14 DAY TRIAL // Following the recent Adam Lambert vs. Out magazine controversy as regards what can be perceived as “more straight” and “less straight” with a pop star who has not once made a secret of his orientation, the “curse” strikes again, this time with Fox and its highly successful show “Glee.” As PopWired informs, the network is trying to keep Chris Colfer in the closet, even suppressing quotes he made in recent interviews.
The whole thing started, it seems, after Colfer did an interview with Advocate, a magazine targeting the community. As fans will know, Colfer too is very open about his orientation, even if he hasn’t exactly “come out.” However, he made no attempt at keeping it under wraps in the aforementioned interview. Fox did not appreciate that and moved on to have one of Colfer’s quotes deleted from the interview that ran, the report says.
“Fox executives freaked out and decided to blow the whistle after the magazine asked Colfer if he was ‘out’ during his high school years, in which Colfer responded ‘Oh, no. People are killed in my hometown for that!’” PopWired writes, citing a report in the National Enquirer. “Fox wasn’t pleased. They’re very protective of their young stars. […] They want him to be known simply as an ‘actor’,” an unnamed source further explains, adding that Fox did this under the pretense it wants Colfer to be known for his acting first and not for his orientation.
This, of course, has prompted talk of Fox trying to keep the young actor in the closet, despite his obvious desire of coming out. This, in turn, has led to heated debate on dedicated forums and celebrity blogs alike as to the right a network has of thus interfering in a star’s personal life, especially when the star in question doesn’t make that much of coming out publicly.
This is all the more obvious with Colfer, PopWired believes, as the actor hinted in a recent interview that Fox high-ups might have had “the talk” with him. “I try to keep up a mystery. As much as I give away of my personal life, the less people will believe me as other characters. I try to be private about it. It is what it is,” Colfer said in a recent interview that took place after the Advocate debacle.