Kelsey Grammer has a vow renewal a year after he married his 4th wife: weird or sweet?


I feel like Kelsey Grammer’s wife, Kayte Walsh, has been pregnant forever. I know we rarely see photos of her (or we ignore them) but I get the sense she should have given birth to those twins already. Anyway, Radar has a kind of humorous take on ol’ Kelsey’s latest stunt, a quick trip to Vegas to exchange vows with heavily pregnant Kayte, just a year after their first wedding. (Which happened like almost immediately after his divorce from Camille.) According to Radar’s insider, Kelsey is trying to prove something since he’s so demonstrative with Kayte. Remember how he just got his first tattoo for her? (I didn’t either, and I reported on it.) Here’s Radar’s report, which is worth repeating:

Just one month before their twins are due, the couple, who originally married in February 2011, renewed their vows at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

“It’s completely bizarre that Kelsey and Kayte would renew their vows after only being married for a year. Kayte is very pregnant and it was Kelsey’s idea to go to Las Vegas to renew their vows,” a source close to the couple tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. “With this and the tattoo incident, it’s as if he is constantly trying to prove to the world and to Kayte how much he loves her and it’s sad to witness.

“Kelsey hasn’t been acting like himself for a long time now. This just isn’t the Kelsey Grammer that his family and friends know. Kayte has had a very rough pregnancy and she just wants it to be over with. The whole experience has been very isolating for her and she misses her family.”

The Frasier star and his British-born wife joked that they wanted to have silly wedding pictures to show their kids.

“Kayte’s the most wonderful person in the world,” Kelsey said. “I’m just so happy! We’re really excited. We’ve always wanted shot-gun wedding pictures so we can show the kids later on! We wanted to celebrate and re-dedicate [ourselves] to how much we love each other and to our growing family around the bend… I love that she had the courage to marry me twice!”

[From Radar Online]

Well Kayte is his 3/4 life crisis, and Kelsey is still deep in that crisis. She’s what he’s clinging to, to the point of rejecting Camille entirely. Kayte’s got to be his everything or he gave up his longterm marriage and family life (as atypical as it was with their immense wealth) for nothing. He’s justifying himself, and making this golddigger into a martyr. Once Kayte finally has those twins, are these two going to do a photospread in People? Is Kelsey going to be talking about how his life began with Kayte and their twins as if his three other wives and four other kids don’t matter as much? That’s what I’m reading into his comments now.

Also, I get the impression that couples do vow renewal ceremonies when they’ve gone through a rough patch, not when they’re madly in love.

Kelsey Grammer and wife Kayte Walsh

Kelsey Grammer and wife Kayte Walsh

These photos are from May (credit: PacificCoastNews.com) and January (credit: WENN.com

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  1. dorothy says:

    This guy is creepy and she’s a rookie gold digger. She’ll figure out she went after the wrong old guy soon. Karma baby, karma.

  2. lucy2 says:

    I say it every time there’s a Kelsey post – Dr. Crane needs some serious therapy.

    • JudyK says:

      Don’t like him, either, but I hafta say that I am completely addicted to late-night re-runs of Frasier. That show was so well done.

  3. Flea says:

    Suspect.

  4. corny says:

    aweetly weird and a little gross throw up in your mouth

  5. MoonDoggie says:

    The courage to marry you twice? More like you have the money for her to marry you as many times as your insecurity dictates. One year after the birth of their kids these two will be kaput. I’m just not feeling the celebrity marriages/relationships today. They are all convinced it’s TRU LUV 4EVAH, but at the first gray hair, career faux pas, or rough spot, one or the other does an about face.

  6. Jackie says:

    seems like he is desperately trying to hurt his ex wife.

  7. LittleDeadGirl says:

    Desperate and bizarre. I also think insensitive to his other children.

  8. Boo says:

    I think it seems like her pregnancy is neverending because she was pregnant before and miscarried, so the two pregnancies (she seemed to get pregnant again quite rapidly) seem like one long one.

    I wish them well. I know Kelsey can be a real douche, but he’s had some great tragedy in his family, and he seems like he may have a “tortured soul” element to him.

