Jon Bon Jovi admits he hasn’t always been the best husband to wife Dorothea Hurley.
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on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday, the Bon Jovi frontman, 62, said he and guitarist Richie Sambora were invited to party with the “Smooth Criminal” hitmaker while he was in Tokyo for the “Slippery When Wet” tour. “We walked into his hotel room, which was all done up in mirrors so he could dance,” the rocker explained.
“They actually took a wall out between these rooms, because he was there for quite a while.”“His manager takes us in, fixes his hair, puts his cigar out, fixes his shirt before he enters the room — it was all very surreal,” he went on.“And Michael comes in with the bullet belts across his shirt, and my eyes sort of do that ‘wee-wah’ because, you know, it’s Michael Jackson and you’re in his hotel room.”After chatting with the King of Pop, Bon Jovi said he and his bandmates were invited to Jackson’s hotel room for a night of partying.“We think we’re friends, and we say, ‘Come on down to our floor, and hang out, we’ve got the whole band here. Our girlfriends are all here,” he recalled.The “Livin’ on a Prayer” hitmaker said that while Jackson couldn’t join the band onstage that evening, he did make up for it with an unusual gift.“Unfortunately he didn’t come, but he sends Bubbles the Chimp as his representative,” he shared.
“That was big, right? Bubbles comes down and wreaks havoc. Bubbles partied like a rock star.”“[He was] jumpin’ on the bed, puttin’ on a show, oh yeah,” he said.
“And I don’t remember who brought him down or if he just came down on his own with a cigar. Bubbles showed up, man.
He hung hard.”When asked how long Bubbles had partied with the band that night, Bon Jovi said it “seemed like a lifetime.”“Quite a while, to the point where hotel management came and threatened to throw us out. Oh yeah.
.Jon Bon Jovi admits he hasn’t always been the best husband to wife Dorothea Hurley.
admits he’s no saint when it comes to his 35-year marriage, said life was “pretty good” for him when Bon Jovi skyrocketed to global stardom.“I got away with murder,” the “Livin’ on a Prayer” hitmaker told Michael Strahan in the “Halfway There” ABC interview special. “I’m a rock and roll star, I’m not a saint.
told People.“It was the simple chord progression, the melodies and the lyrics [at first]. But the bass line came to life in the demo studio, when we took it back to the band and worked it up.
Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen.In the new Hulu docuseries “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story,” the “Livin’ on the Prayer” singer reveals an endearing ritual that he and the Boss have when they want to unplug from it all and get back to the simple life — after decades as rock gods.“Now we go out of our way to take drives,” Bon Jovi, 62, says of quality time that he shares with his 74-year-old friend. “The two of us get in a car — no phones, no radio — and drive for 100 miles.
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The musician opened up about their relationship while promoting his upcoming Hulu docuseries, “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.”On “Good Morning America,” he was asked about his son Jake Bongiovi and what advice he would give to him and his fiancée, “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown.“You don’t think they’re going to listen, do you?” he joked to co-host Lara Spencer on Thursday.“I mean, the magic for me has just been growing together with Dorothea.”He added: “Every day is a challenge and change, but if you’re growing together, hopefully things will work out.”When Spencer, 54, noted Jake, 21, and Brown, 20, “seem so happy,” the rock star noted: “I’m aware. They’re wonderful.”He also revealed the couple will get “married in the near future.”The “Livin’ on a Prayer” singer’s latest interview comes after making eyebrow-raising remarks about not being “a saint” during his 35-year marriage.“These are all the wonderful clichés of rock stardom,” he told the Independent earlier this month.
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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.
told the Independent, that he hasn’t been “a saint” all these decades. “These are all the wonderful clichés of rock stardom. It’s about never lying about having been a saint, but not being a fool enough to f – – k up the home life, either.”He told the outlet that their long marriage is in part thanks to her “tolerance” when he strayed.
told The Independent. “It’s about never lying about having been a saint, but not being a fool enough to [mess] up the home life, either.”The pair tied the knot at the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas back in 1989, and went on to welcome four children together.The rocker said the pair’s marriage stood the test of time thanks to “a mutual admiration society, and being lucky enough to have grown up together,” but also credited a degree of tolerance on her part.
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Ben Shephard has broken his silence over Jon Bon Jovi's "awkward" interview on This Morning after viewers joked that he appeared to have rushed out of the studio.
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Jon Bon Jovi has revealed that he may never sing live again, admitting that if he can’t be “great”, then he’s “done”.The ’80s rock legend opened up about his ailing vocals in a new interview with The Sunday Times, sharing: “If the singing is not great, if I can’t be the guy I once was… then I’m done.”He added: “And I’m good with that.”Last month, the ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ singer revealed that he was uncertain about being able to tour again after undergoing surgery on his vocal cords in 2022.The artist said he’d undergone a procedure known as medialisation in 2022 after one of his vocal cords was found to be atrophying.Elaborating in his interview with The Times, Bon Jovi said there was a “big difference between being in a studio and going out on the road”.He explained: “We have just recorded a new album. I sing in vocal therapy every day.
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Michael, the forthcoming biopic based on the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson has received positive reviews.The film will be directed by Antoine Fuqua, who is known for films including Training Day, The Equalizer and Brooklyn’s Finest and is set to star Michael Jackson’s own nephew, Jaafar Jackson in the lead role.Per The Hollywood Reporter, the film’s trailer began with a peek at the Jackson 5 performing their hit song ‘ABC’ on TV followed by a cut to a 90s-era concert of Jackson performing ‘Man in the Mirror’. Images of a masked Jackson being hounded by both fans and paparazzi are also shown.The trailer also shows Jaafar as Michael, capturing his striking features and his dancing and stage presence.
told ET in a story published Wednesday, referring to Sambora. “It was never about money, it was never about a girlfriend. He had issues … and he literally didn’t show up.
Michael,” an upcoming biopic about pop legend Michael Jackson that seems guaranteed to spark conversation, debuted a dazzling first look at CinemaCon during Lionsgate’s presentation to theater owners. The sweeping footage starts as hysterical fans scream along to Jackson as he owns the stage, flashing between performances of hits like “Man in the Mirror, “Thriller” and Jackson 5’s classic rendition of “ABC” on “American Bandstand.” The movie, which will feature over 30 songs and recreate many of his iconic concerts, promises to be a sweeping look at the musician’s life, including the emotional toll that being a superstar took on the shy and private man behind the moonwalk.
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