Ask the Flying Monkey (December 23, 2008)

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on December 22, 2008

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey!

Q: Is Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio a "gay bear icon?" -- Pope Skippy XVI

A: He is, and was even asked about it in an interview in Salon earlier this year. “It's fine,” he said of his status. “I'm very comfortable with my sexuality.”

Tom Colicchio

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How did he find out about it? “You get little rainbow-colored bear things. They just show up in your mail one day, and you know you're an honorary member. No, you know, I read the blogs. It's kind of funny. I think my wife found it one day. She e-mailed me and said, ‘Tom, guess what? You're an honorary bear!’… I've got plenty of gay friends. I get a kick out of it. But I took it as someone saying, ‘You need to lose weight.’ I started running after that.”

Q: I know that Noah’s Arc hottie Jensen Atwood is a singer. Does he have any plans to cut a CD? – Sal, New York, NY

A: Indeed he does! The good news is he loves music and has been working on a CD for years. The bad news is, well, he's been working on a CD for years; he's only now looking for a producer, and the earliest anything could be released is 2010.

Until then, Jensen can be heard rapping in the very first episode of Noah's Arc.

Jensen Atwood

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