Interesting BB Story on E! Online

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Tishala

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 07:40 pm Click here to edit this post

I know the Curtis gaydar thing is going hot and heavy right now, but this article is in Ted Casablanca's column "The Awful Truth" on E! Online. It is probably indicative of the incompetence of the thow's producers that this story only leaked in the final days, when leaking it earlier would have made it more sensational.

BTW, I happen to be acquainted with Ted since I'm an industry girl, and his gossip is almost always right on. It seems he is talking about Josh, to me; maybe I can call him to find out for sure. Below is the column
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Like the rest of the country, the crew of the ratings-challenged show is so disgusted with the saps inhabiting that house (which resembles a latter-day Romper Room) that "they scream at the monitors in the control room," says a source who has access to the production facilities in Studio City, California.


The frustration my double agent witnessed regarding the show that's all about spying is hardly surprising, since BB drives masochistic viewers to spastic rage in less than 30 minutes. Imagine being a member of the staff, who are required to take their slumber in beds near the control rooms.


More interesting (as usual) is what all us looky-loos aren't privy to. And if the folks who swivel in their cushy New York bored-room seats had any chutzpah, they'd send out a friggin' press release on what I'm about to tell ya.


Little did CBS know that one of their comely choices has a sexual past that very well might surprise his or her sofa-chums. Seems one of these trapped cuties has romantic leanings that are quite the opposite of those declared on prime time.


And not only is the network now aware of this fact, so my insiders tell me, the execs are terrified the sexy poop will get out. What fools. Nothing would help this monotonous mishap more. After all, what is a horny hullaballo, if not increased ratings?

Snogrl

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 07:43 pm Click here to edit this post

tishala,
This was actually reported yesterday in another thread. I also read Ted's column, and cattiness aside (which I enjoy), I also find him pretty accurate. All I can say is get ready to be flamed! heh heh

Egbok77

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 07:47 pm Click here to edit this post

Thanks for sharing Tishala. I found this article very interesting and I hope that privacy can be respected by all. If and when anyone in the BB house wants to "come out", then so be it, and let them do it in their own way and time.

Ricmunoz

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 07:50 pm Click here to edit this post

Tishala: If you get ahold of TC I think he'll tell you it's CK, not JS. {NO WAY is it the latter.) I see Ted every now and then at Video West here in West Hollywood. I finally have a reason to ask him something! I think he'll deliver on the "real," as well as "awful," truth.

Deeya

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 07:51 pm Click here to edit this post

Actually..while I don't think Josh is gay... I don't think it would come as a surprise to anyone if he is since there has been speculation about this both on the show and on the net since almost the first week.

Remember... if you are going to speculate... this article was posted before Jamie was banished.. maybe she is the one referenced.

And then again...maybe it's not about sexual orientation at all.. there are lots of other sexual secrets a person could have that don't have a thing to do with gender preference.

Newvoice

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 08:01 pm Click here to edit this post

In my OPINION, what I THINK is that maybe bringing a box of condoms to a house under surveillance 24/7, where obviously it would be sensational (and somewhat difficult) to have one condom-requiring, sexual encounter, let alone enough to necessitate an entire box, is an overcompensation for _something_...

JMO

Tishala

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 08:01 pm Click here to edit this post

Deeya,
Actually, Ted's column comes out, as it were, on Thursdays. I doubt this refers to Jamie.

Petunia

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 08:07 pm Click here to edit this post

>is an overcompensation for _something_...

No doubt.

Janine

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 08:07 pm Click here to edit this post

Ricmunoz...funny...i keep trying to tell one of my gay friends that Josh is NOT gay but he is convinced that Josh is family!!

Ricmunoz

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 08:29 pm Click here to edit this post

Janine: I know, I know! All we can do is dream. If your pal could have heard Josh talking last night about the pain he's been enduring about the breakup with his girlfriend, he'd probably change his mind. It was the "clincher" for me that J. is NOT one of the boys. Oh well, these things happen.

