Patrick Stewart laughs off newspaper’s gay blunder

Veteran British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has laughed off a howling blunder by editors at a U.K. newspaper after he was mistakenly labelled gay. The Star Trek icon, who has been married to three women over the years, hit headlines on Monday (17Feb14) when a writer for Britain’s The Guardian described him as gay in an article about actress Ellen Page, who ‘came out’ over the weekend (15-16Feb14).
The original article read, “Some gay people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page’s coming out speech is newsworthy,” and editors at the publication – which frequently campaigns to improve press standards – have since issued a correction.
Stewart has now spoken out about the incident and laughed it off in a series of humorous posts on his Twitter.com page.
He writes, “But @guardian I have, like, five or even SEVEN hetero friends and we totally drink beer and eat lots of chicken wings!… Well, @guardian it makes for a nice change… at least I didn’t wake up to the internet telling me I was dead again.”