So Nancy McKeon is NOT a lesbian?

I'm think that she is at least bisexual. She pings for me, especially in this old 1981 article:

Nancy McKeon had an affair with Ellen in the 90s and at one point Sara Gilbert was brought in for a threesome.

Nancy Mckeon never dispelled the rumors, in fact, she pretty much just laughs at it or make a joke about it....I think she is attracted to women.

She made me a blonde wig when we had sex.

No straight girl has that much raw sexual energy with her female co-stars like that.

She taught me how to shave my legs.....and other things....

Wasn't there a very special episode where Jo was caught sniffing shoplifter Kelly Afinado's field hockey jock strap?

I know for a fact that Nancy is a closet case lesbian. She kept sending messages to me via my agent after the Big Gay Sketch Show did a lesbian parody sketch of Facts of Life.

I agree with 5.

She is a Dikey ass dyke. She's a dyke. What can I say. A blind person can see it.

I liked all the girls better than Jo on "Facts of Life." She was always so negative, gruff, and one-note typical of a sitcom character. At least Fonzie could laugh at himself.

It must have stung to have been one of the actresses eliminated from the show after the first season to have a new actress brought in and take over the majority of the scenes.

Jo did show her sensitive side at times though, she cried a lot.

@reply 11, Jo had depth, and she never placed some guy over her girlfriends.

Remember when Jo said, " I got beer"

Early this morning they showed the FOL reunion episode where three of the girls from season 1 came back to visit. It was a hoot. They asked about Molly, and one of the girls replied, "Her mom said she's really busy." It was 1985, so Molly really WAS "busy".

Nancy Mckeon being married now to a man doesn't mean SQUAT.

She did appear in a movie about a couple of lesbians fighting for Gay Rights in the late 70s. She played the daughter of the lesbian couple.

That is kind of hard for me to believe...people are always surprising me.

Nancy Mckeon has a penis that got Kim Fields pregnant. Alexis is their love child......

Somebody shouted out "You're Gay" to Nancy and Lisa at the 2011 Red Carpet Tv Land Awards: @:35

Nancy Mckeon and Kim Fields professing their love for each other in this old parade throwback video:

@1:01:47

The sexual tension between Blair and Jo was so strong, you always thought that they were two seconds away from fucking each other right there on the floor of Edna's Edibles.

Her brother is one ugly mutha

Of course McKeon is not gay. Why would the producers cast a homosexual in a heterosexual role?

Nancy was such a little butch. She must be bi in the least. She had a threesome with Ellen and Sara Gilbert? Ewwwww! Sara Gilbert is so icky. Weren't there any hot lipstick lesbians available at Ellen's beck and call at the time?

@reply 25, Where you hear that rumor from? LMAO.

Nancy and Lisa Vidal on The Division had great chemistry as well. Jinny should have been gay. The Executive Producer of the show wanted one of the main characters to be gay but the Networks wouldn't allowed it. I think the show would be on Iconic status on par with the L Word and Orange is the New Black if they had let Nancy Mckeon be a lesbian.....

As a Brit I have only ever seen this woman in the very short-lived sitcom "Style & Substance" (had to look up the name but recall it showing at some point on BBC) but even so, I assumed she was a lesbian from the way she gayed up even more what was already a fairly camp show, anytime she was on screen.

Nancy also co-starred with Mariska Hargitay in another short-lived sitcom called "Can't Hurry Love". And i'm sure most of you already know that Mariska is Bisexual, hmmmm......

You made me barf r2. That's a whole lot of ugly.

Such untrustworthy, DISGUSTING gossip!

@reply25, i meant to reply to #2........ I'm scrolling back up and i am just NOW noticing that post....

Sara Gilbert on The Talk was crushing so hard on the Jo character, all this time i didn't know that her and Nancy Mckeon fucked.

It's surprising that she didn't know that Jo was a gay icon until 2004. You'd think back in the day that she would have gotten tons of letters from young gay girls who were struggling with their identity. I loved what she had to say though.....

