Mary Kay Letourneau's TV Wedding
Linda Bell Blue has covered a lot of weddings — Brad and Jen, J.Lo and Marc Anthony, Britney and Kevin — but when she got a tip that a woman named Letourneau was listed in a bridal registry in Seattle, the executive producer of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider thought she had a scandalous scoop.
Could this future bride be the Mary Kay Letourneau — the teacher who was released from prison last August after serving seven years for second-degree child rape? The woman who has two children by Vili Fualaau, the man she first had sex with when she was 34 and he was her 12-year-old student? Indeed it was.
Thus began the odyssey that led to ET's seven-part series on the infamous couple. Bell Blue had to hustle to find someone to introduce her to the controversial May-December pair. (That person's identity is a guarded secret.) "We didn't know what to expect," s
Fri, May 13, 2005