Back in October it was revealed that X-Men director Bryan Singer was expecting a baby with Queer As Folk actress and friend, Michelle Clunie. Now the day has come and Clunie has given birth, with Singer Tweeting the news, saying ‘Michelle Clunie and I would like to welcome our beautiful son Dashiell Julius William Clunie~Singer into the world :)’
Although for most of his career Singer has been publicly thought of as being gay, last year in an interview he revealed that he was actually bisexual and that he’s allow the gay status to stand as news about his sexuality had initially come out by ‘osmosis’ and that it was an ‘easy answer… because sexuality is so complex’.
He did also say though that eventually he expects he’ll end up in a relationship with a man.
Singer and Clunie were previously a couple, but for the past two decades they have mainly been best friends. Clunie has recently said of their relationship, ‘We dated. We broke up. He came out to me. We still loved each other and so made a pact we would start a family together some day.’
They plan to live extremely close together so that they can fully co-parent their child.
It’s certainly better news for Singer that he had to deal with last year, when he was accused of underage sexual abuse and forcible rape, by a main claiming the event took place in the late 1990s. However the case against him collapsed due to major issues with the credibility of his accuser, and Singer’s claims he could prove he wasn’t in Hawaii at the time the events there were supposed to have taken place. [Read more…]
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