Op, why are you so enslaved to archaic ignorant stereotypes?

@reply 35, but she did give off really strong gay vibes though.

It's called acting, dear.

[quote]It's called acting, dear.

People said the same thing about Queen Latifah playing a dyke in Set It Off, and look how that turned out.

[quote]It's called acting, dear.

You might have a point if Jo was written as a gay character, but she wasn't. Just a tomboy.

R32 ,please post the replies as R25 and R2. That way one can refer back to those posts by just putting your mouse over them as R25 and R2.

^^^^How do you do that?

@reply39, [39] There's a difference between a Tomboy and a Stud and Jo was a STUD. The show may not explicitly said that she was bi/gay, but Jo said and done some suspicious shit to lead people into that direction....

[R2]

Nancy McKeon not a lesbian?

Don't be ridiculous.

Oh, i get it now.....

I wonder why Nancy Mckeon never played an out lesbian before in any of her movies? She is definitely more convincing than some of these other actresses that plays Gay.

@[R31] What's disgusting about it? The gay implication or her 3-some with Ellen and Sara?

God, my clit is so hard right now.

She is clearly gay. It is possible she has remained in denial her whole life. Maybe it's her religious brainwashing. This has sadly forced many to remain life long closet cases.

She laughed when someone yelled she and Blair were gay. Doesn't phase her- it's not true. Move on dykes.

[R 50] She laughed because she's aware of the rumors, not because it wasn't true. If it's not true, why not just say that you're not gay? Why not dispel the rumors? It was brought up to her several times in interviews......

^^^^[R50]

Outside looking in, Nancy seems to love her husband. It would not surprise me if she was bisexual, though.

^^^^^Yea and she had sex with Michael J Fox. Just look at their Game Show that they appeared on together back in 1983. But many gays do experience with the opposite sex and serial date/marry because they are in denial. I think she is at least bi as though because i don't think that she's 100% straight.

There are also rumors about Nancy and her brother wanting to write a book called, "Gays in Hollywood".

What about Lisa?

[R53] Don't they all? Whitney also loved Bobby Brown as well, but most of us know that she was a big time closet case.

^^^^I have to reiterate my comment, most of us THINK and BELIEVE that Whitney was a big closet case. Of course none of us know about her sexuality for sure. I'm sorry about that.....

Or Nancy could laugh about the gay rumors because she's comfortable in her sexuality.....i'm trying to look at all sides on this. I still think she is at least bi though or she had feelings for other women before........

hmmmm

i can totally see bi. yeah prob had feelings for the one who played blair. blair lights up like a christmas tree around nancy

R59, sometimes when someone tells lies about you, you don't dignify them by treating it seriously. You laugh to show them how stupid they are

Bisexual........

Her relationship with Michael J. Fox was clearly fake. They made two movies together and had absolutely no chemistry. She was embarrassed by the question on Tattletales. That doesn't mean she had sex with Michael J. Fox. She had no chemistry with men onscreen. Her husband looks like a big doofus. I think she married to have children.

she a lezzzzzz bean

Nancy old and Nancy young. Notice bad nose job on the older one.

R47 just write out the post with a capital R and the post number you want to refer to it. The brackets will appear by themselves.

[R64] I agree, she didn't have any chemistry with men on-screen. It looked so UNNATURAL.....The same thing for The Division. She didn't have much chemistry with men but she had loads of it with Lisa Vidal and some other female co-stars.....I don't feel any chemistry with her husband at all and her late marriage and the timing is a little suspect. He seems more like a good male friend who was willing to do her a favor, some men are like that. And VH1 referred to her as a SINGLE MOTHER in the 2005 100 Child Star Countdown. Why would VH1 say that? LOL. Even they know that she's suspect.......

[R62] If somebody told lies about me i would refute those, especially a serious claim as homosexuality. There's nothing wrong with being gay but a rumor like that can cost jobs and your reputation. She laughed because she knows that she is suspect as hell and she gives off strong gay vibes...

[R64] Well most gays aren't Gold-stars. Just look at Meredith Baxter and Anthony Perkins.

