Viewers are used to seeing George Stephanopoulos in a suit and tie on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “This Week,” but even the former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton sometimes trades his wingtips for docksiders. He and his wife — actress-comedian-author Ali Wentworth, 59 — have been summering in the Hamptons for 22 years now. They’ve owned homes in East Hampton, Amagansett, Southampton and, now, Sagaponack.
“We just can’t wait to get out there!” Stephanopoulos, 63, tells Alexa. “The whole family loves the Hamptons [including daughters Elliott, 21, and Harper, 18]. It is our home away from home and always our favorite place to go when we have time off.
” Tonight, the anchor gets to mix work with pleasure when he appears at Long Island LitFest in Melville to discuss his latest book, “The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis.” “No one had done a comprehensive history of the White House Situation Room, which is really the nerve center of the White House,” explains Stephanopoulos. “So I did! This book is such an interesting window into how every president since John F.
Kennedy, who created the Situation Room, has dealt with the crises of our times.” His book includes watershed moments in “the room where it happened,” ranging from the shootings of presidents Kennedy and Ronald Reagan to the 9/11 attacks, the hours leading up to the Osama bin Laden raid and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
If you can’t make it to LitF.
