Billy Joel’s exwife says Chevy Chase ‘wasn’t so nice’ to her at ‘starstudded’ party Annabel NugentSat, July 25, 2026 at 1:44 PM UTC 0 Billy Joel and Katie Lee Biegel pictured together in 2009 (Getty) Katie Lee Biegel, the exwife of Billy Joel, has said Chevy Chase was “not so nice” to her when they met at a party that she and Joel hosted. The Food Network star married the “Uptown Girl” singer in 2004 when she was 23 years old and he was 55. They stayed married for five years before divorcing in 2009.
Billy Joel’s ex-wife says Chevy Chase ‘wasn’t so nice’ to her at ‘star-studded’ party
Annabel NugentSat, July 25, 2026 at 1:44 PM UTC
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Billy Joel and Katie Lee Biegel pictured together in 2009 (Getty)
Katie Lee Biegel, the ex-wife of Billy Joel, has said Chevy Chase was “not so nice” to her when they met at a party that she and Joel hosted.
The Food Network star married the “Uptown Girl” singer in 2004 when she was 23 years old and he was 55. They stayed married for five years before divorcing in 2009.
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 podcast.
“My celebrity run-in that was not so nice was Chevy Chase,” she said, recalling an “old-school keg party” that she and Joel had thrown years earlier.
“At 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,” she said.
The occasion soured, however, when Chase “shooed” Biegel away after mistaking her for staff, according to the TV chef.
“My ex-husband was standing talking to Chevy Chase and his wife and I had a tray of Jell-O shots,” she said. “And I went up with the tray of Jell-O shots and said, ‘Do you guys want a shot?’ and Chevy thought that I was the staff at the party. And he took his hand and shooed me away.”
The Independent has contacted a representative of Chase for comment.
The star of films including National Lampoon’s 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.
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John Belushi, Bill Murray, and his Community co-stars Joel McHale and Donald Glover are among those to have had run-ins with the actor.
Speaking in his documentary last year, Chase seemed unphased about the conflicts. “It’s just Hollywood stuff,” he said. “It never really bothered me.”
Biegel had a more enjoyable encounter with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, who “could not have been lovelier” when they met back in 2003.
“When 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,” she said. “And he could not have been lovelier. He was so nice. He was patient with me.”
Chevy Chase pictured in December 2025 (Getty)
Biegel and Joel separated in 2009. The musician opened up about their relationship and his alcoholism in his HBO Max documentary last year.
“She kinda gave me an ultimatum,” he said in Billy Joel: And So It Goes. “Either you do something about your drinking or this isn’t gonna work out.”
Joel poured water on rumours that Biegel was having an affair, calling such speculation “a bunch of bulls***”.
“We just drifted apart from each other,” he said. Biegel also suggested that the singer resented her for pushing him to go to rehab, after which it was “hard to recover” their connection.
“I don’t think either one of us wanted it to not work out, but it just became obvious that it wasn't working,” she said. “And I remember one night we had dinner and I said, ‘Bill, I’m unhappy.’ And he said, ‘Do you wanna get a divorce?’ And I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘OK.’ And that was it.”
Joel remarried with Alexis Roderick in 2015, with Biegel tying the knot with television producer Ryan Biegiel in 2018.
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Published: July 25, 2026 at 10:00AM on Source: PRIME TIME
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