Famous women who were beards

Brooke Shields --> George Michael and Michael Jackson (and Andre Agassi?)

Taylor Swift Renee Zellweger Reese Witherspoon Penelope Cruz

Joan Bennett and her last husband, David Wilde.

Taylor Swift, for whom? Renee Zellwegerm for whom? Oh yeah that gay country signer, but maybe she sisn't know since she left him on grounds of fraud. Reese Witherspoon, for whom? She was in two longterm real realtionsships, married to Ryan and had a LTR with Jake, whom did she beard for?

Elizabeth Taylor bearded for LOTS of them.

[quote]Taylor Swift, for whom? Taylor Lautner, duh. [quote]Reese Witherspoon, for whom? She was in two longterm real realtionsships, married to Ryan and had a LTR with Jake, whom did she beard for? Again: duh. You answered your own question, numbnuts. You must be headless.

Nicole Kidman

I really believe Reese & Jake G was real, they were in love and would be married by now without media attention

Elsa Lanchester

Eva Gabor for Merv Griffin

R10, I forgot about that one. Yes, they were ridiculous

Liz for Malcom, bitches. Barry and diane.

Diane Sawyer for Mike Nichols

Elizabeth Taylor was in it for the money. As for Barbara Walters, I figured that Kohn had something on her.

Stupid bitch, please. La Liz has NEVER needed money.

Look at the women, though.

Liz would beard for anyone who got her publicity (remember Tony Geary?). Or expensive gifts (Malcolm, MJ).

Babs is similarly desperate for attention.

Evans, Reynolds, and DVF are dykes.

[quote]Renee Zellwegerm for whom? Oh yeah that gay country signer, but maybe she sisn't know since she left him on grounds of fraud.

She's also bearding for Bradley Cooper.

[quote]She's also bearding for Bradley Cooper. And doing a helluva job, I might add.

Didn't Cher supposedly "date" David Geffen at one point?

[quote]Evans, Reynolds, and DVF are dykes.%0D %0D %0D Really?

R19 Yes, also Tom Cruise.

R20 Yes, really. Surely everyone knows about DR licking Endora's pussy.

Reese Witherspoon

you are so late to the party r22 that all the dishes have been done and the hosts have gone to bed.

Hell, even the house has been sold.

Rachael Bilson

Vanessa Hudgens

Marilu Henner for John Travolta. Kelly Preston for John Travolta. Diana Hyland For John Travolta (unknowingly, posthumously).

[quote]Evans, Reynolds, and DVF are dykes.%0D %0D %0D No proof but DVF gives out such a lez lez vibe. I know she was married and had spawn but damn if she isn't dykey dyke dyke.%0D %0D But not my Krystle. I'm heart broken.

R115 Not stupid and not a bitch. I never said that Liz NEEDED the money, only that she was in it for the money. Learn how to read.

[R14] Not stupid and not a bitch. I never said that Liz NEEDED the money, only that she was in it for the money. Learn how to read.

Reese refused spermination, from what I am told.

the top 3 famous beards today

1. Penelope Cruz

2. Renee Zellweger

3. Jennifer Aniston

R19, yes but I don't think Cher "bearded" for Geffen - I think Geffen just wanted to see what pussy tastes like.

There are also gay stories about Val Kilmer which, if true, would make Cher a triple beard.

Damn, I hope she at least got some cock from the Bagel Boy.

I'm pretty sure David Geffen boned her.

Omg, r29.

Michelle Obama.

Liza Minelli- Peter Allen, David Gest

Jane Wyman, Nancy Davis

I'd take Jake's sperm!!

Alexandra Wentworth

Am I still bearding?

Janet Gaynor - Adrian

Barbara Bush and Laura Bush.

Natalie Wood for, amazingly, Raymond Burr.

