American businessman David Beador grabbed media attention as the (now ex) husband of reality star Shannon Beador from The Real Housewives of Orange County. The duo divorced in 2019 following 2 years of split and both of them have already made an official move on their relationship.
David who fathers 3 children with Shannon, is married again and got to enjoy fatherhood of 4th child in February 2021 with his second wife Lesley Cook. 56-year-old Beador exchanged vows with Cook who is 20 years his junior, in fall 2020 after dating for 2 years. Scroll down for more!
Love never dies, it finds you in some way no matter what; seems one of the exemplary talks in relation to David Beador, an American businessman & owner of Beador Construction Inc, who found love again with his second wife Lesley Cook.
Following 4 months of his second marriage, Beador and his current wife Cook welcomed a daughter named Anna (pronounced Ah-na) this 2021. The Orange County native Lesley, 37, shared an Instagram snap on February 6, 2021, confirming the arrival of her baby girl; the picture featured her husband David and herself holding their newborn.
She wrote the caption: "Our first sunset with our sweet little Anna."
Reportedly, Cook is already a mother to 2 children (a son & a daughter) from her previous relationship. Moreover, her baby-father David Beador became a father for the fourth time as he already shares 3 children with ex-wife Shannon Beador.
Following 9 months of a divorce settlement that earned Shannon Beador a $1.4 million alimony and $10,000 monthly support, David popped the question to Lesley and announced their engagement in January 2020, celebrating in Maimi.
In July 2020, the duo announced that they were expecting and confirmed the gender of the baby, a girl, in October that year.
In the midst of a divorce to end a nearly 2 decade-long marriage with the RHOC star Shannon, David's romantic relationship with DIY blogger Cook bloomed, with whom he married in October 2020, after dating for more than 2 years. As for a fact, Lesly Cook is 20 years junior to David.
As per IMDB, David Beador and Shannon Storms Beador married on September 16, 2000, but their relationship came to TV attention as Shannon joined The Real Housewives of Orange County in 2014. Moreover, David also featured in the reality series RHOC until 2017, totaling 60 episodes before the duo split.
On October 27, 2017, the RHOC housewife announced her split from the American businessman after 17 years of marriage; the news came just a month after she and David along with their 3 children had an annual family vacation in Hawaii.
In a statement, concerning their separation, Shannon cited irreconcilable differences that led them to part ways as she said:
"You need two people to make a marriage work, and that just wasn't happening in our relationship."
Despite their differences, the reality star assured that they would remain friends and would commit themselves to raise their 3 daughters together. The now-former duo parents twins: Stella & Adeline (born in 2004) and Sophie (born in 2001).
Shannon later filed for divorce which finalized in April 2020.
While they are waiting to end the marriage legally, both of them moved on with a new relationship. As mentioned earlier, David got into a romantic relationship with his now-second wife Lesley, Shannon, on the other, began dating her boyfriend John Janssen in June 2019.
Did you know? Shannon Beador got in a verbal altercation with her ex-husband David's former mistress Nicole McMackin in October 2015. It was after 4 months of revealing David's secret 8-month affair in Season 10 of RHOC in June, that left their bond devasted for the first but would reunite later.