Gossip and Blinds That Were Proven True

I remember a blind item in MovieLine 1990 about Geffen and Keanu, it was true.

What was the item, R1? How did you come to find out it had been proven true?

I remember an item about Bertollucci and Keanu that was true, started by Charlie Sheen.

R3 and that item was?

Stop stating names without stating what they were and how you knew they were true

There was gossip (including right here on DataLounge) about Kevin Spacey using roofies on guys he would sexually assault. Then in 2017, a man reported to London police that he fell unconscious after having a drink Spacey gave him and awoke to find Spacey performing a sex act on him:

When he was on Party of Five, there were some blind items that were obviously about Scott Bairstow, indicating that he was a pedophile. Several years later, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

R6 Bryan Singer was also talked about on here before the stories about him were made public.

Gawker publishes stories about Louis CK years before anyone else.

That Meghan is a cunt. Now we know it’s true!

Who was scott on party of five. I looked him up he played Ned but no recollection of who that was. Was it a boyfriend of Julia?

Here's a blind item rabbit hole going back decades.

R10 He was the boyfriend of Julia's who hit her.

When he was on the show, there were also rumors that he was cheating on his wife with Jennifer Love Hewitt, who, though (barely) legal, looked young for her age.

Fun fact: Bairstow also played God on the final episode of Touched by an Angel.

There was a blind about a depressed fashion designer whose business was going under and it turned out to be L'Wren Scott who committed suicide a little while after. Ditto for Kurt Cobain...a blind item about how he was in bad shape and being watched by friends right before he committed suicide. I was not shocked when he died unlike everyone else but I was shocked that a blind turned out to be 100% true.

R13 Stories about Cobain being suicidal weren't exactly gossip. A few months before he died, he ODed in Rome and Weekend Update had a joke that went something like, "Kurt Cobain almost reached Nirvana this week."

Here's one about John Edwards:

56. NY POST 08/27/2007 WHICH political candidate enjoys visiting New York because he has a girlfriend who lives downtown? The pol tells her he'll marry her when his current wife is out of the picture. John Edwards

R15 I remember I was active on the message boards for The Superficial (anyone remember that place?) then and we debated a series of blinds about a "Democratic hopeful who was keeping a mistresses." Nobody thought that it was Edwards. Nobody.

While looking for gossip on Bairstow, I found a DL thread.

Apparently half the celebrity relationships are beards for promoting or for covering up.

Why did Edwards get involved with that nutcase? I will never understand that.

Have you guys seen this John Edwards "I Feel Pretty" video? Fussing quite a bit with his basic hairdo, waiting for an assistant to hairspray it after he gets it just right.

There are a ton on AGC about Matt Lauer.

NY POST/PAGE SIX...06/28 WHICH popular television host isn't so happily married? The charmer has carried on an affair with a young girl for several years — even during his wife's pregnancy — paying discreet visits after his work day is done.

R19 classic mid life crisis. He was flattered by the attention of an “attractive” woman who was not his wife. Boredom, insecurity about getting older. Same old story.

The whole Epstein & Prince Andrew saga.

[quote]Fun fact: Bairstow also played God on the final episode of Touched by an Angel.

lol I remember that. I also remember Bill Cosby playing an angel in a couple of episodes.

There were blind items that were obviously about Brett Ratner propositioning extras. If they slept with him he would give them a speaking role AND made sure the scene stayed in the movie. There were so many of these items, I heard people refer to it as the "The Brett Ratner Casting Method." In an LA Times articles an actress names, Eri Sasaki describes him trying this on here.

The Zach Braff thread reminded me of this, because he supposedly used the same casting method for the last film he directed.

[quote] classic mid life crisis. He was flattered by the attention of an “attractive” woman who was not his wife. Boredom, insecurity about getting older. Same old story.

You are wrong about Matt Lauer in every way. One, he cheated on his wife from the day he first met her. His cheating almost caused her to call off their engagement. He proceeded to cheat on her throughout their entire marriage. She left him a few times.

And he didn't lose his job because he's a cheater, he lost his job because he sexually assaulted various women he worked with

So that whole "midlife crisis" story you told is just nonsense

R26 I think that posted was talking about John Edwards.

