Gossip Folks

OK everyone try to at least look surprised, as the marriage of modern American royalty has ended: Britney Spears has filed for divorce from K-Fed. I'm not sure on the timing of this, but it almost looks like her PR people thought the announcement would be discreetly buried by announcing the news on election night in America. I give it 6 months before K-Fed shows up on a season of The Surreal Life (he's a whiteboy rapper who apparently has been showing up on World Wrestling Entertainment shows lately - he's been born for that show).

Neil Patrick Harris, who is criminally good on the show How I Met Your Mother (this week's "Swarley!" gag was priceless), is the latest celeb to feel compelled to out himself as a "content gay man". Bloggerattzi Perez Hilton has a mad-on for outing celebs. Jenster said he'd been on Neil Patrick Harris case for a while, and Perez's site keeps on naming names in an effort to make himself noticed. A couple of those names have been speculated for years, while a few were surprising if true.

It's lousy that he feels the need to do that just because some celeb reporter is bullying him out of the closet online. His orientation doesn't change how well he acts, although it does probably mean that he never did, in fact, get together with Wanda on Doogie Howser. It's remarkable how Neil Patrick Harris has created to distinctly different characters, Doogie Howser MD and Barney the toxic bachelor on HIMYM. Although this outing supports my theory that straight men don't play the EmCee role in Cabaret (Alan Cumming originated the role.)

If only someone could adopt an African baby while simultaneously outing themselves while divorcing their spouse, that would be a celeb-gossip trifecta:

"I've decided to leave my husband of 2 years and, with my lesbian life partner, will raise this child like he were my own African baby. We ask for privacy from the media, as soon as we finish our interviews on Oprah, The View, and Howard Stern."

I wonder why nobody ever comes out as bi-sexual? I also wonder how surprised my friend G. must be, now that he's learned the man who did coke off a nude stripper in Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (sequel confirmed by the way) is in fact gay. He was surprised when I mentioned Ian McKellan was the first gay man to be knighted:

"Gandalf's gay!???!"

Which would only be a surprise to anyone who didn't see his date on Oscar night, a rather young and shiny lad, or his appearance on Saturday Night Live where he was shown bopping along off-stage to Kylie Minogue's dance routine while checking out her dancers.