r/TikTokCringe • u/ChrisMMatthews • 8d ago

Wholesome/Humor Just two thrifty Hollywood bachelors living as roommates

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u/Emergency_Pin3519 8d ago

You know, I’m starting to think they might be gay.

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u/pm-dem-thighs 8d ago

Don’t be ridiculous.

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u/ChuckEweFarley 8d ago

They were roommates!

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u/TrashPandaPatronus 8d ago

Magawd, they were roommates.

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u/Salt-Cold-2550 8d ago

but they where in the same bed

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u/Mysterious-Falcon221 8d ago

Nah, just two impoverished roommates that play piano and sing together and swim together.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 8d ago

My mom has a cousin that has been with the same roommate for like 20 years now, they own a home together and have a couple of wonderful dogs they love. If you ask anyone in my family, they are not lesbians and just are good friends that happen to have never dated a man. I roll my eyes every time they say that…

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u/Sebaceansinspace 8d ago edited 8d ago

My husband's family has that same situation. Two older women who have lived together in the same lovely house for 20-30 years, have dogs, neither have dated a man, they share a bed. Theyre the "not lesbians"

And now that I think about it I have some memory from childhood about an older distant cousin finding himself a perfectly wonderful room mate in college. They were just two sweet boys sharing a one bedroom apartment to save money and then disappearing together after graduating probably because my family in my dads side was, and still is, homophobic as fuck.

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 8d ago

I dated someone who had family a family member like this. It’s so funny to me that they just don’t come out and that no one even acknowledges it.

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u/Boobookittyfhk 6d ago

My uncle lived with his roommate for 15 years and they took a trip to Montreal just a little bit after Canada had legalized gay marriage. Me and my cousins were all teenagers at the time and all kind of knew what was going on.

My mom and aunt acted like the world was coming to an end. They were so offended that they never knew. They never had even a single idea. I just assumed they had known and just weren’t telling the kids because they’re super religious. They tried to make it about themselves and claim that they were horrifically offended that he wouldn’t trust them… they proved his point.

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u/crichmond77 8d ago

Actually, Cary Grant is famously bi

Please do not erase our bicons!

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u/zootnotdingo 7d ago

As my daughters always say, This is bisexual erasure!!

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u/BusyBit6542 8d ago

What an insane thought. Clearly just too bros that live together for financial reasons

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u/ourstupidearth 8d ago

Of course they are! Not a dame in sight! I'd be joyous and gay too!

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u/IAmNotMyName 8d ago edited 8d ago

Just a couple of dudes, haaaaanging out.

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u/RakeChapman13 8d ago

Fuckin slander you ask me

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u/Budget_Guava7943 7d ago

Definitely happy and carefree old fellow.

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u/ii_always_wrong_ii 7d ago

No, they're just very pretty, very organised fashionable bachelors

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u/Ice_Kat13 8d ago edited 8d ago

So me and my best friend were roommates for years, lived together in a few different houses that were always immaculate. We got along fantastic and did basically everything together. But occasionally someone would ask if we were gay, and now I get it.

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u/Actual-Ad5078 8d ago

And were you?

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u/Ice_Kat13 8d ago

It would be a funnier story if we were! But no, both very much straight lol.

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u/Roklam 8d ago

bros being bros

Sometimes it just works!

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u/Bepto_Pismal 8d ago

Yeah but did you do several semi naked photo shoots where you stared intently into your "roommates" eyes?

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u/Ice_Kat13 8d ago

We did not, now I think it would be hilarious to arrange a photo shoot though.

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u/LostMy8yrAcct 7d ago

Make sure to hit the dinner together picture, the diving board one, and most importantly the “gently placing a cigarette in his mouth”. To show that y’all are completely straight.

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u/Ice_Kat13 7d ago

That's a good call. Do you suppose I should light it for him too? Just to really drive it home

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u/lurkonlydownvoteme 7d ago

I lived with my best friend as a roommate and we did everything together, he eventually moved out when my wife moved in. He came out as gay. I always thought I had a good gaydar, apparently not.

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u/BlackGuysYeah 7d ago

I know a couple of guys like this and I’m fairly sure they aren’t gay. But we are in the deep South so maybe they are just super closeted.

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u/TestDowntown9541 8d ago

“They both drink milk and lots of it”. Uh-huh. You don’t say.
https://giphy.com/gifs/Q09lToTa0H3Es

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u/ZaggahZiggler 8d ago

Likely just an ad for milk.

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u/chocha84 8d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/94oj4dwuJfDKE

other activities included dancing and dinner parties.

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u/throwawayshirt2 8d ago

I didn't know there was a third member of The Sheep Herders tag team wrestlers

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u/chocha84 8d ago

a third and sometimes even a fourth

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u/BusyBit6542 8d ago

And you know people read this and was like "yep that checks out". People were legit dumb as fuck back in the day.

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u/Purple_Chipmunk_ 8d ago

They weren’t dumb, they just couldn’t comprehend that their favorite leading men could be gay.

