In an interview with The Sun, The Dark Knight Rises actor Tom Hardy spilled on drugs, drinking, and admitted to having slept with a man. When asked about this relationship, he said, “I’m an actor, for f***’s sake.” He continued, “I’ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality. But now that I’m in my 30s, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting but there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life.” From Fergie to Gavin Rossdale, more stars who have dabbled in same-sex relations.
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From the cute and freckled redhead to the multiple arrests, Lindsay Lohan’s life leaves nothing to the imagination. That’s why in 2007, when Lohan started dating Samantha Ronson for the first time, we wondered if she was gay—or just experimenting. Perhaps a bit longer than a day, this couple has been dating on and off for several years—and experienced a very public breakup in 2009 over Twitter when Lohan tweeted at Ronson, “I’m doing this publicly because you and your friends call People magazine ... so, you win. You broke my heart. Now go away. I loved you.” While her relationship with Ronson may have been the most publicized, she’s had a handful of male relationships as well. From Wilmer Valderrama to Aaron Carter, Lohan’s picks for partners range across the board.
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The husband of No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani admitted to Details magazine that he had an adolescent fling with a cross-dressing male singer named Marilyn when he was 17 years old. The November 2010 issue explained that he denied this encounter for many years, not wanting to invite media scrutiny. Although he might have played for the boys’ team back as a teenager, he has been married to Stefani for the past 10 years.
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After a three-year relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, the actress decided she had had enough of women. Soon after their breakup in 2000, Heche started dating cameraman Coley Laffoon, and quickly married him. In 2008, during an interview on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Heche claimed she “changed her mind” about being a lesbian. “I have an open mind, I can change my mind. There’s a door, we can close that door. We can go to another door,” she said.
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The Black Eyed Peas leading lady admitted to experimenting with lesbian sex, attributing her experimentation to a strict Catholic upbringing. “I have had lesbian experiences in the past. But I started having sex quite late on—after I was 18. I was raised a good Catholic girl,” she told The Daily Telegraph. Fergie married Transformers stud Josh Duhamel in 2009, making it clear she’s batting for the hetero team (for now) and has excellent taste in men.
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Barrymore has never been one to keep quiet about her sexuality. She herself claims she is attracted to both men and women. While we can’t recall her publicly dating another female, there were rumors of her seeing Jane magazine editor Jane Pratt back in the 1990s. But it seems her long-term partners, engagements, and marriages were all to men. And in June, a pregnant Barrymore wed art consultant Will Kopelman.
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey star claimed she was in a relationship with actual lesbian singer Lori Michaels. The pair released a track together entitled “Real Close,” but never admitted to identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Perhaps it was just a publicity stunt, or perhaps it was true love, but she did refer to Michaels as her “gf” over Twitter.
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The Mr. & Mrs. Smith actress declared her bisexual orientation in a 2003 interview, saying she would be in a lesbian relationship if the right woman came along. It must have been just been all talk, as all of her publicized serious relationships have been with men, but in 2005, model Jenny Shimizu claimed to have a relationship with the actress that spanned more than 10 years. “I think we will continue to have a deep relationship. It really does go beyond just the sex,” she told The Sun.
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Courtney Love and Kate Moss? Sounds like a match made in heaven. And according to Love, these two had a brief fling a decade or so ago. "It was just a thing that happened in Milan in the '90s,” she told Hot Press. While reps for the two wouldn’t confirm or deny the coupling, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
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In Brando Unzipped, author Darwin Porter claims the famed Streetcar Named Desire leading man had sexual liaisons with many of Hollywood’s male A-listers, including James Dean, Cary Grant, and Montgomery Clift, among others. Although a notorious lady’s man in Hollywood, according to Porter, Brando’s most turbulent relationships were with men: "James Dean was one of Brando's most lasting yet troubled gay relationships. They had a relationship for a number of years, but it was always turbulent.”
