Maria Menounos and husband Keven Undergaro.Photo:Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty
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Maria Menounosis reminiscing about how her husbandKeven Undergarosurprised her with his untraditional wedding vows.
“It was the coldest New Year’s Eve in a hundred years and, when exchanging vows, I was expecting Kev to say something romantic. Instead, he opened with a ‘baba booey’ to a confused Steve Harvey,” she tells PEOPLE, referring to the well-known catchphrase ofThe Howard Stern Show.
“He then recited an excerpt from an infamous video that Howard Stern producer Gary Dell’Abate made for a former girlfriend,” she continues, jokingly adding, “I’m a die-hard, forever Howard fan so even though the weather was like a ‘two’, my wedding turned out to be a ‘noine.’ "
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The couple already had a special connection to the shock radio host’s popular radio program:Undergaro popped the questionto Menounos on Stern’s SiriusXM show in 2016. Although the pair had been together for nearly 20 years at that point, Menounos didn’t think Undergaro was serious at first.
“This I wouldn’t joke about,” he assured her. “I love you so much and this show’s meant so much to both of us. Why not make it official now?”
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In that same conversation with PEOPLE, the Miss Universe 2023 presenter also touched on Undergaro’s Howard Stern-style wedding vows, joking that she “wanted to kill him” at the time.
I’m like, ‘I cannot believe he’s doing this.’ That might be the other one because then eventually he turned into his real vows,” she said.
The couple — who welcomed a daughter, Athena, in July 2023 — went on to celebratea second weddingin October 2018 in Akovos, Greece, the hometown of Menounos' father.
“I always wanted to return to Greece and do our wedding here,” she shared on social media at the time. “Greece means so much to us and our village and our roots.”
source: people.com
