Not even 24 hours have passed since the shocking bombshell regarding Clay Aiken's sexuality, and the Claymates have already reacted in different degrees of crazy. But first, leave it to Simon Cowell to provide the voice of reason:
Wow, that's a shock. It's like being told Santa Clause isn't real — unbelievable. … Good for him. I don't think anyone cares. Let's face it. It's 2008. You know, who cares?
Actually, Simon, plenty of people care. And they reside on the Clay Aiken fan board. Take, for example, avid follower CLAYGAL:
I don't understand the timing of all this information, or supposed information. I'm not making any assumptions until I actually see credible information . Is that actually Parker in the photo? Some of my friends think the baby looks older than a child a month old.
Wow, CLAYGAL! You may be on to something! Quick, go hunt for more evidence that this is all a sham — and while you're at it, please go nowhere near a voting booth on Nov. 4. Thanks.
[Ed. note: For those playing along at home, this is the third time I've had a celebrity crush who turned out to be gay.]
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I do NOT want to see a video of Clay with his legs up in the air, being pounded, to prove this.
Is that actually Parker in the photo?
What does the baby have to do with him coming out?
These people are nuts. So WTF if he is gay? How the hell does that impact their life at all? I think it is sick when people take admiring someone a little to far.
Why is he still lying? He's obviously a lesbian. He can't deny it.
I may be way off base on this, but it seems to me Claymates are usually hardcore bible-thumping conservatives. IE: Anti-gay.
Most of my celebrity crushes turn out to be bonafide assholes or are on the verge of assholedom. Jude Law, Russel Crowe, John Cusack…
Kitten, my celeb crush is a mega-asshole, but that's kinda why I like him.
Ooh, can we play guess the celeb asshole?
Is it…Gorden Ramsey? If so, I've got that one as well. ha ha.
Sure, but most people around here already know.
Keith Olbermann. I have a major news-crush on him.
Good choice Alice!
My news-crush is Rachel Maddow.
We're I into chicks, Rachel would have been my choice. She has a great show.
A little different from my news-crush is my news-dad. Chris Matthews is my news-dad. He's terrific.
Chris Matthews is great.
My other news-crush is Anderson Cooper.
Walter Cronkite is my news-older brother. :-)
My goodness, I don't think I have a news crush. Unless Steven Colbert counts.
what a shock! who cares?
Stephen Colbert can be your faux-news crush.
Shake it Brokaw
*sigh* I FORGOT about Tom Brokaw. Nice sar dines!
This may bring it down a bit but my first news crush was David Bloom and he died in Iraq. And then I started crushing on Bob Woodruff and he got bombed in Iraq so I sort of gave up on the newsman crushes after those setbacks.
sounds like somebody didn't get their gay-dar tuned up after 50,000 miles like they were suppose to.
Clay SAID he was going to hide in the closet while flaunting himself, get really rich on the money of a largely ignorant following, gain weight and grow his hair out into a creepy video store clerk bob, have a baby by artificial insemination, and then come out in People…just not with words. Do your research!!!!!
you mean November 4th?
You show up on the 5th and people are gonna laugh at you
Whitney, you're like my friend Tammy. Every guy she dated in both high school AND college came out later after breaking up with her.
She calls it "The Curse of the Pink Wand.'
She is happily married to a great (and fully heterosexual) guy for about seven years. So far, so good.
K,
November 5th is the day reserved for McCain voters to cast their ballots. The McCain campaign committee anticipates a record turnout of voters and they said they don't want the poll lines to be too long or inconvenient for his supporters.
For this reason, supporters of all other candidates are requested to please be considerate of the obviously larger number of McCain voters and cast their ballots on November 4th.
See, everybody wins!
Rachel Maddow?! She so couldn't get it.
1) Brian Williams
2) Andy Cooper
3) Stone Phillips
4) Diane Sawyer
5) Stone Phillips
If we included dead people, Peter Jennings would be #1
"and while you're at it, please go nowhere near a voting booth on Nov. 4. Thanks."
Whitney, that quote makes me want to forgive you for your appreciation for Dane Cook…but not yet…But you made me laugh really hard 'though. Thanks.
I feel so left out. I don't have a news crush. Okay, so maybe Andy Cooper, but he doesn't count because he's gay too. Isn't he? I figured he had to be, because even if he's in the middle of a hurricane disaster area or a battle zone, he always looks perfectly pressed and well-coifed.
