Do you like Rupert Everett’s latest face? Rupert has had a lot of work done over the years, and while I’m happy to see that he no longer looks like a bloated, frozen Ken Doll, he really doesn’t look like himself anymore. These pics are of Rupert leaving the ITV studios where he appeared on a talk show – which brings me to my good news! Rupert got a job! Amazing. He’s on the London stage playing Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss. And you know what that means… lots and lots of new Rupert quotes as he promotes his play!! Rupert – much like Morrissey, another deeply bitter Englishman – is rather famous these days for being a nasty piece of work, for bashing gay people (he’s gay) and gay marriage and gay adoption and loads of other stuff. So what’s Rupert talking about these days? Everything!

Rupert says Oscar Wilde is his Jesus: “He fills me with the same compassion that Jesus fills other people with… As a gay person he’s really the beginning of the gay movement in public…’Before Wilde, a woman would never have spoken about homosexuality, the words to describe it were things like “pathic”, “inverted”. Really he gave homosexuality its profile. And from that moment on I think the gay movement started.”

Rupert is really a writer, not an actor. No, wait, he’s BOTH! “I really love where writing has taken my life and I definitely want to go on doing it… One of my aims is to try and write screenplays for myself to be in. And I’m trying to get my Oscar Wilde film off the ground as well. I’d like to write another memoir and novel hopefully.”

He doesn’t like the socio-economic changes in England: He said “the face of London is totally changed,” due to an influx of very wealthy tycoons, joking he could soon become a “court jester” to “some oligarch”. He also condemned the Government as “ludicrous” and modern day conservatives “poisonous… The generation of conservatives under me is much more poisonous than my generation… Yes there’s still a class system but it’s more than that. We are about to become like the Indians were during the British Empire, a service station to a new class, the uber-rich.”

He’s not posh, he swears: Joking he would become a “courtier” in his interpretation of new London, he added “we” would no longer be able to afford to live in the capital “because they will have priced everything out.” He emphasised he was not a member of the upper class himself, despite his public school education.

He was a Catholic slut in his youth: “I was a slut. I loved sex.” Asked if he just loved sex or was furious with Catholicism he replied. “Both. You were told [at school] that if you got a hard-on, you should turn over and say a Hail Mary. You somehow make it work for yourself, but it gives you lots of bubbles inside. I wanted to tear everything down, and the way I found to do it was sex. They didn’t necessarily have to be attractive. It depends how the lights are hitting you and how the drinks are hitting you. My whole life was about sex, really, in one sense or another.”

The 1970s were for the blacks and the gays, but not so much in the ‘80s: “People were really turning against gays — they had been so popular in the 1970s. Being black was rather popular in the 1970s, too.”

He slept with Sir Ian McKellen: “I did sleep with Ian McKellen, I loved stalking people. Now it’s illegal, such a shame. Such fun.”

His 2012 comments about gay marriage: “Why do queens want to go and get married in churches? Obviously this crusty old pathetic, Anglican Church – the most joke-ish church of all jokey churches – of course they don’t want to have queens getting married. It’s kind of understandable that they don’t; they’re crusty old calcified freaks. But why do we want to get married in churches? I don’t understand that, myself, personally. I loathe heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the f–king wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It’s grotesque. It’s just hideous.”

[From Pink News, The Telegraph and Gay Star News]

Rupert is such a big YIKES. I don’t understand how he can embrace so much of the old-school “gay experience” and at the same time bash everything about the current, modern gay rights movement in England, in America and all over. What do you make of his class warfare? There’s a genuine point buried in there about the service economy and colonialism and London becoming the playground for the super-wealthy… but Rupert just seems mad that HE is not one of the super-wealthy.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Rupert Everett is no stranger to sounding like an abrasive, bitter, and slightly delusional pill during his quest to complain about about nearly everything in life. In particular, Rupert takes great joy in complaining that his flagging career (which really isn’t so bad — he’s done some television work this year and has a few movies in production) is the result of his decades-old decision to come out of the closet. Even though he seems like a terribly unpleasant person, Rupert is convinced that his talents are nearly entirely wasted because he’s just so gay.

