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Adam Lambert is gay.

The American Idol Season 8 runner-up ends any speculation in the next issue of Rolling Stone, out Friday. “I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear I’m gay.” He explains: “I’ve been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man. I’ve been at clubs drunk making out with somebody in the corner.”

The Idol favorite, who finished in second place after Kris Allen, says, “Right after the finale, I almost started talking about it to the reporters, but I thought, ‘I’m going to wait for Rolling Stone, that will be cooler.’ ” He adds, ” I’m proud of my sexuality.”

Still, Lambert, 27, says he doesn’t mind attention from the opposite sex. “I loved it this season when the girls went crazy for me,” he says. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s all hot.”

But exactly what is his type? When Idol producers put him in a room to share with Allen, Lambert says his first thought was, “They put me with the cute guy. Distracting! He’s the one guy I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100% straight.”

As for the scandal over photos of Lambert in drag that surfaced on the Internet in March, he says, he forgot to remove photos from his profile on a social network for the Burning Man festival in Nevada. “Wasn’t ready for that,” he tells RS of the photos of him in costume making out with his ex. He was worried that people would think the drag ensemble was typical of him. “I’ve only dressed in drag three or four times. … I don’t tuck and wear breasts, that’s not me.”

Though Lambert supports the gay-rights movement, he doesn’t want to be its poster boy. “I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”

Stereotypes about gays do annoy Lambert. “Clay Aiken’s gay, and I’m gay, and we couldn’t be more different. The only thing that is the same about everyone in the gay community is that we’re gay. … Why can’t we talk about a human community?”

In addition to his homosexuality, Lambert shares other personal details with RS.

At 21, he was in a European tour of Hair for six months. That was when he dyed his hair black. In Germany, he started smoking pot and tried Ecstasy. But he does have limits. Among his dislikes: cocaine.

“That drug is such a reflection of the lack of self-esteem and control people have over themselves and their lives,” he says.

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Anne Hathaway showed some old-style glamour in a little black dress at the 63rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday night.

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Sultry British pop star Adele has spoken out about her reasons for scrapping dates on her 2008 U.S. tour – it was all over a boy!

The Grammy Award-winning  singer headed home as a result of “family issues” but later fuelled gossip her decision to scrap shows was related to her alcohol intake – by telling a U.K. tabloid, “I was really unhappy at home and there was a lot of family issues going on… But I got better again – I stopped drinking.”

At the time, Adele refused to speculate on how her drinking was related to her “family issues,” but now she reveals she quit the U.S. tour to be with her boyfriend, a heavy drinker like her.

She tells Nylon magazine, “We refer to that period as my E.L.C., my Early Life Crisis. Now I’m sober, I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I did that.’ It seems so ungrateful.  I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn’t bear to be without him, so I was like, ‘Well, OK, I’ll just cancel my stuff then.’”

Adele insists the boyfriend is no more, but “I got a second album out of it (relationship), so it was fine.”

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Jessica Simpson was spotted outside leaving a hotel in Manhattan en route to her next destination in midtown on Monday afternoon.

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Following reports that the backstage VIP area of her recent concert in London had a strict no alcohol rule, The Sun is reporting that her management (aka her father) won’t even let her see people drinking.

A source at the venue says: “Following her problems with alcohol, Britney had requested that everywhere backstage is alcohol free.

“Her family is monitoring the situation very carefully and we’ve been made to sign contracts promising not to drink or allow any of the VIP guests to have alcohol in any of the backstage areas that Britney could use.

“It is very important to Britney that she doesn’t see anybody drinking in her presence.”

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Brokeback Mountain co-stars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to reunite onscreen in a movie about a sex drug salesman.
The actors, who played an unhappy husband and wife in the Oscar-winning 2005 movie, are being lined up to play lovers once more in the big screen adaptation of author Jamie Reidy’s non-fiction book Hard Sell: Confessions of a Viagra Salesman.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Love and Other Drugs will see Gyllenhaal portray the lead character, a sales representative for drug giant Pfizer who embarks on a romance with Parkinson’s sufferer Hathaway.

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