# Predict the next celebrity who'll come out of the closet (and when) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296 "2008-09-26T06:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/121 "2008-11-11T07:41:55Z")
BUMP. (1 month- that’s not a zombie is it?) I’m thinking Wanda Sykes came out on the Halloween episode of Ellen (s[tarts at about 4:40](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gpMEz8Oh0&feature=related)). In discussing Prop 8 and her irritation at African American voters being overwhelmingly anti Prop 8 she compares being black and being gay: “I never had to sit my family down and tell 'em _I’m black_…”. She doesn’t _quite_ say she’s gay, but as close as you can come without saying it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/122 "2008-11-11T12:22:51Z")
He very well could be out for all I know, but I always got that “vibe” from **David Spade**. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/123 "2008-11-11T12:34:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > He very well could be out for all I know, but I always got that “vibe” from **David Spade**. Naw, he’s just bitchy- it’s a common mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/124 "2008-11-12T09:06:04Z")
How about **Hugh Jackman**? ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/125 "2008-11-12T10:19:44Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > How about **Hugh Jackman**? Well, on the one hand he is married to a woman… but that pales compared with his having a successful career in musical theatre. That makes him at least honorary gay. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/126 "2008-11-12T11:02:24Z")
I don’t know about the when, but Anderson Cooper is so gay it’s not even funny. > [@alexandra](#): > > So? Most people become more boring and conventional as they approach middle-age. It doesn’t invalidate the feelings they had for previous partners. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my five months of being out of the closet, it’s this: never, ever underestimate biphobia, from gays, straights or both. > [@Cisco](#): > > Howard Stern has interviewed a gay NFL star. I don’t remember his name because I don’t follow the NFL. Possibly long-retired Dallas Cowboys star Roger Whatsisface, who came out years and years after he left the game. The point is that nobody seems to have come out of the closet _while_ playing in the NFL. Speaking of which, did you hear about the football star who came out after retirement? He came into the league as a Tight End, but left as a Wide Receiver. > [@jackdavinci](#): > > I used to look like Neil Patrick Harris when I was younger. How much younger, exactly? BTW, how _you_ doin’? 😃 > [@control-z](#): > > Seth Green, George Clooney, Burt Reynolds, I don’t think so. They seem like average Joes to me. 😕 What does that have to do with anything? **Sampiro** : Cake on American Idol? Holy shit, you scared me. No, turns out you mean “Cupcake”. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/127 "2008-11-12T11:05:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > He very well could be out for all I know, but I always got that “vibe” from **David Spade**. He is pretty well known as being a manwhore. And not with other men. > [@](#): > > Uh, Helen Hunt is 45 and has only been married once, for about two minutes\*, to Hank Azaria, who’s 44 and has only been married once, for about two minutes\*, to Helen Hunt. I am not interested enough to do research but I seem to remember they were living together for quite a few years before getting married. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/128 "2008-11-12T11:15:10Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > BUMP. (1 month- that’s not a zombie is it?) > > I’m thinking Wanda Sykes came out on the Halloween episode of Ellen (s[tarts at about 4:40](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gpMEz8Oh0&feature=related)). In discussing Prop 8 and her irritation at African American voters being overwhelmingly anti Prop 8 she compares being black and being gay: “I never had to sit my family down and tell 'em _I’m black_…”. She doesn’t _quite_ say she’s gay, but as close as you can come without saying it. I don’t think that’s what she was saying at all. She seemed to be saying that being gay carries that extra hurdle of confession, one that she doesn’t have to worry about. It was pretty funny, but I didn’t take it as an outing. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/129 "2008-11-12T19:50:03Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > How about **Hugh Jackman**? I’ve wondered about that too. Especially when he’s on talk shows. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/130 "2008-11-12T20:34:10Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > How much younger, exactly? BTW, how _you_ doin’? 😃 I believe we were approximately the same age when Doogie aired (I watched it in high school and was called Doogie by my friends) so I imagine we are approximately the same age now lol (34). