David Hyde Pierce (the guy who played Niles on Frasier) has officially come out of the closet after an AP story appeared on CNN saying: “Pierce got to Los Angeles in the early 1990s when his partner, actor-writer-producer Brian Hargrove, wanted to write for television.” Pierce’s sexuality has always been an open secret in Hollywood although he’s never formally come out. AfterElton.com contacted a rep for Pierce about the AP story, and they confirmed that Hargrove is indeed Pierce’s life partner.
Well this is just shocking shocking news. If you told me he wrestled bears all day and won a tree chopping competition then, yeah, that makes sense. But gay? No, no, that just doesn’t sound right at all.
“DHP could get all the women he wanted, there were tons of women that had the hots for him when he was on Frasier.”
That’s repulsive. What is he now, 60? I’m surprised anyone will have sex with him.
And yeah, Frasier just oozed on- and off-screen gayness all throughout the 90′s, in a sort of bombastic, campy, insulting way. Oh well. My dad loved that show.
David Hyde Pierce is gay??? What next…Abe Vigoda?
Please, don’t feed the bores.
The subject is DHP It’s not about your way of chatting, try using IM. I still like DHP and i always will. David, you are the best don’t let anyone tell you anything different.
I don’t mind David Pierce, like I never watched his shows or anything but part of me kind of feels like saying: NO DUHHHHH!!!!!
you mean niles is GAY!! i never would have known..
The thing I don’t understand is how these narrow minded idiots like Victor can say someone ‘chooses’ to be gay. Do you ‘choose’ to be attracted to blondes over brunetts, tiny girls over women packing junk, to have a thing for asian or scandinavian girls? I’m straight, so what if someone prefers thier ‘women’ to have chest hair and a dick.
ummm who cares if this wisp of a man is gay. I don’t. It’s not like he’s a real male actor coming out. Like Harrison Ford or the Duke. now that would be devistating.
Whoa. Shocker!
Slow news day anyone? I really didn’t even remember who he was supposed to be
This thread has been great! One question, why did everyone assume that Victor is a man? Victor could be lesbian – s/he already said that lesbians are okay in his/her book. Another possibility is that Victor is transgender, so s/he is technically not homosexual (anymore).
Victor, please clear this up for us – are you post-op?
I think that David Hyde Pierce played the role of the Jack Russell named “Eddie”.
Okay, dumb joke. I think David Hyde Pierce was _supposed_ to be David Hyde Pierce. I mean, aren’t we all just supposed to be ourselves? Why should it be any different for him?
As Socrates once said to Plato, “Can you please use more lube next time?”
Whoops, wrong quote. I meant to quote Shakespeare – “To thine own self be true.”
I am utterly horrified that I actually spent the time reading this banter to make it to the bottom of the page, but now that I am here, what the hell.
Everybody seems awfully preachy concerning Victor- telling someone off for their beliefs doesn’t really make you the more righteous one, does it?
Oh I just saw that this is like 3 months old.
Alright, just one more thing, then. The bible doesn’t actually say anywhere within it that homosexuals are explicitly bad, in fact it does little more than mention them in passing, and only in the new testament at that. Many people who like to refer to the bible justification of their values haven’t actually read it. I think that is rather humorous.
Hey Victor, do you have a retarded kid or something? Downs Syndrome? Duuhhh licking windows and bobbing back and forth. Yea I wonder if the “God” you rant about feels the same way about his so called creations as you do. I mean, God created homosexuals right?
I know David personally and I can tell you for a fact that this is no way a publicity stunt. David and his boyfriend are an item but David is seeing a women and has been seeing her for almost 13 yrs. They met on the set of Frasier back in 1993 and have been together since 1996.