is he gay?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Michael Palin
xiuhcoatl — 19 years ago(December 11, 2006 03:23 AM)
or is he straight? because i noticed something about him. he is a bit more tense around men than when's around women. i thought this was weird but what do you all think? i thought it's strange because i don't see lots of straight men act like that. and, i know he is married and all that but why get married so fast? he got married quite early. so i thought maybe there's something behind this and no this is not me being silly or trying to piss anybody off please don't take ny offence!!!
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loopylass17 — 19 years ago(December 16, 2006 05:44 AM)
did you not think that maybe hes tense around men he doesnt know because hes uncomfortable around men? that means he NOT gay..pft u talk sh*t. in his day getting married early was not unsual and perfectly acceptable. he worked with a group of men for over 3 years during monty python pft to you again!
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fluxxed — 19 years ago(December 25, 2006 02:51 PM)
wellsome gay men do sometimes get married to a woman for whatever reason, have kids etc. i mean you do hear about it, i think michael barrymore got married and he's gay(isn't he? i may have just got very confused), and like I always thought Paul O'Grady was gay, and he's got a daughter (although, again, I am perhaps not accurate on my 1354information,but you get my point).
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kidchaos — 18 years ago(April 23, 2007 03:07 AM)
He is not gay, he is a very happily married father of three who is friendly, literate and very talented. I had the pleasure of meeting hima few years ago in North London and he was incredibly nice and very funny.
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Caz1964 — 18 years ago(September 10, 2007 12:46 PM)
He may have seemed uncomfortable around other men he worked with{although ive never noticed it myself}because he's a more laid back type of person compared to some of the other people he's worked with especially some of the Python team {John Cleese being one}who were more intense types and much more likely to fly off the handle which may have made him a bit on edge.
And from what ive seen on some of his programmes his marriage{over 40 years now}looks a very ordinary sincere one,and certainly doesnt look like theres anything to hide.
And considering it is now 2007 im sure he would come out of the closet by now if he was. -
Ms_RitaFairbanks — 18 years ago(September 28, 2007 01:29 PM)
he is a bit more tense around men than when's around women.
Funny. The opposite of that, being more tense around women than men, has also been one reason Internet beep flout as possibility that So-And-So actor is gay.
Let it be. I hate it when people try to interpret an actor through interviews and the movies they do, and make hypothesises about their personal lives. If he's gay (and he's not,) it's none of your business, the persona he asserts is one of a heterosexual person, what more information has he given you that lets you say, "No way, because of this and this, you've got to be gay." Which is also a homophobic thing to do, to say, "Yeah, feminine/tense/timid behaviour is of gay people, so I'm going to try and guess people's sexual orientation based upon their behaviour." Sexual orientation does not define someone's personality.
You don't know him, don't pry into his personal life, especially his bedroom!
Good grief, you know some people diagnose Rowan Atkinson as being autistic in real life, speculate on Hugh Laurie's private emotional state, all this beep
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tonb — 12 years ago(June 22, 2013 07:23 AM)Alright. I'll bite 7 years after this thread and this comment was made.
[]Palin paused when asked what his greatest
regret
in life was before replying that
he wished he had been born a man
. "It's been a right battle ever since," he lamented to loud laughter.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/and-now-for-something-completely-familiar-1804363.html
I'm leaving it here so that I can torment somebody with this. LMAO -
valis1984 — 11 years ago(October 24, 2014 11:08 PM)
Palin is one of the film world's most arrogant queens, not just gay or homosexual or anything but a raving queen, a real "whoops get her don't mind me dear" limp wristed charicature and he married and had kids partly for the publicity but mostly to cover up the fact that he is an effeminate little poof, a mincing gay bar loiterer, a whinnet covered walking perfume shop and evil pervert who wears high heels, suspenders and a bra.
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)