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Joe McElderry started lying as soon as he won the X Factor UK in 2009. These are 13 of the biggest lies he told in 2010:
(1) “I’m straight” (front page of the UK's biggest selling daily newspaper The Sun, 15/12/2009): First off, the grand daddy of Joe’s lies, the one that started it all off. Then on page 4 Joe said “What you see is what you get. I’m straight”. Having told this porky, he has had to continue lying ever since to cover it up. Note that this was NOT a case where a teenager had to lie about being gay in order to save himself from homophobic bullying, heartless parents or anything like that. Joe HIMSELF said that he was under no pressure to say he was straight (LadMag interview, Oct 2010, p8): he just decided off his own bat to appear on the front page of the UK’s biggest-selling paper to deny that he was gay. Why lie? Because he was building up a fanbase of young females at the time and he no doubt thought the idea of being straight and available for those girls would increase his chances of success. Note also that this was NOT a case of Joe being unsure of his sexuality: as you will see from Lies 3-7 below, he was well aware where his interests lay.
(2) “Guys my twitter has been hacked” (Joe’s tweet on 7/7/2010): This claim followed a tweet sent out on Joe’s account earlier that day, which said “I want you all to know, before it comes out, I’m gay. It’s been living a lie for so many years but now I feel the times right”. Even Joe admits that “...everyone probably thinks I wrote it myself” (X Magazine, 29/9/10, p44). The reason is that (a) there has never been any evidence that Joe investigated this “hacking”, (b) it was very useful for Joe, as he could see the reaction to it was very favourable, which meant he could come out later with no risk to himself (so much for “brave” Joe) and (c) the content of the tweet was entirely true as you can see from Lies 3-7!
(3) “I’ve just discovered I’m gay” (Front page of the Sun, again, 31/7/2010). Having strongly denied he was gay just a few months before, Joe was obviously faced with the problem that people would now think he was lying, so his coming-out story was carefully crafted to make it seem he had just found out he was gay, from reading the “hacked” tweet. That people could be taken in by this for one second is frankly amazing and just goes to show how skilful a liar Joe is. In fact, Joe had had a romance with another man (Sean Ryan) a year before the “hacked” tweet. The only way to cover up this embarrassing fact was to simply airbrush it from his story and he told the Sun (p5) four more lies to complete the “innocent Joe” fabrication:
(4) Joe said that he had only a “peck of a kiss” with a boy before: well as we discovered from Sean’s own account in the Sun on 2/8/2010, Joe first had a long and prolonged kiss with Sean, then invited him home for more kissing and cuddling followed by at least more kissing on a later day in woods near Gateshead.
(5) Joe said this was while he was at college: no, he met Sean at the X Factor auditions, the action then moved to Joe’s home and local woods.
(6) Joe said that this happened just before X Factor: no it was during X Factor.
(7) Joe said his kiss with Sean “didn’t trigger anything” in him: a particularly heartless lie this and obviously false. If you kiss someone and it doesn’t trigger anything in you, you don’t invite them round to your house to repeat the experience do you? When Sean later asked if Joe wanted to make a serious relationship out of this, Joe replied by text that the only reason he didn’t want to do so was because he wanted to concentrate on the X Factor (NOTE: no mention being made of any “confusion” about his sexuality here). So Joe binned Sean by text, a feature of Joe’s style as he did exactly the same to Carly Dilbert, the girlfriend he had strung along for two years, giving her the impression he was straight.
(8) “I’m 5 foot 6 inches tall” (Joe’s answer to the question “How tall are you?” in his ustream question session on 7/10/2010): an amusing lie this, because Joe’s own management team, standing around him, immediately corrected him on it and he was forced to admit he is in fact 5’4” tall. In showbusiness, there is always the issue of how far celebs are made to lie by over-eager PR staff, but this showed that Joe is more than capable of making up his own lies.