Tukuul

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 09:11 pm Click here to edit this post

I was thinking back to the scene where Josh was licking his fingers and rubbing his nipples in the mirror. Then I remembered him walking outside one night while Karen was there and smoked a cigarette with a completely flat palm. I think Brit or someone mentioned that it looked gay and Josh laughed. Then the infamous "comment" he made.

Who knows?

Koka

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 09:20 pm Click here to edit this post

Could Ted be alluding to Eddie's noctural trysts with the palm of his right hand? It's been seen on the live feeds, and I think George even mentioned something in a joking way about it, but I don't think the television audience has ever been privy to Eddie's solo-pleasuring.

Ryn

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 09:44 pm Click here to edit this post

GRRRRRRR

Eddie did not do anything on the live feeds - the person that posted it has now understood what he saw (eddies leg jerks when he sleeps a fact noted by the other HGs in the 1st week - one night ewok reported it as something else - and thus the rumors). That being said - both Curtis & Eddie have owned up to having 'wet dreams' during the past few months (eddie 2 & curtis 1) - but no manual manipulation was involved.

As for the josh "niple playing" many of us saw that as him brushing a hair or something off his chest. BB did make it out to be a very sexual thing the way it was played up on the TV show.

Lastly, the column says, "might surprise his or her sofa-chums." That suggest it could be a man or woman. Chances are the article was written a day or two ago, or at the very least these sources were consulted before Jamies banishment. So it very well could be Jamie with the surprise.

personally, I don't care that much what this secret is but I hate seeing 'rumors' discussed as 'facts' - thanks all!!!

Marlo

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 10:10 pm Click here to edit this post

There was an article on either banishgeorge or bb updates about cassandra being gay

Sanfranjoshfan

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:28 pm Click here to edit this post

anybody else read this about Cass?

Curious gays wanna know!

Gomer

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:42 pm Click here to edit this post

I read the Cass thing.Story goes that she never disclosed the sex of the person she was living/going out with in Italy-which has been a year ago

Lafatme

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:56 pm Click here to edit this post

ryn, you might be wrong. i could swear i saw eddie doing it one night while brit was still there. he wasn't asleep, he was sitting on the floor with his back against his bed.

or, he could have been just scratching himself, as he said. if that's it though he was REAL itchy.

if you've read my posts, i don't like to speculate and then try to say it is fact. so i'm not saying it's true, only that it LOOKED true to me. does it matter?

Tishala

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:57 pm Click here to edit this post

I like to think of Cassandra as sexually indeterminate (or orientation indeterminate), even if she isn't--it's so Alice Walker or Color Purple or something of her. I think it might also explain why she called Curtis on his dancing homophobia. One thing about Cassandra's family is sure: that cousin of hers, Tony, is a MAJOR queen!

At any rate, I'm not sure that Cassandra's sex life would be interesting to Ted *now*--maybe weeks ago. It strikes me that it has to be more current than Cassandra. After all, he spends the first part of this column telling us who Ellen's new lover is in the most roundabout way...he doesn't work with yesterday's news.

Jake

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:58 pm Click here to edit this post

For what it's worth, Cassandra HAS spoken about an ex-BOYfriend before.

Just a question for y'all tho'... I see folks talking about Josh speaking of his ex- "girlfriend" then drawing the conclusion he is not gay. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't gay and lesbian couples sometimes refer to their significant others with titles that indicate sex other than the true one? (i.e., "wife" for one of the gay men or "husband" for one of the lesbian ladies.) I thought I even heard of someone referring to his male partner as his girlfriend. I really don't know.. so I'm asking.

BUT.. if that's true, then Josh talking about a "girlfriend" MAY be smoke.

Frankly, it doesn't matter to me, and I rarely pay attention to any of the suppositions regarding the HGs sexual preference. I just wondered about the nicknames or "titles" that were used in the gay community.