Never mind that Rupert himself seems to be the king of gay bashing, since he’s characterized the gay marriage issue as “tiresome” because of all of the “middle-aged queens” who are so terribly “egocentric and vain” at the movement’s forefront. True, those statements were made a few years ago, but Rupert hasn’t changed his tune at all. Now in an interview with the Telegraph, Rupert would like to remind us all that he’s judging all the gay men who aren’t himself, and he wants them to know that he doesn’t need their “community.” Further, he wants everyone to know that gays with children are, like, the worst thought that he can manage to conjure up in his narrow little mind. Seriously, what is this guy’s damage?

Gay parents according to Rupert: “I can’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads. Some people might not agree with that. Fine! That’s just my opinion. I’m not speaking on behalf of the gay community. In fact, I don’t feel like I’m part of any ‘community.’ The only community I belong to is humanity and we’ve got too many children on the planet, so it’s good not to have more.” Everett also told how his family’s military background, which included his father serving as an Army Major, meant “some things were simply not talked about.”

Rupert’s mom on her son’s sexuality: “In the past, I have said that I wish Rupert was straight and, I probably still feel that. I’d like him to have a pretty wife. I’d like him to have children. He’s so good with children. He’d make a wonderful father. But I also think a child needs a mummy and a daddy. I’ve told him that and he takes it very well. He doesn’t get angry with me. He just smiles.”

[From Telegraph]

Obviously, the sour apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree where Rupert and his mother are concerned. Also, I’m wondering if Rupert’s comments aren’t specifically directed towards high-profile gay parents such as Elton John and David Furnish. Elton, of course, has recently expressed his own concern that his son will be teased “because he doesn’t have a mummy.” Although Rupert never mentions Elton here by name, he does have a history of making rather catty and judgmental statements about Elton.

Otherwise, I think these latest statement is just Rupert being grumpy, hyperbolic Rupert. He really seems to think that all of his problems source from being gay, and he doesn’t really notice that he’s an incredibly unpleasant person to witness. There’s no evidence at all that two gay men will do any worse than a hetero couple at raising children. In both cases, one learns as one goes.

Photos courtesy of WENN

I know some of you like Rupert Everett, but I’ve grown to despise him. It is a relatively recent development – I usually liked him in movies, and I thought he was a decent actor. But over the past couple of years, he’s given some of the strangest interviews. He has been revealed as an extraordinarily bitchy, catty, nasty, self-loathing gay man who blames his own sexuality for his failed career, never considering that perhaps no one wants to work with such an a–hole. Anyway, Rupert gave an interview to BBC radio (audio here), and much of it is simply his greatest hits, a litany of bitching and moaning. But Rupert gets on a roll as he slams the Hollywood system, and he ends up naming names: Jennifer Aniston, specifically. Oh, this should be good.

Despite the stereotype, Hollywood is not at all liberal, says British actor Rupert Everett. Ifact, for gay actors like himself, it’s quite conservative. The 50-year old actor, best known for his role in ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding,’ spoke with the UK’s BBC’s Radio 4, sounding a familiar lament about his role in the film industry, and the discrimination he faces.

Comparing his acting talent to that of Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, Everett said that producers would say they couldn’t find a role that fit him, which he said came only because he was gay.

“I never got a job there, and I never got a job here, after [coming out],” he said. “I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career… and then, I never had another job here for ten years, probably, and I moved to Europe.”

It’s not just him though; he thinks it’s a problem for all gay — and women — actors.