(9) “haha! No hard feelings guys. I just said I wouldn't do a topless shoot” (Joe’s tweet on 8/10/2010 to @jaythewanted): in his drinking buddy Gordon Smart’s Bizarre column, on page 21 of The Sun (8/10/10), Joe was reported as slamming The Wanted for pulling off a “gimmick” for their new album, calling them “cringey” and saying that by contrast HE was going to release his single on that day “like a normal person” (the implication being that The Wanted were not normal). Joe then realised he had started a war off with Wanted fans and tried to cover himself in his tweet by saying he hadn’t called the Wanted cringey. If there was any doubt that Joe was lying here, the issue was made clear by the report on p19 of the Daily Star Sunday on 14 November. Joe had another unprovoked pop at The Wanted, telling the reporter at the Regents Street lights switch-on on November 9, that it was one-nil to him because his album Wide Awake beat The Wanted’s Heart Vacancy in the charts.
(10) " Schedule clash... Gutted I had to cancel” Joe’s tweet on 21/11/2010 in answer to the question “Why Did You Cancel Glasgow On Thursday?”: Joe cancelled two gigs at Campus Glasgow on 25 November, with no explanation or apology to disapppointed fans. It was only when called to account for this, 3 days later, that Joe condescended to say that that he "HAD" to cancel because of a "scheduling clash". In fact, there was no such clash: he spent 25 November taking photos of drains and watching youtube: http://tl.gd/75hcfr. Why lie about this? Well in the absence of any explanation from Joe himself, one can conclude that it was most probably because he simply didn’t sell enough tickets to make the gigs economically viable.
(11) "Judging by the past I'm quite serious. I stick with one person": Joe’s response in @blissmag (Jan 2011 p93) to the question are you "into serious relationships or just having fun". Asked "Was that with girls?" Joe blushed and said "Yeah". Oops! Looks like Joe conveniently forgot about Sean Ryan, the lad he had a romance with in July 2009. As noted above, "Serious" Joe dumped Sean by text, saying that he couldn't have a serious relationship with him because he wanted to focus on the X Factor. Well, Sean wasn't a girl and Joe didn't stick with him at all: no wonder he blushed when answering!
(12) Asked about the way he came out in July 2010, Joe said that "his sexuality was the last thing on his mind" during the X Factor show and that he only thought about being gay when his Twitter account was "hacked" on 7 July 2010. Asked if it was helpful to see gay men on X Factor, Joe said "It wasn't even something I thought about...it was the last thing on my mind, thinking about anything to do with that": interview in @AttitudeMag (Jan 2011 p75) Perhaps Joe just forgot about Sean Ryan, here and the fact that he told Sean "he couldn't commit to anything because he was so focused on the X Factor"! Like many compulsive liars, perhaps Joe has come to believe his invented version of history, from which ex-romances are conveniently airbrushed. So sexuality wasn't the LAST thing on Joe's mind, it was actually the FIRST, same as it was when he lied on the front page of the Sun in December 2009 and said he was straight and both times because he had his eye on his own success and didn't care less about lying for it.
(13) Bonus track! “I have always been a very honest person and so it is important for me to continue to be honest... There has been speculation about my sexuality in the past and I have always been honest at the time I have been asked”: Joe’s message to his fans on his official website, 30/7/2010. Needless to say, the very fact he used the word “honest” THREE times in the message was a clear indicator he was being anything but. He rubbed salt into the wounds by pretending that this he wanted to let his fans know this news first, before they read about it in the papers the next day: a cruel deception as
(a) Joe didn’t actually say he was gay in the message, only that “Tomorrow there will be some articles about me in the newspapers because I have been doing some important interviews today. I wanted you to know that the articles are true”, so the fans would have to read the papers anyway to know what he was talking about (one way of selling papers I suppose) and
(b) in any event, it was @danwootton who first told fans Joe was gay, by tweeting it late on the 30 July . It was inevitable the story would leak given how late Joe left it before telling fans. But then if he’d told them properly beforehand, he would have ruined the “scoop” he was no doubt relying on to increase his fanbase, just as the PR campaign for his new album was about to start.
