here is another one: did you know that Marilyn Manson was “Paul” from The Wonder Years
Even further back, there was the same rumor about Gene Simmons from Kiss
I loved the response he gave for that rumor.
It was essentially… "Do you think I’d be here giving this interview if I could do that?
Love that he knew about the rumor.
Amazingly this rumor actually has its origin from Gabriele D’Annunzio in the 1930s. It has been repeated for other famous people throughout history.
I heard it about David Bowie in the 1980s.
That rumour was everywhere by the end of '94. Not a lot of millenials in high school then. Almost all Gen X.
In the 80’s, I always heard it was Gene Simmons.
I heard it about David Bowie back then.
Before that I remember hearing a rumor that Rod Stewart had had a hot hair curler shoved up his butt by his wife bc she had caught him having a homosexual affair. Years later I heard the exact same rumor about a local used car dealer and knew that it probably wasn’t true, but it was interesting that the same rumor had cropped up about different people (heard these in different states as well, so it wasn’t just the same people repeating it).
