The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' host served as the preacher, Howard Stern made a toast, and Sia Furler sang for the newlyweds' first dance.
- Aug 11, 2015
AceShowbiz - New details of Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux's hush-hush wedding are unveiled. Howard Stern gave inside scoops on the super-secret nuptials during his SiriusXM radio show on Monday, August 10. He revealed that Jimmy Kimmel officiated the ceremony.
"Jim was the preacher, you know the guy who did the ceremony," the shock jock spilled. "He did a great job, you know, he did a beautiful job." He jokingly added, "I didn't think he'd get through it. Jimmy's still depressed about that lion getting killed over in Africa," referring to Cecil the Lion.
Stern said he was one of the few people who knew about the surprise wedding. "They contacted us and said, 'Please don't tell anyone,' " he recalled, noting that he was asked by the groom to prepare a speech. "I was so nervous. They're so secretive, those two," he said, adding that he kept it secret even from his own mom.
"It was always called a birthday party. Whenever you got an email, it was a birthday party. They're so secretive that they even had the wedding on a Wednesday because nobody gets married on a Wednesday ... Everything is always top secret," he explained the great length they went to keep it under wraps.
The "America's Got Talent" judge denied rumor that Robert Downey Jr. also made a toast. "He wasn't there," he said of the "Iron Man" star. "Evidently I'm in demand," the radio host quipped. "I'm very friendly with Justin. I like him very much, I really admire him."
"I even said in my speech to them that if one of my daughters brought home a guy like Justin, I'd be very pleased. Except for the s**tty tattoos. Cause he's got some f**king weird ones. And except for the fact that I gave him a journal to draw in and he draws pictures of dead zombie babies with blood dripping out their head on every almost page. I said, those two things might disturb me. But aside from that..."
The thought of having to speak at the couple's wedding made him "miserable," Stern said. He also complained about the seating arrangement, "They had these little tiny chairs. There was a table, and then you sit down and the chairs were like poufs, like little pillow poufs. I'm 6-foot-f**king-5! I'm a grown man!"
The fact that no cell phone was allowed inside the bash didn't appeal to him either. "Why can't I have my cell phone? I don't want to take a picture of you two! I really don't. I want my cell phone so after I make this speech I can call my car and get the f**k outta here!" Stern joked. "People were laughing at my misery."
"The irony is, I've been on vacation with those two, and they take pictures every f**king minute! They're constantly shooting pictures. But if I take a picture, I'm committing a sin!" he deadpanned. "You go with these two, there's photographers every minute."
"I'm sitting by a pool in Mexico and around where I sit is a sheet so photographers can't get a picture. So I've never actually seen Mexico. The view I have is a sheet every year...When you go on vacation with people and aren't allowed to leave the house, you really get to know people."
The newlyweds were serenaded by Sia Furler. "Sia was there and she sang, it was very romantic, it was their [Theroux and Aniston's] first dance," Stern said.
