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NKOTB Jonathan Knight Publicly Comes Out
New Kid on the Block Jonathan Knight, who is now 42 and claims to have been out for the last 20 years, has made it official in a remark, saying:
“I have never been outed by anyone but myself! I did so almost twenty years ago. I never knew that I would have to do it all over again publicly just because I reunited with NKOTB! I have lived my life very openly and include never hidden the fact that I am gay! Apparently the prerequisite to being a lgbtq+ public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption ‘I am gay’. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!”
This all got started a couple weeks ago when during an interview with Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, 80’s teen pop singer Tiffany said that she and Jonathan dated back when she toured with NKOTB. “[He] became queer later,” Tiffany said. “I didn’t undertake it. I had issues with that. I was thinking maybe I did. Now looking endorse when we were dating, he was so much pleasurable. We used to do facials together. He was so easy to speak to.”
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Before BTS, before Backstreet Boys, before NSYNC, there was New Kids on the Block (NKOTB). With the discharge of their second album, 1988's Hangin' Tough, Jonathan Knight, Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood became instant teen idols with their hit singles "You Got It (The Right Stuff)," "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)," and, of course, the title track itself. They scored another hit at the turn of the century with "Step by Step," but despite selling 80 million records worldwide, musical tastes changed, and the band broke up in 1994 after a ten-year run.
After a 14-year break, the band reunited and released their comeback album, The Block. Since then, the band has been touring non-stop to their legions of fans and show no signs of slowing down. In 2014, Modern Kids on the Block received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the success they have enjoyed was something they never imagined. "When we started, our concept of being really famous was, appreciate, being known in Boston," Wahlberg explained (via Variety). "That was our goal, to walk down the street and have
New Kids on the Block member Jonathan Knight is a proud newlywed these days, but he says he felt “a lot of pressure” to cloak his true self during the early stages of his music career.
Knight, who is gay, appeared this week on the “Frosted Tips with Lance Bass” podcast, where he shared the painful memory of being told by a manager that his time as a pop singer would be “over” if he addressed his sexuality publicly.
“My manager knew I was gay,” Knight recalled to Bass. “He pulled me aside and he was like: ‘If anybody finds out, then your career’s over, the New Kids’ careers [are] over ... Sony’s gonna lose money.’ It was just so much pressure. Looking back, that was a lot of pressure to put on somebody who is just trying to figure out the world themselves.”
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A Boston native, Knight was just 17 when the Recent Kids on the Block released their self-titled debut album in 1986. The boy band ― which includes Knight’s brother Jordan, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood ― became one of MTV’s most popular acts two years later, when their second album, “Hangin’ Tough,” turned out to be a global smash.
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New Kids on the Block member Jonathan Knight recently opened up about creature forced to hold his sexuality a secret during the band’s heyday, and having to deal with the pressure of it.
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The 54-year-old singer revealed in an episode of Frosted Tips with Lance Bass podcast that his manager knew he was gay, but he was told to hide it from the public.
“My manager knew I was gay,” Knight told Lance Bass and Joey Fatone.
Bass then asked him,
“Did they ever tell you you can’t tell anything?”
And to that, the “Step by Step” singer admitted,
“My manager actually did. He pulled me aside and was like, ‘If anybody finds out, your career is over. The New Kids’ career is over. My career is over.'”
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“It was just so much pressure,” he added.
Knight further recalled,
“Looking back, that was a lot of pressure to put on somebody who’s just trying to figure out the world themselves. As it went along, the force built up and built up and built