A rare two-fer for the blog today. Anne Burrell, the host of "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef" on the Food Network, is officially out as a lesbian. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/anne-burrell-comes-out-gay-food-network-_n_1545594.html Well, Duh!
No offense to Ms. Burrell, but this is not a surprise. The reason that this issue has come to the blog is that the "newsworthiness" of this announcement is a dismaying example of a (hopefully) dying trend in the entertainment world - personalities coming out of the closet. Sexuality has nothing to do with entertainment value.
Well, Duh! looks forward to the day when such coming-out stories are no longer worth reporting. The folks that have made sexuality the third rail of entertainment, who say, "No homos, no dykes, no [insert insulting epithet here] on my TV," can sit in the dark playing Parcheesi all night, if they would rather do that.
Well, Duh!
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