Kathy Griffin welcomed the new decade with a surprise wedding, marrying longtime boyfriend Randy Bick at her Hollywood home on December 31, 2019.
The small (and quite short) ceremony was presided over by none other than Lily Tomlin, whose partner, Jane Wagner, was also in attendance.
The entire ceremony was just under 14 minutes but I have to give you guys the uncut first 75 seconds. LOVE IT! We promised you atypical. We are in love and we cannot stop laughing. Thank you @LilyTomlin and Jane Wagner!#HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/O5vOss3TCD
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 1, 2020
“What was supposed to be a shallow, ‘toot it and boot it’ one-night stand has grown and flourished into something far more meaningful,” Tomlin says after Griffin exchanges some interior decorating remarks with an off-screen Wagner. “They stayed together. Then they couldn’t stay away from one another.”
In a follow-up tweet, Griffin added that her wedding dress was actually the dress she wore on her first date with Bick.
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“This was our first formal date in September 2011!” she wrote. “We are in the back of a limo provided by the one only @GloriaEstefan because her team arranged for me to surprise her as a back up ‘dancer’ when she performed at the Alma awards!”
“I asked Randy to pick out which ever one of my long dresses was his favorite for any reason. He picked out this dress and showed me this photo. Romance is hotttt again.”
A) This was our first formal date in September 2011! We are in the back of a limo provided by the one only @GloriaEstefan because her team arranged for me to surprise her as a back up “dancer” when she performed at the Alma awards! pic.twitter.com/Z9kNaQHFpY
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 1, 2020
2019 was a good year for Griffin. She released a documentary, A Hell of a Story, chronicling her experience following the infamous 2017 Trump decapitation photo shoot, she toured with her latest show, Laugh Your Head Off, and she even managed to squeeze in a marriage at the last second.
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JamJewel
Congrats, my sweets. New Years Eve just hasn’t been the same without you!
howardstern
Didn’t Kathy and Randy break up?
dhmonarch89
they did for a while, then got back together…the Trump stuff and family matters put a huge strain on their life together and they took a breather.
RyanMBecker
The two have been together since 2011, but broke up amicably in November 2018. Reconciled soon thereafter and now they’re married.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
She has ALWAYS been a big supporter of the Gays…
Mazel Tov!
Kieran
Yep. Like when she tells hecklers to “take the dick out of your mouth”.
Oy vey.
shigellosis
you are such an idiot
Kangol2
So happy for her! CNN’s New Year’s Eve special is not the same without Kathy Griffin!
j41005
I don’t care if she supports LGBTQ or not. She’s a creep. I bet she’s divorced within 3-5 years.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Bitter much?
dhmonarch89
Anderson? Is that you?
Hdtex
J41005 will die alone and friendless.
Cam
Translation: Andy Cohen is on here.
shigellosis
now now…. the only thing I have against her was she did not hold up the real head of the Cheeto man
bowlingbutch
Congratulations to the newlyweds. And great love to Lily Tomlin. I wish anyone complete happiness in this world if they have found the one to make their life fulfilled.
nitejonboy
Love her so much…congrats darlin”…her and her hubby will still be goin strong long after that prick Anderson Cooper has lost all his men and his teeth and is rotting…may he burn in hell for throwing her under the bus, she deserves all the happiness in the world!!
MikeM
Anderson’s punishment is having to be friends with Andy Cohen and Kelly Ripa.
tameron1
Donald Trump and his henchmen did there best to destroy her, but she was right all along and his bloody head, was bloody funny. Congrats to my favorite comedian. I love her.
Kieran
The bloody severed head comedy bit was very funny. I mean in a Isis- al-queda sort of way.
RyanMBecker
Did Kathy and Anderson Cooper ever reconcile? Did Cooper react to this marriage, e.g. via Tweet? I wonder if she would’ve scheduled the marriage to allow Cooper’s attendance had they still been friends (he’s committed to do CNN’s NYE special). There doesn’t seem to be (m)any guests, but close friends are no doubt around to greet the couple at various New Year gatherings. And I guess it was somewhat of a relief that Gloria Vanderbilt had died since she and Griffin were reportedly very close, and it would’ve been awkward not to invite her (although she could’ve always used age as an excuse to not travel). Did Griffin offer any condolences, tribute or remarks when Vanderbilt died? It could’ve been a perfect occasion for Cooper and Griffin to reconcile. Then again, I didn’t follow the rift all that closely and for all I know, the two are already friends again.
For what it’s worth, I’m not a fan of Griffin. I just never found her funny although I liked her activism (and supported her decapitated Trump photo). That said, Cooper was a real jerk for his actions. He EXPLOITED the situation for the sake of looking “balanced.” He could’ve just stayed silent, just as he does on many subjects, and let her many critics take their shots. Instead, he saw an opportunity for publicity and took it. Exploiting any human being, especially a friend, at their most vulnerable, is pretty low. And cruel. Even worse, he did so publicly, under the guise of news.
tameron1
My personal opinion of Anderson Cooper is not printable considering what he did to his friend Kathy. I have not had any use for him since, and simply despise that New Year Eve mess he hosts with the self-proclaimed “gold star gay”, Andy Cohen. I no longer watch neither of their regular shows nor their stupid New Year special. I hate a self-serving phony.
Terrycloth
Kathy Griffin’s biggest problem is …she thinks she is a comedian…she tries to be
Joan Rivers. , Joan did it first best , and last