    • KK says:

      I know he has been though a lot but the tortured soul thing drives me crazy! It’s just an excuse for selfishness and worse. Plenty of people move on and try to make the world a better place and others just keep adding to the bad, creating more tortured souls in the process. Now his kids and exes are left to pick up the pieces of his discarded past lives.

  9. daz says:

    what ever helps him stick to his vows. Otherwise ten years from now we’ll be talking about marriage number 7 for him.

  10. sarahtonin says:

    We all know vow renewals are merely self-affirmations for the insecure. They tend to promise little more than a forthcoming divorce, visible to anyone without an emotional investment in the relationship.

    • cody says:

      I agree. I have found that couples who need to renew their vows every year or need to renew their vows just after getting married, means there is trouble in Paradise.

      • sarahtonin says:

        I figure you renew your vows when you need to remind someone to stick to them. I’ll take this to mean someone isn’t.

  11. aims says:

    Kelsey always struck me as a classic narcissistic man. He’s always been about his needs over anyone else. He can easily move from one family to another with out blinking an eye. Now I’m not saying stay in an unhappy marriage, but he had really not shown any empathy towards any of the people who has crossed his path. I just think it’s so weird to hop from one family to another, not even wait a hot second, find a ‘soul mate’ marry her and get her prego in such a short time span. It’s weird.

    • Maya says:

      @aims, ITA with your comment. Kelsey’s patterns reminds me so much of my fiance’s father, who we’ve finally accepted as having Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

      It’s just so heartbreaking for the children of people like this (if indeed that is the case with Kelsey). I’ve seen my fiance go through so much pain over dealing with his father’s narcissism and I really empathize with Kelsey’s children if they have to deal with the same thing. There’s nothing worse for a child’s self-esteem than having a pathologically self-obsessed parent who takes no responsibility for the pain inflicted upon others. There is literally no way to talk to a narcissist or hold them accountable for their actions because they are psychologically incapable of understanding or caring about other people’s feelings. Bashing your head against a wall would be less painful and less frustrating than trying to get a narcissist to even have a non-delusional conversation about other people’s needs, accountability for their actions, apologies, etc. It literally falls on deaf ears.

      When loved ones begin to challenge the narcissist’s behavior, the narcissist tends to just bail and find replacements, even if it means having new children once the older ones are mature enough to call their parent out on their behavior. I hope for the children’s sake Kelsey isn’t as selfish as he appears to be.

  12. Jayna says:

    I like Kayte.

    • tripmom says:

      I agree. I think she’s really pretty and doesn’t seem like the kind of bimbo I’d expect him to go for.

  13. Agnes says:

    he’s so gross, good god.

    • Maguita says:

      It’s like those gorgeous, yet tortured, French actresses you always see with gross old men… yuck.

      He is very coucou, I just hope she knows what she got herself into, because she looks very much in love with him.

      Wish Dr. Crane some peace of mind and acceptance of true nature.

      • lafairy says:

        Really ? what French actresses?
        As a french I can tell you that there is few if none actress with a much older man (don’t even search for gross old men) in France (except the awful polanski’s wife)
        So if you think you can enlight my ignorance please you would be welcome giv eme few examples…

        PS: and of course none is as homely as this broad…

      • Maguita says:

        Off the top of my head?

        Emmanuelle Beart and Robert Altman (more than 40 years her senior!!), David Hamilton (33 years her senior), and Daniel Auteuil (15 years her senior). All before she turned 28.

        Sophie Marceau and Andrezj Zulawski (filmmaker and 26 years her senior, they started dating when she was just 19, which means he was 45 years old at the time), there is Christopher Lambert but among other much older lovers, there were Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu.

        Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons.

        Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Toscan du Plantier.

        Catherine Deneuve with First Roger Vadim when she was 17 and he was 34. Next was Marcello Mastoianni (22 years her senior, when she was only 22 years old), Clint Eastwood, etc.

        And finally, et non le moindre (seeing how insulted you seem on the reality of many beautiful French actresses attracted to much older, and physically uglier men), Carla Bruni and ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy. Bruni who had also previously dated the much older Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and Laurent Fabius.

