Who is this blind item referring to?

Julio Iglesias.

R1 for the win

Julio Iglesias hasn't been married "for decades" Second marriage was in 2010

Neil Sedaka

Sedaka all the way. There are many, many stories of him sneaking around with other men. I must say his wife, Leba Strassberg, is a beautiful woman.

Sedaka is way too old to be lusting after some gay porn "star".

Neil Sedaka.

R4 Did Neil Sedaka ever set females' hearts aflutter, though? He was always average looking in his younger days, and rather schlubby during his mid-70's comeback years.

R6 You'd be surprised - plus Sedaka is loaded from all the song writing income and hit songs and would be attractive to a younger guy looking for a sugar daddy.

R8 Remember Sedaka's demographic in the 50s/60s was teen girls. Teen girls really liked his songs and became fans. And, although Neil wasn't conventionally handsome, he could be marketed as smart and safe, yet still playful. Easy to get teen girls to develop a crush on him.

Frankie Avalon

Thought of Engelbert, but he's 84.

Yeah, I guess the "breaking up is never easy" line of the blind item is probably a reference to "Breaking Up is Hard to Do".

Interestingly, just this morning, during his online "mini-concert", Neil Sedaka sang this song, and dedicated it to "my dear friend Vinnie".

It seems like a "coming out of the closet" song, with not-so-thinly-veiled gay references in the lyrics.

So, whoever it is, is a bigamist? Married to two people at the same time?

Neil Sedaka does a bizarre cover of The Cure’s “The Lovecats”. The first time a I heard it was in a supermarket and I laughed aloud after the first verse.

I also first thought of Sedaka. But I think those so called teen fans were manufactured groupies by his people.. Nothing about him was teen idol fodder. Now Fabian and Frankie Avalon were different stories. They were considered gorgeous then. Sedaka always looked like dad at the barbeque.

R15 you’re thinking of Paul Amos. He did an album in the early aughts where he did swing covers of pop and rock songs of the 80s and 90s. It’s actually quite good.

^^ugh Damn autocorrect. Paul ANKA not Amos.

He tried to make me his beard with that middling "Oh! Carole!" song, but I had more than enough to deal with, thanks to my wackjob hubby Gerry G.

Sedaka has Jim Neighbors level gay face.

Harry Chronic Jr.?

Hasn't it been common knowledge for decades Sedaka is gay? Yawn.

Sedaka and Elton palled around together in the early 70s and it sounded at one point that Neil was going to come out but it never happened.

Fabian nor Frankie Avalon are/were crooners.

Michael Buble is, though.

Okay, Neil is 81. But no fool like an old fool.

Janet said he has a "secret". Neil Sedaka being gay as a goose is no secret. So I doubt it's him.

And on another note, Janet Charlton is still around??

Always thought Oh! Carol was a very gay song, and I'm a lesbian.

Yeah, the idea that Sedaka's gay is as much a "secret" as Liberace's sexuality.

Neil Sedaka is too old for this. THis sounds like someone in their 60's. THink about it. Michael Stipe, Bono, Springsteen, Sting, guys in that age group...

I can't see 81 year old fatty Neil Sedaka doing this either, and he wouldn't do anything to jeopardize his wife's standing - she knows everything.

Sedaka's songwriting partner of 20 years, Howard Greenfield, was an out gay who died of AIDS at age 49. Not that it means much, just saying.

I looked at the date next to Janet Charlton and thought 08/06 meant the BI was from 2006.

Where the hell does she post her column now?

Was Sedaka ever a "crooner"?

Of course, the person who wrote that blind may, erroneously, think that is a synonym for a male singer.

Barry Manilow

Well it ain't me.

I threatened Johnny Carson with physical violence when HE questioned my taste for the puss.

"Of course, the person who wrote that blind may, erroneously, think that is a synonym for a male singer."

It does mean a male vocalist - a very OLD male vocalist.

[quote]It does mean a male vocalist - a very OLD male vocalist.

No, it does not. It is a particular style of singing, where the male vocalist bends the notes. Like Bing Crosby and early Sinatra.

Darling, R36, I am an elder gay. "Crooner" was a generic word for a male singer who sang ballads way back when. Yes, it was Sinatra and Crosby, but it could also be used for Tom Jones and Paul Anka, though the word was less used in the 60s. No one needs to bend a fucking note.

Whos married to a "socialite" ? It should be easy to figure out.

R1 I'm still laughing. Julio Iglesias probably has more bastards than legal children. It would be amazing that he had time to men between so many women

R37 It's used on Michael Buble too. The BI seems to indicate that the singer is at least middle age (probably older) but a crooner can be young

Aren't Bublé and Connick Jr the only two famous "crooners" today? And both make the women swoon

The key is married to a socialite. - Buble is married to a model as is Connick Jr. Sedaka is married to socialite Strassburg.