^^^Still no sexual chemistry though, i agree. They seemed more like Pals to me.

That's creepy r66

[R66] I don't think it was a nose job. Maybe it's just make-up contouring......

[R60]They look like they were enjoying this a lil too much. What's with Nancy's hand placement? And why was she behind Kim like that?

R68, she has incredible chemistry with Lisa Whelchel. If you watch the Paleyfest interview they did in 2014 that is included in the Facts DVD Boxset, you can see the sexual chemistry between them. They can't stop touching each other, it's hilarious. I think something happened between them.

^^^Absolutely. They look like a couple unlike her and her husband. Speaking of the DVD. I asked this question several times but got no answer. Come on, help a sister out! In the DVD box-set, there's supposed to be a deleted scene between Tootie & Jo that isn't shown in syndication. Is it in there?

^^^It's supposed to be in that boring 'Jazzbeau' episode. I don't know why they cut that scene out. GRRRRR.......The DVD boxset is expensive and i just want to make sure the deleted scenes are still in there........

R70 MBB is bi isn't she? I don't buy that fact she was just totally gay all these years. Perkins on the other hand was a queen from day one.....

[R78] She's saying that she's gay but if she was genuinely attracted to her husbands then that would make her bisexual. I agree......

I'm a Lesbian IRL, Really!

She got a thing for Geminis though:

Lisa Whelchel Lisa Vidal Michael J Fox

^^^^Lisa Whelchel

Lisa Vidal

Michael J Fox

R76, I just finished watching Season 5 and starting Season 6 today. Jazzbeau is in Season 6. What is the deleted scene supposed to be about?

[R83] Other then that photo that i just posted of Tootie and Jo embracing each other while they are both looking up at the sky/ceiling, I don't know. I'm DYING to find out though!

[R83] It looks like Jo is comforting Tootie after that Jazzbeau singer died. Or maybe she's just showing her some support because Tootie complained about being discouraged about her acting career or something like that. I want to know SO BAD.

R85, I'll watch it tomorrow and let you know.

Well we know for sure now that Whitney Houston was at least bi. Per her ex husbands interview this week.

[R86] Thank you very much.

I highly doubt anything happened with Nancy and Kim, lol They always came across as sisterly to me. Nancy and Lisa Whelchel are a completely different story. The way they look at each other..... HOOOOOOOTTTTT. Off an on screen, just electric. You don't see that with "just friends". Whether they ever acted on their feelings, IDK (they did live together for a while) but they DIG each other big time.

so gay

R86, I watched the Jazzbeau episode and there are no scenes between Jo and Tootie. The Bonus CD includes the original Different Strokes episode, Facts Of Life Goes To Paris movie, Facts Of Life Goes To Australia movie, the 2014 Paleyfest interview and a Facts Of Life featurette.

[R91] Thank you for telling me.

Nancy and Lisa are still really good friends. That Hallmark channel show Home and Family recently had a FOL reunion, and both women talked about how close they still are (Nancy via Skype, Lisa in the studio).

Did old lady Rae ever touch any of her girls titties?

Her and her husband don't look like they even share the same room.

[R78] Perkins never pinged for me, he just seemed weird.

Has anyone spotted her in Texas or California? She used to live in Cali but now lives in Wimberley TX with her ugly husband and two daughters.

Speaking of her daughters, has anybody seen a picture of them? I understand why she would keep them hidden because fans like us can be cray cray but i'm just curious. ...

[R97] LOL @ ugly husband, yea he sure isn't a looker......If you wanna beard with someone than at least beard with somebody that's actually believable. Plus her and her husband have no chemistry. (From the pictures I've seen of them).

Are we even sure that they are still together? Something tells me that they may have separated or something.

I just wanted to be the 100th reply.

[R97] In this day and age she's really good at hiding her shit and keeping private, who's on her team because some of these other celebs should take note and use it.....

She is Lesbianesque!

Nancy Mckeon on The Facts of Life and The Division gives me Ray Liotta vibes. Am i the only one?

