Posted on 07/26/2006 3:34:11 PM PDT by mcg2000
Associated Press
Rhonda Galbraith/AP Photo Members of the pop group 'N Sync, Lance Bass, left, Chris Kirkpatrick, second left, Justin Timberlake, center, JC Chasez, second right, and Joey Fatone, right, arrive at a party celebrating their entrance into motion pictures, at Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 16, 2000. NEW YORK - Lance Bass, band member of 'N Sync, says he's gay and in a "very stable" relationship with a reality show star. Bass, who formed 'N Sync with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, tells People magazine that he didn't earlier disclose his sexuality because he didn't want to affect the group's popularity.
"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," he tells the magazine.
'N Sync is known for a string of hits including "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me." The band went on hiatus in 2002. Bass has also found headlines for undertaking astronaut training and failing to raise money for a trip into space.
Bass says he wondered if his coming out could prompt "the end of 'N Sync." He explains, "So I had that weight on me of like, `Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did."
The singer says he's in a "very stable" relationship with 32-year-old actor Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of season four of CBS' "Amazing Race."
Bass and Fatone, 29, are developing a sitcom pilot inspired by the screwball comedy "The Odd Couple," in which his character will be gay.
"The thing is, I'm not ashamed - that's the one thing I went to say," Bass says. "I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy."
sorry for the sloppy edit job!
Well, all those times that all my friends said that boy bands were gay, who knew they were actually correct?
}:-)4
Who cares?
He came out to advertise his/its TV show.
Sloppy edit? You mean substituting "gay" for "queer"?
When talking about showbiz types,wouldn't it be easier and quicker for the normal ones to "come out"?
I'm shocked. SHOCKED! Honestly - Who saw this coming? /sarcasm
I'm shocked. Just shocked.
:)
I'd be more shocked if it can out that he was heterosexual!
NO WAY! /sarc
Why is this surprise?
Again explain to me why I care?
>>Lyrics to their only song
Fingerbang bang! bang bang Fingerbang bang. bang bang bang!
I'm gonna Fingerbang-bang you into my life Girl, you like to Fingerbang and it's all right. 'Cuz I'm the King of Fingerbang, let's not fight I'm gonna Fingerbang-bang you every night.
Cartman's Solo: And girl, you know that you're the only girl for me, girl Girl, you're the girl of my fantasies, you're my girl You're my girl, my girl.
Can't ANYONE stay in the closet??? geesh.
""I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand"
He had their what's in his hand?
"Bass says he wondered if his coming out could prompt "the end of 'N Sync." He explains, "So I had that weight on me of like, `Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did."
Is he noble or what?!!
""The thing is, I'm not ashamed - that's the one thing I went to say," Bass says. "I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy."
I am just Soooooo hap, hap, happy for him. This should get front page coverage like for sure man.
... and yet, I still don't care.
>>Can't ANYONE stay in the closet??? geesh.<<
{Insert Tom Cruise joke here}
Maybe that's why Rosie picked him to have a crush on.....takes one to know one.
I can't wait until the creators of Robot Chicken see this.
Reichen Lehmkuhl's got Lance in his Pants.
Well, no s**t!
How can you "reveal" that which everybody already figured out.
You can't when you have the Washington (com)Post and ABCNews doing stories about you visiting a gay bar with an openly gay male while on holiday. He should've been left alone to carry on. It wasn't as he was trolling bathrooms illegally like George Michael, accused of child molestation like R Kelly, caught with drugs like Whitney Houston...
It also doesn't help when entertainment gossip-types like the infamous Perez Hilton are stalking you into coming out.
He did this to get it over with and try to regain some privacy. The prying eyes and wagging tongues can find a new person to torment.
On Amazing Race 4, Reichen Lehmkuhl was paired with his married "partner" Chip Arndt.
"After months of rumors about the status of the relationship of The Amazing Race 4, winners Reichen Lehmkuhl and Chip Arndt, who were billed as "married" during the show, Reichen has finally confirmed that they have split up -- although he says that the less-than-two-year marriage "officially" ended this past Sunday."
-- 10/03/2003
Well, now we know why. "Til death do us part, or someone better comes along."
In other news: LIBERACE, ELTON JOHN, AND GEORGE MICHEALS ARE ALL GAY! SHOCKING BEYOND BELIEF!!!
Hah! You beat me to it!
I can't say I care much for his music, but he seems like a nice enough guy, and yeah, at least he's not a sicko like Gary Glitter.
And the world is a better place for it.
looks like he's not the only poofter either.
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