Was George Clooney one of "Merv's Boys"?

A friend got invited to one of Merv's parties in the late 80s. My bud partied hard but he said that the shit he saw going down freaked even him out. He wound up leaving and had to walk like ten miles home.

No way would Merv hit on H'wood royalty unless he was 1,000% sure the kid would be receptive. Very deep in the closet, as everyone was then.

I was 19 & 21 when I went to 2 "Merv" parties in the 80s. I'm not going to say they weren't extremely wild but it was like most gay parties at the time just with... more. He loved to be naked in the center of a group of very handsome, naked, boys. He was the only"name" at the parties I attended and a major, [bold]major[/bold] flamer in private. The Conservative in him didn't like drugs and we were warned to keep that out of sight. He loved his rent boys. But he was a really nice man. A friend sang on his show a few times when she was a kid (tho she never pursued show biz) and said even then she knew he was gay but he treated her like a daughter; very affectionate, called to check on her, Christmas and birthday gifts.

I miss Merv so much. He was the king/queen of the talk show hosts.

Do you think he did Monte Rock III?

SO how was his body, r2? Was he hung? Did he do all the boys at his parties?

R3 LOL! Monti, darling. Please I know you're dust Mrs. M but get it right! Nah, he was too bottom-y for Merv.

From what I personally saw R4, (and he was always in the middle of a group, LOL) he did not look big, sadly. This was 86/88 and he was heavy by then, so was the perception altered by weight? Perhaps. But I heard boys in the know say he was on the small side--big balls tho--and that it didn't always work. Maybe why sucking was a major obsession for him--that I did see. He also loved to watch--who doesn't. Again, I was only at two parties and only through a friend of mine, a gorgeous top. I would not have been invited otherwise.

I loved the way Merv would lean forward while speaking to guests while sporting that grin and twinkle in his eyes and he does it here with a young Clooney. Always heard he was a genuinely nice guy.

Fantastic businessman, Merv was the richest guy in town for a while.

Seacrest is his true protege and absolutely made in his image. Without the charm.

Thanks Arthur

Did George identify as male in that clip? It is hard to tell.

BTW Nick Clooney was poor!?! Did Rosemary not send the checks?

Aren't there stories of Merv drugging young men and raping them while incapacitated? Then paying them off for silence? We're those trumped up stories by his rivals?

that was Bill Cosby r10

[quote]a major, major flamer in private.

Oh come on. He was a major flamer on TV. Whenever I had his show on I had to make sure the fire extinguisher was handy to put out the purple flames that would shoot out of my TV.

LOLs to all...everyone is really on tonight! So R12 you can imagine off screen. Seriously flamed and very warm, kind. I never, ever heard anything about him drugging anyone--he didn't have to. He paid upfront and very well. My friend who was invited to the parties ended up later being a..."guest at his home" many, many times and Merv was extremely generous with him. Although he said he could be oddly cheap about other things. That was never elaborated upon. I went to a couple of straight parties at his homes, too, as a guest of my friend.

You're welcome R8...I know I'm a helluva cook, LOL. I emailed my friend (the kid singer) who confirmed that they stayed in touch almost to his death. When she was little, I don't know how many will know this reference, he would take her to Rumplemeyer's for omelettes and hot fudge sundaes and then over to FAO to buy toys. She said he'd point her toward the dolls but she always wanted Matchbox cars and he'd "giggle and giggle" (her words) and let her have them. Something her parents would never do.

I like to think if he were alive now he might actually come out. You never know...okay, delusional.

Uh huh.

One "n" sweet cheeks. But yes, you're right of course.

Wasn't he BFFs with the Reagans?

Nancy's walker...very close to them and very Republican.

R13: the rumors weren't about rent boys. They referenced drugging young men who were either straight or not interesting in being a pro. He might need to drug them if they wouldn't take his money and he just had to have them. Not saying it's true, but I know that has been floated for years

Clooneyy doesn't ping at all. Not even 0.5%. And it's hard for a 22 year old to act different than what you are especially in 80's when scrutiny over celebs isn't that big. Just watch Bradley Cooper's, Lee Pace's, Spacey's videos when they were quite young. They ping like hell. Only as they got older they straightened it.

Honestly, I was a step away through my friend for about a decade and I never once heard that. Is it possible it was Liberace? They were great friends and he had no scruples at all--a truly horrible individual from everything I heard. He would have done it without a moment's pause. But I never heard anything like that about Merv.

The only thing a Google search uncovered was the sexual harassment suit by that dance fever kid. My elder gay uncle says the rumors were started by those who hated Merv for being a huge donating republican...

Since Griffin was dragged to court because of sexual molestation, the rumors are not that unlikely. I read in that connection that closeted men with power are much more likely to sexually molest than openly gays; I think the closeted with power are generally at a high risk to sexually molest, it is an outlet for them.

R21 That sounds about right. Actually, R22 and others re: the suit, everything I heard was that there was a lot more to that. Terio had had plenty of gay male sex (that I know for sure) and that the harassment was more extortion. The latter I can't say I know for sure. The former I can. He would have offered any amount of money had it been true, though. I tend to believe the extortion assertion. (Insertion?)

Did Merv give a good blowjob? He didn't need to worry about anything "working" to be able to do that.

