# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/121 "2010-09-22T21:11:33Z")
Tom Colicchio - the head judge from Top Chef. Always assumed, but i’m pretty sure a season or two ago he made mention of his wife during an episode, I was kind of suprised when he said it. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/122 "2010-09-22T21:35:29Z")
I’d put Jack Lemmon in the Tony Randall category. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/123 "2010-09-23T16:54:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [Geoffrey Holder](http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsH/8105.gif)- dancer/artist/actor/poet probably best known for his[7-UP commercials](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvdLfyctct8) ("The **un** -cola… hah hah hah). I always assumed he was gay for several reasons, especially the fact he had a career in musical theater and released two books of photographs of male nudes, but if he is it hasn’t hampered his marriage. (He and his wife, also an actor/dancer/choreographer, have been married 55 years.) I loved seeing that guy in movies! The voice just made one want to melt. Also loved the special I saw him in, on choreographing the ballet “The Firebird” with the Harlem Dance Theater. Man of many talents. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/124 "2010-09-23T17:07:19Z")
My gaydar always pinged with Robert Downey, Jr… He’s been married twice and has a kid and dated Sarah Jessica Parker for a long time, but admits he experimented with guys in his teens (during which time he was also heavy into drugs and other vices of course) and during one of his drug rehabs he was moved, by request, to a center that specializes in (but isn’t exclusive to) the GLBT community. I think he might be an actual bisexual (the male bisexual is, in my limited experience, rare [much of it accounted for by the “bi now/gay later” crowd] but it does exist), but officially at least he’s straight. SIDENOTE: I’ve read interviews with him in which he was asked if he had sex, consentually or otherwise, with men while in prison. Downey basically said “Next question”. I always thought this was one of the rudest, most invasive and classless things to ask and had he not been on the comeback trail at the time he’d probably have walked out of the interview: Dudes, he has a kid and a public image and if he got raped or even if he had consentual sex it’s not something he’s going to fucking share with you and you know it! (at least not unless he loses all of his money and has to write a bestselling memoir to recoup some, but even then he’s not going to talk about it now) ---
**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:** [January 18, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/125 "2016-01-18T21:53:16Z")
I was going to start a “WHAT?? That celeb is STRAIGHT???” thread, but searched first and not only found this thread, I saw that I posted in it back in 2010! Sorry for the zombie resurrection, but I had always assumed [Lili Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Taylor) was gay; however, it turns out she is married (to writer Nick Flynn) and has a kid. Maybe I thought that because she did such a good job playing [Valerie Solanas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206/126 "2016-01-18T23:22:05Z")
Aaaand the countdown starts for the first “gay zombies” joke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206.md?page=6)