Actor Anthony Rapp has announced his engagement. Rapp took to social media yesterday to reveal he’d popped the question to his partner, Ken Ithiphol. The two men have been together since January 2016.
“So something happened tonight. I asked Ken if he would marry me and he said yes. I am so very happy and I’m so very thrilled to share this news.”
So something happened tonight. I asked Ken if he would marry me and he said yes. I am so very happy and I’m so very thrilled to share this news. pic.twitter.com/2T65DLhSmd
— Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) November 10, 2019
Rapp and Ithiphol, a leadership coach, social researcher and advocate, both re-posted Instagram stories from others showing the actor getting down on one knee in front of friends at a party in Toronto to make his proposal.
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Rapp, 48, has been acting since childhood. He is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of Rent, which he reprised on TV.
He reached a whole new audience playing Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets on the television series Star Trek: Discovery.
Alongside costar Wilson Cruz, Rapp plays one half of the first gay couple in the Star Trek universe.
He came out as queer in the mid-90s, telling Oasis magazine: “I don’t want to get into labels, but I’ve never labeled myself except to say I’m queer. The thing that’s been most important to me to be out about is that I have been in loving relationships with men … I haven’t said, “I am gay.” Because the truth is that I’ve also been in love with women, although the truth is I do think I’m primarily homosexual.”
Related: How Wilson Cruz and Anthony Rapp of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ warped straight into our hearts
Following the rise of the #MeToo movement, Rapp hit the headlines in 2017 when he went public with accusations against Kevin Spacey.
He says that when he was 14 and acting in a play, he’d attended a party thrown by the then 26-year-old Spacey. He says Spacey made unwanted sexual advances toward him.
Spacey responded on Twitter, saying he did not remember the encounter, was “beyond horrified to hear his story” and offered Rapp the “sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
Other men subsequently came forward to make similar accusations against the House of Cards star.
Related: How Anthony Rapp became a sci-fi icon and a #MeToo trailblazer
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Good on them!
Cam
Congratulations!
And also, the article said: “Following the rise of the #MeToo movement, Rapp hit the headlines in 2017 when he went public with accusations against Kevin Spacey.”
Rapp actually talked about Spacey in a 2000 interview with “The Advocate” but the Advocate did what all media did and protected Spacey by removing any mention of him from the article.
curiobi
Wow, Spacey was at the height of his 1999 onwards fame in 2000, with the usual suspects and Seven I believe, so it is not inconceivable that his behaviour was covered up, maybe by his manager and so forth.
-But with everything coming out now I had no idea Rapp breathed a word about Spacey before 2017! I had never heard or read about this Advocate interview! Seriously, this is like how those scumbags at NBC killed Ronan Farrow’s story into Harvey Weinstien.
Kangol2
Congrats to both of them, and Rapp’s fiancé is cute!
Chrisk
Note to pedo celebrities. Don’t fu*k where ya eat. Bryan Singer knows this rule well. Pick the one’s no one gives a shit about.
Chrisk
Oh and you know you’re getting old when you remember going to see Rapp as the little kid in the movie adventures in Babysitting. Of coarse I wasn’t much older but hey..
nitejonboy
Yeah he’s older than me by a few years but I had such a crush on him in Adventures in Babysitting as a kid..prolly one of the first movies that made me realize I was gay, I wanted him and Keith Coogan to kiss,lol…he was such a cute little ginger back then,lol, he’s still a cutie, congrats to them both.
cwaigy
A huge mega loving supportive congratulations to both of them. I wish them success and long lasting wedded bliss