Playing It Straight - UPDATED
For the five people watching the The Bachelorette 3 last night, have we got a juicy nugget for you. I received an email from a very good friend of mine who had this to say:
"i have no idea whether you watch the bachelorette, but one of the new suitors (fabrice) is gay, and an actor - i went on a few dates with him a while ago. plus now he has a boyfriend. so is that supposed to be the twist this season or something? or are these just standard reality-show lies? because he's certifiably light in the loafers, this guy. we went on several dates and he was great but we just didn't have chemistry. silly reality shows."
Let the speculation begin!
Updates after the jump:
Holy coincidence, Batman! Fabrice has a Friendster profile too!
Update: All the photos are down and the profile is only open to Fabrice's immediate friends. Sigh. I *guess* he's entitled to "privacy", whatever that is.
But we still have these photos:
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Can't spell Fabrice without Fab!
Update: FabriceGate continues! Thanks to TVgasm reader renpeh420, we now have this photo, courtesy of ChicagoPride.com:
Update - AGAIN: Could he HAVE more incriminating evidence on the web? Here's a link to a screencap of Fabrice's now defunct profile on a site called "Big Muscle." It's not so much that we're outing him. It more like we're publicizing him.

Comments
Well you should have known this by the face that he is wearing a blond wig and a dress. oh you mean the other manly looking one...sorry my bad.
Posted by: madeyoulaugh | January 11, 2005 11:33 AM (#1 of 21)
Ah! Excellent!! It did show a preview of what's coming up and yes, Fabrice has a surprise announcement it appears.... What in the devil could be the point of this, I wonder? thanks for posting!
Posted by: jaded | January 11, 2005 12:38 PM (#2 of 21)
...then there was the guy who couldn't get close to the Bachelorette so decided to hit on the waitrons (who happened to be Jen's best friends)...DOH!
Oh..and then the "I'm so buff that I wear tight clothes guy" that fainted (first EVER--male or female)...what a wuss!
Posted by: Alohaboy | January 11, 2005 03:08 PM (#3 of 21)
damn those non-committal gays and their dating around.
HA, screw your surprise twist ABC.
Posted by: jash | January 11, 2005 05:38 PM (#4 of 21)
QUOTE: "Can't spell Fabrice without Fab!"
Let me try;
S-K-A-N-K
See, you can!
Posted by: Dave | January 11, 2005 08:34 PM (#5 of 21)
Jesus H. Christ, B-Side. You've started up a shit storm! Bravo. I've seen a link to this particular post on 4 other websites already. But is anyone really surprised at the possibility that Fab is gay? If this is a plot twist, then it confirms that the Bachelor/Bachelorette has run it's course. Lame, lame, lame.
Can't wait for the next episode! Hah.
Posted by: Nixah | January 12, 2005 08:39 AM (#6 of 21)
Let's play a fun game called recap "popular searches in Fabrice's network" per Friendster:
1) boners in speedos
2) what is the meaning of my name
3) muscular men
4) what's my phone number spell?
5) scott green
6) superhero name generator
7) Charlie Lubiniecki
8) william hung death
9) height and weight calculator
10) shirtless studs
Gay? I don't see it. But seriously, what DOES my phone number spell....??
Posted by: nhanimal | January 12, 2005 09:19 AM (#7 of 21)
Guess what fabulous people! I'm 4 degrees away from Fabrice. Here's a couple of his Friendsters:
http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=101586
http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=107534
And a few gentlemen named "Mansex" and "Abercrombie" also connect us.
There could not be stronger proof: Fabrice is very comfortable with his heterosexuality.
Posted by: Elmo | January 12, 2005 09:28 AM (#8 of 21)
He is on www.chicagopride.com a chicago based website for us gays. If you look under 2004 hotties and go to pic #20 he is standing there with no shirt on. Gay??? I think it could be true
Posted by: renpeh420 | January 12, 2005 09:34 AM (#9 of 21)
I can't believe they don't do more checking into the contestants. I know they do all sorts of blood test, couldn't they just google these mos? I think that's totally unfair for that poor girl. I think he was one the producers told her to pick, he's a total slime bag and he's 24? Give me a break. This is a show about people who want to get married. Super lame.
