Newsrooms around the country went into overdrive on Friday as rumours
spread like wildfire that Ian Thorpe had struck a magazine deal with
his alleged lover, pop star Ricky Martin, to do a "tell all" about their
supposed romance. But the deal, if true, is not with any magazines published in Australia, nor with any local media outlet.
PS joined a conga line of reporters hitting the phones in an
attempt to get to the bottom of the rumour, which was regurgitated ad
nauseam on social media despite the lack of any confirmation or tangible
facts. Thorpe's manager, James Erksine, who engineered the former
swimmer's mega-buck deal to come out about his sexuality to Michael
Parkinson in a nationally broadcast interview aired on Channel Ten in
July, hosed the speculation down, telling PS on Friday afternoon: "I
think someone is having you on."
PS can also confirm that Thorpe was nowhere near Martin's Coogee digs
during the singer's stay in Sydney for the most recent season of
Channel Nine's The Voice. One source, who spent considerable time with Martin, said the romance story was "rubbish". However, with social media and several news websites running
claims that a mystery magazine had paid $500,000 for the story, it would
count as some very expensive trash.
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