Tiziano Ferro, the 31-year-old Italian pop singer whoâs sold millions of records, is coming out on the cover of Vanity Fair Italy. And just four years ago, he was all in the closet with the mag.
âFor a long time I havenât felt good about myselfâŠand after many tough yearsâŠIâve come to the conclusion that I want to live better,â he tells the magazine. Ferro has previously been tied to MTVâs TRL Italy host Giorgia Surina, but says he hasnât been dating dudes: âThey said I was living a double life, that I was with a man. I would get very upset because I wished I had a boyfriend, but I had no one.â
Curiously back in 2006, VF Italy also published an interview with him â alebit a cagey one. Relays the blog Una Vita Vagabonda:
âWhy Tiziano Ferro is a Man Alone,â reads the headline.
Okay, so Vanity Fair in Italian is no less insipid than the English-language version, but the article is still surprising. That A-Gay slime mold and VF contributing editor, Kevin Sessums, pretty much made his career out of interviewing queer male actors, singers, and other celebrities and (a) pretending that they werenât queer and/or (b) asking them why they werenât married, but this VF interview with Ferro from 29 June 2006 (conducted by Sara Faillaciâare we sure that name isnât made up?), is so retro itâs practically Reagan Era
The interview went like so:
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SF: Nowadays you certainly donât lack for other peopleâs attention.
TF: The problem is that I wanted the attention of a couple dozen people and I find myself with the attention of millions. I lost control of the machinery. The result is that I donât trust anyone anymore and, when Iâm with someone I like, I become morbidly jealous. I want my friends all to myself and if I canât have their total devotion, I become insufferable.
SF: And women?
TF: Absolute zero.
SF: And yet your songs are about love more than anything else.
TF: Yes, but not love the way youâre thinking of. Universal love.
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SF: People have written anything and everything about you: that youâre gay, that youâre bisexualâŠ
TF: The truth is that Iâve never experienced love completely. Iâve lived under a glass jar since I was nineteen years old, never a relationship, never a woman. Iâve surrendered to the fact that this is the price that has to be paid if youâre a person who has a sensibility like mine and who lives in the spotlight. Success has dried up my emotional life and suffocated all my interpersonal relationships: I canât have a relationship with anyone anymore.
Blake J
More and more must come out from any country, because it all helps.
So thank you very much Tiziano Ferro!
Samwise
“They said I was living a double life, that I was with a man. I would get very upset because I wished I had a boyfriend, but I had no one.”
That’s so sad. And after reading that quote, I can feel the truth in this older one:
“The truth is that I’ve never experienced love completely. I’ve lived under a glass jar since I was nineteen years old, never a relationship, never a woman. I’ve surrendered to the fact that this is the price that has to be paid if you’re a person who has a sensibility like mine and who lives in the spotlight. Success has dried up my emotional life and suffocated all my interpersonal relationships: I can’t have a relationship with anyone anymore.”
Aside from the “never a woman” part, I don’t think he was lying at all. I hope he’s happier since coming out, and maybe now he’ll find real love.
AdonisOfFire
Good for him! and for me! coz he is one sexy ass Italian with his baritone pop voice, love him!
Marcus M.
Glad to see international readers of Vanity Fair get interesting cover subjects. US readers get another Marilyn Monroe cover this November claiming to have lost diaries. She was just on the cover in October 2008 with pretty much the same damn subject. Sorry, that’s just a vent.
Cam
@Marcus M.:
And don’t forget the Lindsay Lohan Posing as Maralyn one. ugh.
Chris
I agree that any celebrity who comes out is good for ‘the cause’ so to speak, but how the hell is heckling and forcing people to come out good? That’s some perez hilton shit tight there, we shouldn’t be forcing people to come out just because they’re a celebrity, after all they’re still people aren’t they? They’re still going through the tough process of coming out and sometimes it can have even greater ramifications for them.
Forcing people to come out is never gunna be a true victory for our community.
Chris
I also now realise that this queerty title was VASTLY misleading and he came out of his own volition. So congrats Tiziano! It’s a great feeling coming out đ
jason
Will American male singers of similar popularity follow suit? Or will they continue to be beholden to conservative music industry dictates such as “thou must sing about being sexually interested in women with lyrics like ‘my girl, oh girl, yeah girl'” ad nauseum, ad nauseum.
gilber
GOOD very GOOD my dear gay brother,i wish you all the happiness and success in your life,if my boyfriend and i admired you so much before,imagine now.you are the best of the best! period. no other fcking fag have ever had the balls to sing a fully and clear gay theme song with explicit male to male love in his lyrics, no wonder his song has been received soooo well by all his straight fans.this clearly proves that at least in western Europe and latin america most people are quite ok with a man singing a love song to another freaking man.i hope that one day at least the other coward famous gay singers dedicate at least one song with clear homosexual lyrics to the homosexuals,without those fucking “hidden meanings and fearful messages”.ah by the way… clean your ass with the mexicans.they are all a bunch of…….oh well..!!!!
Elisa
@gilber: Mexicans are a bunch or what?? For your information Tiziano is what it is because of Mexican people buying and promoting his music. It’s sad that there’s still racist people in this world. Shame on you. Ugh you are nasty. You ave a boyfriend?? Poor guy.
Rosa
his Boyfriend????? Alberico Nunziata, he was in the Italian Masterchef…..
http://gossip.excite.it/tiziano-ferro-fidanzato-con-alberico-nunziata-di-masterchef-N93650.html