"Eh-suckeet, Babs!"
Barbara Walters is one stone-cold biotch…
Over the years, she’s certainly spoken with quite a lot of celebrities, and although she uses hard tactics, I’d say she gets the job done…
However, sometimes I wonder if Barbara finds herself alone at night in her palatial townhouse, in a large satin-covered bed, clutching a photo of Henry Kissinger and a bottle of vodka, wishing there were interviews that she could do-over.
According to Babs, the one interview she regrets is the infamous “Ricky Martin outing party” in 2000…
She tells the Toronto Star:
“In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was,” she says now.
“A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now I feel it was an inappropriate question.”
Hm… here’s the interview, just in case you felt like seeing it in all its grainy glory:
Aw, I wouldn’t feel wholly responsible, Babs…
Although I’m not sure I needed to hear Ricky say he’s a homosexual, per se… I think he’s dropped a few hints…
For instance, in the Livin’ La Vida Loca video when that smoking hot girl kept shaking her ass in his face and he looked like he was petrified that she’d let out a squeaker or that he’d break a tooth… I thought that was pretty telling…
Oh, also maybe it was when those photos came out of him playing paddle ball and doing yoga on the beach with his ridiculously en-fuego boyfriend… It could have been then…
Yeah, that might have been the moment when the pink lightbulb went off for me…
Tags: Barbara Walters, Ricky Martin
So… I had never sen the paddle ball pics before. I must thank you for those, Dan. Thanks. I’m going to go to the bathroom now. See you in a bit.