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| Despite rumors to the contrary, ‘American Idol’ finalist Mario
Vazquez did not drop out of the competition because he’s gay
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It’s just a hotbed of gay action over there at America’s top show,
Fox’s “American Idol,” or at least that’s what some people
would like you to believe.
On March 13, front-runner and pretty boy
dropped out of the show for “personal reasons.” He told TV Guide,
according to its Web site, “It’s just a personal family thing. My
family is my top priority.”
Immediately, the hounds at gay gossip site Datalounge.com were all atwitter
about Vazquez’s “personal reason.” They claimed he was about
to come out. But remember, Datalounge was the source of those erroneous “ is coming out” rumors a few weeks ago.
Come to find out, courtesy of Fox News’ columnist Roger Friedman, the
reasons weren’t so personal after all. Apparently, Vazquez was featured
as a guest artist on an Argentine Flamenco CD by the artist Cesar, in violations
of “Idol’s” rules that each participant must be an amateur.
Also, some comments made by show host
on his KISS-FM show in Los Angeles on March 11 unearthed an old lawsuit between
FOX and Jet Set Productions, the gay porn studio behind “American Porn
Star,” an “Idol” porn parody.
While some media outlets were reporting that the suit was still active or that
Seacrest sued porn industry columnist Jason Sechrest, who hosts the porn movie,
the two-year-old suit was quickly dropped after it was filed.
“I was accused in the lawsuit of stealing Ryan Seacrest’s name,
but in reality my last name is indeed Sechrest, pronounced the same, spelled
differently,” explained Sechrest, who also has a role on Jet Set’s
“Wet Palms” porn series.
The championship Boston Red Sox got some queer visitors at their spring training
camp in Fort Myers, Fla., last week who will be cleaning up the roster. No,
it’s not a new pitcher and catcher (Dish is trying to resist the crude
baseball jokes) it was the Fab Five, who came to make over five of the teams
players: pitcher , first baseman
, center fielder and catchers and.
The episode of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” where the lifestyle
gurus clean up the team was the idea of the players’ wives and will benefit
a nearby Little League field that was damaged by hurricanes, the Associated
Press reported. The all-star episode airs on June 7.
The Fab Five gave the ballplayers major-league makeovers, but they couldn’t
touch burly Damon’s long locks because he’s contractually obligated
to keep them while promoting his upcoming book.
In the music biz, marketing isn’t anything new. Lawyer Stephen Kopitko
doesn’t want his musical clients’ songs used in a documentary about
gay sex because he wants the group to be thought of as “mainstream.”
That isn’t entirely surprising, but what is shocking is that Kopitko’s
clients are .
The New York Post’s Page Six reports that John Murphy, who is working
with director Joe Lovett on the upcoming documentary “Gay Sex in the ’70s,”
asked Kopitko if the film could use the gay anthems “Y.M.C.A.” and
“Fire Island” and was told no.
While the Village People recently had a high-profile gig at the Republican
National Convention, Randy Jones, the group’s original cowboy, had a high-profile,
same-sex wedding with his longtime partner last year. That doesn’t sound
very “mainstream” to me.
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