Sean Hayes, gives the camera his best butchest pose ever.
The latest cover story in The Advocate is the ultimate exercise in stating the obvious.
Sean Hayes, the actor who played Jack on “Will & Grace,” finally fesses up to the fact that he has no desire for vuh-jay-jay.
That’s right. That master of masculinity… that shining example of all things manly… is actually going on the record as being out of the closet.
Says Hayes to the Advocate interviewer: “I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never.”
To which a Rumor Rat source gives a one-word response: “Bullshit.”
According to our exclusive source, Hayes and his publicist made a point of prohibiting questions about his sexuality during at least one nationally televised appearance he and his fellow cast members made on a news interview show.
“With just minutes until the show was to start, Sean’s handler threw a wrench in the works in a big way, announcing to producers that [the host of the show] had to promise not to ask about Sean’s sexual orientation, otherwise Hayes would leave the studio and not do the interview.”
The show staff was mortified, according to The Rat’s source.
“It wasn’t even something that was on [the host's] notes. He would never have asked such a question. But having to promise not to, goes against the most basic journalistic standards.”
Fast-forward a few years to 2010.
Sean Hayes the household name, has become Sean Hayes the television has-been. A has-been who happens to have a Broadway play to promote… “Promises, Promises” with Tony winner Kristen Chenowith.
That’s all it took for the formerly tight-lipped man’s man to open wide to The Advocate about his preference for same-sex relationships.
Even so, he didn’t necessarily seem happy about it, copping an attitude with the magazine when it was suggested that there was an obligation to come out earlier in his career.
“Nobody owes anything to anybody,” Hayes told The Advocate interviewer. “You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life?”
“I feel like I’ve contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America.”
Of course you do, Sean. And “playing gay” contributed monumentally to your bank account… to the tune of about a half-million dollars per episode for the first five of the eight seasons it was on the air.
The Rat will concede that Jack McFarland was one of the funniest sitcom characters ever. But to say that his ultra-fem swishbuckling butt-pirate with a propensity for the jazz-handed gesturing made every day life any easier for gay men? Well, that seems to be riding the narcissistic train just a couple of stops too far.
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