Stephen Hunter wants to be the gay Susan Boyle on UK ”X-Factor”

By JD Uy on August 23, 2010

”She only lives 30 miles from me. We could be SuBo and SteBo. In fact I want to be the gay SuBo.”

Stephen Hunter, a new contestant on Simon Cowell’s UK talent show “X-Factor.” Last year’s 19-year-old winner, Joe McElderry, recently announced that he thinks he’s gay. And there was also some controversy last November with another contestant, Danyl Johnson, because judge Danii Minogue sort of dragged his sexual orientation onto the stage as a joke. (STV)

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