{"id":31640,"date":"2025-03-13T21:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/after-concert-postponements-daughter-of-billy-joels-ex-insists-uncle-billy-is-totally-healthy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:02:45","slug":"after-concert-postponements-daughter-of-billy-joels-ex-insists-uncle-billy-is-totally-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/after-concert-postponements-daughter-of-billy-joels-ex-insists-uncle-billy-is-totally-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"After concert postponements, daughter of Billy Joel’s ex insists ‘Uncle Billy’ is ‘totally healthy’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A member of Billy Joel<\/strong>‘s extended family has assured fans that the man she calls<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0“Uncle Billy” is fine, despite the fact that he’s postponed several concerts\u00a0for health reasons.<\/p>\n

Sailor Brinkley-Cook<\/strong>, the daughter of Billy’s ex-wife Christie Brinkley<\/strong>, tells US Weekly<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, \u201cHe\u2019s doing great. He\u2019s totally healthy and it\u2019s just some things that he has to deal with.”<\/p>\n

Brinkley-Cook, 26, notes\u00a0the Piano Man is “really upset” about having to reschedule the shows, adding, “So, I\u2019m excited for him to be able to get back [onstage].\u201d<\/p>\n

Billy announced on Tuesday that he was moving the shows so he could “recover from recent surgery” and “undergo physical therapy.” He\u00a0said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in a statement, “While I regret postponing any shows, my health must come first.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I look forward to getting back on stage and sharing the joy of live music with our amazing fans. Thank you for your understanding.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The postponed shows included concerts with Stevie Nicks<\/strong> and Sting<\/strong>, solo appearances and shows in the U.K.<\/p>\n

When Billy and Christie wed in 1985, it was the second marriage for both. They divorced in 1994; they share a daughter, Alexa Ray<\/strong>, and remain very close. Sailor is Christie’s daughter with her fourth husband, Peter Cook<\/strong>, who she married in 1996. She also has a son, Jack<\/strong>, with her third husband, Richard Taubman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Myrna M. Suarez\/Getty Images for ABA A member of Billy Joel‘s extended family has assured fans that the man she calls\u00a0“Uncle Billy” is fine, despite the fact that he’s postponed several concerts\u00a0for health reasons. Sailor Brinkley-Cook, the daughter of Billy’s ex-wife Christie Brinkley, tells US Weekly, \u201cHe\u2019s doing great. He\u2019sRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}