But for Snookie?

No problem.

“I would consider myself bi,” Snookie said in an interview with Huffington Post. “I’ve done stuff with girls before. But I would never be with a girl because I like… penis. But I’ve experimented.”

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was interviewed with her Jersey Shore castmate and Jennifer “JWoww” Farley.

They were asked about the sexuality of Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino.

Farley: “…His posture and the way he holds his cigarettes… everything. Listen, I know I keep talking about my best friend Joey, but his husband was closeted for 27 years of his life. And I knew him before he came out. So because of that I know… the signs. … It drove me nuts! I’m like, “Be happy with yourself!” He had a girlfriend! I was just like, “I would love you more if you could be yourself.” I can’t confirm or deny with Mike, but if he was, it would all make sense. He brings it up. He’ll say, “People think I’m gay and I don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Weighed in Snookie: “He told me one time, “[All the talk is] making me wonder.”"

It’s a stark contrast to American Idol where gay contestants like Adam Lambert did not come out until after the competition was over.

‘It just seems crazy not to,’ Burnett told me during the TV Critics Association Winter Press Tour last week.

Levine also weighed in for me: ‘I think we always supported and nurtured all the amazingly talented people who have been in the show regardless of what they do in their private time.’

The show earned a GLAAD Media Award this morning. To read more, see my story posted over at Gay Star News.

The last time I followed CBS’s summer reality show Big Brother was in 2007 and that was the season where one of the contestants was a hunky guy named Nick Starcevic.



RuPaul’s Drag Race returns for a fourth season with 13 glorious drag queens going heel-to-heel as they compete for the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar.”

The season’s 90-minute premiere kicks off on Monday, Jan. 30 at 9 PM ET/PT on Logo and will be followed by a new season of the behind-the-scenes companion series Untucked: RuPaul’s Drag Race at 10:30 PM ET/PT.

RuPaul, the world’s most famous drag queen, returns alongside judges Michelle Visage and Santino Rice, to decide who will “shante! stay!” or “sashay away.”

“People ask me, ‘RuPaul, how do you manage to book such amazing celebrity guest judges?,’” RuPaul says in a press release from Logo. “It’s simple. I blackmail them using a series of naughty Polaroid pictures I took back in the ’90s. Works like a charm.”

Here are the celebrity guest judges for the season: Amber Riley, Billy B., Elvira, Dan Savage, Jeffrey Moran, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Tilly,  Jesse Tyler Ferguson, John Salley, Kelly Osbourne, Loretta Devine, Max Mutchnick, Mike Ruiz,  Natalie Cole, Nicole Sullivan, Pauley Perrette,  Pam Anderson, Regina King, Rick Fox, Rose McGowan, Ross Mathews, and Wynonna Judd.

The following are the 13, season four “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestants:

· Alisa Summers Tampa, FL #DragRaceAlisaSummers, @alisasummers

· Chad Michaels San Diego, CA #DragRaceChadMichaels, @chadmichaels1

· Dida Ritz Chicago, IL #DragRaceDidaRitz, @HelloDiDa

· Jiggly Caliente Queens, NY #DragRaceJigglyCaliente, @JigglyCaliente

· Kenya Michaels Dorado, Puerto Rico #DragRaceKenyaMichaels, @Kenya_Michaels

· Lashauwn Beyond Tampa, FL #DragRaceLashauwnBeyond, @LashauwnBeyond

· Latrice Royale Ft. Lauderdale, FL #DragRaceLatriceRoyale, @LatriceRoyale

· Madame LaQueer Carolina, Puerto Rico #DragRaceMadameLaQueer, @MadameLaQueer

· Milan New York, NY #DragRaceMilan, @DwayneMilan

· Phi Phi O’Hara Chicago, IL #DragRacePhiPhiOhara, @PhiPhiOhara

· The Princess Chicago, IL #DragRaceThePrincess, @TheDragPrincess

· Sharon Needles Pittsburgh, PA #DragRaceSharonNeedles, @SHARON_NEEDLES

· Willam Los Angeles, CA #DragRaceWillam, @willambelli

Bravo’s newest docu-series, It’s a Brad, Brad World will premiere on Monday, Jan. 2.

It follows Brad Goreski as he embarks on his own in the glimmering, cutthroat world of fashion styling.

According to Bravo, this docu-series is an all-access pass into the life of the small-town kid who loved theater and fashion, and who followed his dreams.

While Brad obsesses with getting his clients red-carpet ready, he struggles to balance work and his home life with long-term boyfriend, Gary.

In the premiere episode, we see Brad stepping out of Rachel Zoe’s shadows and into the limelight.  The first step in getting his office out of his garage and into a proper work space is to get business fast.

After a chance meeting with stylist Rachel Zoe, Brad began working for her in 2008 and was eventually featured in the popular series The Rachel Zoe Project.

Since then, he’s attended the Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway, been photographed by Terry Richardson and made the cover of the Styles section of The New York Times.

