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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Can we bake him a cake?
Can’t smile without you!
Barry Manilow gay? Noooo, say it isn’t so.....Next you’re going to tell me that Boy George is gay.
I wonder if they had pizza....
Well that's a relief. At least they've been put safely away in a mental hospital where they can't hurt themselves or others.
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What?
That's NOT what that means?
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Crap.
Is this a joke?
Well at least he can buy giant gay wedding pizzas now. Hurray!
You need to have a seat..and a good strong drink..I have some bad news.......
Oh Mandy...We’re just ships that pass through night. ..
His name is Tony, from the Copa cabana. ..
Did Suzanne dress up in a tuxedo? And did she give away the bride(s)...
Manilow is a HOMOSEXUAL? Tell me it ain’t so!
explains why he and bette midler did shows in those bathhouses back in the day.
Or Richard Simmons.
He put the “man” in “Mandy”...
Is his name Man Dee?
Or Rob Halford.
The only surprising part of this story is Manilow is 71-years-old.
Surprised . . . not! I see that he waited until he was washed up with lots of cash in the bank before he made his announcement.
So Marry Banilow finally outed himself, decades after the rest of us figured it out.
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