Then
on Sunday, a few tabloids like The New York Daily
News and UK-based The Sun went public with the rumor--with
headlines like "Housewives Star: 'I'm Gay'"--and by
Monday morning, more traditional news outlets had jumped on the
bandwagon. The LA-based syndicated TV show Good Morning Live
mentioned it on their Monday morning show:
"Well
listen up everybody, there is word today that one of the characters
on Desperate Housewives will come out of the closet,
and he's expected to be joined by one of the stars coming out
in real-life. So listen up. A source says that Bree Van De Kamp's
son, Andrew, will be revealed as a gay character. He's the one
who's been smoking pot and who ran down Gabrielle's mother-in-law.
Now the bigger rumor is that the actress who plays Bree, Marcia
Cross, is going to reveal that she's gay in real-life. Word is
that she's gonna be on the cover of The Advocate magazine
and she's also going to tour all the talk shows and talk about
it. Now expect all of this to happen around the time of May sweeps."
CNN news anchor Heidi Collins joined in the fray with this mention
on the CNN show American Morning:
And
it is one of the hottest shows on television, but will it hook
even more viewers now with its latest plot twist? Reports that
someone on ABC's Desperate Housewives is about to come
out of the closet on the show and in real life. Word is the son
of Marcia Cross, character Bree, will admit to be being gay. The
rumor mill is also swirling that Marcia Cross will come out herself
in the gay magazine The Advocate. The magazine says it
has nothing is planned. The plot thickens.
Monday
night's broadcast of syndicated TV celebrity gossip show
Inside Edition showed a clip of the host asking the Desperate
Housewives stars at the SAG awards about a rumor that one
of the cast members is going to come out of the closet. They just
laughed it off, and Housewives co-star Doug Savant joked,
"Not unless it's Eva coming out of the closet with a new
wardrobe."
E!
Online's TV and gossip columnist Kristin was asked in her weekly
chat on Monday about the rumor that a cast member of Desperate
Housewives was going to come out, and she responded "I
hadn't heard that, but I wouldn't be surprised." Later, when
the transcript
of the chat was posted, her response was changed to "I hadn't
heard that, but I'm not outing anyone."
By
this morning, it was the topic everyone was talking about, on
and off the internet.
