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12/04/2006
Lance Bass and Reichen Lehmkuhl End Relationship?
Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award winners Lance Bass and Reichen Lehmkuhl have ended their relationship, according to an unconfirmed report from Perez Hilton over the weekend.
Said his source: "They had been fighting a lot lately. They tried a lot of things to make it work - even opening up the relationship - but they would just fight all the time towards the end. It wasn't working."
Posted 8:03 AM EST by Andy Towle in Lance Bass, News | Permalink
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Leland, dear, given that I didn't know who the fuck Reichen was until a year ago, I don't think I want the watch.
I can't wait to see, on his résumé, that Reichen was THE winner of the HRC award. I’m sure Mr. Bass will get over this “tragedy” and that he is the better for coming out, re-igniting his public presence (what group was he with?) and for be such a genuinely nice guy.
Posted by: JT | Dec 4, 2006 11:49:22 AM
Perez did not break this story. Hollywood Grind did, look at the time stamps at each site. http://www.hollywoodgrind.com/?p=3814
Honestly Andy, how lazy.
Posted by: Mike | Dec 4, 2006 11:53:32 AM
Not the world's biggest surprise, but you have to feel a little sad for Lance. The "stable relationship" comment in People was telling.
Posted by: Anon | Dec 4, 2006 11:58:45 AM
I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that Reichen is a power bottom. The notion is just so counter-intuitive.
Posted by: deeply puzzled | Dec 4, 2006 12:03:14 PM
Are we supposed to be surprised? Reichen got the PR he wanted...now he'll move onto his next prey...
Posted by: billyo | Dec 4, 2006 12:06:16 PM
Mike of Hollywood Grind:
It's sad enough that you're trying to outmatch Perez Hilton... not to mention desperate for traffic. But did you actually write this on your pitiful blog...
"Reichen is a player, but then again, how many gay couples statistically stay together for very long?"
Guess what? You win! You ARE a bigger loser than Perez.
Posted by: chrisb | Dec 4, 2006 12:19:32 PM
ChrisB, the info about who broke it first comes from Datalounge.
Posted by: Mike | Dec 4, 2006 12:25:49 PM
According to a commercial I saw last night for the Tyra Banks Show, Reichen will be her guest today.
Leland, try to hold out until then. Get one last Reichen fix. Then we can begin the long, arduous task of detoxification. We’ll try to get you a room next to Ted Haggard and Tom Foley.
Posted by: Zeke | Dec 4, 2006 1:00:55 PM
The whole "opening up the relationship" thing is weird. I've heard so many gay couples say it but in every case that I personally know of it was just the next step to ending the relationship. Usually one member of the couple was kind of forced into an open relationship he didn't want. Then, most annoying for their friends, it becomes a game where they drive each otehr crazy with their other relationships.
I know of some relationships that go on for years and years open but they have really strict rules and usually they went into the relationship with that understanding.
Posted by: Daniel | Dec 4, 2006 1:12:23 PM
Lance is the power bottom, not Reichen! For god's sakes how much more obvious could that be?!
Posted by: kalleb | Dec 4, 2006 1:14:03 PM
Reichen is a power bottom?
That means Lance is a top?
There's a whole world of wierd in that visualization there.
*shudders*
Posted by: Derrick | Dec 4, 2006 1:16:04 PM
Hhhhmmm. Just saw them together last night. They don't LOOK broken up....... Oh...Perez Hilton reported it?!! A gossip monger he is - nothing more!
Posted by: A.J. in L.A. | Dec 4, 2006 1:24:55 PM
Anyone who subscribes to the notion that tops are masculine and bottoms are effeminate is a) supporting negative stereotypes about gays and b) apparently having really bad sex.
Posted by: chrisb | Dec 4, 2006 1:26:38 PM
Oh, Zeke, I KNEW I could count on you! Will you come visit and smuggle me pages from his calendars, one month at a time? I tried to visit you in the hospital but my Nurse Ratched drag fooled no one and I didn't get past the damn first floor waiting area.
"Mike of Hollywood Grind": MANY gay couples stay together a long time. Kiss my gay ass.
The Tyra interview was taped a couple of weeks ago so I wonder if they'll delete any references to Sir Lancelot. His Reicheness has caused quite a fuss in other interviews for insisting on talking about Lance as little as possible. Then he was fool enough to do a phone interview with Howard Stern in which, according to reports, Howard asked:
How long did you wait before Lance gave you anal?
