As we mentioned yesterday, New Kids On The Block-er Donnie Wahlberg raised some eyebrows with a quote he gave about boy bands and closeted NKOTB member Jonathan Knight.
In a newspaper interview, Wahlberg had said, “You could look at a group like ‘NSync and go, ‘Oh my gosh, Lance Bass is the Jon Knight, Justin Timberlake is the Joe McIntyre, JC Chasez is the Jordan Knight’├óΓé¼ΓÇ£you could go right down the line.
But Walhberg now feels he has to defend what he said – making it clear that he didn’t mean to ‘out’ Knight.
Donnie claims that comparing Jon to Lance Bass wasn’t a comparison to his homosexuality. Although a lot of people already know of Knight’s gayness and even know that he has a boyfriend.
In a new interview, Donnie says, ├óΓé¼┼ôThat was an . . . out-of-context manipulation of my answer. I was referring to ├óΓé¼ΓäóN Sync├óΓé¼Γäós management trying to copy us – Joe the cute young Justin type, Jordan the dark and handsome JC type; Jon the shy and quiet Lance type.├óΓé¼┬¥
He clarified that it was just a “shy/quiet reference. Not a gay reference.”
Uh huh!
Shy/quiet = gay?
Donnie added, “The point was that they built that group to look like us and we were not built to look like anyone. Jon is my good friend. I wouldn’t backhand him.”
Ok, so he clearly didn’t out him. But why won’t Jon just come out?
Lance finally did and it didn’t hurt his career. It actually helped it!
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