"as himself. Michael later wrote in his 2006 autobiography, ""Awight Now: Setting the Record Straight"", that Cheryl was a control freak who controlled his every movement including his clothes, and she had created the character that was ""Michael Barrymore"", which drove him to alcohol, drugs and gay affairs. After her split with Michael, Cheryl's health suffered. In 2003 she suffered a burst ulcer, and in late 2004 she was investigated for chronic fatigue syndrome, when she complained of feeling unwell. On 1 April 2005, she died, aged 55, at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in St John's Wood, having"
"the National Television Awards, where, clearly drunk, he made a rambling, incoherent speech. At an after-show party on a live late night radio show, he publicly declared he was gay and ""no longer wanted to live a lie"", following which he and Cheryl split up. She later claimed that Michael took the step and didn't tell her because of his talks with Princess Diana. After several aborted reunions, they divorced in 1997 and Cheryl went on to publish the autobiography ""Catch a Falling Star"", which contained details of their acrimonious split. The couple became estranged, and she ceased acting on"
"late night radio show, he publicly declared he was gay and ""no longer wanted to live a lie"", following which he split with Cheryl. She later claimed that Barrymore took the step and did not tell her because of his talks with Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2010, Barrymore said that he is no longer gay after having a relationship with a woman. However, he has acknowledged that he may be bisexual. After several aborted reunions, Cheryl and Michael divorced in 1997; she went on to publish the autobiography ""The Cheryl Barrymore Story"" in 2002, which contained details of their"
"at a party in Rockhampton in 1995 and later married; they have three children together. In September 2016, it was revealed that Stefanovic had separated from his wife after 21 years; their divorce was finalised in October 2017. In February 2018, Stefanovic made public his engagement to Jasmine Yarbrough. In July 2016, Stefanovic received backlash from the LGBTQI community after using the word ""tranny"" and making a number of jokes deemed transphobic during a segment on ""Today"". On 29 July 2016, a day after the segment, Stefanovic made a public apology on the show stating that ""I was an ignorant"
"openly transgender man starred on a major network television show for something unrelated to being transgender. Chaz Bono Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono, March 4, 1969) is an American writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher. Bono is a transgender man. In 1995, while then identifying as a woman, and several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he publicly self-identified as a lesbian in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, ""The Advocate"", eventually going on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and"
"which has since become one of the highest-profile Oscar parties in the Hollywood film industry. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over . John, who announced he was bisexual in 1976 and has been openly gay since 1988, entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005, and after same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in 2014, wed Furnish on 21 December 2014. On 24 January 2018, it was announced that John would be retiring from touring and would soon embark on a three-year farewell tour, which began in September 2018. Elton John was"
"acrimonious split. The couple subsequently had no contact, and Cheryl at her request ceased to be Barrymore's agent or manager. Barrymore later suggested in his 2006 autobiography ""Awight Now: Setting the Record Straight"" that Cheryl was a control freak who controlled his every movement including his clothes, and she had created the character that was ""Michael Barrymore"", which consequently drove him to alcohol, drugs and gay affairs. In an interview in 2002, Barrymore stated he had an alcohol addiction and was in recovery. On 1 April 2005, Cheryl died of lung cancer, aged 55, at the Hospital of St John"
"drafted by an NFL franchise. He was released by St. Louis and waived by the Dallas Cowboys practice squad. Sam was on the roster for the Montreal Alouettes, but has since retired from football. In 1997 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, actress Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian. Her real-life coming out was echoed in the sitcom ""Ellen"" in ""The Puppy Episode"", in which the eponymous character Ellen Morgan, played by DeGeneres, outs herself over the airport public address system. On March 29, 2010, Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin came out publicly in a post on his official"
"foremost love for music, he sang backup for his fellow singer/PWA, Michael Callen, who died of AIDS related complications in 1993. By 1995, Christopher was extremely ill and made an agreement with God that if he got out of the hospital, he would devote his life to AIDS education and awareness. Christopher made television history in 1995 when he portrayed the first openly gay, HIV-positive character, Bruce, on network television on NBC's soap opera ""Another World"". The news of an openly HIV positive character being portrayed by an openly HIV positive actor led to Christopher appearing on various talk shows,"
"crisis over forced redundancy. In 2010, O'Connor began hosting TV chat programme ""The Saturday Night Show"" on RTÉ One. His controversial interview with Michael Barrymore brought him to the attention of the British press. His interview with Oliver Callan, during which the impressionist announced he was gay, brought him to the attention of the international press. On 14 March 2015, O'Connor announced without warning live on air his resignation as host of The Saturday Night Show and that the show would finish for good at the end of that series on 30 May 2015. O'Connor married Sarah Caden in 1999."
