Newlywed Game To Have First Gay Couple! George Takei and Husband Brad - Page 2
George and Brad married on Sept 14th of last year and the guest list included fellow Star Trekers, Leonard Nimoy, aka Spock, Walter Koenig, aka Anton Yelchin Chekov, who was George's best man with Nichelle Nichols aka Uhura as the maid of honor.
Wedding Party Trekers Uhura, and Chekov with George and Brad
Fellow Trekers, the late James Montgomery Doohan aka "Scotty" and the late DeForrest Kelly aka "Bones" who passed away some time back were hopefully there in spirit.
There was another Treker who was not present at the wedding. William Shatner aka Captain Kirk, who was not invited to George's wedding and it caused quite the riff between the two to say the least.
Apparently George was not a big fan of working with Shatner during the Star Trek years, and according to Takei, Shatner supposedly did not accept Takei's coming out as well as the other cast members.
So I guess George snubbing Shatner sent him a big message. I was never a fan of Shatner. I always found him creepy and pompous, perhaps George felt the same way.
George even spoke at Shatner's roast in 2005, but I think George's insults were more on the serious side compared to the other roaster guests.
On George's website, you can watch a fabulous video and hear George and Brad talk about their wedding, their rings, their fight against Prop 8 and they also included some actual footage from their wedding.
So back to the Newlywed Game.....
The airing of this show is such a wonderful step towards the acknowledgment of equality for gay marriages. Kudos and a big round of applause for GNS for airing this show.
The new format of the show has not strayed too far from the original format. I would imagine that some questions had to be updated due to the changing times and there are only three couples on the new show instead of four like the original. So Bob Eubanks will be very happy that the show stayed pretty true to the original.
A snippette from EOnline :
GSN is boldly going where no Newlywed Game has gone before.Star Trek's George Takei, he of the mean Jon Gosselin impression, and partner Brad Altman will be the first same-sex couple ever to participate in the game show when the cable net airs a celebrity edition later this season.
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