Bikini-clad Sandra Lee, 55, laughs on the beach in Mexico while celebrating her friend's birthday
Former Food Network star Sandra Lee enjoyed some fun in the sun this weekend while vacationing with friends in Cabo San Lucas.
Lee, 55, traveled to Mexico to host the 50th birthday party of her best friend Tracy Holland, the founder and CEO of HatchBeauty Brands.
The friends were seen having a blast at a local beach, where Lee layered a black button-down coverup over an orange bikini.
They were seen walking alone in the water, as well as stopping to talk to two men on the beach, who had Lee in stitches as she threw back her head in laughter.
Former Food Network star Sandra Lee enjoyed some fun in the sun this weekend while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas
Lee, 55, traveled to Mexico to and got in some time at the beach, where she dipped her feet in the water
Lee wore an orange two-piece which she layered with a black button-down coverup
She is there to host the 50th birthday party of her best friend Tracy Holland, the founder and CEO of HatchBeauty Brands
According to photographers, Lee and Holland has been seen at the Viceroy Hotel on Friday before heading to the beach
They walked side-by-side in the sand, going into the water up to their shins while keeping their coverups on
According to photographers, Lee and Holland has been seen at the Viceroy Hotel on Friday before heading to the beach.
They walked side-by-side in the sand, going into the water up to their shins while keeping their coverups on.
Lee donned a figure-flaunting two-piece, the top of which was just visible under her coverup, which was open down to the top of her ribcage.
She had her blonde hair pulled back, and shielded her eyes from the sun with a pair of sunglasses.
She appeared to be deep in conversation with Holland, who wore a pink one-piece with a leopard sarong slung around her hips.
They stopped to chat with two unidentified men, with Holland putting her arm around the shoulders of one and Lee laughing at what someone said.
Lee and Holland are longtime friends who were introduced by Tesco CEO Ken Murphy.
Lee had her blonde hair pulled back, and shielded her eyes from the sun with a pair of sunglasses
She appeared to be deep in conversation with Holland, who wore a pink one-piece with a leopard sarong slung around her hips
Lee appeared to enjoy dipping her feet in the water but didn’t want to get the rest of her body wet
Lee and Holland are longtime friends who were introduced by Tesco CEO Ken Murphy
The day the photos were taken, Holland took to Instagram to sing her friend’s praises
‘Thank you Sandra Lee for helping to make my Mexican Riviera birthday so magical, I love your heart and soul!’ she wrote
The day the photos were taken, Holland took to Instagram to sing her friend’s praises.
‘Thank you Sandra Lee for helping to make my Mexican Riviera birthday so magical, I love your heart and soul!’ she wrote.
‘Thank you for being my Muse in all things beautiful including for NatureWell. You are a creative force and thank you so so much.
‘And Ken Murphy the best friendship matchmaker ever, you said it best when you said, “I can take to my grave that that one of the great thing in the world I did was put the two of you together, what a friendship.”
Lee, meanwhile, shared her own post, writing: ‘Happy Birthday Sweet Trac! You beautiful creature- even more inside as out and — I love you so!!
‘Time to get down — we are dialed in! And thank you KEN MURPHY for the gift of friendship — the world is a better place because of you both.’
Their girls trip came a week after Lee was photographed packing on the PDA with her fiancé, Ben Youcef, 42, in Malibu on New Year’s Day.
They stopped to chat with two unidentified men, with Holland putting her arm around the shoulders of one
Lee was pictured laughing uproariously at what someone said, throwing her head back
Lee, meanwhile, shared her own post, writing: ‘Happy Birthday Sweet Trac! You beautiful creature- even more inside as out and – I love you so!!’
‘Time to get down – we are dialed in! And thank you KEN MURPHY for the gift of friendship – the world is a better place because of you both,’ Lee wrote
They were pictured walking on the beach with the two unidentified men
Lee laughed as she and her friend walked past some horses in the sand
The women wrapped their arms around one another, and Lee kissed her friend’s cheek
She and Youcef, an Algerian writer and interfaith leader, spotted passionately kissing at the Malibu Country Mart the day after ringing in the new year together at Nobu Malibu, People reported.
‘They are very much looking forward to the new year,’ a source told the outlet. ‘They are happier than ever.’
Instead of the large engagement ring her fiancé gave her in Paris over the summer, Lee wore a delicate filigree band lined with diamonds.
The new bling is believed to be a Christmas gift from Youcef, a source told Page Six.
Lee moved to Malibu after she and her ex, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, split in September 2019.
Lee and Cuomo were introduced at a party in the Hamptons in 2005 by political adviser Alexandra Stanton, one of Lee’s best friends and Cuomo’s former aide.
At the time Cuomo, son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, was fresh off a failed run for governor and a very public and bitter divorce from Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
Lee was also recently single after divorcing her husband of four years, KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz, earlier that year.
‘Thank you for being my Muse in all things beautiful including for NatureWell. You are a creative force and thank you so so much,’ Holland said of Lee
‘And Ken Murphy the best friendship matchmaker ever, you said it best when you said, “I can take to my grave that that one of the great thing in the world I did was put the two of you together, what a friendship,”‘ she added
With Lee in his corner, Cuomo rebounded and was elected New York Attorney General in 2006. Four years later, he went on to be elected governor in 2010.
They dated for 14 years and lived together, but they never got engaged in their decade and a half as a couple.
Lee and Youcef are believed to have met at a charity event in Santa Monica back in March, with him making the first move.
He is a father to five-year-old twins with his soon-to-be ex-wife, California-based realtor Apryl Stephenson. Though the pair are still legally married, they separated in 2019 and they filed for divorce in January 2020.
Youcef proposed to Lee in August during their whirlwind trip to France that coincided with the sexual harassment scandal surrounding Cuomo.
‘Ben really wanted to distract Sandra from all the news, so he whisked her away to Paris,’ an unnamed source close to Youcef told the New York Post. ‘He knows how hard this has been on her and he wants to make sure she feels loved and supported.’
The source added: ‘Ben is incredibly protective of Sandra. They’re soulmates and head-over-heels in love.’
Cuomo, 64, resigned from office in August after investigators working for New York Attorney General Letitia James authored a report concluding he had sexually harassed 11 women.
Lee had spent New Year’s with her fiancé, Ben Youcef, 42, in Malibu (pictured in 2014)
Lee had dated Andrew Cuomo for 14 years until she broke up with him in 2019
Cuomo has denied the allegations.
The ex-governor has been hit with a charge of forcible touching relating to the allegation of Brittany Commisso, a former aide who claimed Cuomo groped her breast in the office of the Executive Mansion in Albany in December 2020.
The complaint, which was signed by an investigator from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, alleges that the former governor ‘intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly place his hand under the blouse shirt of the victim and onto her intimate body part.’
Commisso’s claim was the most serious of all of the allegations listed in James’ report, which Cuomo has maintained was a hit-job by James to get him out of her way.
‘From the moment my office received the referral to investigate allegations that former Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, we proceeded without fear or favor,’ James’ office said in a statement.
‘The criminal charges brought today against Mr. Cuomo for forcible touching further validate the findings in our report.’
If convicted, Cuomo could face up to one year in prison.
Despite the charges filed against him, Cuomo is considering running for political rival James’ attorney general post, sources said.
He held the position from 2007 to 2010 before becoming governor and now sources close to the politician told the New York Post he could run for the position in 2022.
‘People in Cuomo’s orbit are tossing it out there,’ a person close to Cuomo told the New York Post. ‘They’re floating [the idea].’
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