I read a story (possibly on here) that Bryan Singer and some of his friends threw a "party" where they dressed up as priests and brought in boys dressed like schoolboys, then drugged and raped them. While I knew that Singer was a creep, I thought this story was ridiculous. It sounds more like something from an episode of Law & Order: SVU than real life.

Then photos of Singer dressed like a priest surfaced.

Bruce Jenner is the most obvious example. The Enquirer and Star had the story for a few years before he finally "came out" on ABC.

Charlie Sheen having sex with men as gossip dates back to at least 2006, not counting the Corey Haim story. Lots of blinds about his gay sex life.

Always blinds about Robin Williams drinking again, which eventually turned out true.

R29 Some gossip site had pics of Jenner with long, pink nails years before that too.

Denise Richards mentioned Sheen looking at porn involving men and boys in the divorce papers that she filed in 2005. The Richards/Sheen divorce happened when I was most into gossip. At the time, most people sided with him, and dismissed her as "crazy." As someone who believed her, I now feel vindicated.

Blinds about super-queen Ricky Martin were around years before he finally, finally came out of the closet.

DL's "Celebrities Who Out Themselves On Their Instagram" series of threads has had the goods on several minor celebrities before they came out like Barrett Foa.

Gossip on Wentworth Miller, Colton Haynes, etc....

R30 The first time I ever heard of Miller was right before Prison Break started. A female friend, who had a crush on him, told me that she was looking forward to the show and she mentioned that he was gay. So, clearly people knew!

R20, John Edwards always came off like a giant queen. Maybe it was the southerness that made him seem that way?

[quote] Denise Richards mentioned Sheen looking at porn involving men and boys in the divorce papers that she filed in 2005. The Richards/Sheen divorce happened when I was most into gossip. At the time, most people sided with him, and dismissed her as "crazy." As someone who believed her, I now feel vindicated.

What I find strange is that Denise is now on "good" terms with Charlie. Wouldn't you be keeping your kids away from Charlie if all that were true?

Is Kal Penn gay? There have been rumors at least since the time Obama was president.

R33 He was awfully well-groomed for a straight guy too. Though that might be the result of growing up in extreme poverty. Many people who crawl out of poverty are obsessed with putting up a good front.

Philip Schofield in the UK. Even when he was a children's TV presenter the gossip was he had got the job because he was the 'special boy assistant' of some older TV executive. He was forced to come out because he had started to deploy the same approach with younger men as he had received himself 35 years earlier. He had been seeing a teenage boy who was later sacked from This Morning. People who work on This Morning had become fed up with Schofield's indiscreet behaviour with this teenager and felt uncomfortable with how Schofield was conducting himself. Schofield was forced to come out as gay and pass it off as "something that he had been suppressing for many years" or face being outed by both this boy and work colleagues who were tired of his obnoxious behaviour.

All of this had been discussed online long before Schofield was forced to do that live TV interview.

r36, I think it's also a Southern "gentlemanly" thing, too. That's what my friends from North Carolina and Georgia say at least.

There have been many Kal Penn threads here for years.

Oh! The 'Blue's Clues' guy long before he finally came out, too!

[quote]Geörge Cløøney: He's gay and his entire marriage is a business move meant to portray a serious image for when he runs for political office. Everyone is Hollywood is well-aware.

[quote]George Clooney & Matt Damon Denounce ‘A–hole’ Harvey Weinstein: ‘It’s Beyond Infuriating’

[quote]"Bisexual scum George Clooney & phony Matt Damon are lying to promote film flop Suburbicon. They both knew of the rapes & harrassment. Clooney even encouraged the escorts he fake dated (Krista Allen, Sara Larson, Elisabetta Canalis & Stacey Keibler) to service Weinstein for film castings. FACT. SCUM George Clooney is in a sham marriage to beastly UGLY Amal Alamuddin who hails from a family of money-laundering arms dealers like her criminal uncle Ziad Takieddine. Clooney has never slept with ugly Amal. Clooney gets incentives to promote her. There are no twins. Clooney is using ugly Amal's sister Tala's surrogate born twins with her 2nd husband gigolo Nico as his in photos he shows. Biggest publicity hoax in Hollywood. Scum Clooney lies for publicity yet he's popularity has plummeted."

