Howard Stern dishes on being JFK Jr.'s cover model: 'One of the worst covers I ever did'

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Like millions of pop-culture-obsessed Americans, Howard Stern is bingeing FX’s “Love Story” and soaking up the nostalgia of ’90s-era New York, but unlike most of America, the radio host was buddies with the series’ real-life stars, and even graced the cover of JFK Jr.’s George magazine.“I had done the cover for George magazine,” Stern said on his eponymous SiriusXM radio show Monday.

“So I knew John Kennedy Jr., and he actually showed up to the shoot.It’s one of the worst covers I ever did.

And I’ve done a lot of bad ones.”John F.Kennedy Jr.

launched George magazine alongside his partner, Michael J.Berman, in September 1995.

With the tagline “Not Just Politics as Usual,” the magazine married pop culture and politics in an unprecedented way and aimed to flip the script on mainstream political discourse.The covers were legendary in their own right and featured supermodels, rock stars, Oscar winners and action film stars dressed up as the nation’s first president.

And, of course, radio jokester and provocateur Stern.“They convinced me to be chopping down a cherry tree with a chainsaw, dressed up in colonial garb, dressed up, like, I guess I was supposed to be George Washington, but George Washington didn’t wear the s— I was wearing,” he continued.“It was 100 years ago, and I remember I wasn’t doing a lot of magazine covers by choice,” Stern said.

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and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, in an op-ed for the New York Times.When John Kennedy Jr., whom Stern described as “literally American royalty and the nicest guy in the world,” asked him to pose for the cover of the April/May 1996 issue, themed “The Virtue Issue,” Stern told his agent, “Of course I’ll do it.” “I went down there, and they were like, ‘It’s George magaz...