        And PLEASE, let us not get into Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo’s much younger and many lovers, whether they were married at the time or not. Gives Sugar Daddy a new name… Or rather, Sugar Peepaw a new name.

        Honestly, my comment was not meant to be insulting, just stating a fact supported by many decades of documented biographies and film.

      • Maguita says:

        And please do let me know @Lafairy, if I have as you have personally put it, “enlight your ignorance” 😉 .

      • Really? says:

        Daaammnn Maguita! I live in France and didn’t even know all of that! Impressionant tout cela! Color me enlightened.

      • lafairy says:

        Sure you enlightened me perfectly…on the fact that we are for sure NOT from the same generation AT ALL these ladies are the “old guard” 2 or 3 generations ago! I was talking about NOWADAYS with actresses under 50… but then if we have to digg so far in the past you might be right! hands down!

        oh and Carla Bruni is not French or an actress she is Italian, she took the French citizenship only when she got married with Sarkozy and for state reason.

        Sure the 70’s and 80’s have vivid memories for some people, but I was talking about TODAY!

      • Maguita says:

        Oh non, Gasp!!! You mean Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche are not of today’s mention-worthy French actresses? Ciel! Thank my tragic ancient gods I didn’t mention neither Brigitte Bardot nor Isabelle Adjani!!!

        You know, we may be only a few years apart, but quite a few decades in open-mindedness and acceptance of others’ point of views… Or admitting graciously to a mistake. Chalk it up on arrogant-know-it-all youth?

        You were splitting hairs ma chère, yesteryear’s as well as today’s actresses, the most beautiful and youthful ones, still boggle the mind with their choice of old frightful farts.

        French or otherwise. 😯

      • lafairy says:

        “You know, we may be only a few years apart, but quite a few decades in open-mindedness and acceptance of others’ point of views”

        We are more like a good generation or 2 (very dated gossip much?)

        and in term of open-mindness, I can’t compare myself to you because I don’t know you but I truely hope I will not try to prove that to myself on throughout arguing with random people I don’t know on the internet when I ‘ll be a mature woman…

        “You mean Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche are not of today’s mention-worthy French actresses”

        We weren’t talking about “mention-worthy”, but about YOUNG actresses get it on with older men remember? It’s like taking meryl streep as an example in the same situation, so yes she is mention-worthy… but Young she was (as the actresses you took as examples) decades ago!
        Talk about splitting ends…

        When we talk about young actresses getting on with much older men , we tend to define actresses who are young NOW since the currency of facts define sociological tendencies, taking as examples women of 3 decades ago to define a sociological behavior is everything you want BUT accurate!

        When I (or journalists or anybody else)talk about YOUNG french actresses, the following actresses are in mind: clemence poesy, Léa Seydoux, Ludivine Sagnier, Marion cotillard, Mélanie Thierry, Sara Forestier, Roxanne Mesquida, Audrey Lamy, Leila Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi? Christa Théret, Audrey Bergès-Frisbey etc…

        And these do not date gross old dudes!

        I don’t think Isabelle Huppert (60)or Emmanuelle Béart (49), no matter how great they are could qualify under “young frenc actresses”… they ARE the old guard.

        Maybe at your time they were, and they were THEN examples of “french young actresses”…maybe then your examples were “current” informations 😉

      • Maguita says:

        “I can’t compare myself to you because I don’t know you … when I ‘ll be a mature woman…”

        Much too late for that chickie. From your first reply to my comment, right then and there, you had already lost any dignity and acted like an aggressive ignorant monkey, no matter the age, with a much highlighted lack of savoir vivre and basic common decency usually applied between strangers.

        Clearly, your “need of being a mature woman” is still beyond your reach, from your wording to absurd ageism. I mean, COME ON, we are on a gossip site, and if there is anything that is SACRED on a GOSSIP SITE, is history! How else would we judge those “stars” we don’t personally know? Simply based on the picture du jour? That would be the summit of idiotic ignorance.

        As for the actresses you have named, do a little research, you would see that most have already “dated” their much older filmmaker, and like generations before them, we would know the extent of their behavior only a few decades after they had become firmly established.

        I must say though, I rather appreciate your admitting to your own generational gap with a lot of posters on these threads: Who are my age, have a career, children, and whatever else “maturity” brings to the table of knowledge.

