Clay Aiken And His Pet Elephant In The Room Are Finally Admitting It
I'm wearing my so NOT surprised face.
It seems that AI runner-up Clay Aiken, in a story hitting the news today via People magazine, is set to admit what pretty much everyone and their dog have known for a long time now:
Following the Aug. 8 birth of his son Parker, singer Clay Aiken is following through on a promise he made to himself as a new dad: to publicly acknowledge that he's gay."It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken, 29, tells the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."
Aiken says he expects the news may overwhelm some of his fans. "Whether it be having a child out of wedlock, or whether it be simply being a homosexual, it's going to be a lot," said Aiken, who returned to Broadway last week as Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot.
He adds that he hopes his fans "know that I've never intended to lie to anybody at all. ... But if they leave, I don't want them to leave hating me."
That explosion you just heard was every Claymate's head simultaneously exploding. Twice.
