Ugh. I can't take it anymore! I really hate Lance Bass. At first when he "came out" (aka told us what everyone already suspected, don't deny it) I was happy for him and glad he finally did it and that he actually did it. And then the months progressed and it became blatantly obvious that he only did it so that his boyfriend, aka why-is-he-famous Reichen Lehmkuhl, could pimp his tell-all book. I mean, seriously, I'm all for gay people in the entertainment industry coming out and all, but other than the whole book thing there's the belief in my mind that he also did it for publicity and nothing else. Before he came out how often did you see photos of him? Occasionally he went out to dinner with friends (always including Reichen), but other than that nothing. Nowadays he's everywhere. Hanging around like a bad smell that nobody asked for but that people seem to tolerate because it'd be "insulting" or "un-pc" to tell it to piss off like before.But now, as part of Lance and Reichen's ever-desperate desire to be famous even longer than they have any deservable right to be, they have tried to - wait for it - invent a phrase! Or, to be exact, a "term" for celebrities who are outed. I read this at IMDb (god bless IMDb People News) and I... I... they've plumbed new depths of disgusting fame-grubbing.
Bass Inspires New Term for Coming Out of the Closet
Former 'N Sync star Lance Bass has inspired a new term for gay celebrities who are outed by members of the media - they're being "lanced." Bass' boyfriend, reality star Reichen Lehmkuhl, says the term was coined after Bass revealed earlier this year that he is gay. Last week former Doogie Howser MD star Neil Patrick Harris was forced to admit he was gay after Internet media reports speculated on his sexuality. Lehmkuhl explains Harris' recent predicament saying, "It's to be outed by someone in the public media and to be a celebrity, and Neil Patrick Harris, I understand, has been 'lanced.'" Bass disclosed his sexuality in July, and said he decided to "speak my mind" because rumors surrounding his sexuality were starting to affect his daily life. He also announced at the time that he was in a stable relationship with Lehmkuhl, a former Air Force captain and winner of season four of CBS' reality competition The Amazing Race. Lehmkuhl adds, "People should be able to come out on their own. I don't know so much that it helps gay equality if a celebrity is outed by someone else and it shows that they're forced out. It just seems like it just continues the vilification of homosexuality in the media in this country."
Go away you desperate wanks. Soon enough you'll be forgotten all over again and you can hide away in the hole you crawled out of for no reason except to bother us with your fame-hungry embarassing antics. Lance isn't even making music to justify his fame! He was known as a singer (and, hilarious for about 2 minutes, an actor) yet in this second incarnation of fame he's just... nothing. He's like an 1950s housewife. Just going to all these business functions with
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OMG, just now as I searched for an image to put in here I found pictures of him dressed as an astronaut! Remember when he randomly decided to go into space for no reason. Just further proof that he's desperate for attention of any sort.
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Yeah, I read that imdb article too, and am so grossed out by their constant need to bring the spotlight back on themselves.
They're even more vomit-enducing than Hilary Swanks "MY HUSBAND HAS A SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROBLEM... just fyi Newsweek" tyrade earlier in the year.
What's the book about? Is it about Bass? Because who the eff would want to read a book about Bass? Especially if Bass is in on the pimping of it, meaning it can be about as tell-all as a Dolly magazine interview.
I'll also be boycotting "lanced" because... zuh? He's not the first celebrity to come out. He's arguably the least interesting to come out, but that's another issue. Maybe "to lance" can instead mean to whore out the fact of one's sexuality for fame.
Lance certainly has a lot of growing up still to do, but, in this case, don't blame him for the company he keeps, er _____ senseless every night. The article makes it clear that, like oatmeal from the mouths of babies, this nonsense all came from Reichen. Ill? It's enough to gag a maggot! If they made a new version of the classic 50s sci fi film "The Blob"--only this time about a formless giant ego that keeps growing bigger and bigger upon everything it feeds--self-proclaimed "movie star" Reichen should play the lead. And how exactly does people being outed in any way continue "the vilification of homosexuality in the media"? If that were true, he would not be proving conclusively that shit floats, at least in the river of publicity generated by being the boy toy of a boy band member. Maybe he simply doesn't know what "vilification" means. He certainly doesn't understand know what an actual "antigay sexual assault" is. That's apparent when one actually reads his written account of what he got misty about on ABC, resulting in an echo chamber across gay and mainstream media of his marshmallow martyr's claim. In the book, it's clear that it was anything but that, as evidenced by what he was, shall we say, "gifted" with, causing him to both orgasm and speculate that he left a hickey on his "attacker's" chest, and that he repeatedly fantasized about the event for days afterward. Harris may or may not have been "lanced," but the Reichen Cult has been hoodwinked.
Oh, okay, he's writing a book about his time in the military. That's not as bad... but reality stars ("stars"?) shouldn't be allowed to write books.
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