Clay hasn’t even said a word about it, except they made a joke at the American Music Awards. He and Tori Spelling were introducing a performer and right as he was about to say the name, she covered his mouth and did it. I think that hardly makes him a drama queen, rather someone with a sense of humor.
So we just have two drama patients, as I see it.
I’m not giving him a complete pass for putting his hand over Kelly’s mouth. I seriously wouldn’t like it at all even if the person was joking. But she told him she didn’t like it and should have let it go.
They all should have let it go. Kelly yacking about it, Clay doing skits about it and Rosie making statements.
So he gets a bed, but he doesn’t have to say the whole 28 days. 
What I’m curious about is if they contacted Clay and let him know she was going to mention it the next day and give him a chance to respond the same way she did when she called The View?
Y’know, a certain subset of the bondage community enjoys a little something called a "handgag."Don’t think most folks are aware of it, but there might have been a leetle subconscious sexual element gong there, too.
As for the homophobia thing, I’m not seeing it. I wouldn’t put my hand over someone else’s mouth unless I was pretty durned sure they’d be OK with it, in a social setting, just on general principles. So I think Clay was kinda rude. But it’s a great recreational thing to get huffy about.
Yeah, I think this pretty much sums it up (I would give Clay more of a 4-5, but that might just be because we tend not to be very handsy here).
Oh, and Emmitt… the Jolly Green Giant called. He wants his outfit back.
Bump because I just heard about all this.
I don’t think that it was homophobic because I don’t think Ripa has the brains to go there that quickly. Since Ripa made several comments afterwards along the lines of “I thought Southerners were polite!” and that crap I’ll respond as a southerner with "In the south, ‘many a truth is said in jest’ is one of the biggest cliches to live by’- Aiken was trying to humorously but at the same time sincerely say “SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LET ME GET A WORD IN!” Whether it was inappropriate it or not I don’t think he meant any major offense.
For Ripa’s response, which lasted for freaking DAYS, all I could think of was “First 9-11, then thousands dead in Iraq, and now this! When will the insanity end!” Ripa needs a big ol’ Get-the-Fuck-Over-It Daiquiri and when she gets it will hopefully share it with Rosie “Now that I don’t have a hairstyle that looks like a Marine combat helmet how can I keep it in the foreground that I’m gay?” O., who while I disagree with what she said about it being homophobic I applaud because I’m pro anything that pisses off one of the Self-Important Morning Show Muppets.
How do you feel about Rosie’s outraged outing of Clay Aiken? If Kelly Ripa had openly called him a gay man on her show, can you begin to imagine Rosie’s outrage at her chutzpah?
oh please monstro, don’t give 'em any ideas!!!
Hey, they get a card?!? :mad: <— pouting straight guy
Technically she didn’t out him but referred to the “gay rumors” about him (rather like the “black rumors” that hounded Richard Pryor). Also technically, Clay isn’t “not gay” but “doesn’t talk about it”, a step somewhere between “total denial” and the I was only walking my dog in the park and how I accidentally unzipped that officer is a long story that involves an accidental prescription overdose and a media conspiracy" press release on the Coming Out continuum. (He used to deny it but more recently he’s in the “my private life is private and I don’t feel it’s anybody’s business” camp.)
He also seems absolutely ready to implode. Bill Murray (who’s very straight) once remarked of fame and fortune that “Fame is as terrible as it is great, though to be honest there’s no real downside to Fortune but relatives and taxes” and I think Clay’s succombing to the first half of that statement. Watching him on Larry King recently (when Larry actually told him “I don’t know if you are gay” [yeah, we can only guess…I don’t even know that he’s white and skinny, I just go on what I’m told] “but if you are you should come out because then it wouldn’t be news anymore and the press would leave you alone” [I’m paraphrasing]. It seemed excellent advice, but unfortunately Clay just began talking faster and approaching the speed of pink light. I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if he attempts suicide or gets arrested for meth using or something equally sordid before it’s all over.
Point: Rosie and Kelly need to settle this in the Jell-O ring like ladies. Rosie’s got the poundage advantage, but Kelly’s a lot faster and more agile.
Plus, you just KNOW that Kelly is a dirty fighter.
Did anyone else see the clip where Kelly and Regis dressed up as Clay Aiken and Bo Bice, and Kelly pranced around as Clay Aiken and went up to Bo Bice and smothered kisses all over his face? (it’s on youtube) It was very offensive to do that, and then Kelly actually brags self-righteously that she never questioned Clay about his sexuality? Yeah, and laughing about Clay Aiken with Howard Stern after the show really tells me that she isn’t homophobic, and that she treats all her guests with respect. :rolleyes:
I can’t believe anybody can stand to watch Kelly and Reegey. If they made a movie, it would have to be called ‘Annoying and Annoyinger’ (so even the name would convey the utter annoyingnessity of those two). I applaud Clay’s action in that it helped to point out how truly irritating Kelly can be.
Blech.
Okay, like Sampiro, I just now saw this. And because he mentioned it, I checked the YouTube clips of Clay on Larry King. And all the talk about The Rumors, as LK kept calling them, reminded me of something.
Last summer, Mr. Rilch and I visited the Brandywine River Museum, which almost might as well be called the Three Generations of Wyeths Museum, and we got an unexpected bonus: Victoria Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth’s granddaughter (not Jamie’s daughter; someone else’s) was giving a tour. Naturally, at some point, the inevitable question was raised (not by us!): “Do you think your grandfather slept with Helga?”
"Well, I really don’t know…I was only three years old when the paintings were released; I wasn’t even born when they were painted…and anyway, it’s none of your business! This last with a kind of agitated laughter and a vehement headshake. “Oh, I know, it’s just…I’ve gotten that question so many times, and I really don’t know…I mean, there were helicopters landing on our front lawn when the story broke…” She was not snippy or angry, I have to make that clear, but what was equally clear to me is that it really is no one’s business. What difference does it make? They’re outstanding paintings either way; that should be all that matters.
And it should be the same thing with Clay. What he said in response to LK’s relentless questioning boiled down to the same thing: it’s nobody’s business but his own.
Clay also made a good point in that it seems to him that the only acceptable answer is “I’m gay.” And it seems to me that the only reason he appears to be hiding something is that people won’t let it go. What would anyone gain from knowing whatever there is to know? I sure can’t see it. Unless you’re a relative or close friend of his, then it’s none of your business.