Links to the Sun stories:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/2772272/Joe-McElderry-had-no-spark-with-Jordan.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3076084/Joe-McElderry-admits-that-he-is-gay.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3077275/Joe-McElderrys-first-gay-kiss-talks-to-Sun.html
Joe McElderry started lying as soon as he won the X Factor UK in 2009. These are 13 of the biggest lies he told in 2010:
(1) “I’m straight” (front page of the UK's biggest selling daily newspaper The Sun, 15/12/2009): First off, the grand daddy of Joe’s lies, the one that started it all off. Then on page 4 Joe said “What you see is what you get. I’m straight”. Having told this porky, he has had to continue lying ever since to cover it up. Note that this was NOT a case where a teenager had to lie about being gay in order to save himself from homophobic bullying, heartless parents or anything like that. Joe HIMSELF said that he was under no pressure to say he was straight (LadMag interview, Oct 2010, p8): he just decided off his own bat to appear on the front page of the UK’s biggest-selling paper to deny that he was gay. Why lie? Because he was building up a fanbase of young females at the time and he no doubt thought the idea of being straight and available for those girls would increase his chances of success. Note also that this was NOT a case of Joe being unsure of his sexuality: as you will see from Lies 3-7 below, he was well aware where his interests lay.
(2) “Guys my twitter has been hacked” (Joe’s tweet on 7/7/2010): This claim followed a tweet sent out on Joe’s account earlier that day, which said “I want you all to know, before it comes out, I’m gay. It’s been living a lie for so many years but now I feel the times right”. Even Joe admits that “...everyone probably thinks I wrote it myself” (X Magazine, 29/9/10, p44). The reason is that (a) there has never been any evidence that Joe investigated this “hacking”, (b) it was very useful for Joe, as he could see the reaction to it was very favourable, which meant he could come out later with no risk to himself (so much for “brave” Joe) and (c) the content of the tweet was entirely true as you can see from Lies 3-7!
(3) “I’ve just discovered I’m gay” (Front page of the Sun, again, 31/7/2010). Having strongly denied he was gay just a few months before, Joe was obviously faced with the problem that people would now think he was lying, so his coming-out story was carefully crafted to make it seem he had just found out he was gay, from reading the “hacked” tweet. That people could be taken in by this for one second is frankly amazing and just goes to show how skilful a liar Joe is. In fact, Joe had had a romance with another man (Sean Ryan) a year before the “hacked” tweet. The only way to cover up this embarrassing fact was to simply airbrush it from his story and he told the Sun (p5) four more lies to complete the “innocent Joe” fabrication:
(4) Joe said that he had only a “peck of a kiss” with a boy before: well as we discovered from Sean’s own account in the Sun on 2/8/2010, Joe first had a long and prolonged kiss with Sean, then invited him home for more kissing and cuddling followed by at least more kissing on a later day in woods near Gateshead.
(5) Joe said this was while he was at college: no, he met Sean at the X Factor auditions, the action then moved to Joe’s home and local woods.
(6) Joe said that this happened just before X Factor: no it was during X Factor.
(7) Joe said his kiss with Sean “didn’t trigger anything” in him: a particularly heartless lie this and obviously false. If you kiss someone and it doesn’t trigger anything in you, you don’t invite them round to your house to repeat the experience do you? When Sean later asked if Joe wanted to make a serious relationship out of this, Joe replied by text that the only reason he didn’t want to do so was because he wanted to concentrate on the X Factor (NOTE: no mention being made of any “confusion” about his sexuality here). So Joe binned Sean by text, a feature of Joe’s style as he did exactly the same to Carly Dilbert, the girlfriend he had strung along for two years, giving her the impression he was straight.
(8) “I’m 5 foot 6 inches tall” (Joe’s answer to the question “How tall are you?” in his ustream question session on 7/10/2010): an amusing lie this, because Joe’s own management team, standing around him, immediately corrected him on it and he was forced to admit he is in fact 5’4” tall. In showbusiness, there is always the issue of how far celebs are made to lie by over-eager PR staff, but this showed that Joe is more than capable of making up his own lies.
