Jay Lino is not keen on a pair of sneakers he bought $ 847. But if they make his wife happy, they make him happy.
The former “Tonight Show” host detailed a modern shopping trip with the wife Mavis, who is fighting the advanced dementia, and said he was trying to “find humor in this situation.”
The “situation” refers to the cognitive state of the benefactor, which prompted Lino to submit an application for a confrontation early last year to oversee the affairs of his wife. In submitting the latest update on the MAVIS case, the reserve comedy legend used its intelligence.
the Midas -man representative He said in an interview with him recently with the people This is to chant his wife one day, took her to shop in Nordstrom.
Mavis, 78, chose a pair of bright blue sneakers that were $ 24. Then Lino encouraged her to choose another husband. This time I decided on a red and white pair “made her happy.”
“[The cashier says] This is $ 24. He said, “I am going,” no, I only had a couple of sports shoes. I thought this was $ 24. [The cashier] He goes, “Yes, this is $ 24. But others were [designer sneakers]. It looked as if the man took a pair of sneakers herself and used them, and he was $ 800. Look at my wife and said, “Do you like these?” Go, “dear, you look great.”
Despite the upset price price on the last pair, Lino said he is happy because he is able to buy shoes despite the shock of stickers. He gave him a good laugh.
“Just a typical …”, he said. “When you deal with this kind of things, you find your moments where you can laugh and enjoy, and my wife really loves them and I feel satisfied with that.”
Jay and Mavis Lino married more than 40 years ago. In January 2024, the host, “Jay Lino Al Maraa” sought to maintain her property so that he could organize live confidence and other real estate plans to ensure that Mavis had “managed to asset enough to provide her care” if he died in front of her. Lino’s petition also said that Mavis was “gradually losing the ability and directing him to the place and time for several years.”
According to the documents submitted in the Los Angeles County Supreme Court last spring, Mavis Lino’s lawyer, appointed by the court, said that while he was investigating Jay Lino’s efforts to be a permanent conservative, he learned that Mavis “suffers from major cognitive disturbances,” weak cognitive and sometimes her husband does not know, Jay, nor her birthday. “It is not clear when Mavis was diagnosed, but the documents said that she was treated due Mood.
In late April, Mavis Lino joined her husband in the premiere of Netflix “UNFROSted” and she feels comfortable: “We have a great time. Forty -four years [married]So we are doing a good job. “
A few weeks later, Jay Lino, the Emmy Prize winner, said twice that marriage to Mavis was his greatest achievement and “the smartest thing I have ever done.”
“I am part of its heritage and this is what I am proud of,” Lino said at the sixteenth World Women’s Rights Awards for Women’s Foundation, as I was proud of it, “as he presented the Mavis Leno opening award for international women’s rights. The prize is dedicated to her improved Nobel Prize As head of a non -profit campaign for Afghan women and girls.
The Times team writer Mig James and his Mali Mandez teammate contributed to this report.