The Repuglican knives are out for Clooney. According to them, he is a murdering pedo responsible for the deaths of at least a half-dozen boys - even pushing one off a cliff!

I doubt Georgie is running for office, he has too many skeletons, fake marriage or not.

I do believe his Kardashian style wedding circus complete with cheesy People magazine photos backfired on him. It was supposed to deflect and mitigate yet all it did was shine a big spotlight on the absurdity of it and invite scrutiny. His crisis management team or fixer steered him wrong, he should ask for his money back.

I had read elsewhere that the sudden wedding was preemptive as his name was going to be associated with the B ry Singer story but the not alive Italian boy/s sounds more likely.

Is Cory Booker so well-loved by the guys he' s been with that no one will out him?

R44, he probably has tons of non-disclosure agreements.

Did the rumors about Christian Bale being a sub to a dominatrix that made him let men fuck him ever pan out at all?

[quote]There are no twins. Clooney is using ugly Amal's sister Tala's surrogate born twins with her 2nd husband gigolo Nico as his in photos he shows

Clooney's son resembles George when he was a child.

"Bisexual scum" -whoever wrote that can die in a grease fire.

In terms of stuff that turned out to be true: there was a blind about Bieber fucking Miranda Kerr several years before Bloom tried to punch him over it.

R47 The little girl is adorable.

There were rumors about Richard Chamberlin for years before he came out.

Chad Allen was outed by The Globe in the 90s and it was true.

The National Enquirer broke the story of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's wedding. When it happened, nobody believed it and all the talk show hosts made "this is why nobody believes tabloids" jokes. They also broke the story of John Edwards affair, and were the first to publish stories about Rush Limbaugh's drug addict when it was ignored by the mainstream media. Oh, and they first reported that Elizabeth Smart's father was gay. He is now out of the closet.

We knew about Lindsay Lohan escorting just from the reading the cleaned up gossip about her. Very sad when it started. She must hard as nails or a zombie by now.

Faye Dunaway can sometimes be moody.

I’m always amused at how people commenting on beardings and sham PR marriages here assume that gay men are incapable of sex with women and that turkey basters and surrogacies must be involved for any kids. Just bullshit. I’m gay AF yet can, and have, easily had sex with women when the mood is right. How do you explain DL men? Or men like that British presenter who come out after like twenty years of marriage?

Also, sex with women isn’t gross for all gay guys. It’s just not my thing. If I was a celebrity I could fake it no problems if needed.

[quote]Oh! The 'Blue's Clues' guy long before he finally came out, too!

Wait, what?

The Russian Pee Pee tape

All the celebrity boy/girl designer twins are turkey baster or whatever it's called regardless of straight or bearding situation. Beyonce, Julia R., JLo, Mariah, George & the beard. Surrogate optional.

No way was George's anorexic beard ever pregnant, that was obvious from the moon. The fact that he feels the needs to prattle on in interviews about her pregnancy and how they didn't use fertility drugs or any intervention and it was all natural and a surprise is what invites criticism.

They never admit to Botox, plastic surgery, liposuction or even just plain hair dye. It’s always “natural” with celebrities driving the general population to feel inferior. I’m glad the sheen around celebrity is falling apart.

R58 I automatically like any celeb that cops to getting work done for that reason.

Threads like these are why I came/come to DL. Thank you thank you thank you

R5 Jolie admitted to taking fertility drugs with her twins. I think Marcia Cross did too. Everyone else is a big, fat liar. JLo claimed hers were conceived "naturally." Sure, Jen.

Same here, r59. Trying to sell a false image of yourself essentially to gain money, influence and power over the public puts you in the same class as despots like Kim Jung Un, as far as I'm concerned.

Traditional celebrity is starting to go. Movie stars and the PR system of red carpets, talk shows, fluff magazine articles set to butter them up, have lost currency. I really think Leonardo DiCaprio is the last/youngest true movie star. They've been overtaken, first by reality TV with the Kardashian money now earning more money than them, then YouTube and other digital "influencers" like gamers took over.

Acting still matters, but starring in something successful like Game of Thrones doesn't make the actor a real star anymore, it's GoT that people care about. Which reminds me, TV/streaming is now the top medium. I remember when movie stars felt TV was beneath them 😂.

[quote] Ditto for Kurt Cobain...a blind item about how he was in bad shape and being watched by friends right before he committed suicide.

