WELCOME TO JOHNNY WEIR’S WORLD
Star figure skater Johnny Weir stopped by to promote his new book, ‘Welcome to My World,’ and laughed off Howard’s comment about his dramatic make-up: “I wanted to do a natural man make-up for you.” Howard asked why Johnny wasn’t more successful at the Vancouver Olympics, so Johnny referenced the “political” judging scandal that followed the competition: “I skated the best I ever did and that’s unfortunately [all] I’ve got to show for it. You bend over and you take it.”
Howard asked if there might be an anti-gay bias, but Johnny dodged the issue: “The people that do judge us are about a half a century older than us, so there is a cultural gap there.” Johnny said he was glad the games were over, as he has time to rest before he starts training for 2014: “It’s nice to have this year where I can actually eat.” Johnny is 5’9” tall and currently weighs 136lbs--a size necessary for figure skating’s aerials: “You can’t be heavy or bulky. It’s devotion.”
FROM CORNFIELDS TO ARENAS
Howard noted that Johnny started his athletic career as a competitive horseback rider, so Johnny explained: “And I skied before that. I’m bad at the team sports...I learned to skate, really, on a cornfield that froze over behind my house.” Johnny said he progressed quickly: “I had some natural gift. In my first year of skating, I was on the national team for the United States.”
Howard asked if Johnny was a rich man, but Johnny denied it, saying he reinvests every penny: “Everything that I make goes back into my art...into helping me achieve things that I want to achieve.” One of those achievements might finally put him into the black: “We’re working on my own sort of stage production and spectacular.”
WEIR IN THE BEDROOM
Asked to name his ideal man, Johnny picked Justin Timberlake: “That sort of type. With the scruff and the hair and, you know, because I’m sort of feminine. So, I mean, I like a guy--a man.” But he’s not strictly a bottom: “I like to try whatever happens.” Howard laughed: “Well, you seem like a fun guy. I’d go out with you.” Johnny said he was ‘platinum’: “I like to call it a platinum gay, the ones that will flip.”
Johnny said he knew he was gay at 6 years old: “I was watching ‘Pretty Woman’ with my family and I wanted--desperately--to be Julia Roberts.” Howard wondered if he’d ever had a woman, so Johnny said he’d only kissed his girlfriends for practice: “I have seen the small man in the boat but I’ve never licked it.” Johnny also speculated that he could finish when receiving anal sex (“If it’s good, yes. [But] it’s never happened. No one’s been that good yet.”) and bragged about his oral sex prowess: “Well, I’ve got a larger bottom lip than a top one, so that may give me an advantage.”
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