Lea DeLaria wed her partner Dalia Gladstone incognito.
During a conversation with Page Six on the red carpet at the Miscast23 event on Monday night, the “Orange Is the New Black” actress revealed the information.
When DeLaria referred to Gladstone as her “wife,” we did a double take and spluttered, “Wait, ‘wife’? When did you get married?”
The actress and jazz singer then uttered, “Aaaaaah” for six seconds — we counted — before finally blurting out, “No comment.”
“Sorry, you can’t just drop ‘wife’ and say, ‘No comment,’” Page Six replied, to which DeLaria playfully retorted, “Yeah, we can if we want to!”
It’s the first marriage for the self-described “Lord of the Lesbians.”
DeLaria, 64, and her then-fiance, Chelsea Fairless, came close to getting married in 2017, but they broke up just days before their scheduled wedding date.
“Please exclude us from the tragic and basic celebrity breakup narrative,” the exes wrote on Instagram alongside a Photoshopped picture of them standing with Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor.
“We were happy together for four years and will remain in each other’s lives. In fact, we look forward to finding new ways to torture each other. We would like to thank our incredible friends and families for their love and support.”
When Page Six attempted to get any details about DeLaria’s wedding to Gladstone, she good-naturedly shut us down.
“Poor Page Six,” she commiserated. “You’ll get over it. It’s not a big deal. Do not make this interview about this!”
The cabaret artist then explained, “I’m just an old-school queer. I don’t think everyone has to know my business.”
When they were on holiday in Key West, Florida, in July 2021, the comedian first showed up on Gladstone’s Instagram stream.
The pair have since made appearances on red carpets, most recently on Tuesday night at the Broadway premiere of “Shucked.”
DeLaria was hesitant to talk about her recent nuptials, but she was animated when debating the country’s anti-transgender laws.
“Those of us in the community have a complete understanding that this sort of phobia has always been around,” she told us. “What’s not scary about it is it’s so open. We can just attack it. We can attack it blatantly and openly. We can attack them as hard as they come at us.
“For example, my good friend [drag queen] Alaska Thunderf–k is doing a big event in Tennessee and reached out to me over the weekend to do a videotape for the event. I was like, ‘Do I have to do a tape. Can’t I just come down?’
“And Alaska was like, ‘What?’ I was like, ‘Honey, bitch, I’m getting there in five f–king seconds if it has anything to do with the anti-trans laws that are currently happening in Tennessee.”
To show her support for her close friend Vanessa Williams, who was being recognized, DeLaria attended the Miscast23 event.
Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, LaChanze, Ben Platt, and Bonnie Milligan were among the Broadway performers at the well-attended fundraiser for MCC Theater.
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