[Village Voice] Which onetime heartthrob has managed to keep his sexuality a well-guarded secret for five decades?
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Travolta
I’d agree if the blind read the WORST-guarded secret in Hollywood! =)
Not really a secret!
LOL, that’s hardly a well-guarded secret!
Pretty sure that Travolta’s sexuality has not been a secret for a very very long time now!
George Clooney
I agree. I have always said he is secretly gay. IDK why exactly, I just think this is him.
Nope, George Clooney has openly admitted that he’s gay, gay. But not gay, gay, gay.
Don’t even think George Clooney has been around 5 decades? You need to think “old school” – if he was a heartthrob at say 16, that would make this person at least 66 now.
Clooney a “onetime” heartthrob? I’m pretty sure he’s still a heartthrob!
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds has always been in love with himself, so technically that’s gay I suppose.
LOL!
i got soda all over my laptop now.. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Burt was *close* friends with Dom (a known bi) and Michael Jeter (gay, died of AIDS), among other not-so-closeted actors, among other things, and this is a good suggestion.
Tom Jones
My bf’s mom made out with Tom Jones at a show back in the day
If that’s any sort of evidence he’s straight???
tony curtis….he always struck me as being light in the loafers as they say.
^^this^^
Looking at the clues: Beach (Magnum P.I.)
Blue Jeans (Blue Bloods)
I am going with Tom Sellick
While I think Selleck is a good guess, my thoughts went in another direction. For some reason the guy on the right made me think of Billy Dee Williams. I know he’s married w/children but, we all know that means zilch. If memory serves, there have been rumors about BDW for years, and his age (75) would work in hiding it for 5 decades.
Impressive use of clues! When I first read this, my mind jumped to ideas (Barry Manilow still in the closet? Hey, some of us -only me?- thought he was cute back in the 70s!) but you actually processed the information
“well-guarded” also sounds like a “police-y” term. I vote TS too
this ^
Plus the distinct facial hair in the pic…
Except that this is not a BG blind, it’s Village Voice. We can only be sure that the picture and wording mean anything at all when it’s a BG item, so I’m not at all convinced.
I really like this guess… my other thought is maybe George Hamilton? I really stink at finding clues though…
Terrence Stamp.
I like your thinking.
This is a bit of an un-educated guess, but Antonio Banderas??
I don’t know if he’s too young to be the blind subject though, he’s only 52 and it would mean he’s been hiding it since he was 2.
…I really hope it isn’t, HE’S DELICIOUS!
Frankie Avalon or Paul Anka?
Burt Reynolds
Ricky Nelson?
You’re kidding, right? Ricky died at the age of 45 over 27 years ago! LOL
And that’s EXACTLY how he’s managed to keep it a secret all these years!
His lips have definitely been sealed then.
I was so sad about that, too.
Tom Jones or Englebert Humberdinck
Tom Selleck?
Tom Crusie
Robert Redford
John Trovoltal
My Bobby is NOT gay!
Five decades huh? So he’s between mid 60s to 70s? Maybe in the news or spotlight recently?
Two guesses: Jack Nicholson (multiple beards) or Sean Connery (long shot I know)
Third guess…Robert DiNiro?
Well guarded could refer to Jack Nicholson’s movie, “A Few Good Men”?
…or his film ‘The Crossing Guard”… ?
I don’t think Jack Nicholson is a beard. My dad met him and was incredibly rude to him, but was a gentleman and a flirt to the ladies.
LOL I meant gay not beard.
I absolutely WILL NOT believe that Sean Connery is gay. In fact, I think it should be illegal to mention “gay” and the original James Bond in the same sentence!
well that’s some comment
and i don’t mean in a good way
ROBERT WAGNER
No, he has a long history of hitting on women. Snark.
Boko, to be fair, some closet cases do have a history of “hitting on women” – via some very creative publicists.
hehehe good one!
I once read he was bisexual and had tried to get Sting into bed.
I have to correct this – that was Robert Vaughan I was talking about, NOT Robert Wagner.
Sorry! The names are similar so I got confused.
Wasn’t RJ mentored by several KNOWN gay actors and producers when he first came to Hollywood? I thought it was one of those “open secrets” he was bi?
Warren Beatty.
Warren likes the ladies. Understatement.
I would say John Travolta but his sexual behavior is no secret. I am guessing the person we are talking about is someone that was popular in the 1970′s.
So Could it be
1) Donny Osmond
2) David Cassidy
3) Barry Williams
4) Don Johnson
I was thinking along those same lines.
Hmmm like don Johnson guess, but still going with Eastwood.
Trick question. All of them!
Shawn Cassidy, David Cassidy, Scott Bao, Donny Osmond, Tom Selleck, Tommy Lee Jones…I imagine the list could go on to infinity………
Some of those guys are barely in their 50′s so they couldn’t have been hiding it for 50 plus years.
