The daily gossip: Janeane Garofalo has accidentally been married for 20 years, and more

5 top pieces of celebrity gossip — from an aborted Justin Bieber-Selena Gomez reconciliation to Twilight's brush with an R rating

Janeane Garfalo reportedly got married from the back of a cab at a drive-through chapel in Vegas in the early '90s. But really, who hasn't?
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1. Janeane Garofalo has accidentally been married for the past 20 years

After discovering, to her great surprise, that she had been married for the past 20 years, comedian Janeane Garofalo got divorced on Saturday, reports the New York Post. Garofalo apparently married Big Bang Theory producer Rob Cohen, while "drunk in Vegas" in the early '90s, as the pair sat in the backseat of a cab at a drive-through chapel. The old married couple only learned recently that such wedding contracts are binding — no matter how drunk you are — when Cohen's lawyer discovered the record on the advent of the producer's unexpectedly second wedding.

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