Some obvious ones I'm surprised are still not mentioned:%0D %0D Katie Holmes - TC%0D %0D Katherine Hepburn - ST%0D %0D Lisa Marie Presley - MJ%0D %0D Cindy Crawford - RG%0D %0D Judy Garland - VM

"Natalie Wood for, amazingly, Raymond Burr"%0D %0D %0D %0D %0D %0D She also did beard duty for Tab Hunter

Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love%0D %0D Estelle Getty - Golden Girls "Sonny & Cher"%0D %0D Lucille Ball - Half a Dozen Episodes%0D %0D Roseanne - Halloween episode at the billiards pub%0D %0D Fran Drescher/Fine, trying to get into the all-male country club to talk to Mr. Shefield%0D %0D %0D %0D What's that? ... WERE beards? Ooooohhhh.%0D %0D %0D ...never mind

Joe Jervis on Barbara Walters/Roy Cohn.

Jane Fonda "dated" Richard Chamberlain during his Dr. Kildare days, when she was still a starlet

Does it really count as bearding if the woman's gay too?

Joanne Woodward

"Does it really count as bearding if the woman's gay too?"%0D %0D %0D %0D Yes, that would make it a beard/merkin scenario%0D %0D

Joan Sutherland for Dickie

r44 since when was Spencer Tracy gay?

Jill St John for Sal Mineo. They were "engaged."

Bess Meyerson - NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

Sarah Jessica Parker owns this thread: Timothy Patrick Murphy, David Oliver, Meritt Butrick (all dead of AIDS btw) and of course, Matthew Broderick. Didn't she date Robert Downey Jr. too? And JFK Jr?

R56: don't forget singer Joshua Kadison, who later came out as gay. They dated in the early 1990s, I think. He wrote the song "Jessie" about her.

Whoa, I had no idea that SJP dated so many gay guys. %0D %0D %0D %0D Has she ever been with a man who is totally straight?

I don't think those guys were gay until AFTER they dated SJP. She does something to people.

Diana Hyland for John Travolta?

fgs sdfg gf

I thought of her too, R61, but I wasn't sure how to spell her name.

Demi Lovato is in recovery from her bearding for the Jonas brother.

I didn't know what a Merkin was, so I Googled up a picture and this is what I got.

Would somebody please explain this?

Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright.%0D %0D Sylvia Fine Kaye.

You really don't know what a merkin is?

Russell Crowe and Jodie Foster Here they are Holding hands at an award show.

Betty White for Alan Ludden.

Ricky Martin's Mexican journalist girlfriend. I forget her name.

Hugh Jackman's wife/beard.

Vanessa Whatever for Zac Efron.

Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood bearded for practically every gay male star repped by the lecherous Henry Willson. And then of course Natalie married one of them.

On Graham Norton's show Debbie Reynolds said that all the guys she dated when she was young were gay! So she pretty much outed Robert Wagner...

Bumping one last time before the DL Autumnal Purge.

Franka Potente

[R65] I don't think Leigh and Plowright were beards. Olivier was a bisexual megalomaniac and cheated on them both with women as well, and I think cheated on is first wife with Leigh. But he definitely had sex with men.

I think you guys are missing the mark on Spencer Tracy. He had a wife AND Katharine Hepburn at the same time. Who needs two beards at once?

Eleanor calder (don't know her Google her)

[quote]Who needs two beards at once?

Someone extremely cautious. Belt and braces.

Countess Helen for Freddy Richmond.

Elizabeth T was not bearding -rather she loved gay men- always; said so time and time again.

How does bearding work? Is there a manual these starlets get from their agents? How is the subject ever broached? Are their names on some of list that shows that they are available for bearding? If they agree to do some bearding is that seen as some sort of way of being accepted in the Hollywood inner circle? Do they have to buy his and hers towels and have separate bathrooms along with the separate bedrooms?

How come none of these stars ever talked about this, accidentally or intentionally? You would think that those who refused the idea would gladly denounce it.

Ron Reagan's wife, by whom he has no children and seemingly little contact.

