# Liza Minelli and David gest: Splitsville! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006 "2003-07-26T01:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/1 "2003-07-26T01:42:33Z")
[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030726/ap\_on\_en\_ot/people\_minnelli\_2](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030726/ap_on_en_ot/people_minnelli_2) Those poor crazy kids, I thought their love would last forever. Knives, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/2 "2003-07-26T02:05:42Z")
What? If their love can’t make it, what hope do the rest of us have??? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/3 "2003-07-26T02:06:34Z")
What a surprise. I was hoping that Judy’s daughter wouldn’t put up with her life being run like that for too long. Good girl. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/4 "2003-07-26T02:11:44Z")
March 2002 until July 2003… Okay, so… (counts on fingers) Sixteen months. If they’d just held on for another two, I would’ve won the office pool! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/5 "2003-07-26T02:15:23Z")
Gee, I hope that Letterman or Leno don’t find out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/6 "2003-07-26T05:08:36Z")
Did they separate because he’s creepy, he’s secretly gay, or both? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/7 "2003-07-26T05:10:29Z")
Poor Liza. All she wanted was a tall, dark and handsome man to hold, love and have wild monkey sex in bed. Probably the same thing David wanted. Just goes to show ya, having something in common isn’t always a recipe for wedded bliss. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/8 "2003-07-26T07:42:03Z")
Well, Liza’s probably out somewhere looking for her fourth gay husband. ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/9 "2003-07-26T11:11:19Z")
(Wow. The funniest thread in ages. You bitches! I’m still taking suggestions on how Vincente Minelli and Judy Garland managed to actually conceive her, though. Did it involve hallucigenic drugs or only life-size realistic glass-fiber models of pool-boys for her to crawl inside?) ---
**Author:** ![its\_just\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d26b3c/32.png) [@its\_just\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_just_me)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/10 "2003-07-26T12:28:47Z")
and all that money the spent on the wedding ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/11 "2003-07-26T12:59:25Z")
A story (probably not true) said that Elton John, commenting on their marriage, said 'You think she’d at least try to marry a hetrosexual," to which Liza replied “What’s the matter? Jealous?” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/12 "2003-07-26T13:43:19Z")
Who was it who called remarriage “the triumph of hope over experience”? Liza? or Judy? ---
**Author:** ![Kobaltblu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@Kobaltblu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobaltblu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/13 "2003-07-26T14:19:17Z")
Someday, they’ll look back on the good times; the memories shared, those long walks on the beach at sundown, the laughter, the love… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/14 "2003-07-26T16:02:01Z")
Too . . . many . . . jokes . . . Brain . . . exploding . . . ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/15 "2003-07-26T17:16:23Z")
Okay… which gay doper will she pursue, marry, and leave with a large settlement and alimony? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/16 "2003-07-26T17:54:22Z")
I’ve heard it said that women often marry their father. Liza has to stop taking that so literally. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/17 "2003-07-26T23:43:52Z")
Liza and David were on the “V Graham Norton” broadcast last night, which originated earlier this year (prior to their first anniversary). One of them made a comment about how Graham should get married and Graham said something about one gay and one straight, to which Liza piped up “one gay, one straight, that’s a marriage!” ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/18 "2003-07-27T00:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kobaltblu \* > \*\*Someday, they’ll look back on the good times; the memories shared, those long walks on the beach at sundown, the laughter, the love… \*\* Skouldn’t this read: > [@](#): > > Someday, they’ll look back on the good time; the memory shared, that long walk on the beach at sundown, the laugh, the love… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/19 "2003-07-27T01:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > From Yahoo: Elizabeth Taylor served as maid of honor. _Maid_ of Honor? _ **Maid** _ of Honor? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006/20 "2003-07-27T01:55:44Z")
To bad the reality show didn’t make or we’d no more about the split. Is it true that the reality show originally planned for Gest and Minelli became “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”? (If so, Kyan is definitely an upgrade.) Oh well- life is a cabaret. Sometimes there are intermissions. Oddly, one of the hit shows on B’way features Hugh Jackman as another of Liza’s ex-husbands, so maybe in a few years Gest will be the focus of a studmuffin spreading his acting arms. Meanwhile, do you have to give back the toasters, place settings, and gift certificates for a Betty Ford Clinic Day Trip when you’ve only been married for 14 months? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liza-minelli-and-david-gest-splitsville/191006.md?page=2)