# Celebrities you were surprised to find out were straight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024 "2010-02-22T20:53:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/1 "2010-02-22T20:53:10Z")
In the other thread here, about celebrities people were surprised to find out were gay, someone mentioned Johnny Galecki. That one that surprised me. For whatever reason, I always detected gay vibes from him, but he has a girlfriend. Terry Gross, the NPR host, was another person I always assumed was gay. She just has that stereotypical lesbian appearance and demeanor. But nope, she is happily married to a guy. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/2 "2010-02-22T20:59:26Z")
The guy that plays Dexter. My first exposure to him was as the gay brother in Six Feet Under. I assumed he was for real but turns out he’s married to his Dexter co-star. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/3 "2010-02-22T21:06:38Z")
Anne Heche. 'Course, it was kind of a surprise to her, too. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/4 "2010-02-22T21:06:49Z")
Tony Randall. Thought for sure he was gay but the man was married to his first wife for 50 years (until her death) and then, at 75, married a woman 50 years younger than him and fathered 2 children with her before his death 9 years later. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/5 "2010-02-22T21:08:28Z")
Paul Shaffer ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/6 "2010-02-22T21:09:27Z")
I have to say I was surprised to learn today that **Evan Lysacek** , who just won the gold medal in Men’s Figure Skating, is dating gymnast **Nastia Liukin**. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/7 "2010-02-22T21:18:04Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > I have to say I was surprised to learn today that **Evan Lysacek** , who just won the gold medal in Men’s Figure Skating, is dating gymnast **Nastia Liukin**. When Johnny Weir announces that he has a girlfriend, you can come knock me over with a feather. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/8 "2010-02-22T21:31:11Z")
Mandy Patinkin and to a lesser extent, Kelsey Grammer. Both very “theatrical,” and with Mandy, song-and-dancey. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/9 "2010-02-22T21:36:45Z")
> [@Huerta88](#): > > Mandy Patinkin and to a lesser extent, Kelsey Grammer. Both very “theatrical,” and with Mandy, song-and-dancey. Should Hugh Jackman also be on that list? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/10 "2010-02-22T21:37:05Z")
David Tennant, Elijah Wood, Billy Corgan. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/11 "2010-02-22T22:27:21Z")
Christopher Hitchens. I just assumed he was gay for years and years, until last year I read he had a wife. Wow. That was pretty surprising. Turns out he’s not gay, just British. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/12 "2010-02-22T22:46:43Z")
You can have a wife and be gay, ask Mrs. Larry Craig, Mrs. Ted Haggard, McGreevey’s ex, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/13 "2010-02-22T23:03:26Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > You can have a wife and be gay, ask Mrs. Larry Craig, Mrs. Ted Haggard, McGreevey’s ex, and so on. I need a ruling on this one. What about Neil Sedaka? A few weeks ago I was listening to NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and he was the celebrity guest in the “Not My Job” segment. That guy sets what little gaydar I do have pinging like there’s no tomorrow. So imagine my surprise when late in the interview he mentions his wife of forty-something years. I was shocked to hear the words “my wife” come out of his mouth, much less the fact that they’ve been married that long. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/14 "2010-02-22T23:03:30Z")
Ira Glass. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/15 "2010-02-22T23:08:53Z")
I remember there were rumors Bob Crane was gay after he was murdered. Someone asked Werner Klemperer and he said “Bob was the most heterosexual man I ever met” which was probably true since he tried to screw just about any woman he met. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/16 "2010-02-22T23:20:03Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Christopher Hitchens. I just assumed he was gay for years and years, until last year I read he had a wife. Wow. That was pretty surprising. Turns out he’s not gay, just British. I think there were some Cheever-esque rumors of his making clumsy drunken passes at guys, but nothing confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/17 "2010-02-22T23:28:30Z")
The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan. He mentioned his wife in an episode recently, which made me do a spit-take. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/18 "2010-02-22T23:33:02Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan. He mentioned his wife in an episode recently, which made me do a spit-take. WHOA! That’s the first time I’m hearing this. Well I have to add him to the list I had in my original post. I didn’t see that one coming. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/19 "2010-02-22T23:34:25Z")
When I was growing up, I always thought Prince was gay, with his high voice and fancy clothes. But no, that man has probably bedded more women than I know people. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024/20 "2010-02-22T23:51:59Z")
Like the rest of the World I was surprised to find not all the Village People were gay. eg the cop and the Biker - [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-find-out-were-straight/530024.md?page=2)