Howard Stern’s friendship with Bill Maher is seemingly over. On Tuesday’s “The Howard Stern Show” on SiriusXM, the host called out the “Real Time” host over comments he made about his marriage. READ MORE: Bill Maher Reverses Course, Puts ‘Real Time’ On Pause Amid Strikes It all started on a recent episode of Maher’s podcast “Club Random”, in which he questioned Stern openly expressing his love for his second wife of almost 15 years, Beth Stern. “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?” Maher said. Stern’s first marriage was to Alison Berns, with whom he tied the knot in 1978.
They divorced in 2001. On his own show, Stern did not appreciate Maher’s comments at all, sharing his unfiltered response. “What a sexist thing to say!
Like, what a convoluted, nutty thing to say,” he said. “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.” Stern continued, “He ought to shut his mouth!
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