Connick's wife is slightly higher class than Bublé's. Surprisingly both models but the former from solid upper middle class background. Could become a "socialite".

Does anyone remember that urban myth that the Captain and Tenile put subliminal lyrics in one of their songs that sounded like “Sedaka is dead”? I can’t remember which song but it was at the end as they were la la la la’ing as the song faded out.

R44 that was Love Will Keep Us Together and at the end Toni (what a voice!) says “Sedaka is back!”

Janet Charlton is still alive? She was old 20 years ago.

R45. Thx. That was the song. But I thought there was a ton of acrimony and competitiveness between them. I remember listening at the end and you can hear her sing “Sedaka is dead”. It’s pretty blatant. Maybe I’m wrong. I have something to do now when I get my next coffee

Michael Bolton

R44 Captain and Tenille song was Love Will Keep Us Together and at the end of the song, they sang "Sedaka is back" a couple times. They (and Sedaka) talked about it at the time.

Sorry, R45, didn't see your post until after I posted the same thing.

Bolton!!! Good guess. I've heard he was violent with hookers, but not the gay angle.

My favorite National Enquirer headline : "Neil Sedaka Is Secretly Gay!" Yeah, you could tell he was gay from Neptune.

The point is that Sedaka is not publicly out and is married to a socialite. He has two kids so to average fraus of his age it might not be obvious that he also enjoyed peen. The phrasing of the BI points to Sedaka songs.

It's me! I'm the answer to all steaming pile of bullshit blind items of gossip sites read by retards! Poop. Mr. Poop Emoji. I am the answer, you dumb cunts! Every time.

I've said this in another thread years back:

When Rod Stewart's son was on Howard Stern with Randy Spelling (they were promoting something), Stewart told a story about being in rehab and while there, being relentlessly pursued by an older, famous guy who was also there. I think he even out his hand on his knee or something. He said the name, but Howard dumped it because he didn't want to get sued. A caller who was on hold heard the name and said on some messageboard that he heard it and it was Neil Sedaka.

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[quote] Sedaka's songwriting partner of 20 years, Howard Greenfield, was an out gay

R30, you can not post a pic on Datalounge of Sedaka and Greenfield without Miss Francis!

I'm not sure Sedaka ever set hearts a flutter. I mean, really.

R30, that's a lovely photo. If they were lovers then what a nice memory for Sedaka to have.

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Neil Diamond

Saying that Neil Sedaka set female hearts aflutter would be quite a stretch from the conventional definition of "aflutter."

What? No palimony agreement?

As laughable is the notion that Sedaka's gayness is some state secret, I have to agree with R53 that the BI's phrasing obviously points to no one but him. "Breaking up is never easy"?! C'mon.

R50, I do that ALL the time. #greatminds think alike :)

Tony Bennett.

Blind items when you’ve got a president accused of rape, on video taking about pussyfooted grabbing, and cavorting with pedophiles? Out with it or shut up.

Has Rhona Barret commented?

R66

Bennett isn't married to a socialite.

[quote]been involved in a secret romance with a younger Latin hunk.

Doesn't that mean that the person is an older Latin hunk?

R60, you think they're sharing GIRLS? Lol.

Janet Charlton is still around?

Definitely Neil Sedaka.

My sister was a teenager when he was popular, and she thought he was dreamy. Back then, girls liked the "safe" boys. He wasn't sexy, but he was considered cute, so a lot of girls were attracted to that. Plus, he sang songs about broken hearts and unrequited love, so they could identify with that.

I'd like to know who the porn star is who's obviously taking financial advantage of the 81-year old Sedaka.

From WIkipedia: "Sedaka's nephew, by marriage, is CNN Politics political writer and DL heartthrob Harry Enten."

Okay, it doesn't say the part about DL heartthrob, but it should.

From Wikipedia: "On 29 January 1971, Iglesias married Isabel Preysler, a Filipina journalist and television host. Preysler, a Filipina of Spanish ancestry, was also a member of the wealthy and aristocratic Pérez de Tagle family."

Remember when Janet Charlton used to do her gossip segments on "E?" She'd always wear long gloves to cover up her age spots.

I’ve been re-reading Andy Warhol’s diaries, and around 1980 he talked about how he didn’t want to paint a commissioned portrait of the Sedakas because he thought Neil was too fat. I think he told Neil he needed to lose weight before the sitting.

Paul Anka

R75

I thought of Julio because his first wife was a socialite but they've been divorced for decades. He's been remarried for 10+ years.

It's Sedaka

Julio lives in Brazil

Tom Jones

R82 Tom's wife is dead and she wasn't a socialite.

I'm more interested in what porn star he's hooking up with. Random guess ... Ashton Summers.

[quote]Breaking up is never easy

This is also a line from an ABBA song, but I don't think it's either of those guys.

"My sister was a teenager when he was popular, and she thought he was dreamy. Back then, girls liked the "safe" boys."

