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For those of u who think this isnt neil tennent,i cant do anything but this is from a confirmed source.Neil is short sighted and has always worn glasses before taking up contact lens.

I swear, someone once asked me how I could be a Pet Shop Boys fan when I knew Neil Tennant was homosexual. I can't believe why this should matter. I'm not dating Tennant or anything, I just listen to his music. Is anything homosexuals do automatically "tainted" by homosexuality? Alan Turing was a closet homosexual. Does this mean Turing-completeness and Turing machines, some of the most basic principles in computer science, are evil and should not be used anywhere? — JIP | Talk 17:28, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

In my view, Tennant wasn't out before the early 1990's, nor was he in the closet to begin with. Honestly, for although he did not commment explicitly on gay rumours-- and they were REALLY widespread-- during the 1980s, he did not turn out to be another Rock Hudson, or some other chap who married a woman for the sake of maintaning his star status by staying deeply in the closet. Some of my friends asked me the same thing you've been asked, and I know what it feels like-- those kind of people tend to think of you as "gay by association"-- but the fact that I like many gay icons and gay artists is, by no means, solid evidence to define your own sexual orientation. (Crazychap, 9:45 GMT, 10 January 2006)

And it's also very interesting that various surveys have shown that many and most of PSB fans are heterosexual. Many of their most romantic songs are written and have been written with no particular gender in mind; they could easily be heterosexual in message and orientation. The boys have said so themselves. (15:20, EST, 1 June, 2006)

Who has come up with this tale that Neil should have had a relationship with Liza Minnelli? That's the first time I've ever heard that and I think it is completely fabricated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BillyBudd07 (talk • contribs) 11:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tennant and Tennant

In the TRIVIA section, the phrase "interview with Tennant" should be rephrased to make more clear which Tennant, David or Neil, is being talked about specifically.

info needs to be changes, he was born in Tyne and Wear not Northumberland....

>>Yes, but Tyne and Wear wasn't created until 1972 so Tennant was indeed born in Northumberland.

Hey guys.. Neil Isn´t dead.. please correct that...

[edit] John Hannah Resemblance

Actor John Hannah could play singer Neil Tennant if someone ever wrote a script about the Pet Shop Boys. They look alike, at least to me. Neil is hairy and John is smooth, however.

[edit] Mike Myers Impersonation

I swear I saw a Saturday Night Live skit in which Mike Myers impersonates Neil Tennant. At a U.S. Congressional hearing, he says he's Neil Tennant and now works in a pet shop. Other 80s musicians that get skewered are Toni Basil and the lead singer of Cameo, Larry Blackmon(?). 1.) Does anyone have more info on that? (It was too clever for me to dream it up.) and 2.) What do you think would have been Neil's response to the skit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chumley41 (talk • contribs) 19:22, 1 June 2008 (UTC)