{"id":2295489,"date":"2026-02-23T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295489"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:54:37","slug":"tim-gunn-opens-up-about-43-year-celibacy-not-being-asked-back-to-project-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-gunn-opens-up-about-43-year-celibacy-not-being-asked-back-to-project-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Gunn Opens Up About 43-Year Celibacy &#038; Not Being Asked Back to \u2018Project Runway\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0779028\/\">Project Runway<\/a> mentor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2125540\/\">Tim Gunn<\/a> has opened up about how a devastating breakup led to him being celibate for 43 years. The 72-year-old television personality appeared on the latest episode of Chelsea Handler\u2018s Dear Chelsea podcast, where he admitted that the feelings attached to the separation had prevented him from engaging physically with anyone whenever something became serious. \u201cI had a very serious nine-year relationship in Washington, D.C., and I loved this person deeply and would have done anything for him,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11874338\/\">Gunn<\/a> said, per Us Weekly. \u201cAnd I still remember the night that it all ended. We were in bed watching M*A*S*H\u2026 he said to me,&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn has opened up about how a devastating breakup led to him being celibate for 43 years. The 72-year-old television personality appeared on the latest episode of Chelsea Handler\u2018s Dear Chelsea podcast, where he admitted that the feelings attached to the separation had prevented him from engaging physically with anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2295489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tim-Gunn-Opens-Up-About-43-Year-Celibacy-Not-Being.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295491,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295489\/revisions\/2295491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}