There weren't blind items about that, there were full-fledged news articles about it, MTV and Kurt Loder reported on it for ages, as did the music mags. The news ramped up after his OD a few weeks before his suicide, because several people said that it was a failed suicide attempt.

R62 We discussed the end of the movie star on here a while back. It's one of my fave DL threads.

R63 is right. Blind items weren't a thing until about the turn of the millennium.

Oh they've been around longer than that. I'd bet they've been around as long as gossip rags have been in existence but I remember seeing them in trash mags like Star, National Enquirer, the Globe as far back as the 1980s.

And back then, they were true, not made up.

They were originally used for gossip too shocking to print, like gay gossip, which, to this day, remains a no-go for mainstream outlets. Then they got hijacked by PR hacks planting thinly-veiled BIs to make their clients look good. The most ridiculous one I ever saw was a "blind item" about a star who "anonymously" pays rent for a former employee 🤢

Tom cruise and Katie homes 5 year contract and the time they will announced their separation.

Solve blind items

How bad thing were between the Sussex/Cambridges; that they weren't compatible wasn't a secret, but that the whole thing would explode as spectacularly as it did was surprising. Most of the royal coverage about who hates who, etc tends to be pretty overblown.

The story in the NY Post about a Broadway has-been being too drunk to even audition was rather sad. Her cosmetic line wasn't doing well, and she took a part on a children's show as a talking duck. Poor, poor Helen Lawson.

R59 what about celebrities who admit to one or two things they’ve had done to get the heat off of them when they’ve really had so many more things done?

I can hardly think of anyone who has copped to everything (especially stars known for their looks)

I use to read Ted Casablanca a lot. I could always tell he was creeped out by Kevin Spacey. He once said he was into some weird sexual stuff but never would say what it was. And wasn't he fired for outing Jeremy Renner?

In regard to RE:37 Schofield was not seeing a teenage boy. He was at least 23. Now there is a big difference in this. But this is an example of how gossip changes due to a persons own, how shall we say, interests? You find this idea more salacious so this is what it becomes even though it is not the case.

R66 Movieline magazine had them in the 1990s.

Timmy and the beard

Chala-fauxmance

Timotactics.

R76 ahhh those were the best! I was in HS and college and I would just devour them!

I remember Movieline did an article about how after an earthquake in LA- I believe?- that a psychiatrists paperwork about a Star was found. It said the Star was gay and his wife/ partner had been molested by their father so the relationship worked. Everyone thought it was John Travolta and his wife.

R81 Maybe Tammy and Nicole Kidman? I recall there being some unsavory rumors about her father.

R81 I just realized that it can't be them because as Scientologists, they would never see a psychiatrist.

I never really had a guess about who it was as it definitely wasn’t clear although stated was a movie star. I wish I could find the article now. Was a fascinating read.

Did we ever find out who Toothy Tile was/is?

Blind items about Prince's drug use...and then the loser OD'd and died in an elevator. Meh.

r85 The consensus was TT is Jake G.

CDAN's blinds are the worst. Never thought I'd miss Ted Casablanca.

R86 I think blind gossip had a blind item 2-3 days before Princes death about how he was very sick and would probably die very soon. I think they alleged that he had HIV but due to his religious beliefs of being a Jehovah's Witness, he refused treatment. Also his emergency landing in IL 2 weeks before his death was bcs of a drug overdose.

Wonder how long it will take for Ceorge Glooney's blind to be outed as true? There have been recent updates to the blind that the family is seeking additional compensation? Where there's smoke...

R89 That is all Enty-invented nonsense.

PR has arrived at r89.

^^^ Excuse me, PR has arrived at r90.

I too miss Ted Casablanca.

If it's "enty invented nonsense" why hasn't he sued?

He has sued for much less in the past.

The investigation from a lawsuit would expose the situation plus more, that's why he hasn't sued.

Yes, r94, but also, suing just draws attention to the allegation and gives the BI producer free publicity. Plus, you can never really prove the item is actually about you (not that you'd want to). So it's a catch-22.

That's why BIs are perfect character assassination vehicles.

Rosie O. being Lebanese.

