Stars You Were Surprised to Learn We're *Not* Gay?

I was reading over some old gossip threads and it was interesting to see what gossip ended up being confirmed years later (quite a bit) and which didn't.

One thing that did stand out is how many people swore up and down James Franco was totally gay. Now, I don't think he's 100% straight, but given all the stories about his sleazy behaviour with women, it was interesting how that never came up.

This will become a thread where everyone will insist that obviously gay men are straight I bet.

A thread like this already exists. Go find it.

Nope, this is Dl so this will become a thread where everyone will insist that obviously straight men are gay I bet.

We're not gay? You're not gay? Who's not gay?

Did you mean WERE, you imbecile?

Alicia Keys

Maybe not exactly a star, but David Campbell, the guy who was the it thing in NYC cabaret circles in the 1990s.

Agree with Gorham, Miranda, and the Duran Duran guys

John Lithgow is not only straight he's a notorious womanizer.

Miranda and Seacrest are two of the biggest flamers out there no matter how many women they claim to fuck

Elijah is straight until he says otherwise

What’s the story with film critic Richard Roeper? I assumed he was gay but then read a couple of his books where he awkwardly asserted heterosexual desire over certain actresses. I thought he married a woman a few years ago but couldn’t find any evidence so I must have imagined it.

Nick Rhodes is the only one from Duran Duran I thought was gay. I wouldn't have been surprised, though, if any of the others were at least bi.

R26, Aaron Schock says he is straight.....

OK, I'll amend what I said. He's straight until he says so, or is caught.

Being caught isn't enough; R33: you still have to admit it, otherwise the mainstream media ignores it.

Does my Red Carpet Wife include me?

Jonathan and Drew Scott (AKA The Property Brothers)

I thought the both were.

R38 I agree, though I'm still surprised that apparently their other brother is straight

Some of the celebrities mention are bi....

I still can’t believe it. I love Martin Short, and realize he was married to his wife for 30 years, up until her death, but Puhleeze.

Martin Short’s wife died?

Robert Sheehan, most recently.

Martin Short's first wife died and he has remarried (to a woman) who is the sister of a well known actress (I think) but I can't remember who it is.

Martin Short has not remarried

r54 here: I got Martin Short confused with Stanley Tucci, whose first wife did die of cancer and he is now married to Emily Blunt's sister. Martin Short has indeed not remarried.

A big second for Ms. Randall.

R57, Marty and his wife have the best marriage!

Michael York (maybe he's deeply closeted)

Vince Clark from Depeche Mode, Yaz and Erasure.

R66: Andy Bell apparently use to tease Vince Clarke all the time about being straight.

Bell was also quite ahead of his time, calling Patrick Swayze's hit She's Like the Wind "heteronormative dross" back in the mid-to-late eighties.

[quote]Michael York

There’s already been a lengthy post on DL of encounters with Mr York.

I was surprised to learn that Wendy Williams wasn’t MTF.

Lindsey Graham...or so he says. I don't believe him.

Paul Rudd and Jason Bateman.

Kevin Spacey. Ask Dianne Dreyer.

Ryan Secrest

James Corden

Tim Tebow

Almost any guy from the bachelor

Don't remember where I read it but Neil Sedaka apparently IS gay, even though he is (was?) married with children.

Am I the only person who thinks all men are gay or bisexual? All these dudes seem soooo gay. I remember most guys messing around in my younger days until the whole "fag" shit started.

R80, Sedaka is gay, he hit on a male friend of mine years ago.

He's just closeted

Oh Richard e grant is a goood one. I think I actually gasped when I found out he was married.

Baz Luhrmann isn’t straight. He is a pretentious ‘bisexual’ who was VERY gay leaning if not completely gay when younger. He and his wife had an agreement and I don’t see them ever changing. I think she is bi too and likes fem gay/bi men. But he is very much one of those prissy theatre queens that spend to ‘gay, gay’; he’s above all that ( except for all the gay ex he has, that is)

UK comedian David Mitchell. I thought that guy was gay for sure, but apparently he's indeed just very British. His wife is the splendid host of some great, nerdy game show.

Maybe not s star, but the guy who sells scented candles on QVC, Harry Slatkin.

I googled him and he loves to shop, decorate, carries an Hermès Birkin and watces The Golden Girls every night before he goes to sleep - with his wife.

