# Has a a celebrity's heterosexuality surprised you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206 "2010-09-18T18:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/81 "2010-09-21T07:23:26Z")
Just like America! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/82 "2010-09-21T07:32:15Z")
Makeup artist [Napoleon Perdis](http://www.google.com/images?q=napoleon+perdis&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1152&bih=539)(owns the Napoleon makeup brand) is married with 4 kids. Italian fashion designer [Roberto Cavalli](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=1Md&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=roberto+cavalli&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1152&bih=539)is also married. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/83 "2010-09-21T07:35:30Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Just like America! I don’t think many straight people go to America. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/84 "2010-09-21T07:56:17Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Andrew Ridgeley. He lives with a total fox and golfs. Damn. Living with the cutest of the Bananaramas certainly makes up for being second fiddle through the most prominent part of his music career. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/85 "2010-09-21T12:43:47Z")
Tony Randall was married to some reclusive woman no one ever saw, during WWII, I believe. After she died, he married a young chick very late in life and they had two kids, as has been mentioned. I only mention this again because I saw him on a talk show before he passed away and he was talking about being a father. And he said “it’s…just…wonderful!” and it was SO touching, the way he marvelled at this experience even at that late date, I swear he had a tear in his eye describing his late joy. I can’t be sure because I was sobbing into a hankie… ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/86 "2010-09-21T15:15:17Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Early in the first episodes of Mythbusters, I coulda sworn both Adam and Jamie were gay. Not with each other, I hope. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/87 "2010-09-21T16:13:15Z")
Just thought of another one: Michael Caine. Always kind of got the gay vibe from him, but nope. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/88 "2010-09-21T16:20:00Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > > [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > > > Early in the first episodes of Mythbusters, I coulda sworn both Adam and Jamie were gay. > > Not with each other, I hope. :eek: It’s like the rule that everyone in New York is a little bit Jewish. Everyone in San Francisco is a little bit gay. Except Dirty Harry. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/89 "2010-09-21T16:29:16Z")
Ty Pennington has never come out to my knowledge, but I haven’t checked in a while ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/90 "2010-09-21T16:38:18Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it elsewhere, but I was surprised to learn that John Lithgow isn’t gay. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/91 "2010-09-21T17:04:36Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Ty Pennington has never come out to my knowledge, but I haven’t checked in a while [There’s some evidence against this](http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/09/28/drea-bock-is-ty-penningtons-manager-and-girlfriend/). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/92 "2010-09-21T19:09:25Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] For what little it’s worth, my uncle was a pilot for many years. One of his earliest jobs was flying a small plane out to Fire Island, a gay-oriented resort. And he claims Tony Randall was one of his regular passengers to Fire Island. [/QUOTE] It’s not exclusively gay though, plus being in theater he probably had a lot of gay friends who’d invite him over. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/93 "2010-09-21T19:18:24Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > > [@StusBlues](#): > > > > Andrew Ridgeley. He lives with a total fox and golfs. Damn. > > Living with the cutest of the Bananaramas certainly makes up for being second fiddle through the most prominent part of his music career. Another member of Bananarama married the man from the Eurythmics. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/94 "2010-09-21T19:42:11Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [QUOTE=astorian] > > For what little it’s worth, my uncle was a pilot for many years. One of his earliest jobs was flying a small plane out to Fire Island, a gay-oriented resort. And he claims Tony Randall was one of his regular passengers to Fire Island. It’s not exclusively gay though, plus being in theater he probably had a lot of gay friends who’d invite him over. [/QUOTE] True enough- I have no knowledge of Tony Randall’s personal life, and won’t make any blanket assertions. I just point out that Randall’s wives and kids don’t prove he was straight any more than his regular visits to Fire Island prove he wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/95 "2010-09-21T20:12:43Z")
Sinead O’Connor always set off my “gaydar”. She has a daughter. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/96 "2010-09-21T20:47:13Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > In a similar thread a while back someone mentioned that Cesar Milan was straight. I was floored. Yeah, that was me. I’m still floored. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/97 "2010-09-21T21:02:42Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I just point out that Randall’s wives and kids don’t prove he was straight any more than his regular visits to Fire Island prove he wasn’t. Come on. The man was married twice and had a couple of kids. > [@etv78](#): > > Sinead O’Connor always set off my “gaydar”. She has a daughter. Sinead O’Connor, however, is gay. [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary\_0286-27901349\_ITM](http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27901349_ITM) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/98 "2010-09-21T21:07:21Z")
Look, if gays aren’t allowed to marry, I’m pretty sure they aren’t allowed to be celebrities! ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/99 "2010-09-21T21:10:35Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Sinead O’Connor always set off my “gaydar”. She has a daughter. She has, depending on the era, identified as a lesbian at certain times in her life. She doesn’t identify as hetero in any case, even though she’s had some substantial relationships with men. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/100 "2010-09-21T22:45:14Z")
It’s interesting to read about how you straight guys’ gaydar has given you mixed results. Some of you have thought people were gay, then found out otherwise . . . when I would never have considered them gay in the first place. As I’ve said all along: only gay people have reliable gaydar . . . and not even all of us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206.md?page=6)