"2018, Billy and his wife Sydney announced their divorce due to irreconcilable differences. Billy Bush William Hall ""Billy"" Bush (born October 13, 1971) is an American radio and television host, and a member of the Bush family, which includes two former U.S. presidents and other political figures. After appearing as a correspondent on ""Access Hollywood"" from 2001 to 2004, Bush became a primary anchor of the program in 2004. Bush also hosted ""The Billy Bush Show"", a nationally syndicated talk and music radio show that aired from 2008 to 2014. He departed ""Access Hollywood"" in 2016 after being named a"
"of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. However, it was reported in July 2013 that they had gone to couples therapy and rekindled their relationship. Cyrus described himself as a ""lifelong"" Democrat in 2000, when his song ""We the People"" was being used as a campaign song by George W. Bush. Billy Ray Cyrus William Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single ""Achy Breaky Heart"", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in"
"2014 in Brazil, the 2015 Giro d'Italia, Tour de France 2015 and the 2015 Vuelta a Espana. He was married to the British actress Lynsey Pow (born 1979) until her death in 2013. This was his second marriage. Ashley House (TV presenter) Ashley House is a former school teacher of Economics, Business Studies & Italian at Cheltenham College, who quit his job to pursue a career in sports journalism & broadcasting. Since then he has pursued his broadcasting career on many levels, presenting shows on the BBC, Sky Sports, ITN, Channel 5, Televisión Española, and others. House is the moderator"
"Goss, a former flight attendant, cheerleader coach, and sportswear executive from Dallas. They had homes in Dallas, a 16th-century house in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire and an £8 million mansion in Highgate, North London. In late November 2005, it was reported that Michael and Goss planned to register their relationship as a civil partnership in the UK, but because of negative publicity and his upcoming tour, they postponed it. On 22 August 2011, the opening night of his Symphonica world tour, Michael announced that he and Goss had split two years earlier. Michael's homosexuality became publicly known following his April 1998 arrest"
"or Comedy. The show won the award for Favorite TV Comedy at the 35th People's Choice Awards. Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. Originally starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the series was about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper, his uptight brother, Alan, and Alan's troublesome son, Jake. After Alan divorces, he and Jake move into Charlie's beachfront Malibu house and complicate Charlie's freewheeling life. In 2010, CBS and Warner Bros."