“I think show business is ideally suited for heterosexuals, it’s a very heterosexual business, it’s run mostly by heterosexual men, and there’s a kind of pecking order. I think the position of women is a pretty difficult one in show business. If you look at the idea of a drunk women in show business on the skids at the age of 50, and a drunken man in show business on the skids, the drunken man gets an awful amount of support, and the women is a slut.”

The system is especially biased, he thinks, because the audience doesn’t see actors as gay or straight.

“The audience has a completely perception of the performers than the business… But the business is what makes the stars, really. There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they’ll stand with them for quite a long time.”

Still, Hollywood decides on its own who to support, even if its undeserved, Everett says. And to prove his point, he criticized the career of Jennifer Aniston: “Like Jennifer Aniston will just have one too many total flops. But she’s still a member of that club. And she will still manage to — like a star forming in the universe — a whole lot of things swirling around and suddenly solidifying into yet another vital tasteless romcom: a little glitter next to the Crab Nebula.”

His advice for gay actors? As he’s said before, perhaps not coming out is the best bet:

“There are many of them, and I don’t blame them, it’s very sensible. If I hadn’t been someone who liked and if I hadn’t been a kind of sex maniac and all those kind of things and wanted to go to raves and circuit parties, I don’t think there’s anything to wrong with it. It would have been too complicated for me to tell the lie.”

[From Huffington Post]

Ugh. Okay, he has a few points, but they tend to be lost in the miasma of self-pity and general nastiness. First: I’ve said it before, but Rupert is not completely wrong about out-of-closet gay actors. They do have it a lot harder than straight actors. BUT – there have been very notable successes in the past decade, and if you look at those successes, you’ll notice something: all of the gay success stories in Hollywood involve actors and actresses were are extraordinarily likeable and talented. Perhaps Rupert didn’t have the goods to back it up, you know? He’s also right about aging and declining within the industry, and the sexism of how an aging actress is treated. But, once again, there are notable exceptions, and I believe it is getting better because of groundbreaking, talented women.

As for the Aniston stuff… well, I’m not even sure what point he’s trying to make. Hollywood rallies around it’s own? Hollywood will “forgive” someone like Aniston even after several flops in a row? Eh. Whatever. I wonder if Aniston’s rep will even deign to comment about this one (you laugh, but her rep commented about that Joan Collins stuff). Here’s Aniston’s statement: “Rupert Everett IS SO UNCOOL.” Done.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

The last we heard from the tragic, bitter, nasty old lady known as Rupert Everett, he was being fired from Vanity Fair for calling the editor, Graydon Carter, “rather fat” and “a weird character”. This came after Rup’s spiral of self-destruction, where he bitched and moaned about his fellow gay men being “tiresome middle-aged queens” focused on “egocentric and vain” child-rearing. This was also after Rup mangled his face with some kind of extreme surgery and Botox.

Rup’s new temper tantrum is in The Daily Mail. He is advising young gay actors to stay in the closet. Because, you see, Rup blames the fact that no one wants to work with him on his gayness. Not the fact that he’s a horrible person that no one can stand.

Actor Rupert Everett is urging gay stars not to ‘come out’ and to keep their sexuality a secret as it could end their film career.

The 50-year-old My Best Friend’s Wedding star came out as gay 20 years ago and admitted that since then, he has been given supporting roles and not lead parts.

Everett is now suggesting that aspiring actors stay in the closet as it could harm their career.

He said: “It’s not that advisable to be honest. It’s not very easy. And, honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out…The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business.’

‘It just doesn’t work and you’re going to hit a brick wall at some point. You’re going to manage to make it roll for a certain amount of time, but at the first sign of failure, they’ll cut you right off.’

‘And I’m sick of saying: ‘Yes, it’s probably my own fault.’ Because I’ve always tried to make it work and when it stops working somewhere, I try to make it work somewhere else. But the fact of the matter is, and I don’t care who disagrees, it doesn’t work if you’re gay.’

However, Everett added that he does believe that he is happier that those other major stars who are keeping their sexuality a secret.

