The Nanny’s Fran Drescher was honoured this week at the Stonewall Community Foundation Vision Awards for her work with gay activism and it was there the wise cracking comedienne talked about all the gays in her life, including her “gay ex-husband.”
“I have a gay art dealer, a gay dermatologist — not to mention my hairdresser,” Drescher began.
“I have a gay ex-husband! People always say to me [of her ex], ‘How did you not know?’ He loves decorating and fashion and clothes, but we actually did have sex a lot.
“I didn’t know at the time, though, that in his mind he was f–king the bartender at Olive Garden.”
Fran Drescher met her first husband Peter Marc Jacobson in high school and they were married at age 21.
The pair was married for just over two decades when Jacobson – who wrote, directed and produced Drescher’s famous sit-com The Nanny – came out to Drescher as being gay and they divorced.
During her well received speech Drescher also took a moment to pay tribute to her current husband Shiva Ayyadurai – the inventor of email FYI.
“Now I’m actually married to this wonderful sophisticated straight man who loves taking off my clothes, that PETA picks out for me,” she said.
But Drescher and Jacobson aren’t the only show biz couple to remain amicable after their divorce.
Here are some other celebrities who’ve managed to still remain pals after their uncoupling.
Fran Drescher and her ex Peter Marc Jacobson.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore Bruce Willis and Demi Moore are the exemplary cooperative ex-couple. The actors are often seen out and about on red carpets to help support each other’s careers and even spend family vacations together with their three children, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah and their respective new beaus.
Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom Since their 2013 split Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr and her ex-husband Orlando Bloom have remained pals and are both committed to raising their son Flynn together.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin After their “conscious uncoupling” Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow have remained amicable both committed to jointly raise their two children, Apple, 10 and Moses, nine.
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and Prince Andrew Despite splitting in 1996 Fergie and Prince Andrew have remained very close. The parents of Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice have lived together off-and-on since their divorce and in a September 2013 interview Fergie said of the prospect of remarrying: “He’s still my handsome prince, he’ll always be my handsome prince.”
Jack White and Karen Elson White Stripes front-man Jack White and his ex, model Karen Elson called it quits with chutzpah. To “celebrate” their marital demise and fresh start they threw a divorce party. The invitation reportedly told people to celebrate this anniversary of the making and breaking of the sacred union of marriage” promised to be a “positive swing bang hum dinger.”