"October he announced that he was quitting the show for ""personal reasons"". Young is a longtime supporter of wildlife charities, including WWF. He released ""What the World Needs Now"" in late 2015, from the album ""85% Proof"", to raise awareness and funds for declining wildlife populations around the world, saying, ""It's shocking to think that in my lifetime global wildlife populations have declined by over 50% and our forests and oceans remain at risk."" The music video, produced by WWF, was aired on UK television in late 2015. In March 2002, Young publicly came out as gay, pre-empting a tabloid"
"single “Technicolour”, the singer came out as gay. In an exclusive interview for Celebmix.com, he said: “I was scared for a long time, terrified of coming out. But when I did everyone was just like ‘yeah’. ""Originals"" (2016) George Shelley (singer) George Paul Shelley (born 27 July 1993) is an English singer, songwriter, television and radio presenter and actor. He is best known as a former member of the boy band Union J. In 2015, he competed in the fifteenth series of the ITV reality show ""I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"" and finished as a runner-up to Vicky"
"in the show. Neil Tennant, who neither denied nor confirmed gay rumours throughout the 1980s, ""came out"" in a 1994 interview for ""Attitude"", a UK gay lifestyle magazine. Lowe, meanwhile, has not disclosed his own orientation. He has said (in the two-part 1996 BBC Radio 1 documentary, ""About""), rather, that there is only ""[human] sexuality"". In the 1990 biography ""Pet Shop Boys, Literally"", Tennant recalls that for a time their ex-manager, Tom Watkins, incorrectly assumed the duo to be a couple. Neil Tennant has stated that his lyrics are not specifically gay. Many of their songs are written using gender-neutral"
"and about being gay in the Navy. On May 19, 1992, he declared his homosexuality in an interview on the ABC News program ""World News Tonight"" when he told a television interviewer: ""Yes, in fact, I am gay."" On the basis of that statement, the Navy convened a discharge board to consider his case. Several officers testified on his behalf and one apologized for any inadvertent prejudice and said he had changed his opinion about homosexuals as a result of knowing Meinhold. The Navy decided to discharge Meinhold on June 30, and he was separated from the Navy on August"
"it came through in his performances. Clash was married for 17 years, and has a daughter who was born in 1993. In November 2012, Clash came out publicly as gay in response to the allegations that led to his resignation from the Sesame Workshop, stating, ""I am a gay man. I have never been ashamed of this or tried to hide it, but felt it was a personal and private matter."" In the same statement, Clash admitted to a sexual relationship with the accuser, but countered that the relationship was consensual. In June 2015, Clash was reported to have sold"
"life"". In 1995 he announced that he was HIV-positive, around the time of the release of his memoir, ""Breaking the Surface"". In a 1995 interview with Barbara Walters, Louganis spoke publicly for the first time about being gay and HIV-positive. Louganis announced his engagement to his partner, paralegal Johnny Chaillot, in ""People"" magazine, in June 2013. The two were married on October 12, 2013. After his announcement, people in and out of the international diving community began to question Louganis's decision not to disclose his HIV status at the time of his head injury during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, given"
"to any struggle with his sexuality at the time. In 1978, Manilow began a relationship with TV executive Garry Kief, who soon became his manager. The two married in 2014, after same-sex marriage became legal in California. They kept the relationship and his sexual orientation secret until the marriage made headlines in 2015. Manilow stated that he is very private and that he did not want his personal relationship with Kief to go public. The media began to publicize the event when a friend of Manilow's, Suzanne Somers, publicly disclosed the very small (20 to 30 guests who thought they"
"and recently divorced from former porn actor Eddie Stone Shaun Proulx Shaun Proulx (born August 1, 1968) is a Canadian media entrepreneur, speaker, authour, publisher, interviewer and radio personality, who currently hosts the weekly ""The Shaun Proulx Show"" on SiriusXM's Canada Talks. In late September 2013, during a live interview with the CBC Radio's Matt Galloway, Proulx publicly disclosed that his was diagnosed HIV+ in 2005. He has also previously contributed to ""The Globe and Mail"" and to Toronto's LGBT newspaper ""Xtra!"", and was the afternoon radio host on 103.9 PROUD FM (CIRR-FM). ""DecAIDS – Anything Is Possible"", a documentary"
"disputed the allegations and the couple stayed together. It was announced on 23 February 2010 that the couple would separate following new allegations of adultery. Three months later, it was announced that Cheryl was filing for divorce. They officially divorced on 3 September 2010. Cole has a son (born 2016) and a daughter (born 2018) with the Italian model Sharon Canu. In 2006, Cole sued the ""News of the World"" and ""The Sun"" newspapers for libel after they printed allegations that he was involved in a ""homosexual orgy"". Both papers retracted the allegations. That same year, Cole released an autobiography"
"the first series of Celebrity Coach Trip on Channel 4 in November 2010, where he was partnered with Cheryl Baker; other notable appearances include ""Sing If You Can"" and ""Cash in the Attic"". He is currently cohost of Grumpy Pundits on Sirius Radio. He married Jean Barry in March 1967. The pair met a few years earlier at a jazz club in Manor Park. He and his son Jonathan founded the Marsh Group, a property development company in Tampa, Florida, in 1996. After retiring as a player Marsh continued to support Queens Park Rangers. Specific General Rodney Marsh Rodney William"
"his ex-wife Melanie Mossman at a pub trivia night, telling her an answer in the quiz (""The actor is George Clooney and the film is Solaris.""). On the final day of his breakfast show in November 2004, he announced that his partner Melanie Mossman was pregnant and that the next year he would be leaving his media career to become a full-time dad. He returned within two years to present another breakfast radio show. He married Mel on 28 January 2006 in the Great Hall at Sydney University, where guests were asked to donate to charities in lieu of gifts."