How long before Lance put it in your ass?
Which one of you is the bottom? Howard: "I think it's you because you sound gayer than Lance."
What's your gay name for Lance? Sweet cock?
You ever get mud on your helmet?
Which one of you knows what the pillows tastes like?
He refused to answer which one was a top or bottom. Howard: "Fine, don't answer, be like that. You're like a girl. You are very femme, I have to say, you don't talk like a dude. Big deal, talk about sex....Would you ever fist a dude? You'd put your finger in an ass, wouldn't you? C'mon you like to eat ass don't you? You know, rim a dude."
Unlike, Mr. Stern, perhaps Ms. Banks got some of the answers.
Posted by: Leland | Dec 4, 2006 1:26:54 PM
Dennis Hensley, former gay of Kathy G's, was on Derek and Romaine on Sirius and said reichen was not a top. Derek asked him about whether he knew and Dennis said something like - You know that thing you put on a bottle of ketchup? Not the cap, the other name for it, top I think it's called. He's not one of those.
Posted by: Mike | Dec 4, 2006 1:55:18 PM
CHRISB
Well said and right on.
Thank you for the most insightful and succinct comment I've read here in a while.
Posted by: CF | Dec 4, 2006 2:10:33 PM
Let's play a guessing game, who will be the next closet case to date Ricky?
Posted by: gay is the new straight | Dec 4, 2006 2:34:15 PM
Re: gay relationships not lasting.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030711-121254-3711r.htm
Just saying....
Posted by: Mike | Dec 4, 2006 2:39:28 PM
Gee, Mike, how could I possibly have overlooked an article in the print equivalent of Fox News. In fact, given that even Rupert Murdoch doesn't think he's Christ, the "Times" is far worse and far more right wing, as it's owned by Sun Myung Moon who believes he is, and refers to gays as "dung eating dogs." The paper's frequent lies and factual distortions, and the American Taliban philosophy driving them, have been frequently documented. Just saying...
Posted by: Leland | Dec 4, 2006 2:53:10 PM
Okay.
Posted by: Mike | Dec 4, 2006 2:57:09 PM
I think this qualifies Reichen as a frontrunner for next year's HRC awards. He's doing the gay community a tremendous service by putting himself back in the dating pool. Hell, all we have to do is get famous for 15 minutes and we are IN!
And Daniel, I would agree that long term relationships with some strict rules on "openness" are the most successful because there is honesty and communication.
However, I know plenty of monogamous happy couples who are neither.
Posted by: mark m | Dec 4, 2006 3:11:46 PM
If this was true, they would've sent out a press release and been on every entertainment program to address the "news" in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Steven. | Dec 4, 2006 3:24:08 PM
Oh well, there you go Leland. If the Washington TIMES said it, it MUST be true. After all they are practically as gay friendly as the Washington Blade.
Mike, your statement was offensive, especially to the many of us gay men who are in long term relationships. However, your backing up your stupid statement with a link to the Washington Times was even more stupid and offensive.
Posted by: Zeke | Dec 4, 2006 3:50:51 PM
According to People.com, Lance's rep has confirmed it. The breakup must have been his idea as history shows that Lehmkuhl hates to be without a date on Xmas. In 2003, after he and Arndt split, I remember a site reporting that he convinced Arndt he wanted to reconcile just in time for the holidays, for which Arndt bought a tree. Reichen Mere reported they were even talking about having kids. By April Fool's Day, her son had traded down to the manager of a car rental agency....
As he was living in Bass'es manse, I guess anyone who needs a roommate can contact any of Reichen's six managers. Perhaps we should have paid more attention to the early signs:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_DxfB8jUD67E/RXSG66v90bI/AAAAAAAAAAM/hrSFCLJaNpI/s1600-h/For+This.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_DxfB8jUD67E/RXSHFqv90cI/AAAAAAAAAAU/E0n_8injI7g/s1600-h/Remember.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_DxfB8jUD67E/RXSHiqv90eI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RzYPCJeD-QU/s1600-h/Save+me.jpg
Posted by: Leland | Dec 4, 2006 3:55:17 PM
Regarding the "top v. bottom" thing. If Lance is lying on his back and Reichen is sitting on his throbbing manhood, is Reichen a top?
Posted by: JT | Dec 4, 2006 4:03:39 PM