Joy Behar and Steve Janowitz’s Relationship Timeline: From the Start of Their Romance to Now

1981

Joy divorced her first husband, Joe Behar, with whom she shares daughter Eve Behar.

“I don’t think that I’d be sitting here if I stayed married,” she once said on The View of their divorce. “We had many things that we didn’t — he wanted to live at the beach, I hate the beach. You have geographical differences, you have taste differences. You’re growing in this way and he’s growing in that way.”

1982

Joy began dating Steve after meeting him at a semi nudist colony. She spoke out about their first interaction during an episode of The View.

“First of all, he was nude, I was dressed,” she said. “I was fully clothed.”

“It was a resort, I don’t wear bathing suits in public. Are you crazy?” Joy asked her colleagues.

“He was far away, naked,” she once recalled. “And then at night, there was a movie playing, and then I saw him fully dressed. But I remembered him from the daytime. It’s true. People wonder about that. I tell that story, and people are like, ‘Joy, really? That twitching, crazy woman on The View?’ Yeah.”

2011

After 29 years of dating, Joy and Steve got married. Their decision to wait nearly three decades was because they wanted to wait until gay marriage was legalized in New York City.

“It did have an influence on me. It brought to my consciousness why gays needed to get married,” the TV host revealed. “And I thought it was a good reason for me to get married. And so did Steve, so we did it.”

2023

Joy and Steve were spotted together during a rare public outing at Don Lemon’s home in Sag Harbor, New York. They were in attendance for a party honoring Joy’s View costar Sunny Hostin’s book Summer on Sag Harbor.

2024

Joy revealed what she and Steve fight about the most during an episode of The View’s “Behind the Table” podcast.

“First of all, it’s always about the car,” she said. “He has autoimmune deficiencies, and so whenever he’s behind the wheel or in the back seat, god forbid, we have a driver. He’s a back seat driver, a front seat driver.”

“Why am I not a great driver? Because I’ve been with him for 40 years, and he completely has made me into a nervous driver because he’s always criticizing how I drive,” Joy added. “I went into one farmstand, and I have to suffer for the rest of my life.”