Showing posts with label Anderson Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anderson Cooper. Show all posts

04 April 2007

Anderson & Jodie Outed?


This is the cover of the new issue of Out magazine. In it, they have their first every 'Gay Power List'. And right there on the cover, by way of two models holding masks of their faces, are two A-listers who have never publicly admitted to being gay, although they have never denied it either.
"It's a bit of chutzpah on our part," says the Out editor in chief. "The A-list and even B-list gays are mostly in the closet still, and those are the kinds of people we need to have on our cover. This is a way of addressing that."
He goes on to say that it is ok that he put Anderson and Foster on the cover because they are in a 'glass closet'.
"The Anderson Coopers and Jodie Fosters of the world don't go to any great lengths, if any at all, to pretend they have partners of the opposite sex."
What? This makes no sense to me. They haven't publicly admitted to being gay maybe because they prefer to keep their personal business personal. I really don't think it's fair of a magazine to make that decision for them. This is sure to stir up a bit of controversy I'm sure.

16 February 2007

Fraud Does Not Mean 'Gay'!

Kenny Chesney is mad and he ain't gonna take it anymore! In an interview with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes airing Sunday, Chesney shots down the gay rumors that have been persisting ever since his annulment from Renee Zellweger back in 2005.

"It's not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said, 'No, I'm not (gay),' but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it. I didn't have to prove to anybody that I wasn't (gay). I didn't feel like I really did."
Chesney and Zellweger were married for four short months in May of 2005. When annulment papers were filed, 'fraud' was cited as the reason. Zellweger has said that the use of 'fraud' was "simple legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character." On the word 'fraud', Kenny now says,

"We thought the least harmful stated reason was fraud because it is kind of broad....doesn't specify. And boy.....were we wrong. The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like...that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't."

Does he mean he didn't know what it was like to be married to a woman or just plain old married? I'm confused still by the legal reason given (fraud) and by his explanation of it. I think there is more to it. Having said that, check out this picture recently taken of Kenny with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Marisa Miller. He looks pretty....ahem...happy to be with her if you ask me!