WATCH: Kathy Griffin married in surprise NYE ceremony with Lily Tomlin presiding

WATCH: Kathy Griffin married in surprise NYE ceremony with Lily Tomlin presiding

Kathy Griffin welcomed the new decade with a surprise wedding, marrying longtime boyfriend Randy Bick at her Hollywood home on December 31, 2019.

The small (and quite short) ceremony was presided over by none other than Lily Tomlin, whose partner, Jane Wagner, was also in attendance.

The entire ceremony was just under 14 minutes but I have to give you guys the uncut first 75 seconds. LOVE IT! We promised you atypical. We are in love and we cannot stop laughing. Thank you @LilyTomlin and Jane Wagner!#HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/O5vOss3TCD

— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 1, 2020

“What was supposed to be a shallow, ‘toot it and boot it’ one-night stand has grown and flourished into something far more meaningful,” Tomlin says after Griffin exchanges some interior decorating remarks with an off-screen Wagner. “They stayed together. Then they couldn’t stay away from one another.”

In a follow-up tweet, Griffin added that her wedding dress was actually the dress she wore on her first date with Bick.

“This was our first formal date in September 2011!” she wrote. “We are in the back of a limo provided by the one only @GloriaEstefan because her team arranged for me to surprise her as a back up ‘dancer’ when she performed at the Alma awards!”

“I asked Randy to pick out which ever one of my long dresses was his favorite for any reason. He picked out this dress and showed me this photo. Romance is hotttt again.”

A) This was our first formal date in September 2011! We are in the back of a limo provided by the one only @GloriaEstefan because her team arranged for me to surprise her as a back up “dancer” when she performed at the Alma awards! pic.twitter.com/Z9kNaQHFpY

— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 1, 2020

2019 was a good year for Griffin. She released a documentary, A Hell of a Story, chronicling her experience following the infamous 2017 Trump decapitation photo shoot, she toured with her latest show, Laugh Your Head Off, and she even managed to squeeze in a marriage at the last second.

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30 Animals, Including Entire Ape House, Die in Tragic German Zoo Fire Sparked by New Year’s Sky Lanterns: VIDEO

30 Animals, Including Entire Ape House, Die in Tragic German Zoo Fire Sparked by New Year’s Sky Lanterns: VIDEO

A tragic zoo fire sparked by sky lanterns let go to celebrate the new year killed at least 30 animals at the Krefeld Zoo in Germany.

The AP reports: “The zoo near the Dutch border said its entire ape house burned down and more than 30 animals — including five orangutans, two gorillas, a chimpanzee and several monkeys — were killed, as well as fruit bats and birds. Only two chimpanzees were able to be rescued from the flames by firefighters. They suffered burns but are in stable condition, zoo director Wolfgang Dressen said. … The zoo said the Gorilla Garden, which is near its devastated Ape House, didn’t go up in flames and that gorilla Kidogo and six other members of his family are alive.”

Said zoo director Wolfgang Dressen to the media: “It’s close to a miracle that Bally, a 40-year-old female chimpanzee, and Limbo, a younger male, survived this inferno. We have to seriously work through the mourning process. This is an unfathomable tragedy.”

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30 Animals, Including Entire Ape House, Die in Tragic German Zoo Fire Sparked by New Year’s Sky Lanterns: VIDEO