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04/19/2007


Calvin Klein's Model Boytoy Nick Gruber Filming Reality Show 'Tell-All' About Relationship

GruberAs reported in August, Calvin Klein's former boytoy Nick Gruber, who had a run-in with the law in April and subsequently entered a Klein-financed rehab session, is writing a book about his relationship with the fashion designer. He plans to accompany that with a reality show, Page Six reports:

“The show is basically about me being in a relationship with Calvin,” Gruber, who’s also penning a tell-all book, told us at the Sherri Hill show at Trump Tower Friday. “It’s also me trying to figure out who I am as a process of coming from his lifestyle from New York to LA [where he now lives], at the same time being the straight boy and still [liking] men and women.” So is Gruber, currently dating John Luciano, straight? “I don’t believe in labels,” he said, adding that his new beau allows him to see women.

Filming begins in January.


Calvin Klein's Model Boytoy Nick Gruber Writing 'Beyond Shocking' Tell-All About Relationship: VIDEO

Calvin Klein's former boytoy Nick Gruber, who had a run-in with the law in April and subsequently entered a Klein-financed rehab session, is writing a tell-all about their relationship, the NY Daily News reports:

GruberThe 24-year-old male model plans to share all the sordid details, and a source tells us there are two strong offers on the table with a third one on the way. We reached out to Gruber and he confirmed he’s ready to tell his side of the story. “Yes, it’s true that I’m writing a book,” he said.

Gruber has tapped a well-known author to develop the book as they begin to flesh out the structure and chapters. The writer spoke with us anonymously, and called the content that will be revealed “beyond shocking.”

“This is the only way he can get closure,” he said of Gruber on the phone from Los Angeles. “He has a lot of secrets about Calvin and he has the right to tell people.”

After just two days of shopping the book — tentatively titled “What Came Between Me and My Calvin” — the offers started piling in.

“If it was just [Gruber’s] story, then there’s no way we could sell the thing, but because it’s about his relationship with this very private, very high-profile person, it’s generating a lot of interest,” said the writer.

TMZ cornered Gruber on the street last week and questioned him about their relationship.

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News: Robert Pattinson, Belarus, Mary Bonauto, Iowa, Moby

Road Iowa poll: Voters ambivalent on same-sex marriage.

RoadJamaican gay bar raided by police: "Around 20 officers kicked in doors, shouted anti-gay slurs, beat and pistol-whipped patrons, and made everyone leave, J-FLAG said. As the customers fled, patrons of nearby straight clubs pelted them with bottles and rocks, J-FLAG said."

Lukashenko RoadBelarus President told gay German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle to turn straight: "Lukashenko recently acknowledged the incident, telling reporters that he dislikes 'faggots' and confirming he told Westerwelle 'it is necessary to live a normal life.'"

RoadCalvin Klein and Nick Gruber head to the beach in Miami.

RoadKing's Speech director responds to the news that he shot his movie on the same set as the UK gay porn film Snookered: "It was the right set for me and it was the right set for them."

RoadBanksy caught on camera in Santa Monica?

RoadWatch: Katy Perry's surprise performance with PS22 on Oprah.

RoadObama's DOMA shift puts GLAD lawyer Mary Bonauto in spotlight: "For more than 20 years, Bonauto, now 49, has been a fixture of the Massachusetts gay rights crusade. Her work on behalf of the Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has garnered her a reputation as the region’s most influential gay rights lawyer."

Activists RoadActivists pack confrontational Anoka-Hennepin school board meeting in Minnesota over district's treatment of gays.

RoadAnti-gay hate group MassResistance and Carl Paladino rabbi Yehuda Levin revive campaign against William Finn musical Falsettos.

RoadFirst look: Britney Spears in V magazine.

RoadGay Danish porn star Carsten Andersson tries for pop music career.

RoadScholar: The earliest gay rights movement started in 19th century Germany. "According to Beachy, modern conceptions of homosexuality began, ironically, with an anti-sodomy law. When the German empire was unified in 1871, the Imperial Criminal Code included a law prohibiting sexual penetration of one man by another. Questions about what types of activity should fall under the law spurred a sustained public inquiry into the nature of same-sex eroticism and sexuality in general."

RoadElton John's kid and Neil Patrick Harris' kids have play dates.

Pattinson RoadPattinson dons alligator for Vanity Fair.

RoadDesign god Jonathan Ive leaving Apple?

RoadStudy: Half of men may be infected with HPV. "HPV infection is best known as the primary cause of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide. But various strains of HPV also cause anal, penile, head and neck cancers. Vaccinating men and boys would prevent some of these cancers."

RoadRep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) beats Jeopardy super-computer Watson.

RoadMoby:Major music labels should just die.

RoadVIDEO: In cruel display, Panama footballer kicks live mascot owl on field. Owl dies, athlete may get jail time.

