Knock me over with a feather!
Posted on 04/08/2015 11:17:50 AM PDT by drewh
Barry Manilow has secretly married his longtime partner.The “Copacabana” crooner said “I do” to Garry Kief, his manager and the president of Barry Manilow Productions, an insider has revealed. Around 50 guests attended the intimate ceremony after they were led to believe they were invited to lunch at the couple’s multi-million dollar Palm Springs mansion. “It was a total surprise. When they arrived they were told it was a wedding!” a source close to the 71-year-old said.
“Barry has lived a very secretive life and the wedding was no different. Barry and Garry did not tell friends or family that the occasion was their wedding,” the insider explained. “It was a beautiful wedding and consummated their lifelong love affair.”
But the happy duo did not file the paperwork to formalize their union out of fear the big news would leak, sources said. “Barry is paranoid that his fans would not approve of him being gay, when in reality, many have suspected it for years — and most wouldn’t care,” the source said. “They would be happy for him!”
Longtime friend and Palm Springs neighbor Suzanne Somers was the best man, and Marc Hulett — Manilow’s assistant since the 1980s — performed the “commitment ceremony” after he registered online to become a minister. The dramatic development in the “Mandy” hitmaker’s personal life ends the constant speculation — is he, or isn’t he gay — that has followed him for his entire adult life.
In a little known secret, Manilow had a brief marriage — to a woman — in the late ’60s, but he hadn’t dated anyone for years, publicly at least. Fans recently began speculating that he might have married when he performed on stage wearing his wedding band.
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The gratingest phrase on my nerves is, “his husband.”
Can we bake him a cake?
His goose is cooked!
We have our winner, folks.
‘Barry Manilow gay? Noooo, say it isn’t so.....Next you’re going to tell me that Boy George is gay.’
Now you know how I felt when I learned Freddie Mercury was gay.
Wha-wha-WHAT?!?!?!?! Man what a devastating day this has been.
Always figured him to be a flaming poofter.
Always suspected he was a homo.
I thought Shepherd Smith being sodomite was old news!?!
Barry Manilow . . . GAY?? Who knew??
The really odd thing is this: Why the Hell did they need to get married?
Boyfriend is a gold digger?
Well I like Barry Manilow’s music. He keeps his private life pretty private. As far as I know he hasn’t committed armed robbery or killed anybody. Its not I’m shocked. LOL!
True story:
Back in the early ‘80s, Liberace performed at the Oakdale Theatre in CT. I was the cook that night at the Pizza Hut near the Yale Motor Inn, where he was staying. Liberace ordered a large pan with green peppers for take out after the show, and sent his midget juggler in to pick it up.
Even then, I had my suspicions about him, but I was happy to make him a pizza.
He was never, ever an ctvist on the matter, either.
Knock me over with a feather!
Midget juggler pizza pickup...? That explains Liberace
Jewnicorn?
‘Barry Manilow gay? Noooo, say it isn’t so.....Next you’re going to tell me that Boy George is gay.’
‘Now you know how I felt when I learned Freddie Mercury was gay.’
‘Wha-wha-WHAT?!?!?!?! Man what a devastating day this has been.’
Roger that! Next thing you know we’ll be told that Elton John preferred the back door.
Next thing you know, you'll be hearing about Liberace being a homo, or Elton John. What is the world coming to?
Crocodile Dundee voice:
"That's not a Jewish unicorn."
"Now that's a Jewish unicorn!"
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