectionately known to the Daly family as “Chungy,” a nickname born from a Bugs Bunny meme, and according to Daly, “she loves to entertain and make people laugh.”

Their youngest, Goldie Patricia, joined the family on March 26, 2020. Daly named her after his late mother, Patricia, who died of a heart attack in September 2017.

“We had a shortlist of names that we liked but nothing was sitting its neck out. And I thought about it and I said, ‘You know, this is our fourth kid. She seems like a pot of gold at the end of our family rainbow,' ” he said of why he chose Goldie for her first name.

She works on the Today show

The pair have worked together on different sets, since Pinter serves as a food contributor on the Today show, where Daly has served as a co-host for years.

He often pops up in her food segments, where she shares all kinds of recipes, from savory to sweet, dinners and after-school snacks.

Cooking together on the NBC morning program shows off their balanced partnership and lighthearted banter, like in a Valentine’s Day segment where Daly cooked a steak dinner while Pinter baked a chocolate cake and then fed him a bite, joking that he “loves” when she feeds him.

“I tell her all the time, 'do not feed me on television. Whatever you do, don’t be that girl,' " Daly joked on the air.

She’s a food blogger and cookbook author

Pinter is the author of the cookbook Siriously Delicious: 100 Nutritious (and Not So Nutritious) Simple Recipes for the Real Home Cook, which is also the name of her food blog and her Instagram handle.

After six years of working as a writer and producer for television, Pinter left the industry to focus on motherhood. In the introduction of her cookbook, she said that her blog started as a way to keep track of the meals she was cooking for her family, but “over time evolved into so much more.”

“The decision to write about food was a no-brainer; it has always been a passion of mine,” Pinter wrote.

Her blog is full of recipes that are family-friendly, as well as stories behind the recipes’ origins, often rooted in her own upbringing. She also has a series on her blog called “Happen Bakers,” where she spotlights young female home bakers and interviews them, allowing them to share one of their favorite recipes.

“I love to get my kids involved in the kitchen because I'm not much of a crafty mom and that's where I let them get messy and get their hands in the bowls,” Pinter told Yahoo! Life in June 2022.

Their son Jackson follows in his mom’s footsteps by trying new recipes in the kitchen that he shares with the family. Pinter posts his chef creations on Instagram, including a Beef Wellington following Gordon Ramsay’s recipe and a Chilean sea bass inspired by The Bear.

They “sleep divorced” in 2019

Daly and Pinter have been married for nearly a decade, but they’ve been sleeping separately for several of them. In 2019, he announced on the Today show that he and Pinter had “sleep divorced” so they could rest better while she was pregnant with their daughter, Goldie.

“We're both pretty good-sized humans and it just wasn't really working when she was in her third trimester, and I also have sleep apnea, which is very sexy for the ladies out there, I'm sure,” Carson elaborated to PEOPLE.

“She couldn't get comfortable, so we were like a commercial you would see, kicking each other and just not sleeping. We woke up and we just shook hands like, ‘I love you, but it's time to sleep divorce. It'll be the best thing for all of us,’ ” he added.

“We don’t want to sleep apart, but we have now and I think secretly, we’re like, ‘This is kind of cool,’ because you get command of the whole room,” Daly also said of their arrangement, noting that they “may never sleep together again.”

In April 2024, Daly told PEOPLE that he and Pinter still sleep in separate beds a few times a week and that they "both secretly love it."

“It's been good for us,” he said. “We don't do it all the time, but a couple of days during the week — especially if I want to watch an Islanders hockey game kind of later at night — I go into the guest room, she retires upstairs to read her book or watch a show.”

She co-founded a realistic parenting account

In 2018, Pinter was feeling discouraged by the aesthetically pleasing mommy accounts she followed on Instagram and how they made her feel about her own parenting skills. She opened up about these frustrations in a guest blog for PEOPLE.

“It occurred to me that I was being judgmental — of others and myself — and that nothing about this use of social media was making me feel happy,” she wrote.

“However, I believe in balance, so I knew quitting altogether wasn’t an option. Instead, I realized I needed to find my own community of ‘online moms.’ This is when some friends and I decided to create the Instagram account Real Moms Wear Grey,” she continued.

Pinter said the objective was to “celebrate the highs, the lows and everything in between,” a.k.a. the “grey area.”

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