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Jennifer Coolidge reveals she attended Billie Eilish’s parents’ wedding 28 years ago and will ‘never forget that day’-Aisha Nozari-Entertainment – Metro
WHAT a guestlist.
Jennifer Coolidge has shared an insight into Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas’ parents’ wedding in 1995 (Picture: Getty/Rex)
Jennifer Coolidge has revealed she was a guest at Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas’ parents’ wedding in 1995.
The White Lotus star said the bash was the ‘best wedding she’s ever been to’ and shared fun details about the day.
Jennifer, 61, explained that Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell had been friends for a ‘really long time’ and their special day was the ‘most romantic’ ceremony she’d ever witnessed.
‘I think the best wedding I’ve ever went to was… I got this invite when I was in this comedy group, The Groundlings, and all of us got it. It was sort of this potluck wedding where you brought a dish,’ the star began.
‘It was the most fun I’ve ever had at a wedding. I’ve gone to all of these fancy weddings where people spend millions of dollars and things like that … it was just the most unique, natural wedding,’ she added on Hits Radio.
‘This is the cool part of the story — it was two people that [have] known each other for a really long time that married.
‘They knew each other for 12 years. They gave birth to two children after they got married … their daughter is Billie Eilish and their son is Finneas.’
The White Lotus star said the bash was the ‘best wedding she’s ever been to’ (Picture: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Maggie and Patrick welcomed their eldest child, Finneas, on July 30, 1997, and Billie on December 18, 2001 (Picture: David Livingston/Getty Images )
Jennifer also told listeners that 21-year-old Billie and 25-year-old Finneas’ parents’ wedding took place in ‘a beautiful Malibu canyon’ (Picture: Instagram/maggiembaird)
Jennifer added: ‘I’ll never forget that wedding. A family of deer showed up while they were doing the nuptials [and] stood in the background. It was the most romantic thing I’ve ever been to.’
The Shotgun Wedding star also told listeners that 21-year-old Billie and 25-year-old Finneas’ parents’ wedding took place in ‘a beautiful Malibu canyon’ and that guests danced the night away.
After exchanging vows in 1995, Maggie and Patrick welcomed their eldest child, Finneas, on July 30, 1997, and Billie on December 18, 2001.
Jennifer currently stars in Shotgun Wedding alongside Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel (Picture: Ana Carballosa/Lionsgate)
Jennifer currently stars in Shotgun Wedding alongside Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel.
Released on Amazon Prime on January 27, the film follows Darcy (JLo) and Tom (Josh) as they gather their loved ones in the Philippines for the ultimate destination wedding, while also battling cold feet and second thoughts.
However, their dream day is crashed by mysterious armed men who arrive in paradise to hold their guests hostage, putting a slight dampener on their big day.
In one stand-out scene, Thank U, Next star Jennifer manages to cause huge amounts of chaos when she gets her hands on one of the guns – something the Hollywood icon relished.
Lifting the lid on the action in a chat with Metro.co.uk, she confessed that movie bosses were ‘very worried’ about her handling the weapon behind the scenes.
‘They were very worried about me and the AK-47 that I was handling,’ she told us.
‘It was many, many, many weeks with the gun man … the guy who handles all the guns,’ she continued.
‘He was so meticulous about how I was supposed to handle it, each day we’d just do a little more. So, when I finally got to do the scene, it was very easy to do.
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‘We’re not using real ammunition but things can go wrong, and he just made sure that there was no possibility of anything going wrong. I’m now a full studied person. I got my graduate degree in gun study.
‘But it’s very powerful to be a girl [with the gun] in a movie, it was fun. They usually let the guys do it.’
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