He said: ‘I think, all in all, I’m probably much happier than they are. I may not be as rich or successful, but at least I’m vaguely free to be myself.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Yes, I have a rebuttal for Rup: Neil Patrick Harris. Granted, I don’t think that naming just one “mainstream” young gay actor will solve all the homophobic world’s evils, but it’s a start. And until young gay actors and actresses live and work in a life out of the closet, Rup’s nastiness will prevail. Doesn’t he just sound out of touch? Doesn’t he sound like some old coot sitting on a front porch, bitching about the way things used to be? Compare Rup’s comments with someone like Sir Ian McKellen, who always sounds like a fascinating, hell-raising, gay rights advocate (who is still working steadily), and you wonder just what Rup is really complaining about.

Rupert Everett attending the ‘Shangay Awards 2009′ in Madrid, Spain on November 30, 2009. Credit: WENN

Rupert Everett is a tool. Don’t believe me? There’s lots of evidence. Back in 2007, he decided to trash-talk everyone from Diane Keaton to Robert DeNiro to Al Pacino, calling them “tragic parodies of themselves.” Then a few months ago he bashed his fellow gay men for wanting or needing or desiring to become parents, calling gay parenting “tiresome, egocentric and vain”. Because Rupert knows about vanity, that’s why he mangled his face with surgery and botox. Perhaps he saved the best for last week’s tirade, when he mocked Michael Jackson as a freak, then trash-talked former friends Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. I can get behind the Paltrow trash-talking in general, but when Rup claims he’d prefer Katie “Jordan” Price to Paltrow, things get a bit fishy.

It’s past time for Rupert’s nasty words of anti-wisdom to cost him something big. Rup’s not really working that much in film or television anymore. Allegedly, he’s got a small part in something called St Trinian’s 2: Legend of Fritton’s Gold, which screams “OSCAR” to me. And maybe he’s on Broadway…? Whatever. The biggest gig Rupert had going for him was as some kind of contributor to Vanity Fair. In the past, Rupert kissed enough butt to keep the editor (Graydon Carter) happy, even telling The Daily Beast that Graydon had a “monster c-ck” and that Graydon is “an amazing f-ck”. Seriously. Rup said that about his editor. But apparently, Rup won’t kiss ass forever. He was trash talking Graydon recently, and now Rup’s out the door at VF:

Rupert Everett is famously outspoken but his most recent outburst has cost him a lucrative sideline.

The actor has been sacked as contributing editor of Vanity Fair after making inappropriate comments about the editor.

Everett, 50, described Graydon Carter during an interview as a ‘weird character’ who is ‘rather fat’.

‘Rupert regrets being so indiscreet,’ says an insider. ‘He’s coming to the end of his Broadway run in Blithe Spirit, so money is tight.’

A year ago Everett had to apologise for calling British soldiers ‘whining wimps’.

A Vanity Fair source said: ‘When his remarks reminded Graydon that Rupert was still listed, it seemed some housecleaning was in order.’

[From Daily Mail]

Well done, Vanity Fair. Now keep the Johnny Depp covers coming, and we’re in business. Can Rupert Everett be persona non grata from now on? Can he be fired from everything, and then maybe he’ll resort to telling his “witty” little thoughts to random people as they pass him on the street. I get the feeling that Rupert thinks that Americans will find him charming for three reasons: because of his accent, or because we think his nastiness is “eccentric”. No, and no. Take him back, Britain!

Tightly pulled actor Rupert Everett sat down for a long cozy interview with UK’s Daily Mirror for what seemed to be no other reason that talking some serious smack about bigger celebrities. He wasn’t really promoting anything – there was a relatively brief mention of his upcoming documentary, “The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron,” but that’s it. He was just there to share some nasty, catty thoughts, as per usual.

The main target of his tirade was Michael Jackson, who Everett once had a crush on, but clearly fell very much out of love with. But he also made sure to pick on Gwyneth Paltrow while praising Katie Price too.

