As much speculated, American Idol runner up Adam Lambert has spilled to Rolling Stone magazine about being gay. As previously noted, it's not really an 'outing' as such, because he has never denied being gay or tried to hide it, but it is the first time he's spoken about it at length. He told the magazine: "I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me".
On the subject of 'American Idol', and the fact that he was put in a room with the show's winner Kris Allen, he added: "I was like, 'Oh, shit, they put me with the cute guy'. Distracting! He's the one guy that 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 per cent straight".
He also explained that although he has never denied his sexuality, in particular when pictures of him kissing an ex emerged in March, he didn't make a big announcement about it because he didn't want to distract from his singing. "Going into 'Idol,' I assumed, 'OK, people are going to talk,"' he said. "I mean, I've been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man, I've been at clubs making out with somebody in the corner. But photographic evidence? Didn't count on that. Wasn't ready for that. I'm an entertainer, and who I am and what I do in my personal life is a separate thing. It shouldn't matter. Except it does. It's really confusing".