2023-09-19 20:50:00
Howard Stern said he has ended his friendship with Bill Maher following the HBO “Real Time” host made a comment regarding the radio shock jock’s habit of gushing regarding his wife on air.
“[Howard Stern] goes on regarding how much he loves his wife, Beth, which he has been doing on the air for, like, 10 years,” Maher said on the Monday episode of his Club Random podcast, during which he interviewed Julian Lennon.
“But we know Howard had this other wife before Beth,” Maher said, alluding to Alison Berns.
The two got divorced in 2001.
Maher, 67, has never been married.
“So he’s trying to make me seem like I’m the slightly immoral one because I haven’t settled down,” said Maher, whose comments were reported by the news site Mediaite.
“Could we just not gush regarding the person while the other person can still hear it?”
Howard Stern said he has ended his friendship with Bill Maher following the HBO “Real Time” host made a comment regarding the radio shock jock’s habit of gushing regarding his wife on air.Club Random Podcast/YouTube
Maher made the comment during Monday’s edition of his Club Random podcast. He interviewed Julian Lennon (right).Club Random Podcast/YouTube
Maher prefaced his remarks by telling Lennon: “I don’t want to start a fight with him. We’ve finally repaired our relationship…and we’re getting along great.”
No longer, according to the 69-year-old SiriusXM shock jock, who hit out at his now-former friend as “sexist.”
“What a sexist thing to say!” Stern said on Tuesday.
“Like, what a convoluted, nutty thing to say,” Stern continued.
“It’s assuming that he knows something regarding my first marriage.”
“That, of course, the man must be leaving the woman and the woman must be devastated and be sitting around pining away for her famous man,” Stern said.
“He ought to shut his mouth!” the radio host added.
“I mean, I don’t think I come on the air every day and say, ‘I love my wife’,” Stern said.
Stern declared that Maher “ought to shut his mouth!” Kevin Mazur
“But I thought it was a pretty positive message, to — especially with my audience, to say to guys instead of like ragging on our wives, how regarding talking regarding that we appreciate them and love them. But evidently he’s very worried regarding my relationship,” Stern added.
The Post has sought comment from Maher.
In October 2019, Maher hosted Stern for his lone appearance on his HBO “Real Time” show.
In 2019, Stern told Maher that he was in a “loving” marriage with Beth.Getty Images
During the segment, the two men said they were glad to have rekindled a friendship following a lengthy period during which they had a falling out.
During the episode, Stern told Maher: “The one big difference between us is I am in a committed, loving relationship with a woman.”
Maher, laughing, replied: “So what? Enjoy it.”
Stern married Beth Ostrosky Stern in 2008. He divorced Alison Berns in 2001.Getty Images
“I don’t understand,” Stern replied, adding: “I know you’re a heterosexual male.”
“What is it?” Stern asked. “Do you ever have like a serious girlfriend? Because we don’t see you anywhere.”
Maher joked in response: “First of all, this is my interview of you. Sit back.”
When Maher, who said he “loves” being alone, suggested that people who are married “are not alive,” Stern shot back: “I am so happily married.”
“People are so personal regarding this issue,” Maher said. “You’re not better and I’m not worse” because of relationship status, the HBO host said.
“I never understood how you can be with the same person just day following day, week following week, month following month, year following year, I just don’t get that,” Maher told Stern.
Maher, who has never married and insisted that he “loves” being alone, has vowed to remain a bachelor.NBAE via Getty Images
Maher has been linked to Canadian singer-songwriter Anjulie Persuad, former Playboy model Coco Johnsen and podcast host Cara Santa Maria.
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