Clay Aiken: I'm a Gay Dad

Following the Aug. 8 bearing of his son Parker, accompanist Clay Aiken is afterward through on a affiance he fabricated to himself as a new dad: to about accede that he's gay.

"It was the aboriginal accommodation I fabricated as a father," Aiken, 29, tells the accessible affair of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. "I cannot accession a adolescent to lie or to adumbrate things. I wasn't aloft that way, and I'm not traveling to accession a adolescent to do that."

Aiken says he expects the account may beat some of his fans. "Whether it be accepting a adolescent out of wedlock, or whether it be artlessly getting a homosexual, it's traveling to be a lot," said Aiken, who alternate to Broadway endure anniversary as Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot.

He adds that he hopes his admirers "know that I've never advised to lie to anybody at all. ... But if they leave, I don't wish them to leave antisocial me."

How He Came Out to His Family

The born-again Christian accompanist aswell reveals how he told his mother Faye he's gay four years ago. After bottomward off his adolescent brother Brett, who was getting deployed to Iraq, at Camp Lejeune, "I started arrant in the car," Aiken remembers. "It was dark. I was sitting there, cerebration to myself. I don't apperceive why I started cerebration about it ... I just started bawling. She fabricated me cull over the car and it just came out."

So what was his mom's reaction? "She started crying. She was acutely somewhat stunned. But she was actual admiring and actual comforting." Even now, Aiken admits, "She still struggles with things absolutely a bit, but she's appear a continued way."

As for his own child, Aiken tells PEOPLE that Parker – who was conceived via in vitro fertilization with his best friend, music ambassador Jaymes Foster – will be aloft in an ambiance that is "accepting and acceptance him to be happy."

Says Aiken: "I accept no abstraction if he'll be gay or straight. It's not something I'll accept annihilation to do with, or that he'll accept annihilation to do with. It's already apparently up central the cipher there ... No amount what the bearings you're in, if you're aloft in a admiring environment, that's the a lot of important thing."

'Project Aerodrome All Stars' Casting Revealed

'Project Aerodrome All Stars' is hitting the aerodrome this winter. The architecture antagonism will premieres Thurs., Jan 5. at 9PM ET on Lifetime.
Supermodel Angela Lindvall hosts the antagonism and Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles will play mentor. Designers Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman will aswell serve on the board panel. According to the Hollywood Reporter, bedfellow board cover Miss Piggy, Miranda Kerr and Pharrell Williams.
Check out the casting account below!
The 'Project Runaway All Stars' abiding contestants include:
Kenley Collins (Brooklyn, NY) -- Season 5, Additional runner-up.
Michael Costello (Palm Springs, CA) -- Season 8, fourth place.
Gordana Gehlhausen (San Diego, CA) -- Season 6, fourth place.
Mondo Guerra (Denver,CO) -- Season 8, runner-up.
Mila Hermanovski (Los Angeles, CA) -- Season 7, additional runner-up.
Kara Janx (New York, NY) -- Season 2, fourth place.
Elisa Jimenez (New York, NY) -- Season 4, 10th place.
April Johnston (Savannah, GA) -- Season 8, fifth place.
Rami Kashou (Los Angeles, CA)-- Season 4, runner-up.
Austin Scarlett (New York, NY) -- Season 1, fourth place.
Jerell Scott (New York, NY) -- Season 5, fourth place.
Sweet P/Kathleen Vaughn (Pasadena, CA) -- Season 4, fifth place.
Anthony Williams (Atlanta, GA) -- Season 7, fifth place.

Nick Cannon

Nick Cannon Suffers ‘Kidney Failure’ as Mariah Carey Tweets Pic

Actor and radio host Nick Cannon is accepting his new year off to a aching start, as he’s allegedly laid up in an Aspen hospital afterwards adversity what his wife Mariah Carey calls “mild branch failure.”

Carey tweeted a photo of Nick in his hospital bed and aswell took to her her blog to address some words of abutment for her ailing hubby. Mariah describes the bearings as “role reversal; Last year it was me absorbed to the machines (after accepting dembabies) and Nick was there with me through it, and now actuality we are.” She continues, explaining,We’re aggravating to be as blithe as accessible beneath the affairs but amuse accumulate Nick in your thoughts because this is actual painful. They approved to bang me out of the hospital but actuality I am pon de bed with Mr. C.

We’re accomplishing OK but we’re “straaaaaanded in Aspen”. #DramaticDivaPlace (I know, we could be in a lot worse places) but the accuracy is as continued as we’re together, we’re OK. I’m not aggravating to accomplish ablaze out of the bearings because it’s a austere moment that’s actual boxy on all of us so amuse accumulate us and our ancestors in your prayers. LYM.

On Twitter, Mariah said “Please adjure for Nick as he’s angry to balance from a balmy branch failure,” but didn’t accord abundant abroad in the way of advice or detail.

Sugar Bowl

Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech leads Michigan 3-0 afterwards aboriginal quarter

Virginia Tech third-string article Justin Myer fabricated a 37-yard acreage ambition to accord the Hokies a 3-0 advance over Michigan in the aboriginal division of the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Tuesday night at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

Logan Thomas collection Virginia Tech down the acreage on its aperture possession, ambience up first-and-goal at the 4-yard line. But tailback David Wilson antipodal field, accident 22 yards afterwards getting chased down by linebacker Jake Ryan. The Hokies followed that play with a adjournment of bold penalty. They acquired 12 yards on additional and third down to set up Myer's kick.

On the after drive, cornerback Kyle Fuller intercepted Denard Robinson at the Wolverines' 28. The division concluded with the Hokies adverse third-and-7 from the 31.

Some first-quarter stats:

Robinson accomplished the division 1-for-2 for 11 yards with an interception and a passer appraisement of -3.8. Thomas was 7-for-10 for 101 yards and a passer appraisement of 154.8. The Hokies captivated the brawl for 11:01.

Iowa Conclave 2012

Iowa Conclave 2012 Results: Ron Paul Faring Well, Access Poll Says, With Romney, Santorum Abutting Behind

Ron Paul is aboriginal bank and in the lead, with Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum abutting abaft in the Iowa Conclave 2012, according to aboriginal after-effects and after-effects from and access poll, CNN and The Associated Press report.

Romney and Paul were angry in the GOP presidential choice conclave in access acclamation taken Tuesday. It's the aboriginal chase in the 2012 presidential primaries. AP is advertisement the Paul is in the advance in aboriginal results.

According to CNN, Romney, the above Massachusetts governor, was angry with Paul, the U.S. adumbrative from Texas, at 24 percent in a sampling of voters entering the conclave at altered polling places throughout the state.

But Santorum, a above U.S. agent from Pennyslvania, was faring able-bodied also, with 18 percent, CNN reported. Newt Gingrich was fourth in the access poll at 13 percent while Texas Governor Rick Perry was fifth at 11 percent and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was sixth was seven percent. Bachmann had ahead won the Iowa harbinger poll this summer.

The Iowa caucuses started at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Iowa has 1,774 precincts a part of its 99 counties area votes are cast.

According to The Associated Press, aboriginal after effects or 11 percent of precincts advertisement Paul had 24 percent of the vote while Santorum had 23 percent and Romney had 23 percent.

Roughly 120,000 voters aggregate at the locations including blaze stations, schools and accessible accessories and even some clandestine homes for voting.

Recent acclamation in Iowa accept showed a abutting chase a part of the leaders, including Romney and Paul, with Santorum accepting ground.

Candidates accept spent tens of millions in Iowa, and attack ads accept angry particulary abrogating if not awful in contempo weeks as the conclave neared.