Howard Stern Says He’s ‘No Longer Friends’ With Bill Maher After ‘Sexist’ Dig At His Marriage

On Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Present, the 69-year-old radio persona shared that he is “now not mates” with Maher, 67, after the cultural commentator’s latest remarks.

All of it went down on an episode of Maher’s Membership Random podcast, the place he criticized Stern for gushing over his spouse of practically 15 years, Beth Stern, alluding that his feedback have been a slight to his first spouse, Alison Berns.

“How does this gushing in regards to the second spouse — how does that make the primary spouse really feel? Might we simply not gush in regards to the individual whereas the opposite individual can nonetheless hear it?” the Actual Time with Invoice Maher host requested.

Stern, who married Berns in 1978, however separated in 2000, was not right here for Maher’s feedback, suggesting that the comic “shut his mouth.”

“What a sexist factor to say! Like, what a convoluted, nutty factor to say,” Stern shot again. “It is assuming that he is aware of one thing about my first marriage. That, in fact, the person should be leaving the lady and the lady should be devastated and be sitting round pining away for her well-known man.”

Stern’s relationship with Beth started that very same 12 months, after assembly the animal rights activist at a cocktail party. The 2 tied the knot in 2008 and have been collectively ever since.

He continued, “He should shut his mouth! I imply, I do not suppose I come on the air day by day and say, ‘I really like my spouse.’ However I believed it was a fairly constructive message, to — particularly with my viewers — to say to guys: ‘As a substitute of like ragging on our wives, how about speaking about that we recognize them and love them?'”

Along with taking the matter to his radio present, Stern instructed listeners that he emailed Maher after the podcast remarks.

“I wrote in an e mail, I stated, ‘Why do not you give me a cellphone name? Why do not you inform me what you consider my life and my marriage because you’re, …’ However in fact, he by no means wrote me again,” Stern claimed.

“I simply needed to see how courageous he was,” he went on to say. “If he was courageous sufficient to name me and really get on the cellphone with me, and nil response. I do not care, although. He can suppose what he desires.”

“I feel I am now not mates with him,” Stern added.

TooFab has reached out to Maher’s reps for touch upon the back-and-forth.

The radio host is not any stranger to professing his like to Beth. Again in 2019, the pair acquired remarried in a shock marriage ceremony on The Ellen DeGeneres Present every week after he re-proposed to her throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Stay!

The couple marked the second with a kiss earlier than Stern broke a glass along with his proper meals, per Jewish custom.

As for Maher’s relationship standing, the TV persona has by no means been married.