I wonder if Merv got his own start as one of George Cukor's boys back in the 1940s?

Merv had a RED HOT smoking son named Tony. He did a few commercials with Merv back in the '70's or '80's. I wonder what happened to him?

Ryan Gaycrest probably was kept by Merv.

Is it true that Tony Danza was one of 'Merv's boys'?

I think Danza has been banned by all sexual persuasions

I'd take him

R29: sold!

Merv was apparently very gifted orally. And he was obsessed by giving head. Tony is married, still hot, has several kids (that Merv adored) and his (gay) mom attended his dad's funeral with he and his family.

Merv' wife was a lesbo?

Merv is buried next to our Farrah.

Yep...LOL R32

R33 all of that really good hair in one area...

Reading "Life in the Closet" currently. Merv apparently slept with many big name stars back in the day... Monty C., Roddy McDowall was his boyfriend for a while. (McDowall was supposedly a top and very, very good in bed also slept around constantly) Rock H., (also a top and good in bed), and a bunch of other producers and directors. Yes, Merv was in and out of many beds when he was younger.

He was great friends with a lot of politicians as he acquired more and more wealth. In particular The Reagans.

R36, that book is by Darwin Porter, one of the worst celebrity biographers known to humankind.

All I know is what I heard, time and time and time again, back in the day:

"You don't get on Merv Griffin unless you get on Merv Griffin."

There are no talk show hosts today who can compare to Merv Griffin. I've watched his old shows and he knew how to get the guests to be relaxed and chatty.

One of the most frustrating things about Merv Griffin is that some of the biggest idiots in the gay media like Darwin Porter seized upon his closeted life and have produced such unbelievable "facts" about him that it's very hard to tell now what actually happened and what was invented. In his awful biography, the always exaggerating Porter insists, for example, that Griffin performed a bj on Frank Sinatra as Sinatra was simultaneously eating out Lana Turner's pussy, and also partners him up with Jim Nabors and Liberace, neither of whom was in the slightest one of Merv's types.

r40, Porter makes shit up about EVERYBODY

Well, not sure about George but do believe he's gay as for Merv a friend told me that he was known as the King of deep throating cocks and draining them dry...he was obsessed with sucking cock dry to the bone! He would lure boys-studs to his home and end up giving them the most amazing head for one to experience.

The way Merv would charm these vulnerable and horny boys...I bet he ended up giving George an amazing BJ something he was know for doing to all those that ended up at his place.

Was Eva Gabor a paid Merv beard or did she play the part at no charge out of friendship?

R36 Every single thing I have read about Rock indicates voracious bottom.

Even Susan St James pegged Rock Bottom.

One of my friends whom I haven’t spoken to in ages knew Merv very well in the last decade of Merv’s life. My friend mentioned bits of gossip to me that he’d heard from being in that circle. One such tidbit was that George is gay, and something to the effect of, he wants to live a life of luxury and if he has to play the Hollywood game and stay closeted, it’s worth it to him.

I was surprised when he married Amal.

Annoying homosexual George Clooney was born (into a powerful showbiz family) with a silver spoon in her mouth, she has never had a need to open her large bunghole to anyone but the hottest and largest sizemeats!

R37 Though his biography on me was 100% accurate. I lived my life and Darwin captured even minute of it.

Merv and the Reagan's were buddies, wouldn't have guessed that.

^^^Reagans, ugh

Why don't you ask Merv Griffin?

Maybe Merv and Nancy traded tips on giving good head. She was the blowjob queen of the lot, back in her day.

I don't know who started the rumors of Merv drugging and raping anyone. It's not true. He had all the cock he could handle, was willing to pay top dollar and hand out favors for it so drugging and raping were never needed or wanted.

He resembles a young Jay Leno in the OP's photo.

When I was a child, I saw Clooney interviewed by film critic Barry Norman. My little child eyes saw flirtation - I think a review of the show even mentioned it. I wonder if I'd think the same as an adult. Norman was old and not attractive. I don't remember him as flirtatious in general. It was odd.

I don't think he was one of Merv's boys but I do believe he is gay.

R56 you should see the non disclosure contracts required for every person who sets foot onto his Italian property.

r57

I do hope that in addition to the NDAs all guests are given a map of possibly treacherous areas around the property and most importantly the OPTION to LEAVE if they WANT to LEAVE.

George didn't need to be a Merv's boy, he had a place to live with his aunt.

More likely is that George himself is a modern day, international Merv.

I used to watch Merv's show in the 70's as a kid. I remember he'd have Fred Williamson on A LOT, a hot black actor, former Football player.. Merv would fawn and giggle over him like a schoolgirl. After a while, rumors popped up that he and Fred were shacking up, then Williamson started making less appearances on the show but doing more tv shows.. Merv must have made sure to pay him well.

Fred Williamson was a wife beater? Or was that Jim Brown?

It’s so weird to see him with brown hair.

Just think, this was loooomg before he met a certain commedienne whose career needed a boost...

I wonder if he bedded Nancy McKeon?

He drove Lisa Welchel to religion.

Clooney was a cute and charming young man. The kind of Irish looks we all like.

He touched Geri Jewell on the hoo-hoo

R66 I shouldn’t be laughing so hard.