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10/24/2007


Towleroad Guide to the Tube #189: Lance Bass Edition

Lance Bass has been hitting all the major media outlets promoting his new book Out of Sync. Here are his appearances on Good Morning America, The View, and The Tyra Banks Show.

Apparently Ellen DeGeneres is playing hard to get.

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  1. OH MY GOD. That last video with him and Danielle Fishel is adorable.

    Poor girl. You can tell she still cries over this.

    Posted by: Topanga Lover | Oct 24, 2007 2:38:14 PM


  2. I only saw the 20/20 interview...he bugs me.

    Posted by: Davey | Oct 24, 2007 3:32:17 PM


  3. I like the things he says on The View. It's good to see someone still being vocally religious despite being gay.

    Posted by: JJ | Oct 24, 2007 3:33:41 PM


  4. maybe its just me, but he's just pitiful with this need for attention, oh boy, those bottoms, lol!

    although, his take on not being able to "come out" with his religious parents is a wee bit interesting as many deal with that.

    Posted by: travis | Oct 24, 2007 3:46:59 PM


  5. I'm happy that he's happy, I'm just really sick of him popping up everywhere attention whoring.

    Posted by: David | Oct 24, 2007 4:06:56 PM


  6. He's no more "attention whoring" than the people who request that he visit their shows because they need something to talk about, or otherwise, would have no show and no money for themselves. It's common for news channels to report on frivolous stories just to fill up space.

    Posted by: Brandon | Oct 24, 2007 4:13:57 PM


  7. That said, I cringed a little during the interview with Tyra. She boldly asked questions about his sexual experiences, particularly his experiences with women, and I felt that he gave answers that he thought people wanted to hear. Granted, he likely wasn't lying about being able to enjoy the sex he had with women. Afterall, it's sex and if someone is stimulating your genitals, you're going to get off and feel pleasure. That's simply physiological. However, I felt he caved into pressure due to a mostly female audience (and of course, host) and faked the giddiness that a straight man would naturally feel about being sexual with a woman, thus dodging the basic and maybe crushing fact - that he doesn't dig chicks. Period.

    Posted by: Brandon | Oct 24, 2007 4:26:36 PM


  8. Bravo to Lance for raising some consciousness among people that other out gays would have a harder time reaching. He still has to learn some better turns of some phrases, but I see no more need for attention than any other celebrity. Now if you want to talk about Attention Whores, Travis, Honey, you obviously have been in a coma for the last four years if you think anyone who dated Reichen was "the bottom." That ex is somewhere this very minute jacking off to a continuous tape loop of any displays of his picture or mention of his name in these interviews and yelling at the screen, “Talk about me! Talk about ME!!!” whenever he’s ignored which is, understandably, most of the time. “Gentlemen’s Quarterly” had more nerve than Lance’s TV interviewers:

    “GQ”: There were tabloid reports that [Reichen] cheated on you, yes?
    BASS: Of course. It was embarrassing because everyone was right. I was madly in love. I was so happy. People would talk so much shit about him. I thought, ‘Why does everyone hate him’? At the end I’m like, ‘Okay, everyone was right.’”

    Those who have yet to make good on their bets know where to contact me.

    Posted by: Leland Frances | Oct 24, 2007 4:29:56 PM


  9. Tyra did cross the line, but perhaps you didn't see the whole interview, Brandon. He scored major points all around for saying that what first confirmed to him more than anything else that he was gay and not straight or bi [after being attracted to other boys from the age of 4 or 5!] was when he realized he couldn't use this virgin girl he was dating for sex even tho she was in love with him, wanted it, and it would have helped him maintain his closeted facade. At another point she asked him which was more likely, *NSYNC getting back together or his having sex with a woman again and he said, "definitely NSYNC getting back together because I am a strong gay man."

    For someone from an agressively conservative southern and Southern Baptist family who didn't get the courage to even kiss another man until his 20s and was internationally humiliated by the first man he publicly loved I think he's doing pretty well for himself and us.

    Posted by: Charlie | Oct 24, 2007 4:38:55 PM


  10. The contrast with Jim McG could not be greater. Hopefully some teen boys in doubt will read his book or watch the clips or something.

    Posted by: anon (gmail.com) | Oct 24, 2007 4:42:23 PM


  11. I saw it all, Charlie. I agree that he handled most of the interview very well. I thought the fact that he didn't have sex with the virgin was excellent as well. I was just expressing my reaction to that part of the interview.

    Posted by: Brandon | Oct 24, 2007 5:48:14 PM


  12. I don't understand all the Lance Bass hating among the gay boys. He is OK by me.

    Posted by: he's kinda cute | Oct 24, 2007 6:03:25 PM


  13. Note to self: Change shirt in route from one TV appearance to the next when stumping for book sales.

    Posted by: my2cents | Oct 24, 2007 6:30:51 PM


  14. Say what you want about him, but I went to his NYC book signing yesterday and there were TONS of gay teen boys there. So obviously he's having some kind of an impact.

    Posted by: Ryan | Oct 24, 2007 6:41:05 PM


  15. I was completely prepared to hate him because he's always seemed like a dim bulb, but I see nothing wrong with him at all. I don't think he's especially talented, but the same is true of many celebrities. He's handled things pretty well, given what a screwed up (or at least unusual) life he's had.

    I just read the Vanity Fair article about his lecherous former manager. Now there's a real piece of work.

    How can anyone watch Tyra Banks? I mean really. She's unbearable.

    Posted by: Paulut | Oct 24, 2007 6:54:14 PM


  16. I don't think I'll buy his book, I'll wait until I see it at Strand for $1.00 in a few weeks.

    Posted by: Davey | Oct 25, 2007 9:30:39 AM


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