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/131 "2008-11-13T05:09:14Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > I don’t know about the when, but Anderson Cooper is so gay it’s not even funny. The fact he doesn’t discuss his private life doesn’t irk me a tenth as much as the alleged reason he claims he doesn’t mention it: “As a journalist I must be objective and the less the subject knows about me the better.” Uh, dude… that may have had some validity before you wrote a (strangely asexual) memoir about growing up with Gloria Vanderbilt and how your brother’s probable suicide shattered your life and then expanded your journalistic experience by hosting NYE shows with Kathy Griffin and bitchily dissing the Lohans on REGIS & KATHY LEE and other Pulitzer worthy achievements. Face it- you’re far more a celebrity anchor man than you are journalist and you don’t mind doing fluff pieces and reaping the perks of being famous, the “gotta wear a mask” thing don’t cut it. Some have asked “who’s business is it if he is or isn’t gay?” and I understand that certainly. However it pisses me off when people like AC won’t come out because it sends a message to so many gay kids struggling with it that “this guy’s makes $50 million a year and even he’s ashamed/afraid to 'fess up to it”. I’ll admit that may be an overreaction. [QUOTE=Sr Siete] Well, on the one hand he is married to a woman… but that pales compared with his having a successful career in musical theatre. [/QUOTE] That doesn’t mean anything. Sure Harvey Fierstein is gay, but Christopher Siebert, Cheyenne Jackson, David Hyde Pierce, Nathan Lane, Clay Aiken, Tommy Tune, John Barrowman, Tim Curry, Jai Rodriguez, Neil Patrick Harris, George Chakiris and Anthony Rapp have all starred in big budget musical theater productions and not a single one of them is ga… Oh, wait… never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/132 "2008-11-13T06:19:03Z")
Cooper works often in Middle Eastern countries where some people won’t have anything to do with an openly gay person. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/133 "2008-11-13T06:37:52Z")
Does “Show Biz” give you teh gay? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/134 "2008-11-13T07:04:40Z")
On the contrary, I would suggest that being gay gives you a chance of catching teh showbiz. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/135 "2008-11-13T08:28:02Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > _The National Enquirer_ also published telephoto lens pics of Spacey making out with some younger guy in the great outdoors (I have a feeling the younger guy tipped off the _Enquirer_ for the right price). Good friend of mine had high school theatre class with him. Way gay. She’s the type who would know, too. 😉 I saw Diesel up close during a brunch around Saving Private Ryan time and he had my gaydar sirens screaming. I always assumed they were somehow malfunctioning because I never heard anything to corroborate it. ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/136 "2008-11-13T12:36:18Z")
I’ve always had Simon Cowell pegged the same as George Clooney and Kevin Spacey. The sort of gay man who will spend his life being asked if he is gay, denying it with a chortle and being seen in the company of glamorous women. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/137 "2008-11-13T13:24:55Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > I’ve always had Simon Cowell pegged the same as George Clooney and Kevin Spacey. The sort of gay man who will spend his life being asked if he is gay, denying it with a chortle and being seen in the company of glamorous women. Someone I know has a friend in showbiz who says it’s a pretty badly kept secret that Cowell is gay. Personally I’m happy for your team to have him, bitchy cunt that he is. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/138 "2008-11-13T13:47:38Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > Well, on the one hand he is married to a woman… but that pales compared with his having a successful career in musical theatre. That makes him at least honorary gay. And he was absolutely _fabulous_ playing Peter Allen, who was married to Liza Minelli (also a sure sign of male gayness). ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/139 "2008-11-13T17:30:15Z")
Tim Curry is gay? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296/140 "2008-11-13T17:57:56Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Tim Curry is gay? You’re probably joking but I always assumed he was. I actually googled around info just on the off-chance he might be happily married to a woman, but I never found anything actually linking him to anybody. So I still assume he’s gay, because… well, look at him! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-next-celebrity-wholl-come-out-of-the-closet-and-when/465296.md?page=8)