Why Ray Liotta? lol

[R104] Because she had a violent/psychotic streak. LOL. It's something in her eyes too.

We would never know if Nancy ever did separate from her husband and got together with Lisa Whelchel.

Speaking of Whelchel, it seems like she has one foot out of the closet. She posted a cryptic message on twitter a few days before the Orlando shooting about "Don't hate what you don't understand" and about how she's "rebelling" against her earlier fundamentalist upbringing by getting tatoos and reading Harry Potter. LOL.

It's ok boo, Kristy McNichol is openly gay and Tatum O'Neal is openly bisexual. Just waiting for Nancy and Lisa.......

I posted an article from 1981 in this thread a while back about how Nancy was pretty much ousted from the closet. First they brought up the fact that she did a lesbian movie before Facts of life than they claimed that Lisa was worried that she wasn't 'boy crazy'. The article didn't even TRY to hide their true intentions......Nancy was pinging all through-out that article. Baby Lez galore!

Thoughts?

Nancy has pinged in everything she's ever been in. The timelines of her relationship with men are off which can be a sign of a closeted celebrity. Nancy's parents were very Catholic and Lisa and Kim were born again Christians so that might have kept Nancy in the closet.

I can totally see Nancy and Lisa finger banging when they get together :)

[R109] Yea she had a lot of male love interests in her movies/shows and NONE of them were believable.

In 1978, I wonder why her family allowed her to do a lesbian movie where she played the daughter of a gay couple. Wouldn't they think that her as an up and coming actress that it may put a stain on her career? Or maybe her family knew that she was gay/bi at a young age.....hmmmm.....

[R109] Yea it did seem like ever since that article came out she started PUBLICLY showing up with those dudes.......suspect......

How are they not together?

Bump for nostalgia..and more gossip.

[R113] I don't ship Jo and Blair but i do like their real life ride and die relationship.

I guess they're the white version of Gayle and Oprah, how cute!

[R115] Ride or die, my bad.

I wonder if Nancy helped influence Lisa to be more gay-friendly for the past few years.......or maybe it was her divorce.........or her kids......

^a combination, I suppose

One of the most femme roles I've seen Nancy play was as Kyle MacLachlan's foul-mouthed junkie girlfriend in the underrated teen homeless flick Where the Day Takes You.

She was also feminine in the harrowing Cry For Help: Tracy Thurman Story.

She'd totally softened up by the last couple of seasons of TFOL. Gone was the brash, aggressive, ponytailed tomboy, who was replaced by a mature, skirt-wearing, big-haired, face-painted, French manicured woman.

....

Nancy got more work than the other girls during the show's run. She was the Queen of the Movie of the Week for a while (Poison Ivy, Firefighter, Strange Voices). I wonder if the other girls were jealous.

Yeah they tried to femme her up in the later seasons but she just came across as more butch to me. The way she and Lisa played off one another in those final years didn't help

She totally wasn't butch at all by season 8. In the first few seasons, you'd have thought she was a guy if not for her breasts.

Has Lisa learned how to be more friendly to gay people or has she learned to accept those tendencies in herself?

Even when Nancy was in an evening gown, she still displayed strong gay/bi tendencies.

[R126] She was still butch in season 8. In some episodes she looked like Shane from the L Word. It was by season 9 where they made her wear more feminine attire.

[R120] Outside of Sean Austin, Will Smith, and Ricki Lake who are these people? And why wasn't Nancy on the front of these credits? She was more popular than some of them......

[R121] Lookin just like Jo!

[R124] Didn't Lisa get jealous when Nancy got the "as" "and" credit?

[R124] At least Kim Fields has Living Single, which is syndicated and playing heavily everyday....

[quote][[R120]] Outside of Sean Austin, Will Smith, and Ricki Lake who are these people

Dermot Mulroney, Lara Flynn Boyle, Balthazar Getty, Kyle MacLachlan...you've never heard of any of these actors? Some of them are quite frequently discussed on DL.

[R134] No, But then i'm kinda a new member here.......