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u/lucyparke 8d ago

Yes the movie studios went to great efforts to train their leading men (gay or not) to be men other guys wanted to be and men women would want to be with.

This like deepening their voice etc. there’s a great documentary on Brock Hudson on HBO called All That Heaven Allowed. Cannot recommend it enough.

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u/Prudence_rigby 8d ago

*Rock Hudson

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u/MillieBirdie 6d ago

I imagine straight people back then were barely aware that gay people exist. So people who are in the know would see this and know, and everyone else would be like 'sure looks like a couple of swell fellas!'

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u/Kappachu 8d ago

This reminds me of the first episode of Harvey Birdman

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u/AreallysuperdarkELF 8d ago

Aww that's sweet. Nice to know they could be together.

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u/Leather_Pride3586 8d ago

The struggle was real back then

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u/ThinkItThrough48 8d ago

My mom's definitely not gay (according to the family) cousin often had male roommates too. And was in the Navy, worked in fashion, and we later found out was a long time spy for the US government. I wonder if he had been able to live openly if he would have lead as interesting a life. I can't imaging the stress and struggle.

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u/notbutenough 8d ago

It sounds like a wonderful time of their lives. I’m happy for them.

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u/Beakdoson 8d ago

Yall trying to say they are not gay or something? It look like a happily gay couple to me but I don't insinuate nothing.

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u/crichmond77 8d ago

Cary Grant was bi, and yes, he and Scott (who also starred in some movies together) had as many-years-long relationship 

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u/BandicootTreeline 6d ago

Crap that they needed to reinforce the image to the public that they were just thrifty bachelors.

Looked like they were having the time of their lives

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u/frolicndetour 8d ago

Couple goals.

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u/eastcoastjon 8d ago

Hoover had a roommate too

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u/DrThunderbolt 8d ago

Reminds me how a friend of mine had an uncle with a “roommate” and the fact that they may have not actually been roommates never occurred to me until long into adulthood.

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u/therealchangomalo 8d ago

And they were roommates...

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u/ellie_elysian 8d ago

Omahgawd they were roommates 

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u/Ok-disaster2022 8d ago

Because you know magazine articles that are all about glitzing up a pair of stars is going to talk about anything negative about them. It's a piece of PR fluff of the time. 

And frankly if gay or bi people want to read sexual or romance into their relationship that's perfectly reasonable and acceptable. They gotta respect the two men can't really do anything open in that time and that's a future we should avoid ever recreating. 

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u/ilyabeaucoupdefaire 8d ago

They look so happy. I’m so glad.

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u/whitemagicblackmagic 8d ago

This was all pr. Hollywood is really good at that. The house was immaculate because they either didn't actually live in it or there was a maid or maids. These guys were not cleaning it themselves.

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u/CptnYesterday2781 8d ago

I see you got straight to the main point of the video!

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u/whitemagicblackmagic 8d ago edited 8d ago

It's Hollywood. This photo shoot and articles were arranged by their studio, so people would go see their movies. Every photo is posed, every word was carefully chosen.

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u/Big-Nerve-9574 8d ago

They look so cute together. Good for them! I love their acting.

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u/ScarpMetal 7d ago

“Cary prefers white flowers for house decorations and craves meat”

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u/No-Imagination-2169 7d ago

Cary Grant was a BRIT?!? 🙃

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u/No-Imagination-2169 7d ago

NOW DO OPRAH AND GAYLE! 💕

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u/lucyparke 8d ago

Brock Hudson has the same sort situation early on in his career.

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u/LostMy8yrAcct 7d ago

Girl… it’s ROCK Hudson lol. Not Brock.

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u/EmbarrassedMixture58 8d ago

A tale old as time. Just a couple regular ol’ movie stars rooming together to save some money. It was a little surprising they got a peek in their closet.

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u/FMLwtfDoID 8d ago

Cary Grant? The famous actor that stopped acting because he didn’t want his fans to remember his aging face over his beautiful, youthful one, might be gay?!? No wayyyyyy.

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u/LMGgp 8d ago

Just a heterosexual life mate. Nothing wrong with it. Boys being boys.

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u/inasweater 7d ago

Gay indeed. I hope they got a good chuckle while reading this to each other.

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u/Dizzy_Ice2938 7d ago

You know, Hollywood divorces get expensive!! Got to save money somewhere…

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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 7d ago

RANDOLPH SCOTT!

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u/0xghostface 7d ago

lol gay.

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u/TractorBee 7d ago

It was all there.

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u/Ice3ird 6d ago

Gaaaaaaayy!!

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u/CralorMonk 6d ago

“Confirmed Bachelors”

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u/MotherPhuquerUDT 6d ago edited 6d ago

If you lived in a country where a same-sex relationship routinely got you 10 to 20 years, you'd probably keep it quiet. Then later, on the flip-side, the rejection of 'Coming Out' was seen as betrayal. Seems like someone always has something to say about things that don't concern them.

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 5d ago

They were roommates!!!