Howard Stern Says Bill Maher Should ‘Shut His Mouth’ After ‘Sexist’ and ‘Nutty’ Remark: ‘I Think I’m No Longer Friends With Him’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Howard Stern and Bill Maher are “no longer friends,” according to Stern. The SiriusXM radio host told listeners (via Entertainment Weekly) that Maher made a “sexist” comment involving Stern’s first wife and “was actually dumping on me” during an episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast. “He took a big shot at me,” Stern said. “Basically, he says, ‘Howard Stern always gets on the radio and says he loves his wife.’ I’ve never been criticized for this.
He goes, ‘Haven’t we had enough of that? What about his first wife? I feel really bad for her.'” Stern was married to Alison Berns from 1978 until 2008.
He got remarried in 2008 to Beth Ostrosky Stern. “What a sexist thing to say. What a convoluted, nutty thing to say,” Stern said. “He says it must hurt [Berns’] 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 ought to shut his mouth!
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