Kyle was in Dune and Showgirls, Dermot was in My Best Friend's Wedding, Lara Flynn was in Twin Peaks and Threesome...

[R136] Ohhhhh, ok, Kyle is coming back to me now. I seen Showgirls and My Best Friends Wedding and now he seems familiar now....

Ahhh Showgirls. The best and worst film ever made.

[R113] where were they at?

R139 that picture was taken at Nancy's house outside of Austin, TX, I think last April-ish. Lisa posted it, and later deleted it (not sure why). I think the caption said something about Nancy being a good "pie baker." ahem.

^they look so gay in that picture. And I've never seen Nancy smile that wide. At least not in recent memory. She usually is all half smile/sad eyes

^^Yea she never looked like that with her "husband".

[R113] Nancy lookin butch as hell! Queen Latifah like! I LOVE IT!

Whelchel did have the guts to DIVORCE her husband, and walk away from that misery. THAT TAKES BALLS. I give her that. Nancy, i'm looking at you girl!

I bet Whelchel's kids (well at least one of them) are proud of her as well, they knew that she was miserable as hell in that marriage.

Geminis are known for being courageous and that was a courageous step that Whelchel took.

[R30] [R62] Maybe Nancy can stop looking and acting like a dyke when she's around women, then there wouldn't be any "speculation" to speculate on......I seen a picture with her and Lisa Vidal with some other pretty women and Nancy looked like a fat kid around cake. The eyes and body language doesn't lie...

^^^^I meant to reply to post 50 [R50] not post 30.

I think Nancy is a pretty woman but this was hilarious:

^^^She's pretty with some masculine features and masculine traits...

[R147] Yep. It's not just the character of Jo being a 'tomboy' that causes speculation about Nancy. It's Nancy herself. I've seen plenty of straight girls play tomboy on TV and I know full well it's just acting. They just don't have that butch quality about them. Nancy on the other hand...her swagger, her mannerisms. She's like that in everything I've seen her in. It's HER. . Jo of course may have been a little more exaggerated in the way she played her. I've only seen a handful of division eps so I can't comment on her chemistry with Vidal but MY GOD her chemistry with Whelchel is off the charts both on screen and off. They light up around each other and can't keep their hands off one another when they're together. For the record, I don't think anything physical happened between those two women, but trust me, they thought about it and maybe just "repressed" their feelings. We know Whelchel excels at doing that. Plus Nancy has very little chemistry with any of the men she's been with. It's a combo of things that make me go hmmm...

[R151] Yep, there are a lot of straight Tomboys but Jo/Nancy isn't one of them. I seen the whole of season 3 and 4 of The Division on youtube the other day and Nancy had a lot of chemistry with Lisa Vidal and NONE with Dean Cain or any of those other dudes. Even the Executive Producer wanted one of the main characters (i bet it was her) to be gay. The network wouldn't allow it though..

Sanaa Lathan's character in Love & Basketball was a straight tomboy, Sanaa Lathan had impeccable chemistry with Omar Epps and she had impeccable chemistry with Denzel Washington in Out of Time. (it's rumored that they even had an affair and a secret love-child). Nancy is a good actress but she's never able to convince the public that she has chemistry with men. I even feel a little something with Nancy and Mindy Cohn in some of the episodes and even Nancy and Kim Fields in some episodes and some of the behind the scenes stuff... She just gives off that type of "vibe" when she's around some women. Her chemistry with Whelchel is inevitable because Jo & Blair were supposed to be foils of each other. If it was lesser actresses with lesser chemistry than the Jo/Blair dynamic wouldn't have worked and people wouldn't be still talking about them almost 40 years later...

You can catch The Division episodes on this channel: For anybody who's interested:

I agree that Nancy has some masculine mannerisms and gives off a strong lesbian vibe but I wouldn't call her butch. To me, butches look like men. Nancy is a beautiful woman with a masculine side.

