Hey, enough with the gay jokes!
Ryan Seacrest may have been Merv Griffin's last great discovery...
...he may like a little Botox here and there...
...those Teri Hatcher face-eating photos were suspect...
...and hey, who wouldn't flirt with Anderson Cooper?
But he's All American and everything to everyone-- and will soon be packing solid butch hetero credentials as the very first host, master-of-ceremonies and red carpet kingpin of Super Bowl XLII.
Or do those big towel-snapping football players have a secret?
(And does anyone out there know Roman numerals?)
Ryan will be in Phoenix on February 3rd to host the pregame show for the Fox broadcast of the 2008 Super Bowl. He'll also be at the 50 yard line to MC the halftime show.
The talent for the spectacle has not yet been announced (but Ryan surely would have liked this year's show).
The announcement that's expected today is meant to increase viewership for the much-viewed game-- and the first time the Super Bowl will have a red-carpet host.
(Gay? Powerful broadcaster and excellent radio host Ryan addressed the rumours in Chaunce Hayden's Steppin' Out magazine: "I'm trying to think of the best way to describe the feeling I get when I hear that particular rumor. I am a certain way. I am relatively clean cut and I do like to shop for clothes. If I had to break it down stereotypically, that would be a gay male habit. Well for me it's not. It's a straight male habit." In 2005, Ryan sat as "Queen" of the annual Halloween Carnaval in West Hollywood, California.
(According to the Miami Herald, "There might be around 50 closeted gay players in the NFL today, maybe one or two per team, if estimates of the percentage of gays in society are mirrored in football.")