“Straight” Actors Sue For Gay Gossip
Drama queen alert!
Two male Filipino celebrities are suing a gossip columnist for intimating they were getting intimate. Actors Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby (pictured) say they’re crushed by anxiety and insomnia after Lolita Solis tarnished their good straight names:
Solis had written in her Filipino-language column in the Oct. 15, 2007 issue of the Pilipino Star Ngayon that she saw the pair three days earlier having coffee at a local five-star hotel behaving in a manner “inappropriate” between two men.“She made several innuendos therein as regards our alleged manner towards each other, unexpected from, and inappropriate of two gentlemen. The article was evidently intended to portray us as gay men and to discredit our reputation as bankable artists.”
The implication that gay speculation can ruin their careers really burns us up. Seriously, it’s not as if Solis said you killed babies and ate their brains. It’s also worth noting that both men have been dogged by gay rumors and are still uber-successful.
Well, they are acting like pussies about people thinking they might be gay. I’ve never gotten my panties in a bunch over being thought of as straight. However, the quotes from the article do appear homophobic:
“…she saw the pair three days earlier having coffee at a local five-star hotel behaving in a manner “inappropriate†between two men.”
“She made several innuendos therein as regards our alleged manner towards each other, unexpected from, and inappropriate of two gentlemen.”
Unexpected? Inappropriate?
get naked already you two…
Two men behaving as if the Philli-Pines was Fire Island Pines. Scandalous. If these guys are losing sleep at night it’s more likely they are keeping each other up (in more ways than one).
If I’m a practicing Catholic but a gossip columnist says that I’m a “secret Jew,†is that an actionable slander? I think that this is in the same category!