Good news for all those still pining for TR Knight. Despite overeager reports on his plans to settle down with baby faced boyfriend Mark Cornelsen, the actor tells celebrity studies journal Us that he’s staying single. For now.
“Mark just moved here from San Francisco,” Knight gushed to Usmagazine.com at the Butterfly Ball in L.A. Saturday.
The Grey’s Anatomy star dismissed rumors they’re planning to wed and that he’ll officiate a commitment ceremony.
“To clarify, we are not having a commitment ceremony and I am not performing a commitment ceremony,” he told Us.
Knight said the recent legalization of gay marriage in California gave him an “extraordinary feeling.”
“Once you are given something that you were never allowed before, you realize how much of a second class person you were before,” he told Us. “That is horrible and fantastic at the same time. It makes me want to sob and scream with joy all at the same time.”
“The floodgates have been opened they will never be closed,” Cornelsen added.
While we’re on the subject of floodgates, what’s going on in the Kinght/Cornelsen bedroom? We’re stumped!
ChristopherM
Ummm…I think his boyfriend is baby-faced because he’s an actual baby. Gay or straight, grown-ass men dating ‘tweens look like pathetic asshats.
Bitch Republic
I agree with Christopher.
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Tom
Cornelsen is over 18 and is an adult and grown ass men (and women) can date, fu*k, and marry whoever over 18 they want. The Cal. Supreme Court just told us that 2 weeks ago. How quickly we forget. So fit my big ass head for the asshat.
Kit
They make a cute couple. Good for them if they’re happy together.
You might want to look up the word “tween” before you go making yourself look foolish there, ChristopherM.
Butterpantz
Maybe TR can go to his prom!
fredo777
Meh, he’s not that damned young.
Live + let, as long as he’s an adult.
ChristopherM
I know what a tween is, Kit, I was just being sarcastic. And I agree that you can date whomever you want so long as you’re an adult. But you all are well aware that there is a certain kind of man that ONLY dates people half his age because they have some sort of Peter Pan complex. You see these guys all the time who are in their 30s and 40s who only date guys under 25, and there is something seriously wrong with men who are so terrified of aging that they cannot relate to anyone their own age. I’m not saying you can’t find genuine love in a May-December romance, but there really is a difference in happening to fall for someone much younger and ONLY dating these young guys. I don’t know that TR is one of those men, but seeing a 35-year-old with a teenager just looks a little sleazy.
crazylove
The truth is you don’t know. You are right- its possible, but unfair to judge from distance without knowing.
Brandon
TR. KNIGHT was supposedly dating that guy from Bros & Sis so I don’t think he dates exclusivly in the under 25 set.
I also think it’s important not to always look at the older person as being the aggressor or predatory. Many young guys find gayboys their age to be vapid, incapable of building lasting stable relationships, self-centered, and shallow. It’s possible that the younger guy saw some of the qualities that come w/ maturity in TR and pursued him. People shouldn’t be so quick to look @ things negatively.
ChristopherM
You know something Brandon, you’re right, I shouldn’t be so quick to look at things like this negatively. Perhaps I know far too many of those guys my age who will only date these kids (and I’m not bitter about it…I love my partner of 7 years), and I projected that onto him. I will say I had the same reaction as I have when I see Jack Nicholson with some 30-year-old, but perhaps that is not the case here. And I will say I thought T.R.’s coming out was quite classy and understated in a good way.
scott
what about older dudeds, say 55-60 going after guys in their late 30s? What do you guys think of that?
Mr C
WHO CARES????
ousslander
Maybe they’re waiting for Mark to be old enough to have a drink at the reception
Ston
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ousslander, thanks for that. Yeah, I know that we are all supposed to hold hands, and be one with the world while singing Kum Ba Ya etc…. however, when there is a big age difference like that, especially when one of them is still in his teens and has a HUGE amount of changing to do in the next few years. I get creeped out. I keep thinking of those big fat old guys you see in Vegas with there barely legal girlfriends hanging all over them. Just looks a bit….off.
Tom
The thing that creeps me out the most is people who think its any of their business who other people date. Get your own life and get out of other people’s. You are really no different than anti-gay moralists who claim to get creeped out when two guys (regardless of age) hold hands and express their love.
michael
I dated a person in the mid 90’s that was much younger than me. It was probably one of the, if not the best relationship I ever had.
I have yet to meet anyone as wise and mature as they were. It was very intimate and deep and not just physically. But I also know guys in their 40’s who will not date anyone over 25. Its mainly
because they hold an illusion that if someone that young wants them then they must not really appear their age. They are desperately holding on to their long lost youth and it’s really pathetic. Nothing is more of a turn off to me than someone who
does not accept themselves for who they are.
CAm
Tom Wrote “”Tom
The thing that creeps me out the most is people who think its any of their business who other people date. Get your own life and get out of other people’s. You are really no different than anti-gay moralists who claim to get creeped out when two guys (regardless of age) hold hands and express their love.””
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Oh give me a break, You must be one of those people that likes comparing anybody they dislike to Hitler as well. There is a difference here. The fact of the matter is, people go through a huge change in our society between the ages of 19 and 25-26, they go from basically being high school students to being adults supporting themselves. To say that you think it’s odd when somebody in their mid 30’s is dating a 19 year old is a recognition of the fact that those relationships often contain a huge power imbalance, differing maturity levels, or the problems of the older person trying to recapture youth, the younger with daddy issues….should I go on?
Tom
CAm you can go on if you want, but it just further proves my point that your opposition and reasoning can be used by anyone to rationalize their disappoval of someone else’s lifestyle. But while you are giving us your top ten reasons of why it is so bad for a 19 year old to date a 35 year old, tell us this–why do you care? Are you the self-appointed saviour of hot young gay boys, who usually have the upper hand in the power imbalance and would probably laugh in your face when you tried to intervene to “save” them?
Anyway, do me a favor, when I am out on a date with my 19 year old bf, spare us please–he doesn’t need saving. And trust me on this, dating him is much better than dating some bitter, cynical queen who keeps reliving the past. And the workout is better than a gym membership.
marcus
A few weeks ago I had sex with a guy in his early 50’s. I left the experience absolutely amazed. It was probably the best sex I had in ages and I left feeling like a million bucks. It opened my eyes to the facts that older men can be really hot and that I need to be more open when it comes to relationships. I will take a 50 yr old that makes me feel really good over a 22 year old that is just average any day. I would have never thought I would.
dizzyspins
Geez–are we suddenly not allowed to make snarky judgements about celebrities? Of course Knight is ALLOWED to date who he wants. But we’re allowed to snipe about his cradle-robbing. Cornelsen was 18 when they met. Yeah, yeah, yeah–age ain’t nuthin’ but a number–but gay or straight thats unseemly, and likely doomed to failure.
CAm
Tom,
I think you have mixed up tolorance with acceptance. I would never stand in the way of somebody’s relationship…HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that I don’t have the right to think it’s creepy. When your own statements on here absolutly drip with judgement as if you had some online version of the clap, it is a bit ridiculous of you tell the rest of us not to be judgemental. As for you having a 19 year old boyfriend…hmmm, that might explain how bossy you seem on here, guess you’re used to being in charge.