{"id":784234,"date":"2026-07-25T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:28:18","slug":"billy-joels-ex-wife-says-chevy-chase-wasnt-so-nice-to-her-at-party-he-shooed-me-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784234\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel\u2019s ex-wife says Chevy Chase \u2018wasn\u2019t so nice\u2019 to her at party: \u2018He shooed me away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katie Lee Biegel, the ex-wife of Billy Joel<\/a>, has said Chevy Chase<\/a> was \u201cnot so nice\u201d to her when they met at a party that she and Joel hosted. <\/p>\n

The Food Network star married the \u201cUptown Girl\u201d singer in 2004 when she was 23 years old and he was 55. They stayed married for five years before divorcing in 2009. <\/p>\n

Biegel, 44, recounted some of her notable celebrity encounters over the years on a recent episode of her All on the Table with Katie Lee Biegel <\/a>podcast. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy celebrity run-in that was not so nice was Chevy Chase,\u201d she said, recalling an \u201cold-school keg party\u201d that she and Joel had thrown years earlier. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the summer, we decided to have a kind of tear-the-house-down party, keg party, and I had Jell-O shots, kegs. It was a very star-studded party,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The occasion soured, however, when Chase \u201cshooed\u201d Biegel away after mistaking her for staff, according to the TV chef. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy ex-husband was standing talking to Chevy Chase and his wife and I had a tray of Jell-O shots,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I went up with the tray of Jell-O shots and said, \u2018Do you guys want a shot?\u2019 and Chevy thought that I was the staff at the party. And he took his hand and shooed me away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted a representative of Chase for comment. <\/p>\n

\"BillyBilly Joel and Katie Lee Biegel pictured together in 2009 (Getty)<\/p>\n

The star of films including National Lampoon\u2019s Vacation (1983), Caddyshack (1980), and Fletch (1985), Chase has earned a reputation for being difficult, with a number of feuds reported over the course of his career. <\/p>\n

John Belushi<\/a>, Bill Murray, and his Community co-stars Joel McHale and Donald Glover are among those to have had run-ins with the actor. <\/p>\n

Speaking in his documentary last year, Chase seemed unphased about the conflicts. \u201cIt\u2019s just Hollywood stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cIt never really bothered me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Biegel had a more enjoyable encounter with The Daily Show\u2019s Jon Stewart, who \u201ccould not have been lovelier\u201d when they met back in 2003. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I worked at the fish market in Sag Harbor back in 2003, my first summer in the Hamptons, my very first customer was Jon Stewart,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd he could not have been lovelier. He was so nice. He was patient with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ChevyChevy Chase pictured in December 2025 (Getty)<\/p>\n

Biegel and Joel separated in 2009. The musician opened up about their relationship and his alcoholism in his HBO Max documentary last year. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe kinda gave me an ultimatum,\u201d he said in Billy Joel: And So It Goes. \u201cEither you do something about your drinking or this isn\u2019t gonna work out.\u201d <\/p>\n

Joel poured water on rumours that Biegel was having an affair, calling such speculation \u201ca bunch of bulls***\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe just drifted apart from each other,\u201d he said. Biegel also suggested that the singer resented her for pushing him to go to rehab, after which it was \u201chard to recover\u201d their connection. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think either one of us wanted it to not work out, but it just became obvious that it wasn’t working,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I remember one night we had dinner and I said, \u2018Bill, I\u2019m unhappy.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Do you wanna get a divorce?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Yeah,\u2019 and he said, \u2018OK.\u2019 And that was it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Joel remarried with Alexis Roderick in 2015, with Biegel tying the knot with television producer Ryan Biegiel in 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,3976],"class_list":["post-784234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}