RoadONION: Gay hordes drag helpless citizens from marriages After Obama drops DOMA. "It was just awful—they smashed through our living room window, one of them said 'I've had my eye on you, Roger,' and then they dragged my husband off kicking and screaming."


Calvin Klein Tells Mark Wahlberg He's Trying to Stay Out of Trouble

 

Wahlberg

Gatecrasher reports on the Cinema Society party for Mark Wahlberg's The Fighter on Friday night in New York, and a chance encounter between Wahlberg and his former boss:

Our other favorite red-carpet moment came when Wahlberg ran into fashion designer Calvin Klein, who helped make the former Marky Mark an international star in the early 1990s by casting the then-rapper in his underwear ads.

The all grown-up Wahlberg greeted Klein with a smile, saying: "Hey, buddy, you staying out of trouble?"

The svelte, 67-year-old fashion designer, who attended with model Nick Gruber — to whom he's been linked in the media — and another Bieberesque male, smiled at Wahlberg and replied: "Trying!"


News: NPR, Chris Colfer, Calvin Klein, Shark Attack, Finland

 road NPR on its recent canning of Juan Williams: “He had several times in the past violated our news code of ethics with things that he had said on other people’s air.”

Cc  road For whatever reason, Glee's Chris Colfer doesn't come across as narcissistic with this statement: "If somebody had to be a role model, I think I'm a good candidate, in the sense that I really don't do anything obviously stupid or wrong, and I'm pretty smart with my judgments."

 road Rick Sanchez lives to tweet again.

 road The NY Times reports on why the creators of South Park plagiarized jokes on this week's episode: "When Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone could not find a movie theater showing 'Inception,' and were unable to get a DVD of the film (or find a watchable version on BitTorrent), they turned to other parodies of the film on the Web, and found the CollegeHumor video." Still sounds fishy to me.

 road A whole lotta green eggs and ham: The 19-page manuscript of a previously unpublished Dr. Seuss manuscript is sold at auction for a cool $34,000.

 road Prosecutors in Vancouver want a man accused of attacking a 62-year-old at a gay bar charged with a hate crime. The victim was left with permanent brain damage.

 road Anti-gay comments spark mass exodus from Finnish church: "The number leaving increased sharply on 12 October following the broadcast of a debate programme focused on gay rights on Network 2 of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). By Monday 18 October, more than 24,000 people had left Finland’s Evangelical-Lutheran and Orthodox Churches."

Weather  road Weather forecast for some red states is a giant hovering red penis.

 road Katy Perry and Russell brand got hitched.

 road Calvin Kelin ads can't seem to stay away from controversy.

 road The video game Fable III is about to become very gay-friendly: "We don't require you to be of a certain type to get married," said Peter Molyneux, creative director at Microsoft Game Studios Europe. "You can be gay. You can be bisexual. You can get married as many times as you like. It's up to you. My fascination is with what that means to people. It means they can be who they are rather than who I require them to be."

 road The digital age has officially killed the Sony Walkman.

 road Shark attack that killed a 19-year-old in California was most likely involved a Great White.


Calvin Klein Talks to Marc Jacobs About Why He's Always Naked

Jacobs  

Calvin Klein interviews Marc Jacobs in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar. He asks Jacobs about his propensity for not wearing clothes.

Jacobs explains:

"I had 21 percent body fat four years ago. I was in and out of the hospital because I had flare-ups of ulcerative colitis. I’d be in the office for 16 hours a day, six of which were in the bathroom because I was so ill. I ate nothing but junk food. Basically, the doctor said, 'We’re going to have to remove your colon.' And I said, “I’m not doing that!” So I went to a nutritionist named Lindsey Duncan, and he said, “If you are 100 percent compliant with what I tell you to do, you will be in better shape than you’ve ever been in, and you will not have to have your colon removed.” I said, 'Okay, sign me up.' He said no caffeine, no sugar, no white flour, no dairy from a cow, take açaí every morning, goji, noni, mangosteen, et cetera, omega-3, wheatgrass shots with ginger. The list is endless...  

...He said, 'You gotta laugh every day, you gotta rest every day, and you have to perspire every day, which means you have to go to the gym.' I hadn’t stepped foot in a gym. Well, I hadn’t walked a block in 20 years. So I started, and like everything — I say this, and I hope it’s not misinterpreted, but I like what makes me feel better. That probably doesn’t come as a shock. When I started to feel better, and when my stomach wasn’t hurting, and when I wasn’t on the toilet all day, and when I could look at myself in the mirror, and when I went from 21 percent body fat to 5 percent body fat and I had muscle, I was like, This is great! When guys started looking at me and asking me out on dates, I felt way better about myself. So it was hard to keep my clothes on, actually."





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