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| Scissor Sister Jake Shears confessed to his crush on British football player Wayne Rooney, and the athlete took it like a pro. (Photo by Robert E. Klein/AP) |
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Football — “soccer” in stateside English — has gained an incredible momentum in the hot factor with calendars, DVDs and ad campaigns. All this filthy gorgeousness is not lost on the lead singer of the Scissor Sisters, JAKE SHEARS, no slouch in the looks department himself.
In an interview on Sept. 16 with the British tabloid the Sun, Shears reveals a crush for British footballer WAYNE ROONEY, who was featured shirtless in a Nike ad in June.
“I think Wayne Rooney is totally hot,” Shears told the Sun. “I don’t know anything about football … but I think Wayne is really, really cute — totally my cup of tea.”
The Sun printed a follow-up article on Sept. 18 about the reaction from Rooney’s teammates, which was surprisingly not mean-spirited.
One player was singing the Scissor Sisters’ “Filthy/Gorgeous” when Rooney arrived, and a copy of the article was sitting in front of the cutie’s locker. This was followed by the ubiquitous limp-wristed, pantywaist routine, perfected by the butchest of men around the world, and more singing in high falsetto voices.
Rooney, endearing himself to Dish and gay people everywhere, leveled his teammates with a wonderful retort.
“How many of you have a gay following?” Rooney asked after practice.
Allegedly, the team turned and pointed at CRISTIANO RONALDO, the Portuguese player who recently transferred to the British team.
From top to bottom
Comedian KATHY GRIFFIN, loved by the gays, was one of the opening acts at the New York comedy club Comix.
One of the victims of her acid tongue at the Sept. 14 opening was CLAY AIKEN. She called out the sad little “American Idol” also-ran on more than just sexual orientation issues.
“I love Clay,” Griffin told the crowd. “If he only could find the right woman.”
The crowd broke into peals of laughter at this, but there was no letting up for her.
“I’m assuming,” she said. “I have no proof. I’ve never seen him fucking RYAN SEACREST … I read online one time that Clay Aiken is an aggressive top, and that just makes me laugh.”
You and most of his tricks, honey.
When break-ups go bad
Former governor of New Jersey JIM MCGREEVEY started to make the publicity rounds in anticipation of the Sept. 19 release of his memoir “The Confession.”
The syrupy prose in the book, which popped up online before its release, leaves much to be desired, especially in this saccharin clip about his first time in bed with GOLAN CIPEL, his homeland security adviser.
“I was like a man emerging from 44 years in a cave to taste pure air for the first time, feel direct sunlight on pallid skin, warmth where there had only ever been a bone-chilling numbness,” writes McGreevey. “We made love like I’d always dreamed: a boastful, passionate, whispering, masculine kind of love.”
How butch.
But Cipel denies that the pair ever had sex, much less a loving relationship. In an interview appearing in the New York Daily News’ Rush & Molloy gossip column on Sept. 17, he said that he was sexually harassed by the then-governor.
“He put his hands to my chest and pushed me into the bedroom,” Cipel said. “He pushed me onto the bed and jumped on me.”
Well, McGreevey was right about one thing — shoving a man onto a bed before pouncing is certainly a masculine kind of love.
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