Simon Cowell the real man, and David Walliams the married man?

[flipnflap]

I know questions about the sexuality of celebrities usually get greeted with angry responses like "What does it matter?" and "What's it to you?", but I care not. Firstly, I've never been able to work David Walliams out. He's married yet loves playing camp, and I used to squirm when on the live show of Little Britain he'd grab a man from the audience and pull their trousers and pants down. Very odd indeed. I actually find him disturbing as well as intelligent and funny. What on earth must his wife make of him. On Britain's Got Talent, Walliams winds up Simon Cowell making out he's probably gay as has long been rumoured. Yet in between last night's episode were adverts promoting Tom Bower's new biography of Cowell - now serialised in the press - making him out to be very straight indeed, apparently pursuing Danni Minogue, Cheryl Cole, etc. Seems to me like the lady doth protest too much, but what do I know? And what do you think?

[cazzz1975]

simon wants everyone talking about him because the ratings for BGT are down, it adds some intrigue at the expense of people in the frame like dannii minogue and anyone else dragged into his fantasies, it may get people watching bgt.. all publicity is good publicity

walliams gay act is embarrassing and old.

[FredPuli43]

Cowell is party to stories associating him with women, so much so that I think he is gay. He can't sue here for libel if papers simply say he is gay, but he is such an important figure, so well- connected, so powerful in entertainment, and respected in the media' that it's easy to see why no national paper would wish to say so, and would respect his wishes.

Nobody says that Cliff Richard is gay, either.(Of course, there's always the possibility that he isn't!) His case is rather different, because when he started out homosexual acts were illegal and saying that someone was homosexual was commonly regarded as a slur. That's how Liberace was able to successfully sue for libel for the innuendo ("effeminate" etc) that he was gay.

Walliams is an odd case. We don't know the sexual preferences of his wife; there have been plenty of gay men who married, John Maynard Keynes, Jeremy Thorpe, Oscar Wilde and Elton John being examples from various times in the past. He may well be gay.