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Barry Manilow has come out?

Red_in_SE8
Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
edited April 2017 in Not Sports Related
I am truly shocked at this. I thought he was an openly gay celebrity for the last 40 years!
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,352
    This is old news
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Only just popped up as breaking news on my CNN feed.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    This came out a couple of years ago after he married his manager.

    Shame he felt he had to keep it a secret.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,420
    edited April 2017
    I was about to say so what, then saw that you thought he'd been openly out the last 40 years.

    Yeah no change really, not bothered either way!

    Congratulations to him for finding the courage to come out though I have never understood people's need to say they're straight or gay or whatever.

    It's got to be a really tough step to take regardless.
    Maybe it was made a lot tougher for him to if he felt he was firmly in the closet and undetected.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,352
    edited April 2017
    Yeah this is old news. On the original CL thread, a lot of humour was found in his husband being called Gary, though I can't imagine why
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,613
    I love a bit of Barry, one of my guilty pleasures.
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Ok. I missed the original thread. The breaking news apparently is that today is the first time he has discussed his sexuality publicly.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    I didn't realize he'd even been in
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    O.M.G.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    DaveMehmet said:

    I love a bit of Barry, one of my guilty pleasures.

    So do I, but the cover he did of Del Trotter's "One Voice" dropped him down in my estimation. ;)

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    Red_in_SE8 said:

    Only just popped up as breaking news on my CNN feed.

    He's been married to a bloke for 2 years so would be a pretty big surprise if he wasn't gay really.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,258
    edited April 2017
    DaveMehmet said:

    I love a bit of Barry, one of my guilty pleasures.

    Erasure are probably my biggest guilty pleasure. That and ancient aliens.

    Not at the same time of course. I won't have Tsoukalos and Von Daniken talking over oh l'amour
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,368
    Well i'll go to the bottom of my stairs, big butch Bazzer, gay?
  • Jack_Charlton
    Jack_Charlton Posts: 338
    You'll be telling us George Cole has passed away next.
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    cabbles said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    I love a bit of Barry, one of my guilty pleasures.

    Erasure are probably my biggest guilty pleasure. That and ancient aliens.

    Not at the same time of course. I won't have Tsoukalos and Von Daniken talking over oh l'amour
    Watch out, you'll be besieged by Scientologists, eager to expand your, ahem, guilty pleasures...

    And then you'll be demanding to see Battlefield Earth on the away coaches.
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    edited April 2017
    Coming out is good I guess.

    Beats what I thought about him.... that he was dead all this time.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,258
    NornIrishAddick said:

    cabbles said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    I love a bit of Barry, one of my guilty pleasures.

    Erasure are probably my biggest guilty pleasure. That and ancient aliens.

    Not at the same time of course. I won't have Tsoukalos and Von Daniken talking over oh l'amour
    Watch out, you'll be besieged by Scientologists, eager to expand your, ahem, guilty pleasures...

    And then you'll be demanding to see Battlefield Earth on the away coaches.
    Or listen to Pop, the first 20 hits by erasure
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,477
    DaveMehmet said:

    I love a bit of Barry,

    Euphemism?
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,196
    Good thread
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Water is wet.

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    Garrymanilow said:

    Good thread

    Were you Garry Manilow before Garry Manilow was Mr Barry Manilow?
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,979
    Love Bazza

    Swayed to my lighter flame as he sung One Voice at Wembley 30 years ago with my Mum.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,580
    Arsenetatters said:

    Love Bazza

    Swayed to my lighter flame as he sung One Voice at Wembley 30 years ago with my Mum.

    Duet?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,741
    Arsenetatters said:

    Love Bazza

    Swayed to my lighter flame as he sung One Voice at Wembley 30 years ago with my Mum.

    Didn't realise we were soul sisters as well as drinking pals, A !
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,196
    North Lower Neil said:

    Garrymanilow said:

    Good thread

    Were you Garry Manilow before Garry Manilow was Mr Barry Manilow?
    I was. I think I might be a wizard predicting this actually, my name's not even Garry.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,603
    Jack Charlton said:

    You'll be telling us George Cole has passed away next.

    We would have heard if he had, someone would have put it up on here.
  • Daggs
    Daggs Posts: 1,344
    This has got me thinking...........I wonder if Louis Spence is the same way inclined............
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04z53pk
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Oh
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    Even though I know a couple of his songs, I'm not a big fan of his, or music in general, so I am neither surprised nor proud of being able to say I already knew/suspected.

    However I'm sure that his success would have been build, at some point, by female fans that would have liked him in a way that they might not have had they known. I'm not suggesting that anyone would have a problem with his sexuality, but even though millions of women around the world had no chance of ever being his lover they could have fantasised about it in a way that they wouldn't have done had they know that he didn't go for women.

    Imagine trying to get millions of young girls to buy One Direction Albums and go to their concerts if they know that none of them even liked girls.

    On this basis it must be a bigger news story than if he hadn't made millions and millions by selling records to women. He says, I read, that he was worried that if he'd come out before he was 73 he might have 'disappointed' fans. I can't help thinking that what he really means is that they mightn't have bought so many of his records.

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