Denials: All-Idol edition

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> Sanjaya's totally not gay. (Not yet, anyway, but I bet he's getting some good offers!) He tells People:

I got teased in school because people figured I must be gay because I understand women. I think that's why guys didn't like me – because I got along with girls so well. When I went up to girls they would give me a hug and a kiss on the cheek like I was their gay friend. But I was the straight guy that understood them.

> Queerty has yet another piece of head-scratching evidence in the ongoing saga of Clay Aiken and his inability to either really hide himself away or simply come out.

Clay Aiken was not part of the "Idol Gives Back" extravaganza. Instead the notoriously heterosexual Aiken stars in a very special PSA for UNICEF recorded for and now appearing on gay activist Ben Patrick Johnson's blog. The PSA is insightful in that it reveals that famously gay Ben and famously "not gay" Clay are quite chummy. We find out that the PSA was recorded in Ben's home studio, and that Clay brought Ben a special gift back from Afghanistan.

> Also MIA from Idol Gives Back was Justin Timberlake, expected to be pimping the new Shrek sequel. According to Slate:

Katzenberg's camp says the problem was that Timberlake's touring schedule changed, making the appearance impossible. A well-placed Timberlake source says the young man opted to spend the week in Scotland with his parents.

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