        If I where you, which I thank my old predated gods that I am not, I wouldn’t insult most people who not only comment on this blog, but also POST the stories that you comment on. You know, like, the writers of CeleBitchy, duh!

    • lafairy says:

      @Maguita:

      Wow!! how your rant is dignifying? telling to others that they are “monkeys” or calling them “chickie”? how telling about your values and behaviour!

      I hope I will never get that agressive, it’s quite unfortunate and degrading for anyone to be that way!

      “Much too late for that chickie. From your first reply to my comment, right then and there, you had already lost any dignity and acted like an aggressive ignorant monkey, no matter the age, with a much highlighted lack of savoir vivre and basic common decency usually applied between strangers.”

      You really should preach your own words first hand if you are trying to give them some weight, you know giving a little try to the so called “savoir-vivre”before trying to lecture…

      Check your own very agressive rants (from the very beginning) and see how talking that way is dignifying and can facilitate interaction with other posters…

      You need to fact checks your infos first before stating all your allegations as truth, you didn’t even know that Carla Bruni is Italian, and Emmanuelle Béart was never with Altman (I checked!) or Juliette Binoche with Irons ( you know that it was a movie… like a fiction you know that?)

      and all the young actresses I cited where NEVER involved with older men… so we can top total fabrication to dated gossip (I don’t even count very obvious sourness….)

      You just prove that maturity and being a “mature woman” are 2 very different things. some never reach the first one cited no matter how old they get.And I don’t think on that ground that it is fair to other posters or the writters of celebitchy (I don’t even know how you have dragged them into this???) to compare them to you.

      Oh and you should’nt insult people first and then be outraged that they answer back to you (still without being as offensive as you and without even calling names as you did… but then again being mature does not equal maturity obviously!)

      Another thing, I might be young but I also have a very , very succesful career and in general get along very well with other posters in here, who in general don’t try to verbally assault other posters or play the “Matron-in-chief”…

      Oh and I persist in my first stated view: I hope to gain maturity and don’t try to prove something to myself on the internet while arguing with random people I don’t know when I will be a mature woman. apparently it’s not granted, not only you have to work for it but being extra vigilant is apparently required to not turnout being totally sour…

  14. Natasha says:

    I like the idea of a vow renewal ceremony…..after you’ve been married for like 20 years not a year later, that’s just stupid. Did he just forget and needed a reminder of what his vows were? And they did it in Vegas? That must have been so romantic and sincere *eyeroll

  15. Minty says:

    He’s on his 4th marriage, really? I think if you already have 2 divorces on your record, then maybe you don’t have what it takes to make any marriage work.

    I give this couple 5 more years, or until Kelsey finds someone new (and younger than Kayte).

  16. Courtney says:

    @Boo after a miscarriage/birth a woman is more fertitle for the first six months look at Joanne Woodward for example she miscarried in february of 58 at 4 months and conceived again in July and had her & Newman’s oldest daughter Elinore April 8th 1959. as for renewing of the vows I think it’s sweet and your forgetting 2 of Kelsey’s 4 older children Spencer & Greer are adults and as for the two minor children Camille is the Castodial parent

  17. RobN says:

    I don’t think she’s a gold digger. She’s a completely ordinary looking woman, pretty but not the flashy pretty you get from women looking to marry for money. She also seems to have no interest in being famous in her own right. Both these things make her a really nice change from Camille.

    • lafairy says:

      Maybe because it’s the only kind of way much younger he can get…younger but also homely… maybe he can’t get better;)!LOL!

  18. Holden says:

    Neither weird nor sweet: Kiss of Death.

  19. mayamae says:

    I don’t think much of either of them. I do not care for Camille Grammar, but their treatment of her was disgraceful.

    I do not doubt for one moment that this girl is a gold digger. I don’t know many women interested in an old, fat, many times married man – still married but I’ll live with him until he’s divorced kind of guy.

    Take away his fame and money and few would be interested in this pig. Homely women can be just as mercenary as attractive ones.

  20. Jill says:

    Cha Ching! for her. How long is this going to last? This man is a serial marrying man.