George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth Undertake New Canine, Fig

George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth have a brand new addition to their household!

The longtime couple — who share daughters Elliott Anastasia, 22, and Harper Andrea, 20 — have rescued a brand new feminine golden retriever pet, named Fig.

Good Morning America viewers have been launched to the lovely pooch on Wednesday, July 2, when Wentworth, 60, joined her husband for a phase on the ABC morning information present alongside his co-anchors, Robin Roberts, Will Reeve, Lara Spencer and Sam Champion.

“We adopted her final evening,” Wentworth, 60, stated, because the canine cuddled up on her lap. “If she wasn’t adopted, she in all probability would have spent her life in a cage as a breeder — and I do know what that looks like!”

“She is de facto candy,” the comic added of Fig, noting how calm the canine’s demeanor is. “I needed a boy as a result of we have now two daughters, and but this little woman simply caught my eye. I checked out this little woman and he or she was like, ‘Hello! I is perhaps cuter than everyone on this household!’ And he or she simply got here as much as me.”

Stephanopoulos, 64, and Wentworth have been launched to Fig by means of 1 Love 4 Animals, a female-founded nonprofit animal rescue and advocacy group primarily based out of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The transfer comes after the dying of their canine Cooper again in Could. “He handed away, and we went by means of a mourning interval when he had most cancers, after which I assumed, ‘You already know what? I’ve the bandwidth to present different canine an excellent life.’ So, we went on the search.”

1 Love 4 Animals introduced Stephanopoulos and Wentworth with 5 golden retrievers and two mix-breed puppies from which to decide on.

Initially, Wentworth selected two canine: Fig and one other mix-breed pet from South Carolina named Honeycomb who was speculated to be euthanized earlier than 1 Love 4 Animals rescued him. However realizing that Honeycomb was “skittish” and that “each noice freaked [him] out,” she determined it in all probability wasn’t greatest to have the canine residing in Manhattan amid the chaos and noise.

Plus, she and Stephanopoulos are already dad and mom to “a 16-year-old blind, deaf, incontinent imply woman’ canine named Daisy.

“I simply thought, ‘I can not have three fully completely different [dogs]. I might need to dedicate my life. Who’s going to make [George] dinner if I all the time centered on the canine?’ ” Wentworth joked. “So I ended up simply taking her.”

Fig was present in a pet mill, Wentworth stated. “I’ve by no means had a purebred canine as a result of I’ve all the time gone for mutts and quite a lot of these purebreds, she would have had a horrible life,” she famous. “She would have lived in a cage her entire life and bred puppies, puppies, puppies. Like Handmaid’s Story. So I rescued her from Handmaid’s Story.”

Nonetheless, Wentworth has quite a lot of love for Honeycomb.

“I am saying to America, ‘This canine Honeycomb is a very particular canine.’ And all of them,” she famous. “The puppies we did not undertake — though we would get a number of extra, he simply would not know that — all the opposite puppies are nonetheless out there. So that you gotta go.”

“There are such a lot of animals on the market in want of a perpetually residence,” stated Stephanopoulos.

1 Love 4 Animals will probably be amongst 20 organizations represented at Broadway Barks, the annual star-studded canine and cat adoption occasion co-founded by Bernadette Peters and the late Mary Tyler Moore. Co-hosted by Peters and her Stephen Sondheim‘s Previous Mates costar Beth Leavel, the occasion will happen in Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 12 in New York Metropolis.