Taylor Swift

Ron Reagan is not gay.

I've seen a short sex tape with Russell Crowe.

Emma stone,kristen stewart,kelly preston.

Stefanie Powers wrote in her book that she bearded for John Barrowman numerous times.

I have seen Katherine Hepburn mentioned but she was strongly rumoured to be a lesbian or at least bi.

"Demi Lovato is in recovery from her bearding for the Jonas brother."

Did she know Joe was gay? Some women can be blind to that.

I'm someone who does not think TC is gay.

Oh yea, Kim Kardashian for Kanye West.

Hello?

Oh, sorry, I thought you said famous women who wear birds!

Has Taylor Swift ever dated anyone who is straight?

Mrs Brady for Mr Brady.

She was really just to lazy to get off her ass and find a job, so she just married the first AIDS infected 'mo to come along, well the first one with a lesbian maid.

Ellen Whitaker for Henry Cavill

Zeppo, Chico & Harpo Kardashian

Princess Diane for Egon although they had two children.

Allen Ludden was not gay.

Liz Taylor truly loved gays and was always supportive for their cause.

Nancy Kulp for Wally Cox

Marlo Thomas for Donald Hollenger

The Olsen Twins for that fat ugly guy on the Uncle Jesse Show, who thought he was funny but wasn't

Olivia Newton-John for Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard for Elton John

Elton John for George Michael

George Michael for Boy George

Boy George for any drug legal or not

I just came across this on Liberace's Wikipedia page: "In a 2011 interview, actress and close friend Betty White confirmed that Liberace was gay, and that she often served as a beard to counter rumors of the musician's homosexuality."

I did a quick search and came across this Joy Behar interview (skip to 3:55):

Sheena Easton for Prince

Pier Angeli for James Dean

Cheryl Sarkisian, Cassie Ventura, Joan Olander (Mamie Van Doren)

Eleanor Calder..

What the FUCK!? What kind of nutcase is R8?

Media attention breaks up a love match? That's an insane assumption.

Angela Lansbury for Richard Cromwell

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[quote]You would think that those who refused the idea would gladly denounce it.

Not really, why talk and make enemies? However ScarJo talked about being auditioned as Mrs Cruise. I'm actually surprised she did, I don't think she would have if Tom wasn't so unpopular these days.

Eleanor Calder for Louis Tomlinson

*live beard

kiki dunst and reese

Eleanor Calder is the beard of Louis Tomlinson (one direction) it's so obvious. And take a look how louis tomlinson and Harry Styles look at each other !!! Unfortunately for them they're not actor but singer so they don't cover their relation very well. But they are one of the cutest and most beautiful gay couple I've ever seen :3

Some of you people don't understand the question.

FAMOUS women who were beards, not women who became known specifically for being a beard.

"Us!

Great things come in threes!"

[quote]I really believe Reese & Jake G was real, they were in love and would be married by now without media attention

Oh darling, you're a PR person's permanent orgasm.

Rene Z pings hard. Diane Sawyer is gay!

[quote]Ellen Whitaker for Henry Cavill

Who is Ellen Whitaker? Actress?

Showjumper I think.

Reese & Jake never had sex, they were close platonic buddies, that's all. What's wrong with that?

Showjumper???

I guess she had to get it somehow.

[quote]Showjumper

There's no place for her in MY stable.

Neigh, SJP, neigh.

Brooke Shields for Michael Jackson

Lisa Marie Presley for Michael Jackson

Arianna Huffington, for Mike Huffington

R86, John Barrowman said that Powers offered to cover for him. But did she actually beard for him?

Bess Myerson, for Ed Koch

Liza for Peter Allen, although that was really more of a green card issue.

