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  • MARGARET CHO | Joan Rivers Called Me Fat

    MARGARET CHO | Joan Rivers Called Me Fat

    Speaking to THEGAYUK comedian Margaret Cho reveals the close ties she had with Joan Rivers.

    Promoting her latest show in London, Margaret Cho confessed in an exclusive interview with THEGAYUK, that the late Joan Rivers called her “fat”
    Talking about the close relationship she had with the veteran comedian before she passed away aged 81, Cho, 47, said,

    “She was my champion for a quarter of a century and I’ll never get over the loss of her, even though she said I was fat.”

    Joan Rivers died in a New York hospital in 2014, during what should have been a routine procedure.

    Cho added, “She was my mother in entertainment and I am now … Melissa Rivers and I are still suffering and dealing with our grief daily. I just saw her (Melissa) yesterday. You never get over the loss of somebody so important, historically and personally.”

    Recentlly Margaret Cho revealed that nothing was off the table for her current show in London, even saying that it was never too soon to joke about terrorist attacks in Paris last month.

    Margaret Cho is performing in London at the Leicester Square Theatre until the 20th December.

  • Margaret Cho: It Is Not Too Soon To Joke About Paris

    Margaret Cho: It Is Not Too Soon To Joke About Paris

    Comedian Margaret Cho has explained why it’s never too soon to joke about atrocities, like the Paris terrorist attacks, as long as it’s done with Love and a political mind.

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  • Margaret Cho: Donald Trump Is A Big Old Power Bottom

    Margaret Cho has hit out at Donald Trump as a “piss bottom” in an exclusive rant to THEGAYUK.com

    Cho who will be coming to the UK shortly as part of her psyCHO tour went on to qualify her statement by adding:

    “But that’s what bottoms are – very, very strong people, very famous, very rich people. I far as I’ve seen the most powerful people in the world are often power bottoms. Bossy bottoms.”

    Trump is currently under pressure to retract statements he made yesterday calling for a bar on Muslims entering the United States. He also claimed that some places in London were so radicalised that police were “scared for their lives”.

    Around 300,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the Republican presidential hopeful be barred from entering the UK.

  • Do I Sound Gay?

    Of course you do, and so do we, Thank God!

    When forty-something-year-old American journalist DAVID THORPE suddenly found himself single again he started to question what was wrong with him.  He thought it could be the fact that he sounded gay, so he set about delving into the whole issue of how he spoke to see if he could resolve it.

    He documented his ‘journey’ of discovery which with the help of his friends, therapists and some very witty gay celebrities turned into an hilarious and touching movie that every single gay man (and woman) will so relate too.

    We sat down and talked with David (in our regular gay voice) who has articulated on something that all of us have questioned at some time.  He shared more of what he had learned from the likes of David Sedaris, Margaret Cho and Dan Savage to come to where his now totally comfortable in his own skin.  His interview with The Gay UK will be in out next issue, but meanwhile you can still catch him and his funny and enchanting movie playing at the BFI Flare Festival on 25/27th  March 2015

    www.bfi.org.uk/flare

  • John Barrowman Leads Fury At Joan Rivers Oscar Snub

    Stars and allies of the gay community tweeted their disgust at the apparent snub of Joan Rivers, who died last year at the age of 81.

    • John Barrowman slams Academy for failing to mention the late Joan Rivers in their In Memoriam segment.
    • Lance Bass and Margaret Cho amongst the LGBT community to tweet their anger at the apparent snub.
    • The Academy offers an explanation.

    Joan Rivers who died at the age of 81 last year, was known for her stand-up comedy and her film roles, but she was also a staunch supporter of the LGBT community. She was omitted from the Oscars “In Memoriam” section.

    Leading the outrage was Joan Rivers’ co-star on E! Kelly Osborne who tweeted, “Am I missing something or was @Joan_Rivers really left out of the #Oscars memorials?”

    Margaret Cho was also disappointed that organisers had failed to mention the late comedian.

    Openly gay, Torchwood actor, John Barrowman had a few words to say about the snub.

    Newly wed former NSync singer Lance Bass also slammed the Oscars for the lack of Rivers.

    https://twitter.com/LanceBass/status/569709256598949888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.thegayuk.com%2F_snippet%2Fblog%2F4009928388%2F9431867%2F3sVUrUOzH0wDQCMzn9CZj01to-M.html

    The Academy addressed the lack of Joan Rivers in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, an Oscar rep explained the decision to not include the iconic comedian. “Joan Rivers is among the many worthy artists and filmmakers we were unfortunately unable to feature in the In Memoriam segment of this year’s Oscar show,” reads the statement. “She is, however, included in our In Memoriam gallery on Oscar.com.”

  • Modern Family Star and Margaret Cho Star In Weird Al Tacky Happy Parody

    “Weird Al” Yankovic is back and taking on the biggest song of the year, Happy, with a host of stars.

    Wearing Lime Green trousers, Eric Stonestreet stars in a new video of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s parody of Pharrell Williams’ Happy called Tacky. The video also stars Margaret Cho.

    Eric Stonestreet, who stars in Modern Family as gay father Cam, dons an eye-popping pink blazer and lime green trousers. The parody has been viewed over 2 millions times on YouTube already.

    Along with Stonestreet and Cho the video stars: Aisha Taylor, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black, whose twerking leaves little to imagination.

  • INTERVIEW | Margaret Cho

    Margaret Cho is an unstoppable force. A designer, author, actress, singer-songwriter an equalities warrior and one of America’s funniest women.

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