Posted Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am | 12 Comments »
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More dish from Clay Aiken’s coming out story from People mag.
One of American Idol reject’s most difficult moments seems to be when he told his mother Faye that he’s gay. It happened four years ago.
After dropping off his younger brother Brett, who was being deployed to Iraq, at Camp Lejeune, “I started crying in the car,” Aiken remembers. “It was dark. I was sitting there, thinking to myself. I don’t know why I started thinking about it … I just started bawling. She made me pull over the car and it just came out.”
His mom’s reaction? “She started crying. She was obviously somewhat stunned. But she was very supportive and very comforting.” Even now, Aiken admits, “She still struggles with things quite a bit, but she’s come a long way.”
As for his own child, Aiken says that baby Parker – who was conceived via in vitro fertilization with his best friend, music producer Jaymes Foster – will be raised in an environment that is “accepting and allowing him to be happy.”
Posted Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm | 15 Comments »
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Here’s a surprise… or is it?
Clay Aiken is on the new cover of People magazine, with the headline: “Yes, I’m gay.” (Sound familiar?)
The American Idol runner-up, who has legions of “Claymate” fans, is posing with his new baby, and the secondary headline is: “The Idol star opens up about his emotional decision to come out: ‘I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things.”
No, the lies and deception are evidently solely kept for his fans.
Posted Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am | 9 Comments »
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Clay Aiken became a father this morning with the birth of a baby boy.
Aiken’s best friend, producer Jaymes Foster, gave birth at 8:08 a.m. at an undisclosed location in North Carolina.
Parker Foster Aiken weighed 6 pounds 2 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Aiken’s mother, Faye, said the baby has dark hair and that her son is smiling from ear-to-ear.
Mum and dad will raise the child together.
The happy new family all are doing fine.
Can’t say the same about ourselves, however….
Posted Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 10:57 am | 6 Comments »
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Friends of
Clay Aiken say the orange-haired crooner will be an active dad when 50-year-old music producer
Jaymes Foster has his baby in August.
“People should understand: It’s not like he’s the donor and she’s the surrogate,” friend Eliza Roberts (wife of Eric Roberts) tells People. “These are two people who made a very loving decision to have a baby together.”
Fellow American Idol reject Carmen Rasmusen, who toured with Clay after the second season, says he often talked about wanting kids. “I remember him saying, ‘I can’t wait to be a dad and have a family and have my own kids. He really was looking forward to being a father, even five years ago. I thought it was so cute that was a priority for him.”
Posted Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 1:53 pm | 18 Comments »
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Claymates, please sit down before you read the rest of this.
Clay Aiken is reportedly going to be a baby daddy!
The mother is said to be Jaymes Foster, a record producer and Clay’s best friend. She’s in her late 40s and is the sister of record mogul David Foster. He lives at her home when he’s in L.A.
The baby was conceived through artificial insemination and is due in August.
Ugh….
No word from Aiken’s rep yet.
Posted Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm | 25 Comments »
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Is he gay? Is he straight?
Looks like skeptics had it wrong all along — Clay Aiken is asexual!
The American Idol alum says he’s not in love and he’s not looking for love. Now deal with it!
In an endless profile in New York Magazine, Clay says his social life in New York — now that he’s moved there for a Broadway run in Spamalot until May 4 — will be “nonexistent, really. I’m not a nighttime person.” Not only is he not involved with anyone, but the newly blonde bachelor has no plans on dating. “Heck, no,” he says. “My dogs.”
What’s more? The lonely chantuer says he hasn’t had a romantic relationship with anyone….unless, of course, you count the girls he took to school dances back in Raleigh: “I just don’t have an interest in … any of that at all. I have got too much on my plate. I’d rather focus on one thing and do that when I can devote time to it, and right now, I just don’t have any desire.”
Nonetheless, Clay is a 29-year-old man and a man has urges, right? When asked about it, he contemplated in silence for 20 or 30 seconds. “Ah think maybe I don’t! I mean, not really. I’ve just kind of shut it off, maybe. Is that bad?”
Posted Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am | 34 Comments »
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Clay Aiken landed on Broadway last night, in the quirky part of Sir Robin in the smash hit Spamalot.
Here’s a glance at the American Idol diva’s very first Broadway bow.
Meanwhile, in a new interview with Time Out New York the 29-year-old leader of Claynation says that in addition to be called gay, he’s been named “everything in the book.”
Time Out New York: Is it safe to say Rosie O’Donnell had diarrhea of the mouth when she called Kelly Ripa “homophobic”?
Clay Aiken: Oh, God. I think people on TV say certain things just so they can get attention. I didn’t agree with Rosie. But I appreciated her trying to come to my defense, in one way or another!
Time Out New York: What do you make of people nagging you about the “gay” thing?
Clay Aiken: I think the majority of the American public cares less about it than reporters like you do.
Time Out New York: Has anyone ever confronted you about it in public?
Clay Aiken: I can’t come up with any specific incidents. But I’ve been called everything in the book at some point or another—gay, ugly, nerdy, fat.
Posted Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pm | 30 Comments »
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Check out a sneak peek at Clay Aiken as he takes on Broadway playing Sir Robin in Monty Python’s Spamalot.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, the American Idol diva called the production “the stupidest thing I’d ever seen in my entire life.”
Now we sorta understand what he means.
Posted Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 5:37 pm | 21 Comments »
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Oh. No. He. Didn’t!!!!
In a new interview with Newsweek to promote his Broadway debut in Spamalot, Clay Aiken not only disses the show he’s starring in, but also pulls a total diva tantrum when probed about his personal life.
Here’s the excerpt:
Have you seen “Spamalot”? The first time I saw it I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever seen in my entire life. My tour drummer is the “Spamalot” drummer, and [he] said you’ve got to see it again.
How did you get into a fight with that lady on a plane? I’m not going to talk about it.
I was just curious because you’ve never talked about it. I did talk about it.
What about the Kelly Ripa thing? I’m not going to discuss it.
Did you think it was homophobic? I’m not going to discuss it.
What do you want to talk about? I think we’re done.
Can we talk about something fun? No, we’re done. I thought NEWSWEEK would be more reputable. I’m surprised.
But I think people are curious about it. It was a year ago. This is NEWSWEEK. It’s not the National Enquirer. I’d hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.
We’re just having a conversation. Change the subject! I’d never take a job where I had to do something that I didn’t want to do.
What about all those Ford commercials on “American Idol”? That wasn’t a job.
It was part of your job. It wasn’t a Ford commercial. It was a music video. It was a completely different thing.
I’ll change the subject. What do you do for fun? I watch the news. I read news magazines, but I’m reconsidering that now.
Are you going to watch “Idol”? I haven’t watched since season four. I compare it to high-school football–if it weren’t for high school, we wouldn’t be successful, but I don’t need to keep going to the football games.
Wow — what an inflated sense of importance!! Blame the Claymates!!
Posted Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 11:27 am | 33 Comments »
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The only thing gayer than
Clay Aiken’s rendition of
Justin Timberlake’s
‘Sexy Back’ is Clay Aiken’s attempt at
voguing.
Work it out, girl!
[ONTD]
