Quickies: Carson Kressley gets deleted from his relationship, Clay Aiken becomes a daddy, and Matthew McConaughey gives back to the land

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> Carson Kressley -- former Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fashion guru and now host of How To Look Good Naked -- was dumped by his Aussie boyfriend via email. George Maloukis told Australia's 2Day FM Radio show, "I sent him an email. I know it's wrong and I feel really bad. Then I thought about it and sent him another email the next day saying I was so so sorry. I felt bad the way it was done." The couple met when Kressley was in Australia to attend the 2007 Melbourne Cup and dated for nearly eight months, with Maloukis spending Christmas in Kentucky with Carson's family. While he has no problem discussing the relationship -- or its end, or his general lack of 21st century etiquette -- Maloukis will not detail exactly why he called it quits. "There were a lot of reasons why. I was annoyed with him for a number of things," he says. But apparently one of them wasn't infidelity: "I reckon that Carson was faithful to me. I was to him. I can’t tell you the real reasons [for the break-up] I am going to give him the respect." How kind and generous! We can only reckon what you'd do if you didn't "respect" the guy -- sell his cum rag on Ebay?

> Speaking of which, after months of telling ourselves it just couldn't be happening, it happened: Clay Aiken became a father Friday morning. The American Idol runner-up and his "friend," musical producer Jaymes Foster, welcomed a 6 lb., 2 oz baby boy in a North Carolina hospital. Aiken used his personal website to break the news saying, "HE'S HERE! My dear friend, Jaymes, and I are so excited to announce the birth of Parker Foster Aiken (No hyphens. One first name. One middle name. One last name.)" People magazine confirms that though the two are strictly platonic, they do plan to raise Parker together.

In response to the news, John Paulus -- the man who claimed to have had a 90-minute bareback session with Aiken after meeting him on Manhunt.net and then tried to sell the cum rag that resulted from the tryst -- took to his blog to christen Clay a gay parental role model:

"Does anyone know of any male celebrity who has had a child with a friend and made it perfectly clear that loving platonic friendship was what they had between them as parents? Although I can think that several female celebrities have done this, I wish I could think of male (gay or straight) who has been this honest. I don't think you will find one. So while journalists have posed "the question" to Clay and for whatever reason he has chosen to deflect it in the last few years without really answering it in words, answering "the question" in a life-changing and meaningful way like this, without the subterfuge of a faux romantic partner, is glass-shattering."

Call us old-fashioned (and maybe just the tiniest bit cranky), but alternatively-formed celebrity family or not, we're still of the ilk that likes to hear our queers actually come out and say what's on their minds (and presumably going on in their bedrooms.) We're all for keeping personal lives personal, but we're also for coming out and being counted. And just think, Clay -- then you could have all the Manhunt sex you wanted without having to worry about being nanny cam-ed or having your body fluids auctioned off to the highest bidder.

> Clay isn't the only new celebrity father -- Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend Camila Alves greeted their son Levi on July 7. In a new interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta which will air in two parts on CNN on August 9 and 16, McConaughey reveals that he will plant Alves' placenta in an orchard. "It's going to be in the orchards and it's going to bear some wonderful fruit," he says. "When I was in Australia, they had a placenta tree that was on the river ... and all the placentas of all that tribe, all that clan, whatever aboriginal tribe that was, all the placentas went under that one tree and it was this huge behemoth of just health and strength." Never one to follow the crowd, it'd be too much to ask Matthew to just cook it and put it in the Cuisine Art and make placenta pate to serve at their post-birth potluck like all the other hippies, wouldn't it?

-- NOAH MICHELSON   

Comments

[John Paulus]

Noah-

I'd like to set the record striaght- no pun intended, but I never tried to sell the "rag" nor have I accepted any compensation for the story.

[benjy]

Paulus is lying (again). He absolutely tried to sell the rag on eBay, which gives you some clue as to the importance of it to him & the "truth" of where it's been. And he was also paid for his tabloid story back in '06. The really sick part is that his stalking of Aiken continues TO THIS DAY - a full 3 years after he claimed to spend 90 minutes with the singer. He's blogged daily in all that time ranting & raving about Aiken & trying to get his attention. He went to a concert where Aiken's security had to follow him around. A book could be written of all the bizarre things he's done (like posting Aiken's mother's address & sending subscriptions of gay porn to her). Just a few days ago on Valentine's day, he tried to befriend Aiken's boyfriend on MySpace & Facebook & was called a "creepy stalker" by the boyfriend. This is a very sick puppy.