Which indeed they couldn’t, lest they add substance to the rumor. Hudson maintained that the prank had destroyed his friendship with Nabors, saying: “I’ll tell you one thing that makes me sad about this, and that’s that Jim Nabors and I are no longer friends. “I heard from time to time that ‘it’ happened in Las Vegas, in London, even right in my own home. Despite our denials,” Rock said, “some people are going to believe whatever they want to believe. It has reached such tremendous proportions, there’s really nothing to say. It is absolutely preposterous and ridiculous. Then all of a sudden I’m getting a lot of mail about the whole stupid situation. “I heard it from a woman who heard it through her hairdresser. “I love kids,” he continued, “But I’ve been so busy with my career that I really haven’t given marriage much thought.”Īt the same time, Hudson told entertainment reporter Hy Gardner that: Why would somebody do something like this to me?” “As God is my witness, I’ve never done anything to hurt anybody.
“I haven’t seen Rock Hudson since two seasons ago when he did my television show.” It would take years to get it into court, and then, by that time, so what?” Nobody cares and they have ten lawsuits in front of you. You sue a fan magazine and you get nowhere. “What would we gain?” All it would accomplish would be to draw attention to it. Nabors confided that his first reaction to the story was to sue for libel and slander, a tactic currently being pursued by Rock Hudson who has reportedly hired a battery of lawyers to gather evidence (or lack of evidence) for a future legal battle. The story of Nabors’ supposed affiliation with Hudson began several months ago when a fan magazine carried an article which, without mentioning any names, led readers to believe it was written about Nabors and Hudson. But how do you convince people of something like that? What do you do about a story as horrible as that?” “It’s so ridiculous, yet so horrible, I really don’t know what to say.
recently, and Rock Hudson have been the victims of a vicious, unfounded and unwarranted story linking them with a non-existent homosexual marriage. The rumor was so prominent that both stars addressed it in the national press and considered filing lawsuits over the matter, with Nabors telling a newspaper syndicate in 1971 that: Hudson would hereinafter be known as “Rock Pyle,” once again proving the adage no joke is so obvious that some won’t get it. Other gossipmongers spread the word, including a Chicago disk jockey who described the participants as “sort of the rock of Hollywood” and “a plain guy … just neighbors.” That the joke should have explained itself escaped notice: very few picked up on the idea that hunky Mr. A fan magazine picked up on the invites and ran an item which named no names but alluded to the wedding of two same-sex stars. It’s an engraved invitation, and to make it amusing they will say, “You’re cordially invited to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in Huntington Beach.” One year the invitation was, “You are cordially invited to the wedding reception of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors.” And it went all over the country. There appears to be a couple of elderly, or middle-aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach, which is just down the coast from Los Angeles, who every year give a party, a big party, 500 people or so. No one, it appears, was looking to harm either Hudson or Nabors this was an instance of playful exuberance taken as dead seriousness.Īs Rock Hudson reported about the tale’s origins: Unlike many bits of celebrity gossip, this tale began as a good-natured in-joke about two men in the entertainment industry whom insiders knew to be homosexual but who remained closeted to the public a bit of silliness that was not intended to malign either man or be mistaken for fact.
That is certainly the case with the rumored Nabors-Hudson union, a fabrication that entered popular lore in 1971. Sometimes the most ridiculous rumors are the ones that prove the longest-lived.
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