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Everyone knows Travolta is gay, says Carrie Fisher
Actress Carrie Fisher has fuelled rumours that John Travolta is gay. Travolta has been haunted by gay rumors and reports since the late s. He has always denied them and has even enlisted his legal team to help squelch them.
In a new interview with
The Advocate
, Fisher — who’s good friends with the Hollywood star — discussed Travolta’s sexuality and why she thinks he’s still in the closet.
The interviewer asked: “I know you and Travolta go way back, so let’s get really blunt here: Does his (Travolta’s) legal team have any business demanding
Gawker
remove a recent post suggesting that he’s given (bleep) jobs?
Fisher answered: “Wow! I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don’t care. Look, I’m sorry that he’s uncomfortable with it, and that’s all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be.
The Advocate
also notes that in Fisher gave this statement for a piece about 10 Things gay men should realize about women: “We don’t reall
Barry Diller Says John Travolta Exited ‘American Gigolo’ Because of “Somewhat Gay Subtext”
According to Barry Diller, John Travolta backed out of starring in American Gigolo because of the film’s “somewhat gay subtext.”
In his tell-all memoir, Who Knew, the noun player recalls a time when the Grease star was attached to star in the Paul Schrader written- and directed-movie before he had to step away. In his book, Diller writes that Travolta told then-Paramount Pictures president Michael Eisner he couldn’t lead the project because he was grieving the death of his mother and then-girlfriend Diana Hyland.
“He slumped down in a chair in Michael’s office, started to cry and said, ‘I can’t do American Gigolo. I’m too sad. I’m still in mourning. It’s the wrong thing for me to do. You have to enable me out of it,’” Diller, who was the CEO of Paramount at the time, writes. “Michael came down to my office and said, ‘John’s just left, and we have to let him out of the movie b
John Travolta speaks out on gay rumors
Cast member John Travolta arrives for the "The Forger" gala during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, September 12, (Reuters)
John Travolta commented on the years-old rumors that he is gay in an interview with The Daily Beast published on Tuesday. The actor also addressed the pending lawsuit against him by Douglas Gotterba, a former employee of Travolta's who is suing for the right to write a book about his alleged romantic relationship with the "Pulp Fiction" star.
Speaking to promote his upcoming film "Forger," Travolta said of the lawsuit and the rumors, "This is every celebrity's Achilles heel. It's just about people wanting money. That's all. It happens on many levels."
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When asked why he seems to be targeted about these types of allegations more than others, he said, "Also I don't care that much about it. Other people may attack it back more than I do, but I let all the media stuff go a long time ago because I can't control it. I think that'
Carrie Fisher: Everyone knows John Travolta is gay
Hollywood, CA - In a fresh interview actress Carrie Fisher drops a bombshell saying that everyone knows John Travolta is gay and that she thinks he should come out of the closet now, because no one cares.
"Wow! I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don't care," Fisher told the Advocate. "Look, I'm sorry that he's uncomfortable with it, and that's all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be."
Fisher was answering a question from an interviewer with the gay glossy about Travolta's legal team demanding that Gawker, an online gossip site, remove a recent post suggesting that he's participated in oral sex with men at LA-based spas.
The interview follows a comment Fisher made about Travolta's sexuality to Out, another gay publication, in
In a feature listing 10 things that gay men should verb about straight women, Fisher answered, "We don't really care that John Travolta is gay."
Fisher, who is best known as