Jim nabors married rock hudson

Sometimes the most ridiculous rumors are the ones that prove the longest-lived. Well, put it this way: it couldn't have helped. The rumor led to the two never speaking again, though.

5. Thanks to the blurring of the actor with the role, Nabors' success doomed him to being typecast, as viewers proved unaccepting of him in anything but a Gomer Pyle-type role.

Nabors hosted The Jim Nabors Hour, a television variety show that aired on CBS from 1969-71, but after the rumor about his being wed to Hudson surfaced he didn't have much of a presence on prime-time television save for occasional guest appearances on other comedy/variety shows.

This was just two years post-Stonewall, and a rumor like this would likely have ended both of their careers. They had been dating for 38 years and were best friends. The truth is it didn't happen anywhere!"

Hudson maintained that the prank had destroyed his friendship with Nabors, saying: "I'll tell you one thing that makes me sad about this, and that's that Jim Nabors and I are no longer friends.

It is absolutely preposterous and ridiculous. Despite our denials," Rock said, "some people are going to believe whatever they want to believe. He said that he started vacationing in Hawaii during the 1960s and decided to make the permanent move from Bel Air, California in 1976. I’ve never made a huge secret of it at all.”

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His chief claim to fame was as Gomer Pyle, a role originated on The Andy Griffith Show and spun off to its own series, Gomer Pyle, USMC. just neighbors." That the joke should have explained itself escaped notice: very few picked up on the idea that hunky Mr. Hudson would hereinafter be known as "Rock Pyle," once again proving the adage no joke is so obvious that some won't get it.

The rumor was so prominent that both stars addressed it in the national press and considered filing lawsuits over the matter, with Nabors telling a newspaper syndicate in 1971 that:

[More] recently, [Nabors] and Rock Hudson have been the victims of a vicious, unfounded and unwarranted story linking them with a non-existent homosexual marriage.

"What can I say?" he began.

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GettyJim Nabors attends the 2014 Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motorspeedway on May 25, 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Nabors, who grew up in Alabama, sang the unofficial Indiana anthem nearly every year at the start of the Indianapolis 500. The family raised chickens for food and lived in a tiny house.

I just knew, there’s something inside me that told me ‘Hey, you’re gonna end up here,’ I love this place. He said that he recorded the spot because he was a close friend of Cayetano and his wife, Vicky.

For years, there had been rumors that Nabors was married to Rock Hudson, shortly before he started dating Cadwallader.

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The Andy Griffith Show chronicled life in a small southern town from the perspective of a local sheriff — a life almost identical to the one in which Jim had grown up.

Why would somebody do something like this to me?"

"I love kids," he continued, "But I've been so busy with my career that I really haven't given marriage much thought."

At the same time, Hudson told entertainment reporter Hy Gardner that:

"I heard it from a woman who heard it through her hairdresser.

The wedding took place in 2013, and they remained married ever since.

“It’s pretty obvious that we had no rights as a couple, yet when you’ve been together 38 years, I think something’s got to happen there, you’ve got to solidify something,” Nabors told the publication. Nabors & Cadwallader Got Married in 2013 in Seattle

In his later years, Nabors lived in Hawaii with Cadwallader.

It’s not that kind of a thing.