{"id":295528,"date":"2023-10-25T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=295528"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:48:57","slug":"britney-spears-ex-claims-he-wasnt-drunk-at-their-2004-vegas-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/britney-spears-ex-claims-he-wasnt-drunk-at-their-2004-vegas-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears’ Ex Claims She Wasn’t Drunk at their 2004 Vegas Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a new twist on the most famously and instantly regretted wedding in the history of Las Vegas — the ballyhooed 55-hour union of pop diva Britney Spears with her childhood friend. The union lasted from Jan. 3-5, 2004.<\/p>\n

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In this prenuptial photo, the eyes of both Jason Alexander and his famous bride-to-be appear red from the camera’s flash. The question is whether they were red from anything else. (Image: splashnews.com<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jason Alexander (the dancer, not the Seinfeld<\/em> star) claims in a new TMZ<\/em> interview that neither he nor his blip of a missus were drunk at the time and that they were \u201cabsolutely in love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander\u2019s comments come as Spears, 41, claims in a new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” that they were both \u201cdrunk and bored\u201d before deciding to marry and “not in love.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe and I got shitfaced,\u201d according to the “Toxic” singer. \u201cI don\u2019t even remember that night at all, but from what I\u2019ve pieced together, he and I lounged around the hotel room and stayed up late watching movies \u2026 then had the brilliant idea of going to A Little White Chapel at three thirty in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sobering Truth<\/h2>\n

Alexander, 42, is claiming basically the opposite of what he told ABC News<\/em> a decade ago — that drug use factored into the wedding decision.<\/p>\n

Alcohol is a drug, coffee is a drug, cigarettes are a drug,\u201d<\/strong> he told the outlet at the time. \u201cYeah, we were doing drugs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not that either party is a particularly reliable source of information, but Alexander\u2019s latest take on his wedding debacle aligns more with Casino.org<\/em>\u2019s \u201cVegas Myths Busted\u201d entry debunking the accidental drunken Vegas wedding trope.<\/a><\/p>\n

Basically, despite what you remember seeing in “The Hangover” or “What Happens in Vegas” — or on “Friends,” “My Name is Earl,” “That \u201870s Show,” or “Bones” — <\/em>blotto tourists almost never happen to walk by a chapel and decide,\u00a0why not?<\/em><\/p>\n

While drunken Vegas weddings happen all the time because there\u2019s alcohol around and it\u2019s Vegas, they are rarely accidental. That\u2019s because couples first have to obtain a marriage license at a Clark County Marriage License Bureau branch, where they won\u2019t be able to if either party displays any signs of intoxication and where the wait is usually long enough to sober up anyway.<\/p>\n

Pop Culture Recap<\/h2>\n

Spears\u2019 next marriage — to dancer Kevin Federline later in 2004 \u2013 lasted more than 400 times longer (3 years) and produced two sons: Sean Preston and Jayden.<\/p>\n

Not long after she was freed from her conservatorship in 2021, Spears married longtime love Sam Asghari at her home in California. And Alexander was arrested for crashing the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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