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Billie Eilish Outs Variety for Outing Her

Rich and Weekly

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Aricia Skidmore-williams, Daily Gossip, Pop Culture, Opinion, Entertainment News, Hot Goss, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News, Even The Rich, Society & Culture, Brooke Siffrinn

4.0962 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Billie Eilish just came out...or did she? In a cover story with Variety last month, the “What Was I Made For?” singer revealed that she’s attracted to women. This caused a big stir online, since she’s always been linked to guys and has even been accused of queerbaiting in the past. At Variety’s Hitmakers Event on Saturday, a reporter asked Billie if she meant to come out in the cover story. She laughed it off then, but now, she says Variety basically outed her. People online are divided. Some say Variety was outta line, while others think Billie had already outed herself and Variety deserves a pass.

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0:00.0

Brooke, it can get tricky for entertainment reporters when they interview celebrities.

0:10.8

We've talked about this a few times where like the celebrity just is not giving it

0:15.5

or the interviewer is just trying to get something out of them and they're like

0:19.4

nah like doja cat being a kitten. I can't.

0:24.0

You know, because on the one hand, entertainment reporters, you know,

0:27.0

they want to dig up never before, heard personal information

0:30.0

from the celebrity and make headlines similar to how you're always

0:33.8

trying to figure out what questions to ask when we go on other people's

0:37.0

podcasts. I know. We'll get that viral moment. It's like come on we're trying to

0:41.7

accomplish something here people. It's like, come on, we're trying to accomplish something here, people.

0:43.9

Like, Heidi Spencer, tell us your top five celebrities, my God.

0:47.8

Just tell us.

0:49.0

It's a simple question.

0:50.9

But the flip side of that, of course, is there's a line that these reporters need to be careful not to cross and that's where they get a little too personal.

1:00.0

Yeah, I mean, I don't think we've ever really had this situation where we've like gotten too personal

1:05.0

when we're interviewing, but like I understand being on both sides, like accidentally like saying

1:09.7

something that you didn't intend to say and then like opening up so you know it's tough

1:14.0

it's tough on both sides you know yeah yeah well and it's looking like Billy

1:17.6

Eilish feels that variety crossed the line with her so last month she did an

1:22.3

interview with them and in that interview she spoke

1:25.2

pretty openly about something that she rarely talks about yeah who she's

1:29.1

attracted to and shockingly things have now taken a turn.

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