It’s 7pm in a busy Italian restaurant just off New York’s Broadway and Rupert Everett is in full gossip mode. As the pre-theatre dining crowd crane to eavesdrop, he leans in and says in a slightly too-loud stage whisper: “I would have leapt at the chance of sleeping with Michael Jackson when I was 14.”

An elderly lady blushes beetroot red, and a waiter almost drops a plate of pasta. Everett takes a sip of his red wine, blissfully uns aware of the shock he has just caused… Not that Everett, whose own brief foray into the pop world included singing backing vocals on his mate Madonna’s version of American Pie, was any fan of Jackson’s.

“He was a freak,” says Everett, who at 50 is the same age Jacko was when he died. “He looked like a character from Shrek. He was a black to white minstrel. He was crucified by that court case when he was accused of child molestation – that killed him. He personified the pain and anxiety of a black man in a slave country. We all watched as he changed from black to white. He was living performance art. I think it was fortuitous that he died. He was supposed to be doing 50 concerts in London.

“It wouldn’t have mattered how good or bad he was. He wouldn’t have managed to do all of them and the press would have destroyed him.” Everett believes that Jacko’s death may even spell the end of modern-day celebrity itself. “You cannot divide the music from the person,” he says. “I think his life – and death – is a great lesson.

[From the Daily Mirror]

He later notes, “‘We have Michael Jackson, a black man who has gone white, and we have President Barack Obama, who is a half-white man gone black. It’s absolutely fascinating to watch.’” Rupert seems to lack the normal self-censoring gland most of us have. He seems to relish the shock factor more than anything. Everyone’s allowed their own opinion, and Michael Jackson certainly arouses a lot of them. But… damn. Those comments are best shared privately between close confidants, not tabloid journalists. Of course Everett knew saying stuff like that would get him a lot of attention, and that was probably the purpose. After all, he also took on Katie Price and Gwyneth Paltrow, saying he’d rather be stuck on a deserted island with Katie, because at least she’s real.

Ask him about other celebrities and he homes in on Katie a Price, the former glamour model Jordan whose marriage to Peter Andre crashed and burned on reality TV. “Jordan is one of those people who has integrity,” he says. “She is not dishonest about what she is doing. She should make hay while the sun shines.

“Her eldest son is severely disabled – she needs the money for the future. She is very beautiful and even the books that she may or may not have written have been a success. She has achieved more than a lot of other people.” And then, out of nowhere, he shows his manicured claws. “If I had the choice of being on a desert island with Jordan or Gwyneth Paltrow, I would choose Jordan,” he says.

“With Jordan you get the truth. She’s treated like a quasi-hooker, whereas Gwyneth is seen as the patron saint of good living. Which one has more integrity? I would much rather have Jordan any day.” Miaow. Saucer of milk to go with the plate of pasta for table two please.

He says he is still good pals with Gwyneth’s mate Madonna, although when asked if she has been to see him during his stint on Broadway he shakes his head.

[From the Daily Mirror]

Something tells me Madge won’t be attending any Rupert-related functions for quite a while. She and Gwyneth are super close, and I seriously doubt she’d put up with a more distant acquaintance talking smack about her joined-at-the-hip friend. In all fairness we’re not exactly big Gwyneth fans at Celebitchy, so I can’t really blame Rupert. But as far as I know Gwyneth and I don’t have any mutual social connections that I could be irreparably severing. I can kind of see his point about Katie Price if you wanted to look at her celebrity really superficially. If her sole motivation was making enough money to take care of her son Harvey, that would be fairly noble. It appears that fame and lots of drunken debauchery is also really important to her, so that sort of dims Rupert’s argument a bit. Nonetheless, if you made me choose between Gwyneth and Katie on a deserted island, I’d probably go with Katie. She could teach me how to apply false eyelashes and crush my boobs together. Gwyneth would just teach me how to make another vegan sandwich.

