10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (June 1)
4. Billy Gunn's Friends Told Him They "Knew He Was Gay"
WWE caught some serious flak from the gay community for pulling a swerve on the Billy and Chuck wedding angle in 2002. Aside from D-Generation X though, it was the most high-profile angle Billy Gunn had been involved in, and it tickled him that so many people bought into the gimmick outside the ring.
On occasion, Billy's real-life friends would tell him they "knew he was gay" all along.
During an interview with Chris Van Vliet for WSVN-TV, Gunn admitted that he couldn't believe people so close to him would think the storyline was real. It wasn't as if he was prancing around in a white bath robe and slapping another man's buttocks in his personal life, and that's hardly a prerequisite for being homosexual anyway.
The over-the-top characterisation of Billy and Chuck legit fooled people in Gunn's private life. Some of Billy's longtime co-workers in WWE also approached him to say they knew he'd been gay since the first time they met him.
Hilarious.