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, studios routinely required their contract players to get all dressed up and make the rounds of the local nightclubs, which would then be written up in the syndicated gossip columns written by Hedda Hopper and that big ol' dyke Louella Parsons. Closeted stars were fixed up with other actors under contract and press agents fed items to the press. It was all part of the game, designed to fool Mr and Mrs America back in the midwest so they'd buy movie tickets. The whole Sonja Henie / Liberace thing was all made up but, in his last book 'The Wonderful Private Life of Liberace' the old queen kept the old 'Sonja Henie broke my heart' story alive. How convenient that Sonja was dead by then.

In her autobiography, Ethel Merman wrote about going out with Cesar Romero (whom she said everyone called 'Butch') during the filming of HAPPY LANDING. Although she said it was all done for publicity, she didn't go so far as to out him. Of course his being alive at the time may have had something to do about that.

Back in NY, Merman was often seen in the company of J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson (and presumably another woman) at places like the Stork Club. By the time she wrote the book in 1978, Hoover was dead and she quipped to the San Francisco Examiner 'Everyone knew about John and Clyde'.

Wishful thinking R71. Robert Wagner is the straightest straight who ever straighted. He was married to the gorgeous Natalie Wood twice and to the glorious and spectacular Jill St. John for over 40 years. Robert Wagner is not even close to being gay or bisexual.

You gay boys keep on wishing, but it won't make Robert Wagner, Tom Selleck or Hugh Jackman gay. It just won't happen, so give up the ghost!

Reese Witherspoon, Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Taylor Swift, Kelly Preston

Steadman Graham

Bill Clinton- oops sorry- wrong blog

Betty White for Liberace

Liza...

Steadman isn't, it's sad that a woman can't have friends without This kind of non-sense being said...

Or is it wishful thinking gals?

Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner for Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson relationship

Jessica Szohr for Aaron Rodgers

Helen Hunt for Kevin Spacey.

The Merm bearded for J. Edna!!!!

r127, is it your grammar or your math? RW has been married to Jill St. John since 1990.

Jill Haworth for Sal Mineo.

Some would say Joanne Woodward for Paul.

Kendall Jenner for everyone she has been and will be linked to, taking after Kim K. Mom Kris sees her daughters only as money-makers to be exploited.

Everyone Ron Reagan is gay.

Ah...I know Tom Selleck is gay.

Eleanor Calder for Louis Tomlinson

Irina Shayk: bearded for Cristy Ronaldo, and now, Bradley Cooper.

Spending another decade trapped in a sham hetero marriage to that human diabetes generator was more than I could take. My movies from before we met and married are much, much better.

The only reason i would suspect Tom Selleck is gay is that I took his boy toys job here when Tom flew him out to the coast 1982 or 83

Helen Cunt

Kelly Preston

Dyan Cannon bearded for Carey Grant.

olivia munn for aaron rogers, the cunt will do anything for money.

[Quote] Rachael Bilson

Who did she beard for??

Who did Rebecca De Mornay beard for ????.......

Nicole Kidman

Brooke Shields and Lisa Marie Presley for Michael Jackson

Whitney Houston

Goop

Kelly Preston

Jada

Giesel Bundchen

irina Shayk

Meghan Markle

Merkin not beard

Prince Charles

Suki Waterhouse , Jennifer Lawrence and Rachel Weisz for Darren Aronofsky

Diana, Princess of Wales

Darren Aronofsky bearded by ex-Bradley Cooper beard Suki Waterhouse, after end of 1yr beard contract with Jennifer Lawrence

Harvey's Girl Penélope Cruz bearded for Tammy, Mc Bongo and Javier

That's ridiculous : JAVIER BARDEM is very very STRAIGHT!!! If we read the DL, all the men are gay, well...Tell us who is straight ?????!!!!!!!

Cruz is a lesbian and a professional beard

(165) I can't comment that kind of delirious....

There are some wacky declarations on this thread, and I mean way wackier than usual.

Many of the men named are bi. I would put RJ Wagner in that category.

And there is a big difference between bearding and being in a mutually beneficial sexless marriage. No one thinks Barry Diller is straight. DVF is not bearding for him.