Thanks to Hollywood Rag for the lead.

Here’s Rupert Everett at the Princess Anne Theatre in London for the preview screening of his documentary for Channel 4, ‘The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron.’ Images thanks to WENN.com .

They say the key to good cosmetic surgery is having little bits done here and there. That way, you don’t overdo it, and have more control over what’s happening with your face. And most importantly, it’s less obvious. That way you don’t walk into your job of five years and have your boss introduce himself and ask how he can help you. Which is exactly what must be happening to Rupert Everett – though perhaps he wants even more anonymity than he’s already got (snap!). Rupert just had some extensive work done, and showed up to the “The Rachael Ray Show” looking 10 years younger. If 10 years ago his forehead looked like a classroom whiteboard.

Rupert Everett’s dashing good looks were getting a little droopy. But now he’s more than ready for his close-up!

The actor, currently starring in Blithe Spirit on Broadway, debuted a fresh-faced new look on The Martha Stewart Show on April 10. And he doesn’t just have makeup artists to thank.

According to Dr. Brian S. Glatt, founder of the Premier Plastic Surgery Center of New Jersey, Rupert, 49, has had a comprehensive series of facial procedures. “I think Rupert had a face-lift,” Dr. Glatt tells Star. “His cheeks are fuller and lifted, and his jawline and neck are pulled back and smoother.”

As for his forehead, Dr. Glatt says it’s simply Botox. “I think he’s definitely using it. He is very animated, and there are no lines visible on his forehead.”

The last element in Rupert’s new look, says Dr. Glatt, is a chin implant! “The shape and projection of the chin is drastically different. It’s much more pointed,” he says.

In all, the surgeries could have set Rupert back almost $25,000!

But it was worth it. Dr. Glatt, who has not treated the actor, observes, “This is an impressive difference. He looks 10 years younger!”

[From Star]

I would really argue against the positive spin Star takes on Rupert’s face. He might look younger, but he doesn’t look human. Is that really a good trade? The funny thing about this is that less than a week ago Everett mocked fellow gay men, calling them tiresome and saying their desire to have children is egocentric and vain. I don’t recall the last time I’ve seen such sudden and dramatic cosmetic surgery on a man – where does he get off accusing others of vanity? Kaiser is a firm believer that he’s a he’s a bitterly repressed self-loathing gay man, and I’m going to have to agree. He’s constantly bitching and moaning and lecturing and complaining.

In December of 2007 he went off on some of Hollywood’s biggest actors, saying, “‘De Niro, Redford, Keaton, Allen, Pacino … They’re all just tragic parodies of themselves. Al Pacino looks like a mad old freak now.’” I think Rupert described his new face perfectly. It’s a tragic parody of himself.

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 .

Rupert Everett has claimed that his orientation has affected his career, as since coming out in 1989 he has had a hard time being cast in heterosexual leading male roles.

It was a role which, coupled with his openness about his sexuality, pigeonholed him into only playing gay characters and – according to the actor – killed his future as a leading Hollywood man.

“I wanted to be a movie star,” he told the mag. “I had a difficult set of circumstances to deal with, particularly for a movie career.”

When pressed, Rupert responds bluntly, “Being gay, really. It just doesn’t work.”

After he went public with his sexuality, Rupert alleges he was turned down for the lead role opposite Sharon Stone in the “Basic Instinct” sequel… due to his sexuality. According to the actor, an MGM executive told his agent that an openly gay actor would be viewed as a “pervert” in the eyes of American audiences.

Something the actor adamantly disagrees with, saying, “As actors we don’t play gay, straight… we play human beings.”

Access Hollywood

Looking at Rupert’s career, I think that there are many factors that could be suggested as affecting his appeal as a Hollywood leading man. Could it be the ill-timed pop music album he released in the 80s? Is it just coincidence that he year he came out, 1989, was also the same year he moved to Paris and wrote a book? Or maybe his second book Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins in 2006, where he’s bitchy to just about everyone he’s ever worked with that affected his employability?

