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Wilder met fellow Broadway actor Joel Grey while on a date with another man at Du-par in Los Angeles and slipped him her number in the restaurant's matchbook. He told a friend after the encounter, "I'm gonna marry her." In 2014, at the age of 82, Joel revealed that he was, indeed, a gay man.
Grey with then-wife Jo Wilder in 1979. In 1958, Grey married Jo Wilder; they divorced in 1982. Together, they had two children: actress Jennifer Grey (star of the film Dirty Dancing) and chef James Grey. [2]
Joel Wilder and Joel Grey were married for 24 years before the union hit a dead end. The divorce was instigated by Joel Grey coming out to his wife as gay and confessing to cheating. Jo filed for divorce shortly after the revelation, which was finalised in 1982.
He was married to actress Jo Wilder for 24 years, a period he calls “the happiest of my life.” Together they have two children: actress Jennifer Grey and son James, a chef.
The DIrty Dancing star, whose memoir Out of the Corner is out May 3, recalls the moment in the late-80s when Matthew Broderick's mother told her that her own father's sexuality was not what Grey...
In his memoir, Joel Grey recounts his battles with himself as a gay man in America of the 1950s and 1960s.
Midway through life, a wonderful thing happened: Love found Joel Grey. You married actress-singer Jo Wilder, who gave up her career to be your wife and the mother of Jennifer and James.