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Kelly Osbourne dumped fiance over transgender tryst
[HMG Celebrity News] – As you know, ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant, Kelly Osbourne reportedly dumped her fiancé Luke Worrall when she found out he was cheating. Well, there’s more – the blond beauty Luke was seeing was formerly a man.
Kelly dumped the 21-year old model when she learned he was seeing Elle Schneider, an eye-catching blond. But a British newspaper has now interviewed Elle, and it seems she was once a he.
Ell showed reporters from the Mirror an ID card that proves ‘she’ started life as ‘Reynaldo Gonzalez.’ But she’s now been on female hormones for almost three years and has already had breast implants to be ready for transgender surgery.
“I was open with Luke that I was born a boy,” Elle explained.”He didn’t mind – in fact it turned him on more. He always insisted he was single and I had no idea he was engaged to Kelly Osbourne.”
And from her Twitter feed it’s easy to see Kelly’s really messed up by the split.
“Luke Worrall is the biggest piece of s—.” reads one post. “He is the worst thing that ever happened to me…I have never felt heartbreak like this in my life.”
Luke first met Elle met in a New York nightclub in late 2009 and he was instantly keen:
“From the moment I met him, he was telling me he loved me and wanted us to get married,” Elle recalls. “But at the same time he was doing that with Kelly. I think the way he treated her is terrible.”
Elle also says Luke knew ‘she’ was formerly a guy from day one;
“I told him I was transgender and he said, ‘I know’. He told me it turned him on knowing I was once a boy.” Then comes this supreme understatement; “Luke’s very different to most guys sexually.”
It gets worse;
“I’ve never had the heart to tell Kelly this, but Luke and I were intimate that night,” Schneider confides.
The curious couple lost contact for a while, but reconnected last November. Elle had heard he was engaged to Kelly, but Luke claimed they’d already split up. [Kelly had dumped him in July, but by then they were back together.] And the affair was soon back in play.
Tweets, instant messages and even video sex chats followed. And just two weeks after reuniting with Kelly, Luke invited Elle to meet him in secret at a major London nightclub;
“He played an hour-long set, then spent the rest of the night flirting with me,” Elle remembers. “We went back to a house afterwards and were intimate once again.”
But just before Christmas, Kelly, 26, found explicit messages Luke sent to Elle, and on December 28 she dropped him with a tweet;
“I am too good for @luke-worrall,” she tweeted. “Darling, your pretty face will only get you so far because you don’t have the brains to back it up.”
Both of Luke’s loves have now ended all contact with him, and are best friends. So this tale has a happy ending…as long as you’re not Luke.
What do you think, guys – Is Luke a born loser? The floor is open – let’s get your views…
Wow. Homophobia AND transphobia in one article? Are you getting high-fives from Pat Robertson over there or what?
Luke’s a cheater, but come on. Scare quotes and acting like trans people are freakish by calling them by the wrong pronoun and declaring what they “really” are? That stopped being edgy in the 1990′s.
First and foremost, transgendered people are called by their preferred pronoun. (That is also considered a journalistic standard.) You could repeat Elle’s own words by saying that “she was born a boy”, but to say “Elle also says Luke knew ‘she’ was a guy from day one;” is both inaccurate and insulting. (Unless that was your intention…)
And that line brings up point number two. Don’t use semicolons (;) for periods. In fact, semi-colon use is usually pretty rare, especially in journalistic areas. The reason is many people (usually the readers rather than the authors) don’t understand its use or meaning. You could try a colon (:), a period (.), or a comma (, and/but) in every case the author attempted to use the semicolon in this post.
Another point I should make is that a surprisingly large number of men are interested in transgendered women for one reason or another. That would mean that this one isn’t “supremely” understating his sexuality by liking a trans woman. (Or cheating for that matter as men and women do that all the time!) Furthermore, considering that Elle actually looks pretty hot, it’s not really surprising to most anyone else that he would be interested in her either.
Finally, your last line indicated that Elle might be looking for fame when nothing in your article supported that. What is there to discuss? If you have a point to make, at least use some evidence. Otherwise it’s pretty obvious you’re trying to demonize her based solely on her status as transgendered. In fact, by saying that she broke up with him after his cheating was exposed, you’re only contributing to Elle’s image of being a classy person, which is more than I can say for the author and this article.
Sincere apologies for the indelicate choice of wording. I am very certain that Austin was not trying to be disrespectful to Elle. As for the reference to Elle perhaps looking for fame by speaking to the press about this, it’s kind of just a thing the author has, believing most of these stories are someone’s attempt to gain some attention.
this is elle’s facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000732730634 she’s beautiful
The changes help considerably. Thanks.
Some people might argue but Elle is definitely prettier than Kelly: this is more accurate photos of her: http://i56.tinypic.com/ziuhxs.jpg
I agree with Viola and Someone on 2011-01-17 (although saying that Elle “actually” looks pretty hot seems a bit iffy to me).
And I do not find the article acceptable, even after the changes. The scare-quotes are still there, and the language used to describe Elle is still insulting/transphobic.
And the “who’s prettier” debate is ridiculous — more than a whiff of misogyny and transphobia there, too.