Jonathan Knight Laughs Off Tiffany's Gay Outing
New Kids on the Block singer Jonathan Knight has
laughed off being outed by nineties pop star Tiffany.
laughed off being outed by nineties pop star Tiffany.
Talking on bi – not gay – cabler Bravo's late night chat
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Happens Live, Tiffany told her host Andy Cohen that
Knight was gay.
Knight was gay.
When Cohen asked if Tiffany had ever dated any
members of the boy band,
members of the boy band,
she confessed that she once dated “the quiet one, the
shy one,” then added,
shy one,” then added,
“He became gay later.”
“Did you turn him?” Cohen prodded.
“No,” she replied. “See I had issues with that, I was
thinking maybe I did.”
thinking maybe I did.”
“Now looking back when we were dating he was so
much fun,” she said.
much fun,” she said.
“We used to do facials together. He was so easy to
talk to and he was
talk to and he was
fabulous.”
In a Twitter exchange, Tiffany, 39, apologized for
the gaffe.
the gaffe.
“Really didn't know that was the wrong thing to say,”
she tweeted on Friday. “Never meant to hurt Jon.”
she tweeted on Friday. “Never meant to hurt Jon.”
The 42-year-old singer, however, laughed off the
incident.
incident.
“I'm so devastated ...” he tweeted. “How can I not
remember getting facials
remember getting facials
??????”
“Tiff, please don't lose any sleep over it! I know you
weren't being mean
weren't being mean
and I found it to be funny.”
After New Kids on the Block – which featured Donnie Wahlberg, Joey
McIntyre, Danny Wood and Knight's younger brother
Jordan Knight –
Jordan Knight –
Knight turned to a career in real estate and has rarely
spoken to the
spoken to the
media.
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