Jason Alexander & Fran Drescher Paid To Host Stranger's Wedding

nypost.com:

Fran Drescher and Jason Alexander are in Australia today to attend the wedding of a couple they've never met. Geoffrey Edelsten, 66 -- a former doctor who went bankrupt after he was convicted in 1990 of hiring a hit man to assault a patient -- is set to marry American fitness trainer Brynne Gordon, 26. Drescher and Alexander -- who are to host the ritzy, $3 million extravaganza at Melbourne's Crown Palladium ballroom -- appeared in a video invitation sent out to guests and that also featured Dr. Phil.

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Comments

[Cogs]

10:05 AM on 12/01/2009

Nice work if you can get.

[liarsclub75]

11:47 PM on 11/30/2009

This kind of thing happens a lot. If you have the cash, you can pay a celeb to walk you down the aisle, MC, etc.

[dinglebe]

10:57 AM on 11/30/2009

I think that, next to Albert Brooks, Jason Alexander is the worst actor I have ever seen.

[MsLiz]

12:32 AM on 12/01/2009

I think, next to Kanye West's, that is the worst opinion I have ever heard.

[thebirdstheword]

07:48 AM on 11/30/2009

running out of seinfeld characters i can now watch without feeling a little empty inside while doing so.

maybe the "can't-sta­nd-ya" teacher had a point.

[oregon bird]

06:06 AM on 11/30/2009

Also, Jon Gosslin paid to show up at a pool party, Levi Johnston strips for money, and Pheobe Price showed up on another red carpet for no particular reason anyone can tell, wearing borrowed clothes.

It's a short step from selling your talent, apparently­, to selling your body. Water is wet.

[the964kid]

04:14 AM on 11/30/2009

I only have 2 questions:

1. How does this convicted criminal have millions to throw away on this over the top Tyco-level wedding?

and

2. Isn't it time for somebody to make a REAL & paying Seinfield reunion go down soon (unlike the one on Curb Your Enthusiasm­), so Costanza doesn't have to do desperate stuff like this??

[NotEvenAmerican]

09:56 PM on 12/01/2009

Funny you should ask. He introduced corporatis­ed medicine to Australia.­... This is his second fortune.

The last wife was prettier and even younger...

[OtayPanky]

10:47 PM on 11/29/2009

Let's see...

He's a 66 year old convicted murderer who lost his medical license. She's a 20 something glamazon who works as a "fitness trainer".

They met in Vegas.

No doubt this one's gonna end with someone hitting someone in the head with a golf club.

[laddieluv]

12:24 AM on 11/30/2009

ROTFLMBO!!­!

Thanks! I needed that laugh.

And I agree.

[NotEvenAmerican]

01:25 AM on 11/30/2009

Not quite a murder, he just wanted the guy to rough the patient up a bit. No one died.

[oregon bird]

06:07 AM on 11/30/2009

Oh, that's okay then. He's probably a great doctor, and obviously a wonderful human being -- I mean, if George and Fran like him...

[Angry23]

09:23 PM on 11/29/2009

I love Fran. I think she and Jason should reenact that episode of the Nanny where he was her blind boyfriend at the wedding. It's ironic, because someone dating Fran would be better off deaf. She's easy on the eyes, murder on the ears.
But I love you Frannie, I kid! If anyone deserves to make a buck off this, it's her.

[balancedsolution]

07:58 PM on 11/29/2009

Repulsive

[Acid Monkey]

05:28 AM on 12/01/2009

Yeah, I have to agree with you. I never did like Seinfeld or The Nanny.

[josephebacon]

07:26 PM on 11/29/2009

Gee, if only Jason paid five bucks to the Universal Life Church, they would have ordained him and he could have performed the marriage ceremony!

[Clare53]

05:39 PM on 11/29/2009

Wow, is that tasteless.

[noweknow]

04:05 PM on 11/29/2009

They do this a lot in third world countries. Anything to make a buck.

[NotEvenAmerican]

01:28 AM on 11/30/2009

Get out of the US much? Next you'll be saying that Europe it the Final Frontier.

[BereftSkerrick]

04:54 AM on 11/30/2009

Australia is a 3rd World Country? A place where the recession barely hit, where our health care is fantastic, our standard of living is excellent - 3rd World?

Don't label us a 3rd World Country just because a doctor/bus­inessman of questionab­le repute hooks himself up with a ditzy blonde and has a ridiculous Z-grade wedding.

BTW it says more for Jason Alexander. In Pretty Woman, he treated Julia Roberts like crap because she was a "working girl". Now he's pimping himself out. The tables, they have turned.

[Cherybaby66]

10:44 AM on 11/30/2009

I don't think that life imitating art really applies here...tho­ugh it is a bit ironic.

[Theatrixnyc]

03:19 PM on 11/29/2009

This is kind of funny. On an episode of Entourage, Fran was playing a rich hostess who wanted Vince for her daughters 16th birthday, to perform one song for $250,000.0­0

[CherrySpring]

03:11 PM on 11/29/2009

That's what I'll do. Find the two most annoying people on this planet and pay them to annoy dozens of my wedding guests. Perfectly eeeevil! Muah hah hah!

[midnightwriter]

03:10 PM on 11/29/2009

Why does this remind of the episode of Seinfield where Krammer pretends to work in a office building and tricks everyone into thinking he's always been a part of their group?

[hypnotoad72]

03:45 PM on 11/29/2009

And would that office building be located in Harlem?

/ducksforc­over