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Butler Know About a Gay Guy and a Cucumber?

Link and video:

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/08/what-does-gerard-butler-know-about-a-gay-guy-and-a-cucumber.html

What Does Gerard Butler Know About a Gay Guy and a Cucumber?

Via Back2Stonewall comes this clip of Gerard Butler telling news media at the premiere of his new movie The Ugly Truth that filmmaker Robert Luketic hired him because of a joke he told about a gay guy and a cucumber.

Says Butler: "A gay guy walks into a greengrocer and he says 'Can I have a cucumber please?' And the greengrocer says, 'Eh would you like that sliced?' Ha ha. 'What do you think I am, a slot machine?' It's not very funny. It's just that the way I said it."

If only Butler would demonstrate. An interesting interview recently resurfaced from a 2004 interview in Movieline, in which Butler discusses his bisexuality:

"One aspect of himself that he is not yet fully able comprehend is his sexuality. 'I talk about my sexuality,' he says, 'But it’s always glossed over. People seem to shy away from the issue. Whenever it is discussed, its distended and exaggerated. Gerard Butler is gay. No I’m not. I don’t know myself what I am so it can be bewildering to see that being plugged. I have been in relationships with women. And men. That doesn’t make me gay. That doesn’t make me straight. Its hard enough to go through these things in my mind without being scrutinised about it so there are times when you want to close the door and say my sexuality is my own personal business.'"

Butler was last seen running from New York Housewife Kelly Bensimon.

Watch the joke clip, AFTER THE JUMP...

Just to clarify, that article about Butler's bisexuality was proven to be a fake:

http://www.movieline.com/2009/08/did-gerard-butler-ever-confirm-his-bisexuality-to-movieline.php

Did Gerard Butler Ever Confirm His Bisexuality to Movieline?

The gay blogosphere is abuzz with this provocative quote from an alleged Gerard Butler interview from 2004:

“I talk about my sexuality,” he says, “But it’s always glossed over. People seem to shy away from the issue. Whenever it is discussed, its distended and exaggerated. Gerard Butler is gay. No I’m not. I don’t know myself what I am so it can be bewildering to see that being plugged. I have been in relationships with women. And men. That doesn’t make me gay. That doesn’t make me straight. Its hard enough to go through these things in my mind without being scrutinised about it so there are times when you want to close the door and say my sexuality is my own personal business.”

Tangy stuff! Where did this bombshell interview come from? Hmm, let’s see here… “Movieline.” Hey, that’s us! So is this thing the real deal, or the product of someone’s overactive imagination?

Sorry kids, but this one’s most likely a fake. Archive.org traces the article’s origin to an NYCWave.com message board where author “Marianne Tydings” posted it in August 2004. (Try Googling the woman’s name — you’ll have no luck.) In the post’s supposed excerpt from Movieline, Butler is anticipating the release of Phantom of the Opera that year, but a look back through our archives reveals no interview with Butler during that time period. Movieline did talk to Butler about the sequel to Tomb Raider for our July/August 2003 issue, but it’s a completely different interview and there are no salacious quotes about his sexuality.

Also, Movieline’s an American magazine, and we’d never spell the word “scrutinised” without a Z. Who would? How about a British tabloid, or an internet poster whose attempt to whip up an imaginary interview left one easily-discovered grammatical tell?