Gay-Face/Off

National Enquirer (September 13, 2010) re-outs John Travolta (they first got him 20 years ago with Paul Barresi) by reporting on a new memoir called You'll Never Spa In This Town Again by Robert Randolph. The author has personally witnessed Travolta gettin' down and dirty—or clean, I guess—at spas in Hollywood and has passed a lie detector test:

"I met John in 1998, after he had married Kelly. I believe the marriage is a total fraud because John is totally into guys and has been having sex with them behind Kelly's back for years."

He lays out the details, too. But I'm not sure he is correct in feeling bad for Kelly. I have to believe she knows.

The book promises to name more names, too. The tagline sounds very take-no-prisoners:

But the best part of it all is NE's headline—"John Travolta Cheats on Wife—With Gay Men!" How bizarrely (legalistically?) specific. Not "John Travolta is Secretly Gay!" And the cover, which features John as its star, never uses the word "gay" or even implies his cheating is with men.

Comments

[Vince in WeHo]

Hah! I go to this spa all the time.

[Kyle]

Hmmmm, i'm sure Travolta's camp new this book was coming down the wire, how convenient that Kelly is knocked up right as the news hits. Just sayin.

[Matthew Rettenmund]

Vince: So is Travolta good in bed or not? (hehe)

[pixelwizard]

Another vile, toupeed hypocrite. I have never been able to so much as look at him on a screen large or small, or stomach the self-congratulatory drivel that comes out of his mouth during 'interviews' (cough-cough-spinfests-cough-cough).

[Tomi Luka]

"[John] has been having sex with them behind Kelly's back for years." It seems he's only a top when it comes to cheating.

[dms]

I assume most of you are gay. So you know that sexuality is not a black and white thing, most people lie somewhere in the middle (so to speak.) SO while it is possible JT is doing all the activity described, it doesn't mean he can't and does not enjoy a healthy sexual relationship with Kelly. Why he is "closeted" and how his private life works is really not any of our business. If he were to be passing anti-gay legislation or bashing gay people, I would say he should be exposed to be a hypocrite but as far as I can tell, he doesn't bug us or the gay community.

[Sean]

Hey, DMS (is that short for Dumbass?), Travolta's a Scientologist. 'Nuff said.

[Matthew Rettenmund]

dms: I have to agree with both you and Sean in different ways. You're right that he might be bisexual (or functionally bisexual). I did say in my post I believe Kelly knows he's fucking around with men, which means she either is okay with him being bi or their marriage is a sham.

But Sean gets it right on the exposure stuff. Scientology is actively homophobic, and he supports it. It's probably behind his closeted life (and it definitely forced him and his wife to blithely pretend their child had nothing wrong with him his whole life because his condition isn't "recognized" by that, er, "church").

Also, I just can't take any privacy arguments re gay issues seriously. Nobody frantically leaves worried replies on gossip blogs that talk about other potentially career-harming or embarrassing things about stars, like straight affairs, addictions, marital trouble.

Is cruising men for public sex in spas really someone's "private" life anyway? What's next, Travolta sucking off Hugh Jackman at Hollywood & Vine and nobody can say anything because it's private?

Thanks for commenting...I at least agree with half of it! :0)

[jcksincty]

Everybody in LA knows that Travolta is gay.

[xyz2]

At jcksincty... Does Olivia Newton-John know of this???