The Last Of The Real Gunslingers: David Letterman Finally Got Married!
David Letterman and his long-time girlfriend Regina Lasko have finally gotten married! The couple have been together since 1986 and they have one son together:
“They say, ‘Well, why did it take you so long to get married?’ and, of course, the answer honestly is we wanted to make sure we had the prenup just right,” he joked.
The TV host tied the knot at a courthouse in Montana on Thursday and announced the big news at Monday’s taping of CBS’ “Late Show” in Manhattan.
“I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years,” he said. “I secretly felt that men who were married admired me - like I was the last of the real gunslingers.”
Letterman, 61, didn’t explain why he decided to bite the bullet, but he noted that when he headed to the courthouse in a pickup truck with Lasko, 49, and their 5-year-old son, Harry, they got stuck in the mud.
“So now we think, ‘Well, somebody’ll come. No, nobody comes along. Nobody comes along - it’s Thursday afternoon, who’s coming along, Zorro?
“So I get out of the truck and I walk 2 miles back to the house into a 50-mile-an-hour wind. It’s not Beverly Hills, it’s Montana, for God’s sake. And the whole way, I’m thinking, ‘See, smart ass, see, see, you try to get married, this is what happens. See, well, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself….
“So then we get in the car and Harry says, ‘Are we still going into town?’ and I said, ‘Yes, we are,’ and he gets very upset because mom had told him if I wasn’t back in an hour, the deal was off.”
Dave was married once before but was divorced in 1977, and he famously had a long relationship with Merril Markoe, former writer and producer on Late Night.
You know what my first thought was when I heard Dave had gotten married? “Won’t his mom be thrilled!”
Best wishes to the happy couple!
Source: k
