Howard Stern, whose full name is Howard Allan Stern, is an American author, radio and television personality. Allan Stern is best known for his radio show called The Howard Stern Show, and from 1986 to 2005, gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio. Allan Stern has broadcasted on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since 2006.
While at Boston University, he landed his first radio jobs and from 1976 to 1982, he developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York, Michigan, WWWW in Detroit, WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut and WWDC in Washington D.C. Allan Stern worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City for four years that’s from 1982 to 1985. Stern began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City in 1985 where his morning show entered syndication in 1986 and aired in 60 markets and attracted over 20 million listeners at its peak. Allan Stern won several industry awards, which included Billboard’s Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year eight consecutive times. Stern is the first to have the number one morning show in New York City and Los Angeles simultaneously and he became the most fined radio host when the Federal Communications Commission issued fines totaling $2.5 million to station owners for content it deemed indecent.
Allan Stern was among the highest paid radio figures after signing a five-year deal with Sirius in 2004 worth $500 million. Allan’s photography has been featured in Hamptons and WHIRL magazines, in recent years. Allan served as a judge on America’s Got Talent from 2012 to 2015. Since 1992, Allan Stern has described himself as the ‘King of All Media’ for his successes outside radio. Allan hosted and produced numerous late night TV shows, pay-per-view events, and home videos. In 1997, the former was made into a biographical comedy film that had Stern and his radio show staff star as themselves and it topped the US box office in its opening week and grossed $41.2 million domestically. Allan performs on its soundtrack, which charted the Billboard 200 at number one and was certified platinum for a million copies sold.
Age
Howard Allan was born on January 12th, 1954.
Family
Howard is the second child of Ben and Ray Stern. His parents are Jewish though their families are from Poland and Austria-Hungary. Ray was an office clerk in New York City before becoming a homemaker and later, she took up work as an inhalation therapist. Ben served in the United States Army on Long Island and in California during the war and later worked as a radio engineer at WHOM in Manhattan and as a co-owner and operator at Aura Recording Inc., which’s a Manhattan recording studio where cartoons and commercials were cut.
Marriage
He met his first lovely wife, Alison Berns, at Boston University via a mutual friend. Allan featured her in a student film he made about Transcendental Meditation. He wrote that Within a week after their relationship began, he knew he was going to marry her. On June 4, 1978, the two got married at the Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts. The two have three daughters, Emily Beth who was born in 1983, Debra Jennifer who was born in 1986 and Ashley Jade who was born in 1993. The two decided to separate in October 1999. He said that he was totally neurotic and sort of consumed with work. He took work as the most important thing and the only thing. Allan moved from the home in Old Westbury, New York, to a 4,000-square-foot apartment in Millennium Tower in the Upper West Side of Manhattan which he bought for $4.9 million. In 2001, their marriage ended with an amicable divorce and settlement. Allan has since bought a home in Southampton, New York along Island.
He dated Angie Everhart and Robin Givens, in the several months when he was single. Stern started to date a model and television host Beth Ostrosky in 2000. On February 14, 2007, Allan announced their engagement on his radio show. On October 3, 2008, they got married at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City. He purchased a home in Palm Beach, Florida for $52 million in 2017.
Beetlejuice
Lester who was born on June 2, 1968, popularly known by his stage name, ‘Beetlejuice’, is an American comedian, actor and frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show. In addition to Lester’s appearances on such feature films as Bubble Boy and Scary Movie 2, Lester was a member of Stern’s Wack Pack and in 2015, Lester was named the greatest Wack Packer of all time by Stern. Beetlejuice has performed with various Howard Stern Show-related comedians, together with those who perform under The Killers of Comedy Tour banner.