(9) “haha! No hard feelings guys. I just said I wouldn't do a topless shoot” (Joe’s tweet on 8/10/2010 to @jaythewanted): in his drinking buddy Gordon Smart’s Bizarre column, on page 21 of The Sun (8/10/10), Joe was reported as slamming The Wanted for pulling off a “gimmick” for their new album, calling them “cringey” and saying that by contrast HE was going to release his single on that day “like a normal person” (the implication being that The Wanted were not normal). Joe then realised he had started a war off with Wanted fans and tried to cover himself in his tweet by saying he hadn’t called the Wanted cringey. If there was any doubt that Joe was lying here, the issue was made clear by the report on p19 of the Daily Star Sunday on 14 November. Joe had another unprovoked pop at The Wanted, telling the reporter at the Regents Street lights switch-on on November 9, that it was one-nil to him because his album Wide Awake beat The Wanted’s Heart Vacancy in the charts.
(10) " Schedule clash... Gutted I had to cancel” Joe’s tweet on 21/11/2010 in answer to the question “Why Did You Cancel Glasgow On Thursday?”: Joe cancelled two gigs at Campus Glasgow on 25 November, with no explanation or apology to disapppointed fans. It was only when called to account for this, 3 days later, that Joe condescended to say that that he "HAD" to cancel because of a "scheduling clash". In fact, there was no such clash: he spent 25 November taking photos of drains and watching youtube: http://tl.gd/75hcfr. Why lie about this? Well in the absence of any explanation from Joe himself, one can conclude that it was most probably because he simply didn’t sell enough tickets to make the gigs economically viable.
(11) "Judging by the past I'm quite serious. I stick with one person": Joe’s response in @blissmag (Jan 2011 p93) to the question are you "into serious relationships or just having fun". Asked "Was that with girls?" Joe blushed and said "Yeah". Oops! Looks like Joe conveniently forgot about Sean Ryan, the lad he had a romance with in July 2009. As noted above, "Serious" Joe dumped Sean by text, saying that he couldn't have a serious relationship with him because he wanted to focus on the X Factor. Well, Sean wasn't a girl and Joe didn't stick with him at all: no wonder he blushed when answering!
(12) Asked about the way he came out in July 2010, Joe said that "his sexuality was the last thing on his mind" during the X Factor show and that he only thought about being gay when his Twitter account was "hacked" on 7 July 2010. Asked if it was helpful to see gay men on X Factor, Joe said "It wasn't even something I thought about...it was the last thing on my mind, thinking about anything to do with that": interview in @AttitudeMag (Jan 2011 p75) Perhaps Joe just forgot about Sean Ryan, here and the fact that he told Sean "he couldn't commit to anything because he was so focused on the X Factor"! Like many compulsive liars, perhaps Joe has come to believe his invented version of history, from which ex-romances are conveniently airbrushed. So sexuality wasn't the LAST thing on Joe's mind, it was actually the FIRST, same as it was when he lied on the front page of the Sun in December 2009 and said he was straight and both times because he had his eye on his own success and didn't care less about lying for it.
(13) Bonus track! “I have always been a very honest person and so it is important for me to continue to be honest... There has been speculation about my sexuality in the past and I have always been honest at the time I have been asked”: Joe’s message to his fans on his official website, 30/7/2010. Needless to say, the very fact he used the word “honest” THREE times in the message was a clear indicator he was being anything but. He rubbed salt into the wounds by pretending that this he wanted to let his fans know this news first, before they read about it in the papers the next day: a cruel deception as
(a) Joe didn’t actually say he was gay in the message, only that “Tomorrow there will be some articles about me in the newspapers because I have been doing some important interviews today. I wanted you to know that the articles are true”, so the fans would have to read the papers anyway to know what he was talking about (one way of selling papers I suppose) and
(b) in any event, it was @danwootton who first told fans Joe was gay, by tweeting it late on the 30 July . It was inevitable the story would leak given how late Joe left it before telling fans. But then if he’d told them properly beforehand, he would have ruined the “scoop” he was no doubt relying on to increase his fanbase, just as the PR campaign for his new album was about to start.
Links to the Sun stories:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/2772272/Joe-McElderry-had-no-spark-with-Jordan.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3076084/Joe-McElderry-admits-that-he-is-gay.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3077275/Joe-McElderrys-first-gay-kiss-talks-to-Sun.html