Oh, c'mon, people. Ted Casablanca could be fun, but his writing "style" was impenetrable to most readers--I found him infuriating to read/decipher. The Toothy Tile reports were lame and never amounted to anything. And he was lazy, and according to some sources, a major substance abuser.

Which no led doubt to him getting himself fired, when he published a blind item about closeted Jeremy Renner, with Renner's name in it. Oops.

It was high time for Ted to call it a day.

In 2015 there was a bind item about a presidential candidate who had no beliefs, no scruples. Anyone could walk in with a bag of money and get him to take any position they wanted from him.

It was Trump (obviously) and it was the usually lying sack over at the Entertainment Liar who posted the blind.

Blinds can cut both ways, sometimes character assassination, sometimes giving the public a heads up as to whose character is not as it appears.

The John Edwards (politician) having a baby with mistress blinds proved true.

Blinds that actually contain some true facts also have a red herring or two thrown in to cover their asses.

As for the alleged story about Doktor Dug Ross, I heard it from locals long before any blinds came out.

Enty is loathsome, but I figure at least a few of his items are accurate. (Hell, I could provided a greater number of accurate items, and it's not my job).

There's no question that an equal number of his items are pure BS, ideologically motivated (there's an increasing amount of Q ANON stuff in there), or both.

Same with Blind Gossip. It's fun, but it also seems to have a right-wing slant and readership.

We worked out a blind item here about someone who'd "starred" in a Star Trek movie having sex with an underage girl. I can't remember all the clues. But we resolved that it was Stephen Collins. And then we whined: "Stephen Collins? Who cares about Stephen Collins?" A few days to a week later the news broke.

I think it came from an English newspaper. One of the English tabloids regularly had blind items that someone here would post. 3 A.M girls? Something like that.

I'm pretty sure all the blinds about the animosity behind the scenes on Desperate Housewives were proven true.

CDAN had a blind a few months after Harry and Meghan married, about them wanting to move to LA and that Meghan never gave up her agent and publicist. The blind said that representatives of the couple was scouting a house for them in LA. All of it have since been confirmed as true.

Those old old old blinds about Travolta being gay turned out to be true.

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[quote]If it's "enty invented nonsense" why hasn't he sued?

r94, the answer to your question is found in this disclaimer which runs at the bottom of his website:

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That disclaimer is worthless R106.

R3 I heard that rumor in1993. I have zero doubt that it's true. Keanu gave it up for roles.

[quote]If it's "enty invented nonsense" why hasn't he sued?

For the same reason almost no one sues over this bullshit: because of the Streisand Effect.

Right now, a handful of people "know" about the blind item. He sues and suddenly millions of people read about it, and in this climate, where pretty much everyone online just believes whatever random crazy shit they want to, and the gossip will stick to him forever.

It's obvious the Clooney items are fake because they fit so snugly into QAnon alt-right conspiracy theories. They're tailor made for the gullible Q-adjacent frauen who think "oh yeah, well if it was fake, he'd sue, therefore it's real" is the height of logical consistency.

George Clooney's PR at r106 (only post in their history) and DLer/Dlist Actor turned Clooney PR Helper at r109 working overtime to DEFELCT with their standard qanon and frau accusations. Just throw everything against the wall and see what sticks. Reeks of despair.

The pensioners in that area have been telling basically the same story as the blind since before the blinds were even published. In addition to the similar but not as severe stories they recount dating back a decade or more.

The story sure does align timeline wise with the sudden ostentatious "look at me, I'm a heterosexual!" wedding.

A New York waitress/whore/actress being turned into a political puppet to get Trump reelected.

The people pushing this Clooney nonsense are fucking stupid, QAnon huffing assholes.

R112 Nope. The facts are quite different. QAnon theories involve the molestation of very young children and blood drinking rituals, I'm pretty sure. I'll admit I didn't look very deeply into their beliefs because they are clearly loons. The Clooney rumor involves neither of these things. It's an independent detailed incident with potential witnesses. You can either choose to believe it or not, but trying to pretend it's part of QAnon screams of a deflection attempt.

[quote]George Clooney's PR at [R106] (only post in their history) . . .

r110, If I were part of Clooney's PR team, why am I living on a meager fixed-income out in the middle of Iowa?

You are an idiot.

R108 Details? I feel like there was a myriad of gay rumors surrounding Keanu in the 90s.