[R126] In the first couple of seasons she was on, she actually did look kinda girly to me even with the ponytail and the tomboy attire. She looked girly in that dress in Teenage Marriage, I remember. Real pretty. Double Standard was another one where she looked pretty feminine. Once she hit puberty it went beyond straight actress in tomboy attire. She looked awkward in all the dresses she wore afterwards. The way she walked, the way she carried herself was more like a guy. She screamed lesbian to me in the later seasons. Especially seasons 6-8. Even in season 9 seeing her in those mini skirts, she was more on the masculine side, imo. :)

Nancy definitely has sexual chemistry with mostly all her female co-stars. It's very difficult to be conscious of body language and she just had some sorta magnet pull towards the ladies.. It just JUMPS off the screen. You have to be blind not to see that. She was so awkward with her male leads. ALL of them. If she was in a relationship or married in a movie, sure I accepted it, but there was NO SPARK. And btw, after all these years I still think something VERY serious could have happened with Lisa W had they not allowed their religious beliefs to get the best of them. It all just reeks of repressed lez feelings, I'm afraid.

How do you know they never acted on those feelings? Many very religious people are closet cases. Every time Lisa and Nancy are seen together, they look like they just want to go home and ravage each other's pussies. You can't have that much sexual chemistry with another woman and not doing anything about it.

[157] Because Lisa goes beyond the typical religious closet case, imo. She made it her mission in life from the age of 10 (10!) to be what she thought was the perfect little christian. She was so insecure and shy at such at early age that instead of learning to make friends, she made Jesus Christ her one and only. She went as far as to torture herself in a loveless marriage for 20+ years because she believed the marriage to be God's will. I think she succeeded in suppressing any thoughts she deemed sinful including whatever feelings she had/has for Nancy. Could something have happened? Sure. But knowing what I know about Lisa's history I find it hard to believe she "sinned" in the physical sense. She probably would have thrown herself off a bridge if she had (even though that's a sin too)....

Hopefully, she's sinning now with Nancy.

Well, if THIS woman can be straight, be a female men's rights activist and have a male partner, ANYONE can:

Karen Straughan is bisexual

R154 = idiot

R162 = hairy bulldyke

[R159] Remind me to go to confession once Lisa leaves.

Nancy making out with men has always looked and felt awkwardly *wrong* -- like it's so against her nature that she has to shut down and enter some weird, disassociative headspace to do it.

I remember being giddy with hope when that series 'The Division' was about to start... Surely as a black-leather-jacket-wearing, alcoholic cop she'd finally be dropping that straight-chick B.S. veneer! Alas, it was not to be.

They've probably kept her roles straight for public safety reasons: if Nancy ever aired in a gay love scene, there'd be a seismic shift of spontaneous female orgasms around the globe... Way beyond the scope of noise-cancelling headphones. (Especially for those of us over forty; it's been such a damned long time coming.)

I think Nancy wanted a much bigger career as actress than she ended up getting. She seems kinda pissed about it too. Heterosexuality is the way to go if you want a big career in Hollywood. Atleast it was back in the day. I get the feeling Nancy will come out when her children are older, like Meredith Baxter.

As private as she is?

Of course she's a lesbian and the father of Lisa Whelchel's three children!

Both straight but like to troll the lesbians.

It's time to tow your defective gaydar to the repair shop, R169.

Nancy has religiously (pun) fought her gayess to the point that it's left her tense and haunted. It's really a shame. I'm sure that Lisa's been of no help, either -- one of those nitemarish, 99-percent-straight Gemini headfucks who use their fiercest 1% dyke vibes to lure in hapless butches... Perpetually seeking ego-fuel and never "giving in". It's pure, sunshiny-smiling EVIL, kiddies.

Check out her heterosexual body language in this photo from the Facts of Life episode where Jo dates her college professor.

There were rumors waaayyyyy back in the day that Nancy frequented lesbian bars in LA. If she's not at least bisexual, she missed a great opportunity....

R11, who or what is this referring to?

[quote]It must have stung to have been one of the actresses eliminated from the show after the first season to have a new actress brought in and take over the majority of the scenes.

She needs a hair change.