No 1. Yeah, but Sedaka was safe as in "nice," he was never sexual, and never "dreamy" under ANY circumstances. Talk to your sister again if she's real.

No 2. Pre-teen girls ALWAYS liked safe boys who sometimes turned out to be gay. Neil Sedaka was so fucking not a candidate for any of that teen idol crap, he made Johnny Mathis look macho.

R74, Harry Enten is, in fact, a heartthrob of mine. He has hawt Sephardic good looks. Most Sephardic men are hawt. Which makes Neil Sedaka's looks all the more mysterious!

R86, I'm not old enough to remember his 60s heyday, but you'd be surprised how many girls and women go crazy over singers and musicians, even the ugliest ones get plenty of groupies. I think some gay men assume that straight women are always attracted to the same type of guys as gay men, which isn't always the case

R88, I am old enough. Girls (not women) went nuts over non-threatening youngish male singers; women, more sophisticated, liked fugs who could sing like Sinatra. I'm not surprised and not do I need anyone to teach me. I'm not denying Neil Sedaka had a few pre-adolescents and adult women who idolized him. But the fact is, he had very little sexual appeal, Barry Manilow had more.

He’s currently dating a porn man so he must be very sexually active. I don’t think he’s in his 60s. This singer should be in the age range 40 to late 50s. Who was a heartthrob who used to sing ballads love songs who has a deep singing voice?

[quote]Back then, girls liked the "safe" boys."

Back then? It's still the case to this day. That's why guys like Justin Bieber are hugely popular or the K-pop groups or Menudo or NKOTB. Girls like boys who aren't quite masculine and could easily pass as girls.

Jordan Knights from New Kids On The Block

R90 your argument makes no sense. If you’re implying he has to be in his 40s or 50s to “score” a porn star you’re clueless. Porn stars, like other escorts, will “date” or fuck anything that gives them enough money. It’s not about love or true attraction. It’s about taking viagra to get bank.

If you think that 60 year olds don’t or can’t have sex, also wrong. Neil can take viagra too if needed to top though that’s not always the case. More likely, Neil may be into bottoming or sucking dick or giving massages.

When you have the money he has he can always find someone hot to pay for sex

The thing we forget about artists from that early rock and roll era is that there weren't many avenues for their fans to actually see them perform. If they didn't come to your city to perform, then there were only 3 television networks, broadcasting a limited number of hours. There were some TV variety shows, but a lot of them didn't showcase the younger generation of performers very much, so there were a lot of popular performers who rarely got seen by the masses. They were mostly voices on the radio, and faces on the picture sleeves of 45s and album covers. I imagine there were some teen magazines that wrote about them as well.

So it is plausible that an average-looking guy like Neil Sedaka, with a few flattering picture sleeves/album covers, and some phony teenybopper magazine articles portraying him as a dreamboat, could be taken for something somewhat akin to a teen heartthrob. Fans didn't get to see much of their favorites back then, so they tended to fill in the blanks with their own imagination.

R85

Now Mathis is whole different ball of wax than Sedaka. I know Mathis isn't the answer to the BI but you simply can not compare Mathis to Sedaka. Mathis was beyond gorgeous & beyond dreamy.

Sedaka hasn't been "in his 60's" for some time. He's 81.

Does Janet have any "new" gossip on Gavin MacLeod?

Jesus, lady. Maybe retire if this is the best "gossip" you have in 2020.

I'm struggling with the notion that this person could have been in such an intense relationship that the went to Las Vegas and got "married" so they could call each other "husband"... but the wife had no idea? Do they live separately?

As for Sedaka, he's 81. Is there enough Viagra to consummate his relationship with you young porn star?

R61, his current wife isn't a socialite and I'm not sure they've even been married one decade, let alone several.

There was a rumor in the early 1980s that he had an affair with Gilbert Bécaud though, but you didn't hear it from me.

Well, Iglesias did sing “to all the girls I’ve fluffed before...”

People seem to think it's either Neil Sedaka or Harry Connick Jr.

Connick is married to a VS model, not a socialite

Do people outside of the old queens on DL even know who Neil Sedaka is anymore?

R103, most people over 50 would know him

Make that 60, R104.

I know him because my mom listened to him

R28, "Crooner." It's a specific genre.

To those of you who think and 80 year old man wouldn't lust over someone, I thought that too. However, last year, while staying at the home of my partner's 81 year old father, we discovered a prescription medication in an injectable form stored in dad's freezer. Dad had a new girlfriend (after meeting her at a grief support group) and apparently, dad and his 75 year old lady friend like sex as much as anyone else.

We were equally shocked and repulsed at the thought of having to prick one's prick in order to get hard but apparently dad's happy :)

Does Dara know her dad likes big cocks too?

[quote]Does Dara know her dad likes big cocks too?

Couldn't be any weirder than a father who makes you sing a love duet with him.

Oh, yes, it can.

Sing it, sister.