Adam Sandler has hit a giant milestone with spouse Jackie Titone Sandler: They have been married for 20 years.
The couple obtained hitched on June 22, 2003 at Dick Clark’s oceanfront Malibu, Calif., property. The Joyful Gilmore and Marriage ceremony Singer star, now 56, met the model-actress, now 48,a couple of years earlier on the set of his 1999 hit Huge Daddy, during which she performed a waitress within the native sports activities bar.
Adam slipped out of his signature sweats for a tux on his huge day, and had a white rose pinned to his lapel, whereas his bride surprised in a spaghetti strap gown.
Additionally dressed to the nines was Adam’s bulldog beloved Meatball. The canine wore a customized go well with for the event and sported a yarmulke for the Jewish ceremony. He reportedly served because the ring bearer, strolling down the aisle. (Meatball was beloved; Adam held a shiva when he died the subsequent yr.)
The nuptials had been confirmed on the actor’s web site, as this was pre-Fb and Instagram. “Adam obtained married…WOOPITY DOO!” learn the announcement.
The visitor listing included Jennifer Aniston, Jack Nicholson, Rodney Dangerfield, Rob Schneider and Sharon Osbourne. Adam has since mentioned that Tom Petty crashed his wedding ceremony. The late rock star truly obtained right into a automotive accident on the close by Pacific Coast Freeway, Adam later mentioned on the Dan Patrick Present, so the “Free Fallin'” singer went inside to make use of the cellphone. (The marriage was 4 years earlier than the primary iPhone got here out.)
“Tom Petty at Sandler’s wedding ceremony? What the hell is going on?” Adam recalled his childhood pals from New Hampshire saying on the reception.
Petty did not carry out, Sandler mentioned, however singer and guitarist Leon Redbone did. There was a sentimental cause behind that. Apparently Redbone was a favourite of Adam’s father, Stan, who was very sick with most cancers. Stan promised he’d be on the wedding ceremony, so his son handled him to the particular leisure as a thanks.
“It was in order that my father might have a fantastic night time,” Adam later mentioned. “He was like, ‘That is nice,’ and my mom whispers to him, ‘You could not say Pavarotti?”
Stan, who died shortly after the marriage in September 2003, additionally obtained a greeting from Dangerfield. Sandler recalled the Again to College star strolling right into a room the place a chemo-stricken Stan was resting asking, “‘The place’s the dying man?’ My father goes, ‘Hey, Rodney.’ [Rodney’s] like, ‘Hey, I am dyin’ too.'” (Dangerfield died in 2004.)
“The Chanukah Music” singer additionally carried out at his reception. He sang “The Home of the Rising Solar” — “like I all the time do,” he informed Patrick, including with amusing, “It is a very romantic tune.”
He made it up for it by writing a track for Jackie, which he carried out. It was set to the tune of “I Wanna Develop Outdated With You” from The Marriage ceremony Singer.
Jackie gave her new husband a bulldog pet, Matzoball, as a marriage reward.
Over time Jackie has appeared in practically all of Adam’s movie tasks. You get the sense she has enter in crafting the character — like when she performed “Nice Wanting Flight Attendant” in 2019’s Homicide Thriller. Nonetheless, the comedic actress/producer does her personal factor as nicely, lately showing in movies (like Daddy Daughter Journey) with household pal Schneider, who gave her an early break in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
The couple went on to have two daughters collectively, Sadie Madison, 17, and Sunny Madeline, 14. The women have appeared in quite a lot of their dad’s movies as nicely, together with Homicide Thriller, Hubie Halloween and Resort Transylvania.
They’re humorous like dad, roasting him in a speech he delivered whereas accepting the Movie Tribute Award on the 2022 Gotham Awards in November. It included the road: “Thanks mommy for placing up with daddy and his loopy f***ing temper swings all these years. Now that really is a feat deserving of a lifetime achievement award.”
Adam has known as his spouse of twenty years his “without end lady.” He mentioned after they met — on July 31, 1998 — they “locked eyes and fell deep.”
He mentioned Jackie inspired him to take the position in Uncut Gems, for which he obtained many accolades.
“My badass spouse, she gave me the balls to take the half,” he mentioned. “I used to be scared and she or he mentioned, ‘Go f***ing do this and you are able to do that s***’ and we rehearsed collectively on a regular basis.”
A couple of months in the past, Adam was requested by Leisure Tonight about this anniversary milestone.
“Properly, we have been collectively for 25 [years], so we all the time act like that is our anniversary, the night time we met,” he mentioned.”However 20 is sweet. Yeah, 20 years of marriage, that is good.”
Jackie mentioned in the identical interview, “He is extraordinarily loyal. He is a fantastic, nice buddy to have. He is a fantastic particular person. An ideal buddy. He’s humorous on a regular basis. It is his persona. He is all the time attempting to make me chuckle — and I am all the time attempting to make him chuckle, so it really works out.”