Girl, I totally feel you on inadvertently crushing on the gays. It's bad enough that in '03 I was sure I was going to be Mrs. Aiken, but it's happened to me like 5 or 6 times in "real life" too. WTF?
*sigh* The Hanson brothers are all married and now Clay Aiken is gay. My childhood dreams are crushed.
Also, I spent a good portion of the summer before my sophomore year of high school making Clay Aiken message board emoticons. True story.
*sigh* The Hanson brothers are all married and now Clay Aiken is gay. My childhood dreams are crushed.
Also, I spent a good portion of the summer before my sophomore year of high school making Clay Aiken message board emoticons. True story.
Ali, a little part of me is crushed every time I remember that Taylor is all happily married and stuff.
In other news - BEST TSHIRT I EVER SAW said, "I banged the chick from Hanson"
Too bad my Clay is going to hell now, along with his illegitimate little boy. These homosexuals are soo responsible for all the bad times we goin' thru right now. all you fags need to pray for the beautiful babe Jesus to forgive you for your evil, nasty ways. You still will fire in the pits of hell, but the rest of us can be saved.
Aww, Whitney, my best friend and I were just talking yesterday about how stupid we felt for screaming like morons for Clay at the "Idols on Tour" back in 2003. I mean, we've known he is gay for a while, but this just cemented our morondom.
Oh, and, for the record, I love Anderson Cooper, too, whether he is gay, straight, bi, whatever. I would still hit that.
i'm sure closed minded hatred will get you a pass to the front of the line in heaven ellie sue.
he wasn't going to hell before? just now that he's admitted it?
"all you fags need to pray for the beautiful babe Jesus to forgive you for your evil, nasty ways."
Wasn't JC in his 30s when he died? I don't understand why people pray to the baby jesus. Of course I also don't understand how people can be so batshit crazy.
Elli Sue I'm gonna pray for the beautiful babe Jesus to forgive your parents for saddling you with such an awful name.
she wasn't serious. there's no way. i think i picked up sarcasm.
am I the only person not interested in Anderson Cooper? The man seems like the king of Type A. I fear the wrath that would fall on me if I forgot to use a coaster at his house.
Hey, I wrote that, and it was definitely sarcasm. You know, what a claymate is probably REALLY thinking (and most of the backwoods, knuckle dragging Christian zeolots.) Hey, it's my form of getting people's attention. I'm glad some of you were offended. You should have been. Oh. Those of you who agree with Elli Sue? Screw you.
i hope you picked up sarcasm.
i have a low internet sarcasm meter. Pretty much unlees its followed with ::sarcastically:: i take things at face value… which is funny becuse i dont type things at face value.
OK, I was REALLY hoping that was sarcasm.
After I posted, I kept re-reading Elli Sue's post and thought "she canNOT be serious"…
Thanks, Cap'n!
If we all agree that not all Christians are hateful nasty people - just the hateful, nasty ones are - why is the Christian label continually added back to commenters' descriptions of nasty people. Maybe they're Christian. Maybe they're redheads. Maybe they're short people. But they don't represent the rest, so can we stop adding the label back? it hurts every single time I see it.
I like the way Anderson giggles and I'm pretty sure we would have good times shopping and watching Project Runway together. But yeah, no sexual attraction there for me either Sar.
I am watching Rachel Mddow right now, and she just referenced a Princess Bride quote.
She said regarding John McCain about his "suspended campaign": I think that does not mean what you think it means. And she did that attractive little smile and warm eye contact thing she does.
So, that means, gorgeousblackwomen, that I am glad that you don't want her, I have her ALL to myself. BWAHAHAHA!!! :-)
If you want to do "rock, paper, sissors" over Anderson Cooper, I may have a chance.
:-)
Hey 40. You are definitely right. I misspoke. I wasn't talking about all Christians, just the kind that like to hate as part of their religion. Should have thought more before posting. I apologize.
Will try to think before I post from now on. Things get heated, you know. I kind of get caught up in it.
Some of the creepy Claymates are actually still "swooning"(THEIR words, not MINE!!) over Aiken, even after he's come out of the closet. They're still looking for, at, and commenting about "Waldo." If you don't know what THAT is, you're better off. *Runs off to puke*