LOL, R50. I see what you did there.

My vote is: John Cryer. Someone already mentioned my second vote, Pink.

I wonder if Luhrmann ever made a move on DiCaprio in the Romeo + Juliet era. He sounds pretty obsessed with him in interviews.

There's some behind-the-scenes stuff on the blu-ray. My favourite part is when they're rehearsing the death scene and you see Luhrmann lying next to Leo showing him how he wants him to embrace Juliet on her deathbed. I bet he was hard as a rock and dripping. Hopefully Leo too.

Okay, back to topic...

Belgian singer Stromae

Nicholas Hoult

I was never convinced Nicholas Hoult was gay. Some people on DL used to say he was bearding with Jennifer Lawrence, but I never bought that theory.

And now he has a baby with his girlfriend, so it's even less likely that he's gay.

I think he's just your typical artsy British straight guy.

What I read was that Hoult is no stranger to the casting couch and willing to do kinky stuff if demanded by someone who can benefit him and his career.

British actor and comedian Luke Kempner.

r97 To be honest, Victoria Coren Mitchell is such a damn fabulous human being, I'd enter into a lavender marriage with her in an instant. And yes, her gameshow is glorious.

They had an article about Luhrmann and his wife on DM today (they were at the Met gala). Someone commented, 'He's married to a woman?!'. I checked again a few yours later and that comment had disappeared. That surprised me. Even people like Clooney, Cooper, DiCaprio or Chris Pine don't have comments hinting at them being in the closet removed on DM (as long as you don't go into detail). And Luhrmann is not an actor. I get why actors stay in the closet (although I don't approve of it). But a director? A director whose movies are the very definition of camp?

If I didn't know anything about Hoult's background and only had his face to go by, I'd assume he's gay. But I agree, he probably isn't. Bi at best. A child doesn't prove anything, but he was so young and it looked like he was really trying to keep both the relationship and the pregnancy a secret. It didn't (doesn't) seem like a bearding situation at all. More like a stupid, horny young guy trapped by a model.

NPR's Scott Simon--Stars you were surprised to learn were *not* old. The most old man voice I have ever heard on a youngish man.

Noah Centineo Robert Sheehan (I don't know if they are considered stars...)

Todd Chrisley, his son Chase and Chase’s friend Parker!

[Quote] More like a stupid, horny young guy trapped by a model.

She didn't get pregnant by herself.

I think Malcolm Gladwell is gay, but I may be wrong. He does not talk about his personal life but I don't think he's out.

I thought he was married to a woman?!

Malcolm Gladwell has never been married or even photographed with women (maybe in a group). Maybe he's asexual. Maybe he has a boyfriend and is very discreet. Am looking forward to his next podcast season on Revisionist History in any case. This will be season 4.

Hmmmm....I could have sworn I read somewhere that Gladwell had a wife or longtime gf.

Eldredge is just closeted

I was stunned to find out that old school rock artist Pat Smear was supposedly straight.

The other Wham guy. Oh let's be honest, a lot of these people are just closeted.

In the 80's I was convinced Ray Parker, Jr. was gay.

He gave an interview where he was talking about all the groupies that were constantly throwing themselves at him, and that he didn't ever fuck any of them. He said something to the effect of "so, I am always labeled as 'gay' because I'm not out there having all this sex with all these women. That's okay, I don't mind it if that's what they think." I was like, "aha! No straight man would ever say that!"

A little later, he came out with that song "Girls Are More Fun", and I thought "Hmmm. He's just trying to deflect all the rumors about him." After that, he faded from the music scene, and I just assumed he settled in to happy gay domesticity. Decades later, I see some interview with him in a magazine, and he's married to a woman and has all these kids.

He's probably wishing he fucked a few of those groupies way back in the day, though.

A lot of straight musicians come off as very gay.

Dave Gahan and Martin Gore from Depeche Mode are the ones that surprised me the most. Not a gay experience between them.

Darren Criss is ostensibly straight but his sexuality still a mystery to me. (Just how deep is that closet?)

Back in the day Lindsay Buckingham looked, talked, and acted gay and I would be convinced he was gay if not for Stevie Nicks.

As someone else said, Andrew Ridgeley. Perhaps the straightest gay man ever.

Meg Foster

Those two blonde porkers from "Americas Test Kitchen". I like Bridgit Lancaster's personality quite a bit.

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