Delia

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 12:27 am Click here to edit this post

I suspect that Josh, Curtis and Eddie are probably all bisexual. Many psychologists agree that most people, in general, are really bisexual if they would only admit it to themselves. Just from what I've seen in the house over the past 3 months and especially of late, I've come to this conclusion.

Josh seemed very polished (experienced) when stripping to the music on tonight's show. I wouldn't be surprised if he has worked in a male strip club in his past.

I recall Brittany once saying that Josh and Curtis were not gay or bisexual. I thought to myself "Brittany, how on earth do you know that?" For example, there are many married M/F couples where the husband is bisexual but his wife is completely unaware of this because the husband does not feel that his wife would understand his bisexual feelings, so he keeps it to himself. Hope this helps.

Delia

Janine

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:09 am Click here to edit this post

Yea..i'm with Delia...Josh could still be bi!! So there's hope Ricmunoz!!! And I love bi boys!!!

Sara

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:08 pm Click here to edit this post

>I suspect that Josh, Curtis and Eddie are probably all bisexual.<

I don't understand how anyone who has never had a personal interaction with any of the above named folks, could make a statement like this.

Merely watching people on TV and on the live feeds could never give anyone enough insight to make a comment like this, no matter what the content of one's curriculum vitae.

I've spent a lot of time with a lot of guys (some of whom are gay or bisexual), and the behavior of Curtis, Eddie and Josh, when they interact with other people seems to be perfectly in line with the guys I know who are straight.

Hope this helps dispute a statement full of utter blather.

Anovarho

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:20 pm Click here to edit this post

Delia wrote: "I recall Brittany once saying that Josh and Curtis were not gay or bisexual. I thought to myself "Brittany, how on earth do you know that?"

Britany has lived with the guys 24/7 for over 2 months. Maybe THAT'S how she knows that!

ITA Sara. I don't appreciate people making grand statments about people when they've never met them or spent any real time with them.

Hinten

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:28 pm Click here to edit this post

Fact of the matter is that when you look at the report on E! all you see is pictures of...

EDDIE...

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:29 pm Click here to edit this post

Anovarho-
I'm not saying that any blanket statement (such as the one above) is true....but *I* lived with a woman for over a year and a half before I finally admitted to anyone that I was gay. She had NO idea. I know many gay men that were married for years before finally coming "out".

Keep in mind that in this society, gayfolk learn very early on to stay hidden....and we learned that lesson very well in the majority of cases.

I don't think that I'd be out of line or exagerating if I said that I'd bet that everyone on this board probably knows someone whom they do not realize is gay. That's how we survived before anti discrimination laws!

Bottom line....you just never really know.

Lucinda

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:40 pm Click here to edit this post

Actually, it was little Pugita. Not only is she a lesbian, but she has a history of participation in the well-known Chinese pug porno underground. Sorry everyone. I have it on goo authority--her picture is on the COVER issue 99 of PUGwHOrE magazine. It had to come out eventually.

Anovarho

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:42 pm Click here to edit this post

Sanfran ITA with your whole statement.

However, I was commenting on the fact that Delia made a bunch of grandiose statements about the sexuality of 3 people, none of whom she has ever met or spent any time with. Then, she makes a depricating remark about Britany's statement, when Britany has lived with them for several months, and might actually have a basis for her conclusions.

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 03:07 pm Click here to edit this post

Anovarho-

I see....It not cool to make a blanket statement like that and I *do* agree with you on that. But I gotta agree with her on her statement about Britt....because Britt could be completely in the dark about any secret that anyone in the house chose not to reveal about themselves.

I guess I still believe that there is no real way to *prove* that anyone is straight.

Janine

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 07:14 pm Click here to edit this post

Just to add my two pennies....
Interesting that CBS showed that clip when Josh was being Cassandra..and made the statement about Josh misrepresenting himself in the house...hmmm