Jon Bon Jovi reveals inner circle was really ‘shocked’ and ‘furious’ when he married wife Dorothea

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People magazine. “It’s a shame because it should have been a beautiful moment, but after we did it, people were trying to take it away, until I stood up and went, ‘Wait a minute, why are we living our life for anyone else?’ And 35 years later, we’re still married.”The 62-year-old, born John Francis Bongiovi Jr., made the last-minute decision to marry his then-fiancée while he was on tour at the time.“We were in Los Angeles, California, the band was on the road on the ‘New Jersey’ tour, and if you opened up the curtains of my hotel room, there’s a big billboard of the five of us [Bon Jovi band members] staring into my window,” Bon Jovi went on. “My girlfriend, who was my fiancée at the time, we had a night off, and I said, ‘I need a higher high — I got an idea.

Let’s go to Vegas now.’ And she said, ‘Now?’ I said, ‘Now.’”The “Living on a Prayer” singer first met his wife while they were students at Sayreville War Memorial High School in New Jersey.

The pair dated until 1985 when they broke up for five months before getting back together.The pair got married at the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas in 1989 and have four children together: daughter Stephanie, 30, and sons Jesse, 29, Jake, 21, and Romeo, 20.While speaking with the Mirror, the rock star said, “It was like Harry Styles or Justin Timberlake getting married.“I was that to the young girls in my time.

When I came back from Vegas my manager was furious. He was like, ‘America’s boy is now married … that’s not a good career move.’ The record company was also despondent.”In a recent interview, Bon Jovi told the Independent that he “hasn’t been a saint” during their 35-year marriage.“These are all the wonderful clichés of rock stardom.