There will be nine new episodes of the series that intimately follows a group of high-profile lesbians living uncensored before the cameras. It will go into production in Los Angeles and New York in early 2012.

While seasons one and two focused exclusively on L.A.’s tight-knit lesbian community, season three will introduce several new women from the New York scene while also featuring the return of key “fan favorite” cast members. A search for new cast members is expected to start soon in L.A. and N.Y.

Creator and executive producer Ilene Chaiken said: “We’re excited and gratified to be picking up the stories of our most beloved season 2 cast members at some truly major and life-altering junctures, and we think it’s time to throw down and invite the women of New York to join in and demonstrate the claims they’ve lobbed at us these past few years…that New York’s women have something more to say about lesbian life, something that isn’t being said by our Los Angeles ladies. Bring it on, Brooklyn!”

The Real L Word is created and executive produced by Chaiken and fellow executive producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Magical Elves (Project Runway, Top Chef).

But it was impossible to avoid seeing all the magazine coverage of Kim Kardashian’s wedding to Kris Humphries just 72 days ago – an event that seemed to be more about publicity and making money than love.

Then earlier today, Kim is filing for divorce!

This nonsense is happening as same-sex couples in this country are fighting for the right to marry each other – couples together far longer than 72 hours.

It is just sickening.

Those are my thoughts on this debacle. Here are some Twitter thoughts of various celebs who seem as annoyed by this as I am:

kathygriffin Kathy Griffin

Ugh! gay couples like Kim K & Kris H ruining the sanctity of marriage is the problem w the radical homosexual agend— oh wait, oops:)

aravosis John Aravosis

From Facebook: “Kim Kardashian earned $17,900,000 from her wedding and divorced 72 days later (but gays ruin the sanctity of marriage).”

richardroeper Richard Roeper

Wouldn’t it be great if each of Kim Kardashian’s 10 mil+ followers decided not to buy the bullshit any more and hit Unfollow?

chelywright Chely Wright

So, I’m not being snarky, but this is a serious question about wedding etiquette: Do Kim and Kris have to return all of the wedding gifts?

Andy Cohen (@BravoAndy): “thanks for the entertainment, Kim Kardashian.”

It has been a beautiful thing to see. Chaz Bono is transforming himself into a bit of a dancer on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars.

The show’s first transgender competitor has put the initial furor (in some quarters) over his participation behind him and managed to survive to dance next week – the sixth week of the competition.

Prior to performing the samba with partner Lacey Schwimmer on Monday night, Chaz got some pointer’s during rehearsals from Lacey’s dad, former swing dance champion Buddy Schwimmer.

“He was shaking his butt,” Buddy told TV Guide, “and I told him, ‘You shake your butt like a wuss. Get out there and show me some butt!”

Chaz went on to move bigger and stronger and his knees, initially balky, are now able to withstand the pounding.

“I told Chaz, ‘[Pretend] there’s some water there, and step over it,’” said Buddy. “Now that’s a bigger step.’ You have to find a way to get through. … He’s feeling a lot better about the competition. The first week, he was just a curiosity. Now he knows people are behind him, so he’s starting to say he’s having a good time and he’s doing better.”

Mentally, Bono told The Hollywood Reporter feels like he’s finally at a good place in the competition. Instead of struggling to get his moves down, he says the performances are starting to come more naturally.

“Stuff is starting to get easier,” he says, referring to the Week 5 Samba. “I don’t know if its the style that works for me, or it’s because I’ve been on longer that I’m starting to learn a little bit more so it’s not quite so hard.”

Here is Chaz’s performance from this week’s show. While he was voted safely through, fellow LGBT contestant Carson Kressley was not so fortunate and was eliminated.

Carson Kressley may have charm and humor to spare, but his low scores on Dancing With the Stars caught up with him as the Queer Eye alum and his partner Anna Trebunskaya were eliminated earlier tonight from the competition.

The pair scored just 19 points this week for their spirited jive routine during 80s week. Carson felt they deserved more points: “We can dance and have fun at the same time. That’s called entertaining. … I think sometimes our showmanship is overlooked.”

Carson explained to On the Red Carpet after the show how his “dreams have been realized” after his many experiences and costumes on Dancing with the Stars.

“So many of my dreams have been realized,” he said. “I got to dress as cheerleader and do cheerleading moves, and do a cartwheel in front of 22 million people. Let me check this off my bucket list — done!”

I reported that disgraced Colorado pastor Ted Haggard and his wife Gayle were going to appear on an episode of Divorce Court and that it was the latest in a series of public appearances that started that January when Ted began promoting an HBO documentary about his time in exile. He had also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live.

Then I added this snarky line: I’m sure they will be doing public access show from their basement after people stop calling.

Well, close.

TheWrap reports that Haggard and actor Gary Busey will trade partners on the first season of ABC’s Celebrity Wife Swap.