"Chaz Bono Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono, March 4, 1969) is an American writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher. Bono is a transgender man. In 1995, while then identifying as a woman, and several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he publicly self-identified as a lesbian in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, ""The Advocate"", eventually going on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books. ""Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays,"
"His parents are Marie (née Verdon) and Oliver Feehily. He spent his childhood in a picturesque environment with two younger brothers and many cousins. As a child, singing and playing the tin whistle were important elements in his life. His favourite singer has always been the American super diva, Mariah Carey, with whom Westlife collaborated on Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now). In his teenage years, he also enjoyed playing tennis and football. In August 2005, he publicly revealed he was gay during an interview with the British tabloid ""The Sun"". Feehily had recognised his sexual orientation"
"series of ""I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"". Finishing in fourth place, his newfound fame made him a popular TV celebrity, making almost £1 million in offers. His autobiography, ""Call Me Charlie"", was published in hardback in September, coming in the Top 10 Best Sellers list of 2004. He hosted the ITV game show ""Scream! If You Want to Get Off"" and presented ""Privates Exposed"", a behind-the-scenes programme for ITV's ""Bad Lads Army"", on ITV2. In 2007, he launched his own Brocket Hall Foods range of groceries. In 1982, he married former ""Vogue"" model Isabell Maria Lorenzo. Charles"
"his wife set off a metal detector and lifted her shirt high enough to expose her bra, he reportedly got belligerent and was asked twice not to film the security operations of the terminal. A scuffle with police ensued. On XM Radio's ""Stand Up Sit Down"" on May 5, 2008, Meaney stated publicly that he was gay. He explained that his time on Broadway was where he gained the courage to accept his homosexuality. Soon after, he and his wife divorced. Meaney died on October 21, 2016, at age 60 and was unresponsive when found in his home in Forestburgh,"
"as D'Arcy continued: ""If you listened to Enda Kenny during the week, he said 'I'm now going to be myself'. He's the longest-serving TD, he's been eight years as leader of Fine Gael and now he decides he's going to be himself."" Garret FitzGerald made his final TV appearance on the show in 2011. Alex Reid proposed to Chantelle Houghton when the British celebrities appeared on the show on an episode broadcast on 8 October 2011. Oliver Callan announced he was gay on the show on an episode broadcast on 29 October 2011. Newly-weds Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick joined"
"with an aide of Colorado congresswoman Pat Schroeder, who encouraged him to go public with his story to build popular support for a bill to overturn the ban on gay service members. Thorne agreed to do so, and completed the process of coming out to family members, including his father and brother. On May 19, 1992, during a presidential campaign in which Democratic candidate Bill Clinton was proposing an end to the military's exclusion of homosexuals, Thorne openly identified as homosexual during an interview with Ted Koppel on the ABC television news program ""Nightline"". Thorne later appeared on NBC's ""Today"
"15 September 2010, Richardson stated on television programme ""This Morning"" that he is gay, and had accepted that at the age of 20. He was inspired to come out by Joe McElderry. In July 2014, Richardson received homophobic abuse via social networking site Twitter. In April 2015, Richardson married long-term partner Carl Hyland in a ceremony in the Peak District. In December 2016, Richardson announced they were expecting twins via surrogacy. They have son and daughter twins born in 2017. Kieron Richardson Kieron Mark Richardson (born 12 January 1986; Eccles, Greater Manchester) is an English actor and presenter. He plays"