wouldn’t be writing this post if I didn’t have a good reason.
I’ve been swooning just as much as you have over the pictures of Eric Amundsen and Hadley Campos that have sprouted all over the internet like little love mushrooms after a rainstorm. How could I not? Two ex-costars finding love after all this time? Two beautiful people being beautiful together and hopefully making beautiful babies one day? It doesn’t get any better, right?
So you know I wouldn’t burst this bubble of beauty if I didn’t have to, but guys.
GUYS.
A long-time reader sent me some absolutely squelchingly juicy gossip last night and it actually only makes this story better in my opinion. AmundCamp fans, you might want to read these next few paragraphs with caution, but everyone else, please dive on into this tale of intrigue and secret queer love with me, because it is AMAZING.
So. The first photo of Eric Amundsen that came out. The one at that tree lighting ceremony. The one where his face was clear, but his smooch-partner’s face was obscured by, well, all the smooching going on?
We all assumed said smoocher was a woman because, well, why wouldn’t we? Statistically speaking, it was a reasonable guess, and in all the gossip about Amundsen over the years—and there’s been a loooooooot of it—never once has there been a whisper that he might be as charmed (or more!) by men as he is by the fairer sex.
But take another gander at that photo, friends. Imagine for a moment that you don’t think you know Eric Amundsen’s sexuality. Now take a closer look. It doesn’t have to be a woman in that picture, does it? In fact, doesn’t it kind of look like it is a guy, now that you think about it?
I know what you’re gonna say. There have been pictures of Hadley Campos wearing that same coat and hat. She and Amundsen have been seen all over town, wearing fisherman’s sweaters and drinking hot chocolate and generally looking like an LL Bean catalog’s wet dream. And why am I falling prey to the disgusting practice of speculating about a celebrity’s sexuality just for kicks?
The thing is, I’d agree with you about all of that—if I hadn’t gotten this email last night. An email from a reader who suggested that not only might the mystery kisser not be Hadley Campos, but it might not be a woman at all. Because apparently, this reader was at Amundsen’s home a few days prior and got a few pictures of him with a mystery male house guest. A man who looks, in my opinion, like he just might be the second tonsil-hockey player in the famous Christmas tree picture.
Of course, this raises as many questions as it answers. If it is a guy in that picture, why the cover-up? Amundsen’s been notoriously anti-Hollywood since he left it himself. Does he really care so much about keeping his sexuality a secret that he’d fly in an old co-star just to keep things under wraps? And most importantly, just who is this (very cute, if you ask me) mystery dude, and what’s he doing with Amundsen these days?
Stay tuned for more updates.
Oh God. I felt sick. There were two pictures at the bottom of the article—the original one from the night of the winter festival, and one of me and Holden in the foyer here at Edgecliffe. How did they even—oh fuck. The receptionist. The guy who’d accosted Holden and tried to video him.
Holden had deleted the video, but he must have missed a picture, somehow. A picture in which my face was crystal clear.
I knew I should stop reading. Call Holden. Warn him about this development, if he didn’t know already. But a sick fascination pushed me onwards, and I scrolled down to read the comments section.
They mostly alternated between disappointment over Holden being gay and squeeing over how cute this all was, but about halfway through, I got a second shock in the form of a long comment from someone named MetsFan3958.
I mean, I don’t know if that’s him in the first picture, or if he and Eric Amundsen are dating or whatever, but I definitely know who the guy in the second picture is bc he dated one of my girlfriends in college. His name is Ariel Sachs-Vaughn, his parents are loaded, and I’m pretty sure he’s bisexual bc my friend says one time they went to a LITERAL ORGY and he took it up the ass from half