{"id":90728,"date":"2022-09-11T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90728"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T21:41:45","slug":"spit-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/spit-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Spit-Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s <strong><em>Spit-Gate<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; We\u2019re referring to reports that <strong>Harry Styles <\/strong>spat on <strong>Chris Pine <\/strong>as he took his seat at the <strong><em>Venice Film Festival<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Pine was already seated when Harry arrived and kinda leaned over Pine\u2019s lap.&nbsp; You don\u2019t see any saliva, but you do see Pine look down in his lap, and shoot a look that says, \u201cReally??\u201d&nbsp; Of course, Styles has no reputation of such behavior previously.&nbsp; A rep for the film said it\u2019s \u201can odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation.\u201d&nbsp; And what\u2019s wrong with that?&nbsp; Styles even played along at his next concert.&nbsp; \u201cThis is our tenth show at <em>Madison<\/em> <em>Square<\/em> <em>Garden<\/em>.&nbsp; It\u2019s wonderful, wonderful, wonderful to be back in New York.&nbsp; I just popped very quickly to Venice to spit on Chris Pine.\u201d&nbsp; Check out the videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I started this column 27 years ago, even a hint of same-sex liaisons was enough to torpedo a career.&nbsp; Now, it\u2019s how you make one.&nbsp; Lots of people have their panties in a bunch over Styles\u2019 gender-bending outfits and teasing innuendos of frolicking with men.&nbsp; Yet when <strong>Lady Gaga <\/strong>does it, she\u2019s a goddess.&nbsp; Do any of us know who pop stars sleep with?&nbsp; I don\u2019t \u2013 with one notable exception which you can read about in <strong>James Gavin<\/strong>\u2019s bestseller, <strong><em>George Michael \u2013 A Life<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; It used to be that gay people pretended to be straight to not jeopardize their careers.&nbsp; If the converse is now true, ain\u2019t that progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s Spit-Gate.&nbsp; We\u2019re referring to reports that Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine as he took his seat at the Venice Film Festival.&nbsp; Pine was already seated when Harry arrived and kinda leaned over Pine\u2019s lap.&nbsp; You don\u2019t see any saliva, but you do see Pine look down in his lap, and shoot a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90729,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90728\/revisions\/90729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}