“I had dinner with Barry Manilow, and he came out to me.“It’s very hard to choose a facial expression for that news, because you don’t want to be rude and go ‘duh’.
I feel I can talk about this, because he has come out now – he is publicly gay. But for years, he wasn’t.“His private life was very private.
He sort of took me into his confidence.“To me, that’s sort of insane, that Barry is still having those conflicts in his head about: ‘What will my fans think?’“Presumably, there are fans who were shocked.