Jon Bon Jovi has been married to Dorothea Hurley for 35 years, which is a long time by normal standards and an eternity when it comes to many celebrity couples. However, keeping their relationship strong is no walk in the park. Now, as the rockstar’s kid Jake Bongiovi prepares to marry his fiancée, Millie Bobby Brown, he’s opening up about the status of his own marriage.
With Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story premiering on the 2024 TV schedule on April 26, Jon Bon Jovi and his bandmates are taking a look back at their careers and how they impacted their lives personally and professionally. Plus, with multiple weddings coming up in his family, including Jake and Millie’s, he’s getting reflective about his relationship with his wife. While on GMA, Bon Jovi’s frontman talked about how making the documentary made his life “flash before his eyes,” and he got candid about his long relationship with Hurley, saying:
The magic for me has just been growing together with Dorothea, every day is a challenge and change. But if you’re growing together, hopefully, things will work out.
This answer was in response to Bon Jovi being asked if he’d given any advice to his son and the Stranger Things star. Based on Jon’s past comments about Brown and Bongiovi, and the fact that the Bon Jovi family was at her Damsel premiere, he’s clearly excited about his future daughter-in-law and this wedding. Plus, his own love story proves that you can find the one at a young age.
It truly is wonderful that Bon Jovi and Hurley are still together and going strong. They were high school sweethearts, and they got married five years after the rockstar’s band exploded onto the scene. The two spontaneously decided to tie the knot in Las Vegas, and while many were shocked, clearly it was the right decision, as Jon told People:
It shocked a lot of people — shocked about everybody: the band, management, agents, lawyers, parents, you name it.’ It's a shame because it should have been a beautiful moment, but after we did it, people were trying to take it away, until I stood up and went, ‘Wait a minute, why are we living our life for anyone else?’ And 35 years later, we're still married.
While the “Livin’ on a Prayer” singer admitted that there is “challenge” that comes with marriage, it’s also something that’s inevitable in everything. It seems like he and his wife really have it figured out, and they’re excited to share their love and their kids’ love over the course of three weddings and through this documentary.
To learn more about Jon Bon Jovi’s marriage to Dorothea as well as his life and career, you can stream Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story with a Hulu subscription. To see what his future daughter-in-law is up to, you can watch her latest movie Damsel and her megahit series Stranger Things with a Netflix subscription.
As we learn more about all the couples in the Bon Jovi family, we’ll be sure to keep you updated.
