By Wonderwall.com Editors
3:07pm PDT, Sep 25, 2023
No longer friends
On the Sept. 19 edition of his SiriusXM radio show, Howard Stern slammed Bill Maher for making "sexist" remarks about the shock jock's marriages on his "Club Random" podcast. Howard — who was married to Alison Berns from 1978 until 2000 before tying the knot with Beth Ostrosky Stern in 2008 — apparently caught Bill's attention with some glowing comments he made on the air about Beth.
"How does this gushing about the second wife — how does that make the first wife feel? Could we just not gush about the person while the other person can still hear it?" Bill said in part on the podcast, according to People.
From Howard's perspective, the mini-rant was uncalled for on multiple levels. "What a sexist thing to say," he griped on his show. "What a convoluted, nutty thing to say. He says it must hurt [Alison's] feelings that I'm in love with a different woman. It's assuming that he knows something about 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."
He also took issue with Bill's criticism of what Howard maintains was a positive statement. "I don't think I come on the air every day and say I love my wife," he explained. "But I thought it was a pretty positive message, especially with my audience, to say to guys, 'Instead of ragging on our wives, how about talking how we appreciate and love them?'"
According to Howard, he reached out to Bill but got no reply. "I wrote in an email, I said, 'Why don't you give me a phone call? Why don't you tell me what you think about my life and my marriage?' But of course he never wrote me back," he said. "I just wanted to see how brave he was. If he was brave enough to call me and actually get on the phone with me, and zero response." He added that they are "no longer friends."
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A song for parents
At the Jonas Brothers' concert in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, Joe Jonas introduced the song "Little Bird" with a nod to parenthood. "This next one is all about being a parent," the singer told the Wells Fargo Center Crowd, according to People. He also wished everyone hoping to become a parent someday "good luck." The group has previously dedicated "Little Bird" to their respective children, but Joe's parents-specific intro hits different given recent developments in his divorce from actress Sophie Turner.
Just hours before Joe took the stage in Philly, Sophie filed a lawsuit demanding Joe return their two young daughters to her. The British "Game of Thrones" alum claims the girls were "wrongfully removed or wrongfully retained," along with their passports, so she can take them back to what she calls their "habitual residence" in England, according to court documents excerpted by The Messenger, which was the first to report the news.
According to a statement issued about the filing by Joe's rep, the former couple met up in New York City on Sept. 17. Joe believed they'd "reached an understanding that they would work together towards an amicable co-parenting setup," the statement read, in part. "Less than 24 hours later, Sophie advised that she wanted to take the children permanently to the UK." Joe's rep also notes the girls are American citizens, Joe is seeking "shared parenting" and he is "okay with the kids being raised both in the U.S. and the UK."
Finding herself
Gisele Bundchen says she's in "a different place" following her divorce from Tom Brady. Speaking to "CBS News Sunday Morning" for a segment due to air on Sept. 24, the Brazilian-born model reflects on how her life has changed since she and the former NFL star called it quits. "I think it's not what I dreamed of and what I hoped for. My parents have been married for 50 years, and I really wanted that to happen. But I think you have to accept you know sometimes that the way you are in your 20s, it's sometimes you grow together, sometimes you grow apart," she told Lee Cowan in the interview, according to People. "He's the father of my kids," she added. "So I always wish him the best, and I'm so grateful that he gave me wonderful children."
Now that she's single and pursuing new business ventures, Gisele said she's "allowing myself to come out as Gisele versus as 'her,'" as she was regarded during her marriage to one of the world's most successful football players. "I think before I was more surviving, and now I'm living, which is different," she said.
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Coming clean
Dwyane Wade is opening up about how he told Gabrielle Union he was expecting a child with another woman in 2013, admitting that he tried to split from the star rather than tell her what he'd done. Dwyane and Gabrielle were on a break from their relationship when he fathered his son Xavier, now 9, but that didn't make it any easier for the NBA alum to come clean, he shared on the "Club Shay Shay" podcast on Sept. 20. "You're thinking about it all. It's all scary," Dwyane recalled, according to Entertainment Tonight. "One, the whole situation is scary enough, you're a public figure. But you know that this is going to hurt someone that you've been building a relationship with and a life with."
Dwyane and Gabrielle had rekindled their romance after the break, but he initially tried to end the relationship when faced with the prospect of telling her the truth. "I tried to pussyfoot around it, I tried to break up with her. 'Hey, things have been bad lately,' 'Hey, we've been having a little distance in our relationship anyway,' I tried all of that," he continued. "She kept showing up. I couldn't have gotten through that moment without her sticking with me. We were in the playoffs. That was a rough time for me. You got a lot on your mind. You're keeping something from people you love. It's heavy."
Dwyane and Gabrielle stuck it out, though, and were married in 2014. In her memoir, the actress wrote that she was "devastated" by the pregnancy, but Dwyane "had worked hard to be forgiven" and she "had chosen" to forgive him.
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Astroworld tragedy update
Travis Scott's lawyers claim the phone he was using at the time of his 2021 Astroworld festival — where 10 people died and hundreds more were seriously injured — "fell off a boat" and can't be retrieved, Rolling Stone reported this week. Texts and other communications the rapper sent on the phone were requested as part of lawsuits filed against Travis and others in connection with the deadly event. According to Rolling Stone, the claim surfaced after attorneys for the plaintiffs in the cases accused Travis and his team of failing to "[produce] a single text, WeChat communication, video, or photo from their phones."
In response, Travis' lawyer Steve Brody reportedly said, among other things, that in January 2022, the star's cell phone "landed somewhere at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and is not able to be retrieved." He also claimed the phone wasn't backed up because of "significant hacking concerns," though the "vast majority, if not all" of the rapper's texts about the festival with employee David Stromberg, the general manager of his Cactus Jack company, can be delivered to the court. The judge was not impressed.
According to the report, Judge Kristen Hawkins responded by telling Travis' legal team they appear not to have taken "any action" to "secure and download anything from his phone immediately following an event in which 10 people died" or "recover text messages from alternate sources."
Time to stop
Sharon Osbourne has decided to stop using an injectable weight-loss drug after shedding so many pounds she sparked concern from fans. The British TV personality, seen here in January 2023, appeared on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" on Sept. 20 looking extremely thin. "It's just time to stop, I didn't actually want to go this thin but it just happened," she told the talk show host, per the Daily Mail.
Sharon, 70, previously discussed her use of weight-loss drugs on her U.K. show, "The Talk," where she described feeling "nauseous" every day she took the injectable drug. She never specified which brand of drug she'd used, but her symptoms and results suggested she may have joined Ozempic's growing celebrity bandwagon. "In my life, the heaviest I was 230 pounds and I'm now under a hundred," she told E! News a few weeks before her interview with Piers. "And I want to maintain at about 105 because I'm too skinny. But I'm trying to have a healthy balance."