Tommy Lee Jones? Circle the one that doesn’t belong in this picture.
Maybe Tom Jones. There have been rumors about his sexuality but never anything confirmed and he was considered a hottie for sure back in the day and he’s about 70-something, so in the right age range to have been famous long enough that he’d need to hide it.
Did they mean Eastwood?
Travolta
Wow, 5 decades of life or career?
Is this person dead or alive?
My first thought was Richard Chamberlain, but he came out a few years ago.I loved him in the Thorn Birds and was surprised to learn he was gay.
If the secret is well-guarded, then I have no idea! Englebert Humperdink came to my mind first. I do enjoy saying that name. Loved listening to my mom’s records of his when I was little.
I’ll throw in my guess of Tom Jones, too, just for the heck of it. His outfits have always been suspect. I know he was supposed to be a ladies’ man, but he would not surprise me at all.
Cliff Richard? Although it’s not exactly a secret…
Who?
He had a couple of stardom spells here in the US, but he’s better known in the UK. He got religion in the mid-60s, & has always been sexually ambiguous. Yup, never wed, too.
Sir Cliff Richard, age 72, British singer, national icon, career spanning more than 50 years, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s, huge pop comeback in the 1980s till early 1990s, first to reach the US Billboard Hot 100′s top 40 in the 1980s who had been in the top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck?
This.
There was a blind a while ago that suggested Tom Selleck was in the closet
Found the blind…
http://blindgossip.com/?p=47621#more-47621
The list of possibilities is endless …
lol very true.
Richard Chamberlain?
Kirk Douglas
Yeah… I heard that he had a Brazilian over for a long time….
Leo
Ummm… He hasn’t been alive 5 decades!
Wild guess: Tom Selleck
Barry Manilow, currently starring in concerts in NYC.
Seconded.
I am guessing Burt Reynolds. Just a guess.
Jack Nicholson? HA.
Tom Selleck
cosign
Bobby Sherman? I’ve never heard about him being married. I remember the studio used to send him out on “dates” with his Here Come the Brides co-star Bridget (oh darn – her last name will come to me about 1/3 of a second after I hit submit!) but she even said at the time that it was all very platonic. My first thought was Bobby Rydell but I think more folks would remember Bobby Sherman. BTW, I think Bridget’s last named started with an H so it will definitely come to me in a second. Submit….
Hanley. Love, Ace
Bobby Sherman – now there’s a blast from the past! LOL!
Bobby got married sometime in 1971-72 to Patti Carnel (sp?). It wasn’t made public knowledge until their first son was born in Dec. of ’72. His career then proceeded to tank.
I really like this guess. According to a biography of Sal Mineo, they had a relationship. Bobby Sherman has been married and has kids but we all know that that doesn’t mean anything, right?
Redfords. Not much of a secret, though.
If it wasn’t for the heartthrob aspect, I’d say Barry Manilow.
Tom Selleck
Hmm…I’m guessing this is someone who is turning 50 this year or maybe just turned 50. I’m going to say Bret Michaels, but that’s based almost entirely on the fact that he has a birthday coming up.
That would mean he’s been keeping the secret since the day he was born.
I’m not sure who, but I’ll wager someone in his seventies. Broke into Hollywood in his twenties, so five decades later…
Jonathan Frid
cary grant
Richard Wilson, 76, started acting when he was 27, just came out.
I DON’T BELIEVE IT!!! Actually, what I don’t believe is that he was ever “in”. Richard Wilson coming out was as surprising as Jodie Foster coming out. In both instances, I was shocked to find out that they hadn’t already been out for years! Lol.
yep Richard Wilson!
In the 60′s and 70′s, I was crazy about James Darren. He is married to his second wife, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be true that he is gay.
I’ll say Bobby Sherman who is approaching 70 and has been around since his teens. He was friends with Sal Mineo. And Mineo’s 2011 biography revealed that the actor’s “longtime girlfriend” caught him in bed with Bobby Sherman sometime after he took Bobby under his wing to help start his singing career.
Didn’t he die?
No, I think he’s a police officer in Florida.
Tom Selleck. There have been rumors, and his shorts are a little too tight and short on Magnum PI reruns.
Cliff Richard
Exactly who I thought of.
I agree with the Tom Selleck guesses. Rumors for a long time. And the blind didn’t say 50 years, it said 5 decades. I’m thinking 70′s, 80′s, 90′s, 2000′s, and 2010′s. Makes a lot of sense to me. In the 70′s he was the Marlboro Man, 80′s we had Magnum, 90′s various stuff, 2000′s Las Vegas. 2010′s Blue Bloods. Being married twice w/a daughter, maybe not. But that’s my guess.
Eastwood- easy!
In what universe is Manilow a heartthrob?
He could turn a few heads in a gay bar, back in the day.
