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Photo credit: GFettry Images/Files
Lucile Ball took a
shocking secret to the grave — that her co-star
Vivian Vance might have
really “loved Lucy!”
“Vivian was apparently in the closet, and there were whispers of a lesbian affair between her and Lucy for years,” a source revealed to
The National ENQUIRER. “It haunted them both until their deaths!”
The comedic couple couldn’t have come out during their TV heyday in the 1950s. “If reports had surfaced back then that they were lovers, it would have destroyed I Love Lucy,” longtime media critic Bill Mann told the ENQUIRER. “The American public would not have been ready for that!”
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Photo credit: GFettry Images/Files
Lucile Ball took a
shocking secret to the grave — that her co-star
Vivian Vance might have
really “loved Lucy!”
“Vivian was apparently in the closet, and there were whispers of a lesbian affair between her and Lucy for years,” a source revealed to
The National ENQUIRER. “It haunted them both until their deaths!”
The comedic couple couldn’t have come out during their TV heyday in the 1950s. “If reports had surfaced back then that they were lovers, it would have destroyed I Love Lucy,” longtime media critic Bill Mann told the ENQUIRER. “The American public would not have been ready for that!”
“We adored each other’s company," Vivian wrote in an unpublished tell-all she penned before her 1979 death from bone cancer. "Then I began hearing that Lucille and I were too close.” Viv also wrote that Lucy came between her and ex-husband Philip Ober, who “disapproved” of their closeness: “‘People are talking about you two,’ he’d say. ‘You ought to be careful about the hugging and kissing you do on the show.’”
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Photo credit: GFettry Images/Files
Lucile Ball took a
shocking secret to the grave — that her co-star
Vivian Vance might have
really “loved Lucy!”
“Vivian was apparently in the closet, and there were whispers of a lesbian affair between her and Lucy for years,” a source revealed to
The National ENQUIRER. “It haunted them both until their deaths!”
The comedic couple couldn’t have come out during their TV heyday in the 1950s. “If reports had surfaced back then that they were lovers, it would have destroyed I Love Lucy,” longtime media critic Bill Mann told the ENQUIRER. “The American public would not have been ready for that!”
“We adored each other’s company," Vivian wrote in an unpublished tell-all she penned before her 1979 death from bone cancer. "Then I began hearing that Lucille and I were too close.” Viv also wrote that Lucy came between her and ex-husband Philip Ober, who “disapproved” of their closeness: “‘People are talking about you two,’ he’d say. ‘You ought to be careful about the hugging and kissing you do on the show.’”
Vivian’s 18-year marriage to Philip ended in 1959 and two years later she married literary agent John Dodds, who was rumored to prefer men! Dodds certainly didn’t object when Lucy and Viv next starred together, as roommates, for three seasons of “The Lucy Show,” starting in 1962.
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Photo credit: GFettry Images/Files
Lucile Ball took a
shocking secret to the grave — that her co-star
Vivian Vance might have
really “loved Lucy!”
“Vivian was apparently in the closet, and there were whispers of a lesbian affair between her and Lucy for years,” a source revealed to
The National ENQUIRER. “It haunted them both until their deaths!”
The comedic couple couldn’t have come out during their TV heyday in the 1950s. “If reports had surfaced back then that they were lovers, it would have destroyed I Love Lucy,” longtime media critic Bill Mann told the ENQUIRER. “The American public would not have been ready for that!”
“We adored each other’s company," Vivian wrote in an unpublished tell-all she penned before her 1979 death from bone cancer. "Then I began hearing that Lucille and I were too close.” Viv also wrote that Lucy came between her and ex-husband Philip Ober, who “disapproved” of their closeness: “‘People are talking about you two,’ he’d say. ‘You ought to be careful about the hugging and kissing you do on the show.’”
Vivian’s 18-year marriage to Philip ended in 1959 and two years later she married literary agent John Dodds, who was rumored to prefer men! Dodds certainly didn’t object when Lucy and Viv next starred together, as roommates, for three seasons of “The Lucy Show,” starting in 1962.
In 1989, Lucy died of an aortic rupture, and that year the manuscript of Viv’s memoir — which her husband had stashed in their San Francisco home — finally surfaced. Chances are the redhead would have been pleased if the book were published. Asked in 1980 about gay rights, Lucy said, “It’s perfectly all right with me! “Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?”