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Does Rupert Everett have a career anymore? The openly gay British actor makes headlines these days for being bitter and snide, not for his acting chops. Of course, he claims that people won’t hire him because he’s gay… but could it be because he’s just generally unpleasant, and no one wants to work with him?
Rupert’s latest cause is to mock and criticize other gay men. Specifically, gay men who want to get married or father children through surrogacy. Rupert calls the gay movement’s focus on marriage rights “tiresome” and says that the movement is populated by “middle-aged queens”. Regarding surrogacy, Rupert thinks it’s all so “egocentric and vain”. For the love of…
Rupert Everett has launched a scathing attack on gay men who father children – branding them “egocentric and vain”. The openly gay actor slammed surrogacy for homosexual couples as “utterly horrendous” – and poured scorn on gay marriages.
And he rounded on the “tiresome” gay movement, insisting it is populated by “middle-class queens”.
The My Best Friend’s Wedding star told the Daily Beast website: “I think this surrogacy thing is crap. It is utterly hideous. I think it’s egocentric and vain.”
“And these endless IVF treatments people go through. I mean, if you are meant to have babies then great. But this whole idea of two gay guys filling a cocktail shaker with their sperm and impregnating some grim lesbian and then it gets cut out is just really weird.”
“If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt – or foster. But this whole thing of forcing the idea of parenthood on us gay men is so bogus. Marriage? Babies? Please. I want to be illegal. I want to live outside the mainstream.”
He added: “Or am I slightly ahead of the curve? It has to change. These awful middle-class queens – which is what the gay movement has become – are so tiresome. It’s all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. Everybody has the right to do what they want to do, but still…”
It’s not the first time the actor has expressed strong views.
In June last year he was forced to apologise after branding British soldiers “whining wimps”.
[From The Daily Mail]
“I want to be illegal… I want to live outside the mainstream.” Okay, that’s fine. If it gets Rupert hot and bothered to think he’s some kind of sexual outlaw, rock out with your c*ck out, whatever. But to mock all of those men who actually don’t want to be outside of the mainstream, who see their sexuality as natural? What then?
Here’s something else that bothers me – a lot of what Rupert is saying is stuff even the most rabid right-wingers doesn’t have the cajones to say. Will Rupert’s words be used as a justification for straight people to bash homosexuals the same way? It just makes me sick. Gay men bashing gay men… when will it stop? Perhaps the Gay Mafia will come after Rupert.. or perhaps they already have, judging from his career.
Here’s Rupert Everett at the after party for Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” in New York on March 15th. Images thanks to WENN .
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Gay Issues, Rupert Everett
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Ugh I used to like but he is no exception to the rule of someone being miserable to the nines .
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Rupert = self-loathing
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He looks bad… almost like he is sick.
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I used like him, back when he still had a sense of humour. Bitter never looks good (and it’s really showing in his face.)
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I didn’t realize that Rupert was big enough to justify a likeness at Madame Toussaud’s.
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geronimo: Agreed. His face like it’s been pursed in anger one too many times.
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He looks horrible.
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gay men have always bashed gay men. If you think that’s harsh imagine what he’s say to the middle-class queens face.
I think it’s funny the way he worded things. although I’m not familiar with his personality so he could be bitter or he could be hysterical.
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@Codzilla, as my gran would say, he’s got the face he deserves.
@Lem – that’s the prob with him, he used to be really funny, with a really sharp, biting wit, but since his career went by the way, he’s just become increasingly bitter and petulant.
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Lurch?
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Are they making a Munsters movie? Because that top picture looks just about right. Well, if he could crack a smile.
And it sounds like in addition to hating gays and “grim lesbians,” he also hates pregnancy. What a lovely, loving person. I’ll bet he’s a joy to be around.
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Pot, meet kettle.
You know, I kind of always liked Rupert Everett because he was sort of a dickweed, but he let you KNOW it.
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Didn’t Elton John say something similar…I like when people say what’s on their mind. I hate this PC crap that wants to define right and wrong in perpetuity.
I’m as rabid and right-wing as they come and I’d say this if this is how I felt- but I don’t agree. So there. I’m not scared of the PC police- they are armed with rubber bands!
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It’s upsetting. I’m a huge fan of Rupert Everett. I want to see him get work. But comments like this? Hateful. I’s like Chris Rock’s “I love black people but I hate n—-s” joke except it’s not a joke.
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He’s a bitter, angry old queen himself who will surely die alone.
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His sour attitude is etched all over his face.
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Vain? Vain? Has he checked out all that foundation caked on his face? And not very well, either, since he (or his makeup artist) missed a big swath on his forehead and it’s pooling in the crevices of his face. It’s also a bit too dark for his skin.
Vain, huh?
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Maybe he is a bitter old queen, but what odd is that some of the things he is saying are eerily similar to a book I read last year “Gay and Single” I think. It stated that a lot of the so called rights, children and marriage are messages that are being sort of force-fed to a large portion of the gay community as a way for them to “fit in” & old school gays like Rupert are being shunned for continuing to operate on the old trail of Gay Partying and bed hopping “ala Sex & the City”
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geronimo: LOL! I need to remember that one.
Oh, and I forgot to inquire about that bizarre tan line across his forehead. And is that a rug he’s wearing? So many questions …
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Rupert looks like his health is bad. Maybe someone caught him on a bad day. I have always liked him as an actor and he is free to state his opinions. At least he doesn’t sugar coat things like a lot of phony actors. It gets so tiresome reading people who spew out nicey nice pc statements just so they will be accepted by the general public. Plus it so so B-O-R-I-N-G to read.
“Once you start compromising your thoughts, you’re a candidate for mediocrity.” Arnold Epstein,BILOXI BLUES
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“But this whole idea of two gay guys filling a cocktail shaker with their sperm and impregnating some grim lesbian and then it gets cut out is just really weird.”
Whatever attitude you want to attach to it, he certainly has a way with words! Ha ha, love it.
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Rupert Everett IS working. He’s on Broadway in Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury. And from what I’ve heard, he’s brilliant. Rupert has always had an acid tongue. I don’t see him as bitter; he’s speaking his mind, as he has always done. I see him in the same vein as Oscar Wilde. He is also not alone, but has a boyfriend in England. I’m almost apoplectic to hear him attacked in Celebitchy, since I’ve held a torch for him for many years, long before I married my husband, and have no intention of deserting him now. He’s also an excellent writer. His autobiography is very amusing and he wrote a very funny novel called Darling, Are You Working? There’s another one called The Hairdressers of St. Tropez, but I’ve never been able to purchase that one. Dare I say that Rupert is misunderstood? Americans just can’t understand a wicked tongue like his and take it the wrong way. I do believe what he says about an openly gay actor not getting the kinds of leading man roles that hetero or closeted actors get. Why in the world are so many actors closeted if they didn’t think it would affect their careers to be openly gay? I wish this site would stop bashing Rupert. He’s quirky, smart, an original, a talented writer and actor and bluntly honest about his opinions.
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Did he have surgery or something? His face looks weird – not like aging weird, but like it’s not him… WTF?!
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Here’s another accusation: Celebitchy is deliberately picking unflattering photos of Rupert to use on this site. The man possesses astonishing good looks. I say this not only because I adore him, but because it’s true.
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“Gay men bashing gay men… when will it stop?”
Sort of like women bashing women, huh? But we wouldn’t know anything about that here on Celebitchy…
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