I know I’m responding after the fact, but I think there is a slight problem with some of the math here. If this “heartthrob” was around for five decades he would have to be in (or close to) his 70′s now. Some of the answers have been celebrities who are still in their 50′s. I’m going with Tom Selleck,or Bobby Sherman!Don Johnson(another Sal Mineo “friend”) would also be a choice, but I don’t think he fits into this age group.
Frankie Avalon
THIS
Robert Redford
Barry Manilow
David Bowie
Tony Curtis
Robert Wagner
the list goes on….
Have heard few stories about DeNiro
DeNiro, most probably Bi
This makes me think Richard Wilson.
My guess is David Hasselhoff. The picture is on the beach and he was on Baywatch. “well-guarded secret…” that could also be a reference to Baywatch because he was a lifeguard.
IDK, but this must be someone in his late sixties to seventies. Note also this is an NYC publication, so less likely we are talking about a primarily west- coaster.
Tom Selleck . . . although the Robert Wagner guess is intriguing.
Wayne Newton.
How ’bout Richard Gere?
PS Wayne and the Beach Boys have a history.
“Well-guarded” made me think of Kevin Costner, but that would make me weep.
Henry Winkler. Count on it.
I’m going with Tom Selleck.
The “well-guarded” secret is a clue maybe? Tom Selleck did some defamation suing years back when outed. And for some reason I always thought he was gay, even when he was Magnum PI. Maybe it was those tight shorts.
Leif Garrett
I think it’s David Cassidy. He’s always had that “vibe.” He’s been associated (professionally and/or personally with a lot of the people already mentioned. Also, his wife of over 20 years (third wife) lives in Florida while he lives in NY.
I don’t know why folks guessing John Travolta, Donny Osmond and others in their age group… even celebs who was barely born! These guys got super popular in the 1970s which is now forty years. The blind item says FIFTY decades so they were kids in the 1960s; the story is hinting at a (young) adult and probably famous or somewhat famous, in that decade. It is someone presently in their late 60s or 70s.
Now with that being written, I like the Tom Selleck guess.
All right, all right, I’ve been sucked in to posting for the first time–but only because I think I got this one.
Sweet Caroline, it’s NEIL DIAMOND!
Clues: picture = Forever in Blue Jeans, “well guarded” like a diamond.
I’ve met Robert Wagner and his wife, Jill St. John. Honestly I highly, highly doubt he’s gay.
Well, there have always been longtime rumors about Robert Wagner, Paul Newman, Robert Redford. I am sure it could be Bobby Sherman, but is he at all relevant anymore and deserving of a blind? I’m thinking this is an aging actor in his 70s or 80s now. Who qualifies as being Blind worthy? It could be someone like Tom Selleck, but he seems a bit too young, but it’s possible. Burt Reynolds only loves Burt Reynolds. I’d love for it to be Lee Majors, but that’s just my childhood crush thing coming into play, plus I’ve also met him and his wife, and there is definitely no gaydar there.
Didn’t Tom Jones already come out in the past year as being a tad bisexual? How boring if this blind is about him, he’s already admitted as much. Barry Manilow? Sex symbol?
I read Tony Curtis’ autobiography and I think he’s already alluded to some bisexual activity, so again, not a shocker.
My immediate guess was David Hasselhoff. I don’t know why, though.
Kevin Costner? The Bodyguard. Just a guess.
Richard Gere. I know he’s married, but there have been rumours about him for years.
Obama.
???
Leif Garrett.
Jeremy Irons
Was Neil Diamond’s hert light ever considered a “heart throb”? Cuz, he’s gay. Or so I’ve heard.
Several people have named Tony Curtis on here. He died in 2010.
Leif Garret is only 51 and if it turns out to be Kevin Costner, it’ll break my girlie fan heart!
I’ve been reading for the past year – and registered today because I think I’ve got this one . . . I’m with stanton and gwenn. Don Johnson. That picture at the top screams Miami Vice to me. Not Magnum PI at all. . . and not Burt Reynolds. And gwenn is right – that connection to Sal Mineo. . .
Definitely Tom Selleck. Kinda looks like a big ‘ol bear too.
Ronald Reagan!
I’m going to guess George Hamilton.
I had a gay male hairdresser who had a framed pic of Tom Selleck on his nightstand.
He said he knew men in Hawaii who, errmmm, “knew” Tom during the Magnum days.
Kevin Costner. Clues being “well-guarded.” He was in “The Guardian” and “The Bodyguard.” First time poster.
Welcome, Persi! Love, Ace
Travolta, known as bend over Johnny
Jim Nabors.
My guess is Richard Dean Anderson.
Michael Douglas?
Paul McCartney. You’re gonna laugh, but trust me on this. There’s a reason he’s always been at daggers drawn with Yoko Ono, why he protests too much when people claim John Lennon experimented with men… look at how all over each other they are, check out their body language in many of their photographs together… must I draw you a picture, darlings?