Billy Joel’s ex-wife Katie Lee Biegel says she as soon as had a less-than-friendly encounter with Chevy Chase.
The Meals Community star recalled the awkward interplay on Thursday’s episode of her “All on the Desk with Katie Lee Biegel” podcast after a listener requested concerning the nicest — and never so good — celebrities she’s met through the years.
“My celeb run-in that was not so good was Chevy Chase,” Biegel stated.
She defined that the incident befell throughout her marriage to the “Piano Man” singer, whom she wed in 2004 earlier than the pair divorced in 2009.
Biegel claimed she and Joel hosted an “old-school keg social gathering” at a home they deliberate to demolish after spending the summer time there with buddies.
“We determined to have a sort of tear-the-house-down social gathering, keg social gathering, and I had Jell-O pictures, kegs. It was a really star-studded social gathering,” she recalled.
Issues took an ungainly flip, nevertheless, when Chase apparently mistook her for a member of the catering workers.
“My ex-husband was standing speaking to Chevy Chase and his spouse and I had a tray of Jell-O pictures,” Biegel defined. “And I went up with the tray of Jell-O pictures and stated, ‘Do you guys desire a shot?’ and Chevy thought that I used to be the workers on the social gathering.”
“And he took his hand and shooed me away,” she added.
A rep for Chase didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s request for remark.
The “Nationwide Lampoon’s Trip” star has lengthy had a repute for being troublesome to work with, with former colleagues from initiatives like “Saturday Night time Reside” and “Neighborhood” publicly talking about clashes with the actor through the years.
Luckily, Biegel stated not all of her celeb encounters have been detrimental.
The TV persona shared that one in every of her favourite run-ins was with Jon Stewart whereas she was working at a fish market in Sag Harbor through the summer time of 2003.
“He couldn’t have been lovelier,” she stated. “He was so good. He was affected person with me.”