Haggard was relieved of his position as president of the National Association of Evangelicals following a 2006 scandal involving his alleged sexual relationship with masseur Mike Jones, from whom he also purchased methamphetamine.

Despite this scandal, he has remained to Gayle, his wife of 33 years who has steadfastly stood by him.

Busey and his girlfriend, Steffanie Sampson, welcomed a son, Luke, just last February.

You just can’t make this stuff up!

This is GREAT news if it does indeed come to pass.

It’s not only a personal opportunity for the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono to take on a physical challenge, having him on such a high-profile show will be the most exposure most people will ever have had to a transgender person.

Chaz transitioned from the female Chastity Bono to the male Chaz Bono and his journey was chronicled in the documentary Becoming Chaz and the memoir Transition: the story of how I became a man.

RUNWAY: The line-up for Project Runway: All Stars has been set and I want to share the line-up with you: Last season’s runner-up Mondo Guerra and season one standout Austin Scarlett are among the 13 designers who will compete.

Additional All Stars are Kara Janx (season two, fourth place), Elisa Jimenez (season four, 10th place), Rami Kashou (season four, runner-up), Sweet P/Kathleen Vaughn (season four, fifth place), Jerell Scott (season five, fourth place), Kenley Collins (season five, second runner-up), Gordana Gehlhausen (season six, fourth place), Anthony Williams (season seven, fifth place), Mila Hermanovski (season seven, second runner-up), April Johnston (season eight, fifth place) and Michael Costello (season eight, fourth place).

For more about the show, here is a LINK to a story in The Hollywood Reporter.

You could tell that the piece this week in The New York Times about Logo’s The A-List was not going to be kind from the headline alone: The A List? They Must Be Grading on a Curve.

Ouch!

The show, which just had its second season premiere, and its cast clearly do not impress writer Jeremy M. Peters who he described as “drinking, fighting and swanning around New York.”

He also writes: These people make the Real Housewives, an acknowledged inspiration for the Logo show, look like the graduating class of a fine Swiss finishing school.

Reichen Lehmkuhl doesn’t come off well at the end of the piece:

Mr. Lehmkuhl said he took A-list to mean accomplishment. And in his case, the accomplishment is a new profession, which he described as “promoting my brand called Reichen.”

True to the reality-star entrepreneurial spirit, first on display when he and his then-partner won the fourth season of “The Amazing Race,” that brand now encompasses a book, a jewelry line and a new fragrance. (His acting career seems to have stalled since his tearful, abrupt departure from the Off Broadway play “My Big Gay Italian Wedding,” one of the plot points in the show’s first season.)

He acknowledged that some people scoff at the idea that he considers himself A-list material. But he seems determined to act the part anyway. As he was talking, a young admirer approached him. “I’m sorry, no,” Mr. Lehmkuhl said, cutting him off. “I’m having an interview with The New York Times. Can you just leave me alone?”

Jake seemed to come off worse because he lost his temper at one point and has, to some observers, always seemed to enjoying his reality show fame – extended by a run on Dancing With the Stars – just a little too much.

Now Jake and Vienna are back! They are both participating in ABC’s summer series The Bachelor Pad which will have a three-hour premiere on August 8.

But these photos show why Jake has managed to stay in the spotlight: he is spectacular looking! This photo spread in OK Magazine (see more HERE) is proof of that.

Love Countess Luann, love Jill and like Cindy. Not crazy about Kelly, used to like Sonja more and go hot and cold on Alex. Can’t stand Ramona but realize the show would not be near as much fun without her craziness. She seemed to be hitting below the belt regarding Luann’s kids so it makes you realize how low she can go and you also got the feeling her pregnancy drama in the season finale was manufactured to get screen time. I mean, she’s 55!

Anyway, part one of the RHONY aired tonight on Bravo (a 90-minute part 2 airs next Monday) and it was an absolute brawl. Nobody came off well as they all tried to talk over each other – constantly.

Following the reunion broadcast, Neil Patrick Harris joined Andy Cohen as the sole guest on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live.

He watched the reunion and said “it was like a migraine headache…. It was terrible behavior.”

NPH singled out Alex referring to her as “the Frankensteiny one” adding that “all of the blonds are trouble.”

He had this advice for Cohen regarding the NY cast: “You need to eliminate all of them and start from scratch … Get people who have more to do in their life than create conflict.”

But he does not have disdain for them all admitting: “I kind of like Kelly.”

I’m a little long in the tooth to watch MTV’s The Real World anymore (Give me those crazy Real Housewives of New York instead!) but lots of people tuned in to the most recent episode which featured cast member Dustin Zito revealing his secret past as a gay porn star.

The episode averaged more than 2.5 million total viewers, its most-watched telecast in three years, and was No. 1 in its time slot in the persons 12-34 demographic on Wednesday.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, co-creator Jonathan Murray said, “The Real World is still a bit of an experiment. I definitely think young people are more comfortable with their sexuality and expressing it than they were in 1992 — or at least more comfortable expressing it on television.”