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Rod Stewart: Stomach Pump After Gay Encounter Never Happened

Rod Stewart: Stomach Pump After Gay Encounter Never Happened

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Katie Couric isn't afraid to ask the hard questions -- maybe that's why her new talk show's ratings are so good -- and she recently asked singer Rod Stewart if he had his stomach pumped after a wild night with sailors in San Diego.

The long-standing rumor was debunked by the Brit singer, who blamed it on a vengeful former publicist.

"I used to have this guy work for me, he was a gay publicist," Stewart told Couric. "He's dead now, so he might be watching. I had to fire him because he did something terrible, which I won't go into. So he wanted revenge, so he started this rumor about me, and it was horrible because my kids were at school. So that is definitely not true ... I'm as heterosexual as they come."

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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.