Posted by: smithie | January 12, 2005 12:47 PM (#10 of 21)
this is a show about people who want to get married? yeah, and i'm barbra streisand.
Posted by: m_ruv | January 12, 2005 12:51 PM (#11 of 21)
I KNEW IT!! i caught the very last bit of the show the other night - just the rose ceremony - and i had strong feelings that a couple of the guys were probably gay. i'm not sure if fab was one of them, but damn! that's too funny!
Posted by: heather | January 12, 2005 01:30 PM (#12 of 21)
I thought I messaged him before on BigMuscle!
Posted by: jaded | January 12, 2005 02:38 PM (#13 of 21)
I wasn't going to watch The Bachelorette this season but after this, how could I not? I'm looking forward to the next episode.
Posted by: Lisa | January 12, 2005 09:42 PM (#14 of 21)
This now proves that these shows are rigged/fixed. They must have told Jen not to cut him so they could use him for a ratings boost. I can't imagine her really choosing him because she actually thought of him as a future husband. Maybe their twist is that he will be outed on the show....or he will out himself by refusing the next rose and saying he's just now realized he's gay....or some lame thing!
Posted by: ethelmertz | January 12, 2005 11:55 PM (#15 of 21)
Just a little additional info on Fabrice. During the the filming of the show he was living with hi boyfriend Ben and his roommate Ed. Apparently there is no surprise twist to the show, but she does eliminate him after the he tells her he is gay and the producers beg him to stay none of which was apparently filmed. Because the producers never had any intentions of him coming out on the show, but they were aware he was gay throughout the casting process. Additionally during the filming of the show Fabrice was unempolyed and at no point was he in real estate investment, that was his boyfriends job.
Posted by: Gui | January 15, 2005 02:26 PM (#16 of 21)
Well, so much for the Darwinism of mate-selecting reality shows.
Posted by: SteelyDan | January 15, 2005 04:11 PM (#17 of 21)
I met Fabrice Le Parc when he was a student in HEC (Jouy en Josas - 78) near paris. He came to me in a famous club of the Champs Elyses: Le Queen during Disco Inferno. He kept trying to play the straight guy and denied the truth about his homosexuality. After a short conversation, he roughly rejected me. (For information: at this time, he was not that well-built but he got inspired by my physic! ;-) lol). I gave him my phone number and called him later, we met and made out...I often meet him on Internet gay dial sites and anybody can meet him in any big gay parties in paris....For sure he's gay.
Posted by: HUG | January 16, 2005 11:50 AM (#18 of 21)
I cant believe it with my own eyes I had to actually check the link on chicagopride.com
http://www.chicagopride.com/photos/event.cfm?ID=310
It's definitely him. but gay? someone that hot just can't be! =) or then again, since he is THAT hot...
Posted by: hottiechgo | January 20, 2005 12:06 PM (#19 of 21)
Guys,
So what do you think about that : I'm a very good-looking 27-year-old woman (former model) and I dated Fabrice for a year and three months. I met him in a photo studio in Paris and I can tell you that he's got a very nice body ( and you're all sooo envious that you think he's gay!). Moreover he's a very intelligent guy who's attended one of France's top universities.
When we were dating, I introduced him to many of my friends (most of whom are gay models), we'd go out to clubs and we'd travel around the world together. I go to Chicago every year and I enjoy partying with my gay friends during the Chicago pride.
That's it!
Posted by: atalante | January 22, 2005 06:28 AM (#20 of 21)
OH MY!!! I read US Magazine and found this site. What a COOL site!
Fabrice... Gay... I wondered how many guys on the show actually hooked up with him. Maybe Fabrice can be the next Bachelor and ask all the guys to be his suitors!!! Wouldn't it be funny???
Posted by: TVJunkie | January 28, 2005 06:40 PM (#21 of 21)