{"id":21389,"date":"2026-08-14T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/rosie-odonnell-clarifies-her-love-for-tom-cruise-despite-sexuality-e-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:39:34","slug":"rosie-odonnell-clarifies-her-love-for-tom-cruise-despite-sexuality-e-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/rosie-odonnell-clarifies-her-love-for-tom-cruise-despite-sexuality-e-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O&#8217;Donnell Clarifies Her Love for Tom Cruise Despite Sexuality | E! News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie O\u2019Donnell\u2019s top gun is still Tom Cruise\u2014just not in a sexual way. Indeed, the former talk show host\u2014who publicly <!--more--> came out as a lesbian in 2002\u2014reflected on how she can still be moved by the sexiness of a man, like she recently was while watching Luke Evans in The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway. \u201cMakes a girl think\u2014gay girl, too,\u201d O\u2019Donnell quipped on the Aug. 11 episode of Amy Poehler\u2019s &#8216;Good Hang&#8217; podcast. \u201cI was like, \u2018I don&#8217;t know what your deal is, sir, but come over near me and let me smell you.\u201d The 64-year-old added, \u201cI don&#8217;t want you naked in my bed\u2014I&#8217;m not interested in the downtown mechanics\u2014but I would like you to maybe have lunch with me and get me a lemonade.\u201d For her part, Poehler agreed, noting that attraction can prompt questions like, \u201cDo I want to kiss them? Do I want to be them? [Or] do I want to get their approval?\u201d Plus, the &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; alum emphasized her point by pointing out O\u2019Donnell\u2019s public obsession with the &#8216;Mission: Impossible&#8217; star in the \u201890s was never sexual, which O\u2019Donnell agreed with. \u201cI often said, \u2018I don\u2019t want him in bed. I want him to mow my lawn and bring me an iced tea.&#8217; When I finally did come out and people were shocked, I was like, \u2018How the hell are you shocked?\u2019 And they\u2019re like, \u2018The Tom Cruise thing.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018How much clearer did I have to be?\u2019\u201d Full Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1435028\/rosie-odonnell-explains-love-for-tom-cruise-isnt-sexual-still-lesbian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1435028\/rosie-odonnell-explains-love-for-tom-cruise-isnt-sexual-still-lesbian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#enews #rosieodonnell #tomcruise <\/p>\n<p>About:<br \/>\nThe E! News team brings you the latest breaking entertainment, fashion and Pop Culture news. Featuring exclusive segments, celebrity highlights, trend reports and more, the E! News channel is the only destination Pop Culture fans need to stay in the know. Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/enewssub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/enewssub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connect:<br \/>\nFor More News &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.us\/3MASskW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/eonline.us\/3MASskW<\/a><br \/>\nE! News App &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.onelink.me\/yMtl\/4ead5017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/eonline.onelink.me\/yMtl\/4ead5017<\/a><br \/>\nShopping &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/shop<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/enews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/enews\/<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/enews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/enews\/<\/a><br \/>\nX &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/enews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/enews\/<\/a><br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/tiktok.com\/<\/a>@enews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell\u2019s top gun is still Tom Cruise\u2014just not in a sexual way. Indeed, the former talk show host\u2014who publicly\n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/rosie-odonnell-clarifies-her-love-for-tom-cruise-despite-sexuality-e-news\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/gossip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}