in 1995, hamilton met women's professional volleyball player and new york fashion model gabrielle reece in maui after a television interview by reece who was hosting the show 'the extremists'. they later married on november 30, 1997. in 1996, people magazine named hamilton one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world, and in the same year hamilton pushed for and took from his future wife the correspondent position for the syndicated cable series 'the extremists'. in 1989 reece had been named by "elle" magazine as one of the five most beautiful women in the world.