Jan 22, 2011
Tiffany Outs New Kids On The Block Singer Jonathan Knight On National TV
"He's fabulous. But he became gay later."

Back in February of 2009, Kyle Wilker outed New Kids on the Block singer Jonathan Knight in The National Enquirer by selling photos of the pair when they were a couple back in the day. This week, former popstar Tiffany outed Jonathan on national television when she appeared on the late night TV show Watch What Happens Live on Bravo TV. Tiffany dished to host Andy Cohen about how she used to date “shy” and “quiet” Jonathan before he “became gay”. Unfortch for Jonathan, he hasn’t actually come out of the closet publicly so … clearly Tiffany can’t keep a secret!

On Thursday’s Watch What Happens Live, Tiffany told Andy Cohen she was once involved with Knight — and then goes on to describe him as “the quiet one. The shy one. He’s fabulous. But he became gay later.” Not missing a beat, Andy responds, “Did you turn him?” And then Tiffany reveals the obvious clues: “No. I had issues with that, I was thinking maybe I did. But no, now looking back when we were dating, he was so much fun — we used to do facials together, he was so easy to talk to, and he was fabulous.” (Chimes in fellow guest Debbie — sorry, Deborah — Gibson: I had gay BFs too!)

Altho Jonathan hasn’t publicly come out, he doesn’t seem to mind very much that people keep dragging him out of the closet. Yesterday, Jonathan posted a series of tweets on his official Twitter profile letting people — and Tiffany especially — know that he isn’t mad at his former girlfriend for revealing his sexuality:

I’m so devastated…………. / How can I not remember getting facials??????? / I’d also appreciate it if the people talking trash about Tiffany and Deborah knock it off and stop being nasty! / @tiffanytunes Tiff, please don’t lose any sleep over it! I know you weren’t being mean and I found it to be funny! / @tiffanytunes Knock em dead tomorrow! Wishing nothing but the best for you always!

Altho not an admission, I think it’s pretty clear that Jonathan is very happy with who he is and he is fine with his friends talking about him with love. Here is the full video interview with Tiffany (and Debbie Gibson) on Watch What Happens Live wherein she talks about Jonathan Knight‘s sexuality:


Oh Tiffany … just can’t keep a secret, can you? Ah well … I guess it was all harmless fun. If Jonathan don’t mind, why should anyone else?

That said, I think we need to have Tiffany on TV more often … I wonder what other secrets she has left to spill publicly.

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11 Comments. Add Yours

  1. nicole nicole says:

    i didnt know it was a big secret? i could have swore he came out?? hmm maybe i just assumed he did because he never denied it?

  2. Dezden Dezden says:

    Thanks for posting this. I was wondering what the tweets were all about… Didn’t realize the source. Apparently some NKOTB/Jon fans wents nuts… Haha. (Don’t get me wrong, I love me some NKOTB, but I’m not a “stan”…)

    Anyway, good to see he’s fine with it.

  3. Kent says:

    Yay, hilarious story. And I totally agree that we need to see more of her on the tube. And boo! I can’t watch the clip here.

  4. jessica says:

    Classy response (who knows how he feels frankly. I’d be pissed off. If I wanted to be out of the closet, I’d out myself)

  5. Debho says:

    Pointless piece of trivia for ya….back in 1988 I was very pregnant with my third child. I was convinced I was having a boy, but we figured we should pick out a girls name. I Think We’re Alone Now was on the radio in the car and we reckoned Tiffany was a nice name. Two days later I gave birth to our Tiffany! She’s horrified by that story. lol

    • Trent Trent says:

      @Debho – I am THOROUGHLY in love with that story :D I was a HUGE Tiffany fan (ie. she was my Britney to Debbie Gibson’s Xtina).

      • Debho says:

        lol I still love the name 23 years later. And as I pointed out to her, we could have named her Kylie (or Charlene after her character’s name) as that’s when Kylie Minogue was huge on our soap Neighbours which I used to love watching. ;)

  6. Amanda G Amanda G says:

    He was always my favorite member!

  7. anna says:

    I thought she outed him several years ago in an interview or Perez did it. It’s old news to NKOTB fans. Still, not her place to spill the beans even if they are still on good terms.

  8. Eboney says:

    He came out on Oprah in the late 90′s. So this isn’t really that new.

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