Blind Item #9 - Reader Blind

Many years ago, this foreign band had one big hit.  Following the release of the record that followed, they fired their singer. This was due to his not very secret same sex relationship with a photographer.  The fired singer had a solo hit a few years later that was the name of a movie.  Much better at keeping a relationship secret with the same photographer was this deeply closeted A List actor who had a very popular TV show  at the time of the band mentioned above's success and which has had a reboot. He is in another long running series now and has also been in movies.