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The 'truth' about Cary Grant's sexuality is finally revealed: He was the subject of rumours for decades, now a friend has told all about his male lover. TOM LEONARD explores the Hollywood legend's legacy
The debate over the sexuality of a matinee idol who once said 'making love is the best form of exercise' has raged for almost a century.
A few years ago, he told Grant’s biographer Scott Eyman that the actor had admitted being ‘basically gay as a young man, later bisexual, still later straight’ and that homosexuality was ‘part of the journey, not necessarily the final destination’. Scott Eyman, author of the 2020 biography Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise, claimed the horrendous experience of being told aged 11 that his mother was dead, only to discover 20 years later she’d been put in a mental asylum in Bristol came to define the actor’s life. Cary Grant, real name Archibald Leach (pictured age five) was born in 1904 in a working-class Bristol suburb to a feckless, alcoholic father and a mentally unstable mother
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