Patrick Stewart responds to ‘The Guardian’s gay mistake
By Nick Levine
Patrick Stewart has responded to being mistakenly labelled “gay” by The Guardian.
The actor was one of many stars to voice support for Ellen Page – with whom he appears in the forthcoming X-Men movie, Days of Future Past – after she came out as gay on Friday (February 14).
A subsequent opinion piece published in The Guardian featured the sentence: “Some gay people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page’s coming out speech is newsworthy.”
After readers pointed out that Stewart is in fact married to a woman, The Guardian corrected the article, prompting an amusing response from Stewart on Twitter.
He tweeted: “But @guardian I have, like, five or even SEVEN hetero friends and we totally drink beer and eat lots of chicken wings!”
Over the last year or so, Patrick Stewart has built up a large social media following as he and fellow actor Ian McKellen have become known for posing for quirky selfies together, including this impossibly cute Super Bowl selfie.