NEW YORK – Neil Patrick Harris let both Bruno Maglis drop in a recent interview with People magazine. The boyish-looking thirty-three-year-old actor revealed not only that he is gay but also that Doogie Howser, M.D., the kid-genius he played in the television series of the same name, was gay.
“Doogie and I realized our sexual preferences were evolving at about the same time,” said Mr. Harris. “That would have been when Doogie lost his virginity to his girlfriend, Wanda, in the first episode of season 3 (September 25, 1991).
When Doogie ‘wrote’ in his journal at the end of that episode, what he actually said was, ‘The entire time I was with Wanda, I couldn’t stop thinking about Vinnie (Delpino, Doogie’s best friend and eventual roommate in the series). I kept seeing Vinnie’s lips and Vinnie’s ass. That’s why I insisted on doing it doggie style with Wanda the second time—so I could pretend she was Vinnie.”
That journal entry was revised by the show’s editorial content advisory board, Mr. Harris told People; but throughout the last two seasons of Doogie Howser, M.D., Mr. Harris fought with the show’s creator, Stephen Bochco, to let Doogie explore his sexuality in a realistic fashion. Mr. Bocho wouldn’t hear of it, choosing instead to pull the plug on the show in 1993 after only four seasons.
“Stephen kept hooking Doogie up with one beard after another—a model who couldn’t keep her clothes on, a deaf girl with a positive attitude, his mom’s boss, a couple of nurses, even his old babysitter. At the end of every show where Doogie was ‘involved’ with a woman, I’d have him write outrageously gay things in his journal, but they were always censored.”
Mr. Harris’ twin revelations to People came just two days after his publicist had issued a statement saying the actor is “not of that persuasion.” That denial was hardly convincing said Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight, who recently admitted to being gay.
“All my gay friends and I just knew Doogie was a friend of Dorothy’s,” laughed Mr. Knight, 33. “That show was so camp, honey, and the ‘love’ scenes! What a hoot. It was obvious that Doogie would have much preferred grabbing Vinnie’s crotch than those bimbos’ he was dating. And did you notice how Doogie had a habit of dangling one sneaker all the time? That’s like code for totally gay foot fetish.”
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