“For one, we love family and we love children.” Adds Tamika: “I like to eat and he likes to cook, so it works.”Pat considers Eijah, 5, Tamika’s son from a previous relationship, his own child.

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Talking about Gina’s personal life, she was a married woman. “I guess you could say it was love at first sight,” he says.



Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. Pat Neely wants everyone to know that he’s doing just fine.It’s been four years since the former star of Food Network’s “At the time, I was hurting. Gina was previously married to her father before marrying Pat in 1994.



He grew up along with three sibling brothers: Gaelin Neely,Tony Neely, and Mark Neely.

It's looked — and felt — like a whole different world as we've been social distancing and attempting to keep each other safe While married to another woman, Pat and Gina reunited at their 10th reunion. “I know it looks bleak now, but I tell them, ‘You just never know what wonderful things are in store for you.’” Everything that he ever said to me, he has done.”Pat proposed on Christmas Eve 2016, and the pair tied the knot on Oct. 7, 2017, at their home outside Atlanta.“She and I have a lot in common,” says Pat. And I didn’t have the words to explain it,” Pat, 54, who ran his family’s now-closed restaurants Neely’s Bar-B-Que since he was 23, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. “Tamika took me off guard.”“What attracted me to him was his integrity,” says Tamika, 39.

“I truly had a blast,” he says of filming 11 seasons of one of the network’s top-rated shows out of their Tennessee kitchen.

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Pat was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.


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He and Gina (née Ervin) dated in high school in the 1980s. His uncle Jim Neely, a well-known Memphis restaurateur and owner of Jim Neely’s Interstate Bar-B-Q…



According to a marriage certificate filed in Troup County, Georgia and obtained by Parks updated her Facebook page two weeks later with a photo from their wedding day, along with the caption: “He knows how to make me smile.