It’s the story that’s everywhere, so I guess we have to address it.  Shawn Mendes was performing at Red Rocks, Colorado, and was about to sing one of his new songs – “The Mountain”.  Some of the lyrics follow: “You can say what you need to say / you can say I’m too young / you can say I’m too old / you can say I like girls or boy / whatever fits your mold.”  Before the song, he said the following: “I didn’t get to do a lot of the 15-year-old things and discover parts of myself.  Since I was really young, there’s this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it for so long…it always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me…something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover it.”  After the song he added, “The real truth about my life and sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone else.  I don’t really know sometimes, and I know other times…I’m trying to be really brave and allow myself to be a human and feel things.  And that’s all I really want to say about that for now.”  Of course, you can hear the song and see Shawn’s full confession on BillyMasters.com.

Shawn’s lucky he wasn’t on Making the Band.  After Lou Pearlman stepped aside, the show was hosted by Sean Combs.  From Lou to Diddy?  What – was John Wayne Gacy not available?  No surprise, two men claim to have been assaulted by Diddy.  Next thing you’ll tell me Lou touched Ikaika, and all that footage of Ashley Parker Angel in the shower was for Lou’s personal collection.  But getting back to Combs, in 2005 he allegedly invited a 10-year-old boy to his hotel room, and gave him a soda that was allegedly laced with drugs.  The boy lost consciousness and later woke up to find his pants undone and a pain in his anus and buttocks.  Add in a Bacardi Wine Cooler, and you have my Halloween night in a nutshell.  But what was Puffy’s MO?  Was he auditioning to play Cosby in a biopic?  We don’t know more details because the boys have a gag order – and I swear I’m not gonna say what I’m thinking.  But I do have one question.  How does someone go from fucking a 10-year-old boy to fucking Jennifer Lopez?  Come to think of it, how did J-Lo go from Puff Daddy to Ben Affleck?  Twice?  It boggles the mind.