For whom is Jennifer Aniston bearding?

Joan Collins and Marlon Brando

R169 Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux

Angelina Jolie for Billy Bob Thornton and Brad Pitt. She's not bi she's a lesbian.

Billy Bob, Justin and Brad are gay? I do not get one ping from these guys. They must all be superb actors.

Mother Pence

Claudia Schiffer for magician David Copperfield. He bought her a huge diamond ring and they were "engaged" for years. She's married to someone else now.

Spencer Tracy's wife was in the media in the 1930s saying she didn't mind if he went out with other girls, that he worked with beautiful women, and their relationship had moved on from "in love" to family and friendship. Google it. It was around when he was with Loretta Young. When you see his movie with Loretta Young (A Man's Castle) you'd think they're doing it, and they were obviously "in love" but at the same time he seemed very Elvis Presley in not getting around to doing it. His wife Louise was apparently a very strong actress in her own right (but not a beauty). She built a life for herself that included not just caring for her and Spencer's deaf son, but also playing polo (which Tracy also played).

So maybe they needed the Hepburn thing because it was pretty open in Hollywood that while Spencer was married, he was a free agent. Louise wasn't exactly keeping the home fires burning, hoping he'd come back (a la Nancy Sinatra Sr. with Frank). She had her own life, and she and Tracy were very good friends. I must admit I'm kind of curious why they DID stay married. Maybe she was also gay, and, for the times, it was convenient for both.

I kind of suspect Jolie is lesbian too. Hiding in plain sight all this time.

Minka Kelly and everyone

R157 owns the thread. Ole Harry micropeen is one of them.

Karen Carpenter bearded for Richard Carpenter

Mary of Teck is a jewel-hungry fat fuck who would beard Oscar Wilde if there was diamond in it for her.

Jess Lange -- Sam Shepard

Jennifer Lawrence is a prostitute, her happening to beard for someone is accidental.

Queen Mary had a very large boo-zum, r181.

Carrie Fisher / Bryan Lourd

Billie Lourd / Taylor Lautner

Debbie Reynolds: "Everyone I dated was gay. Except for Robert Wagner"

Shut the FUCK UP Marie-Louise!!!!! Just because your screamer Aribert of Anhalt wouldn’t give you cock even if you put on a sailor uniform & danced the hornpipe!

Mary, don’t lose your frizzle! It wasn’t me: it was that mad cunt Ella!! “I’m going to marry Grand Duke Serge — jealous much?!” she said.

Yeah, bitch. Bigtime jealous. Nothin like a hubby who wears corsets!

Tony Goodwin’s wife, Jane Musky.

Honey, I divorced my first husband because he was gay!

My mother outranked the queen of England after Victoria!

Queen Frederika of Greece.

It was said she had the bigger cock.

He relaxed with, amongst others, Denham Fouts.

Yeah, my husband liked picking up lads on the Lido — what of it? It’s Italy, honey — not goddam Peoria!

I'm suspicious of any male star who marries his manager. Randy Travis married his manager who was 16 years older, and Roger Federer married his manager, Mirka.

r192 Both Federer and Nadal are gay.

[quote]How does bearding work? Is there a manual these starlets get from their agents? How is the subject ever broached?

I imagine they don't even call it bearding, the available women (or men) are just asked "do you want to get tons of publicity to pretend to be in a relationship with ___ ?" They're paid money and sign a non disclosure agreement, and that's it.

The issue of sexuality may not even be raised.

It seems few have no idea how boarding works in Hollywood. I guess that is what happens when reading too many tabloid magazines. I do believe show business is half bearding and there are a high number of closeted entertainers.

Jennifer Aniston, for Justin Theroux. Brad Pitt for Angelina Voight-Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.

Theroux is not gay

Did R.DE MORNAY beard for him ?

Angelina Jolie isn't gay and neither is Billy Bob Thornton, you loonies

I don't like to think of myself as a beard so much as really nice and really dumb.