Matt Gutman wife Daphna Venyige Gutman is a coordinator at Valley Cat Music. Matt and Daphna tied the wedding knot on May 18, 2007.
Matt is an American native and Chief National Correspondent at ABC News. He has been serving this news channel for the last 13 years. In April 2010 he joined this channel as a correspondent. From August 2015 to January 2018 he worked as Senior National Correspondent.
Later, he started as a freelancer reporter in Argentina. The now-defunct English-language Buenos Aires Daily was his first published article. Then he worked for the Jerusalem Post based in Israel from 2001 to 2005.
In 2006, he worked for USA Today before joining ABC News Radio. He was the host of the U.S. weekly TV series named Sea Rescue when it concluded in September 2018. The family nation team has also covered an article on his ABC co-host Sunny Hostin.
Besides this, he is also the author of the book titled The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand. His other book The Boys in the Cave an account of the Tham Luang cave rescue was published in November 2018.
The renowned Journalist was born on December 5, 1977, in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. He attended Newark Academy and has been graduated from Williams College in 2000.
Daphna Gutman Is A Successful Music Director
Matt Gutman wife Daphna Venyige Gutman is the music coordinator at Valley Beth Shalom for Early Childhood Center and Young Families since September 2018.
Daphne is a Los Angeles native currently based in Valley Village, California.
Previously, she worked as a desk assistant/producer at ABC News from October 1999- October 2007.
She had been the Program Director of the Parent/Child Center in Temple Beth Sholom of Miami Beach for 3 years. During this time she learned how music-making can transform the relationship between child and caregiver in rich and meaningful ways.
For the past 7 years and 6 months, she worked as a director and teacher at Music Together bringing music to communities by offering family classes for parents of children aged 0 – 4 years old.
Daphna has a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California Berkeley. She had also been at Reidman College of Alternative Medicine for Nutrition/Naturopathy/Reflexology degree.
She has a private Instagram account @daphida with more than one thousand followers and over six hundred posts. Despite this, she can be seen on her husband’s social media.
Matt And Daphne Are Together For 16 Years
Matt Gutman married Daphne Venyige on May 18, 2007, and are together for the past 16 years. The couple had a private wedding with only family and friends.
The pair first met in 2005 in the ABC office. Due to their work, they were connected in Northern Italy. As a result, their relationship increased close, and started dating. Also after years of being together, the pair remains deeply in love.
From that day to now they are having the perfect married life. They are not involved in any disputes, or rumors involving their personal lives.
Their married life became more delightful after they welcomed their first child, a daughter named Libby Gutman, in 2008. Again, six years later their lives filled up with happiness as they got blessed with their second child a son Ben Gutman in 2014.
On 18th May 2018, he and his wife celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary and he shared a short clip on his Instagram of them.
The pair’s Instagram is full of cheering moments and eye-pleasing pictures they had shared. On May 17, 2021, he has shared pictures of them on their wedding anniversary.
Matt Has Two Kids With Daphne
Matt Gutman kids with Daphne Gutman includes a daughter Libby Gutman and a son Ben Gutman. The children have an age difference of six years.
Libby Gutman is the firstborn child in the family who was born on July 21, 2008. She is now 15 years old.
Similarly, Ben was born in 2014 and is now nine years old.
Libby and Ben seem to be attached to their family members. They can be seen frequently on their father’s Instagram handle.
On July 21, 2019, Matt wished Libby her 11th birthday captioning smart, caring, and beautiful daughter. At the same time, he has uploaded many pictures with his sim Ben. In 2018 he had an ice cream date with his son.
Both the kids are close to their parents. They all had an amazing vacation together and captured many memories. All the Instagram of Matt is mostly filled with their kids and wife.
As parents, they are proud and grateful for their children. The married couple is busy co-parenting their two children and spending their quality time with them.
Matt does have pets whom he loves as his child and uploaded many pictures with them. On November 17, 2022, he shared a picture of them on his Instagram captioning My Critters.
Matt Parents And Family
Matt Gutman family apart from the marital life includes his father Paul J. Gutman and mother Sharon Gutman. Matt was raised alongside his sister Rachel Gutman.
Matt’s grandparents are Alvin and Mary Bert.
His Parents
On September 25, 1990, Paul Gutman, Matt’s dad, died in a plane crash when Matt was only 12 years old. Speaking about this profession, Paul was the owner and executive vice president of a textile company named Pressman-Gutman which was doing well.
There is a post on Matt’s Instagram handle on September 25, 2018, where he said that 28 years ago on this day the little Cessna dropped out of the sky after take-off in Georgia where his father died. Paul died when he was 42 years old. He frequently shares photos of his father.
Matt’s mother is 71 years old today and stays in Westfield, New Jersey.
His Sister Rachel Gutman
Matt has an elder sister named Rachel Gutman, who is married and has three children. Both of them were raised in New Jersey by their parents.
On March 6, 2019, he has posted a picture with her captioning a slightly belated birthday wish to his first partner in crime, fierce protector, and intermittent torture.
Further, Rachel is seen to be the conserved type of person who doesn’t want to share any details regarding her personal life.