New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight was warned that coming out as gay would ruin his career
Before New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight-Rodriguez was 'horribly' outed in 2009 by an ex-boyfriend in the National Enquirer, his manager warned him to never be open about his homosexuality.'He pulled me aside and was like, "If anybody finds out, your career is over.
The New Kids' career is over. My career's over. Sony's going to, like, lose money,"' the 54-year-old Grammy nominee revealed on Monday's episode of the podcast Frosted Tips with Lance Bass.'It was just so much pressure.
Looking back, that's a lot of pressure to put on somebody who is just trying to figure out the world themselves.' Before New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight-Rodriguez was 'horribly' outed in 2009 by an ex-boyfriend in the National Enquirer, his manager warned him to never be open about his homosexualityJonathan added: 'The stress built up and built up and built up.
It was crazy.'However, Knight-Rodriguez admitted to secretly 'hooking up with a few' of the guys his manager 'would conveniently have around' him back in the New Kids' nineties heyday.On August 25, the Boston-born boybander revealed to ET that he had secretly wed Barry's Boston Instructor Harley Rodriguez sometime during the COVID-19 pandemic after around 13 years of dating.The 43-year-old Frosted Tips host knows a thing or two about being in the closet having only hooked up with women until he was 22 during his heyday in the boyband *NSYNC.
