Gossip so good it's got to be gay! Without question, Justin Timberlake has emerged as the most successful graduate of ’NSync. And while Lance Bass achieved a level of fame by coming out of the closet and Joey Fatone danced his way to the stars, no one’s been able to come close to touching Justin’s monster level of success.
Which is too bad, because if anyone deserves the shot, it’s the still smoldering hot JC Chasez. I stand by my claim that his debut album Schizophrenic is one of the most underrated albums of all time. Now, with the August release of his second CD just around the corner, we’ve got the chance to make a bonafide star out of JC—and if the rumors floating around the internet are to be believed, it’s in the gay community’s best interest to make a friend of JC.
Yes, according to that bastion of outing celebs Perez Hilton, JC and Lance have more in common than their boy band days. No confirmation as of yet, and I don’t intend to go digging, but considering how truly hot and truly talented JC is has no bearing on whether he’s gay or straight, I thought I’d direct you to his and give you a little sample of his new music, then let you drool over a couple of choice photos. Though JC didn’t come out this week, Niles Crane did.
For those of you who spent 11 seasons wondering if Fraiser’s Niles and Daphne would or wouldn’t, they wouldn’t—at least not with David Hyde Pierce in the role. 
In fact, the mention was so casual, tons of writers (including myself) thought it might have been a flub—not that we’ve ever really doubted Niles is gay, we just weren’t quite sure there’d be such casual confirmation. A call to his people cleared it up—he’s gay, and those two boys have been together for nearly 20 years. Of course, now that the 11 time Emmy nominee has a truck load of loot in his bank account thanks to his hefty Fraiser pay day and those lucrative residuals, his day gigs typically take him to the stage where, as we’ve seen time and time again, no one gives a crap who you’re sleeping with.
There’s nothing like financial stability to drive a man out of the closet. I could take this prime opportunity to find a subtle way of segueing into Lindsay Lohan and all of her troubles, but I’ve written so much of her in the past week, I’m not really sure what else I can say. In brief, here’s hoping this time, she’s in rehab for real—not just because the cops put the screws to her or because she’s too embarrassed to show her face in Hollywood after her 72 hour, very public meltdown (that started with a car wreck in the wee hours of Saturday morning and peaked with Lindsay lying unconscious in the passenger seat of a car Monday before being whisked away to rehab).
I guess only time will tell, and until then, the best way to figure out where I stand on this whole Lindsay scandal is to . After all, these troubles usually start at home. 
In one of the funnier stories I’ve read this week, it seems Posh Spice and her hubby Becks are working with the head chef of FOX’s hit reality series Hell’s Kitchen to open an LA based restaurant. Seeing as how Victoria Beckham doesn’t look like she’s swallowed—food at least—since the mid ’90s, there’s no telling how they’re going to gauge the quality of the cuisine.
One thing I can guarantee—now that Victoria and David are all set to move into their LA digs, expect a steady increase of gay traffic through the West Hollywood Hills area. We’ve been spying on the likes of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio for years but David’ fresh meat. And finally, because sad as it is, I just couldn’t resist, I have to play you this Perez Hilton exclusive meltdown of Paula Abdul on the phone with one of her publicists.
It’s hard to hear exactly what she’s saying some of the time, mostly because she’s mumbling and crying, but the basic jist of it is that she’s pissed because her publicist Howard Bragman (who also reps Isaiah Washington) said he’d be at her taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Show and never came. Let it be known Howard claims Paula told him not to go! He also allegedly told her she was too old to score a magazine cover.
Yeah, you’d have to be pretty damn unstable to let those comments drive you this far over the edge. Sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the fireworks.
And that’s the bulk of the buzz this week folks.
Until next time, remember—stop and smell the gossip!
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