Rupert’s two most successful roles were playing the ‘gay best friend’ in The Next Best Thing and My Best Friend’s Wedding, so perhaps by accepting those roles Rupert put himself in a position himself to be typecast. I think the issue is less his sexuality and more that his most successful roles were as gay men, so every gay man part in Hollywood probably at one stage has passed through his agent. I’m sure Kate Beckinsale gets a steady collection of scantily clad female vampire offers, and Sylvester Stallone has a good collection of Rambo knock-off scripts to join in the Rambo knock-off movies he has made.

The most unbelievable part of Rupert’s whole rant – he’s upset at missing out on a role in Basic Instinct 2. If only he’d gotten that part – his career would have been completely different!

Rupert Everett is shown on 7/30/08 and 11/30/08. Credit: WENN

I understand that people get crotchety when they get older. They complain about the kids driving up and down the street in their Hummer, blasting their offensive rap music while dancing on top of the car, and they never acted that way when they were that age. Okay that was all me. But I don’t feel I need to wait until I’m 90 to complain when I can do it with a lot more energy now. But I am a little nobody, and last time I checked no one has come to see any of my movies. So my ranting and raving generally goes unnoticed. When a fairly big movie star bitches and moans like a 90 year old, people are going to pay attention. And they are going to call him a cranky old lady.

Rupert Everett, the British actor who first came to prominence back in 1997 with “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is apparently having a REALLY bad day. He recently gave an interview with the UK Independent in which he went off an most of Hollywood’s big-name actors. We’re not sure what any of these people did to Rupert, but there’s flames coming out of his ears.

“[George] Clooney thinks that, provided he does films which are politically committed, he’s allowed to do Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13″, he says. “But the Ocean’s movies are a cancer to world culture. They’re destroying us.” And Clooney the man? “He’s not the brightest spark on the boulevard. He’ll be president one day. Mark my words, if he’s straight, he’ll be president.”

Of the other Hollywood legends at the end of his tongue lashing, Everett told interviewer Amol Rajan: “De Niro, Redford, Keaton, Allen, Pacino … They’re all just tragic parodies of themselves. Al Pacino looks like a mad old freak now. I say give it a rest, or go and do some serious stuff… The other day I saw a film called Because I Said So with Diane Keaton, and I thought, ‘here’s one of the women we loved most in 1970s cinema, debasing and humiliating herself in this load of trash’.

“Why? Because we’re sheep, we just follow the herd … It’s just part of the huge amount of product that’s put out now that’s really bad. And it’s our fault. We’re all responsible for how the culture is. You can’t draw a distinction between the celebrity nonsense on television and the film industry.”

[From the Huffington Post]

I really don’t like making “time of the month” jokes because they’re a) they’re offensive, and imply that a woman doesn’t have a right to her feelings, b) to say it about a man implies that by doing something irrational he is acting like a woman, thus implying women are irrational and c) the jokes are played out, lame, and not funny. With all that said… damn girl! He must be seriously PMSing. Talk about a crazy diatribe. From the context of the article, it’s hard to know what in the world got Rupert so riled up. But it sort of seems like he was just itching to go off, and maybe had a bit of this planned out. Either that or he’s really quick with the insults.

I don’t know a lot about Rupert’s body of work, but I know that in his upcoming moving, “St Trinian’s,” he plays a headmistress who looks exactly like Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. I swear to God you could bump into one and mistake him/her for the other. Beyond that I don’t know what the film is about… though it hardly seems like it’s bound to be an Oscar-netting drama. I’m not quite sure how everyone else is a “just tragic parody” while Rupert is wearing pantyhose but still filled with artistic integrity.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Rupert Everett is shown at the Stardust premiere in London on 10/3/07, thanks to PRPhotos.