{"id":2297764,"date":"2026-02-24T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2297764"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:09:06","slug":"tim-gunn-explains-why-hes-been-celibate-for-43-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-gunn-explains-why-hes-been-celibate-for-43-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Gunn explains why he’s been celibate for 43 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim Gunn<\/a> knows what he wants \u2014 and doesn’t want.<\/p>\n

The fashion maven and Project Runway<\/a> <\/em>alum has been celibate for 43 years, a lifestyle choice he opened up about on a recent episode of the Dear Chelsea <\/em>podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joking that the full story would “keep a psychiatrist very busy,” Gunn explained that his celibacy stems from “a very serious nine-year relationship in Washington, D.C.,” that he had from the mid-1970s into the early ’80s.<\/p>\n

“I loved this person deeply and would have done anything for him, and I still remember the night that it all ended. We were in bed watching M*A*S*H<\/em>. It was the first run, and he said to me, ‘I have no patience for you any longer. I want you to leave,'” Gunn recalled. “I had my own apartment, but I had been living with him for years. And I left. I drove to my apartment on Rock Creek Parkway. And I had to pull off, because I was hyperventilating. I was beside myself with self-flagellation and self-pity, and it was awful.”<\/p>\n

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