Gay British actor Rupert Everett is in trouble for accidentally using some 'fruity language' on daytime television yesterday (1 May).

The ‘Hysteria’ actor was appearing as a guest on ITV’s Loose Women when he said ‘fuck’ during a discussion about HIV.

Everett was talking about when he was convinced he had contracted HIV when shooting a television show in the 1980s.

He said: ‘For the first few years of HIV, you couldn’t test for it. When my whole career started I thought I was on a death sentence.

Actor Rupert Everett, who has chronicled his adventurous sex life in two memoirs, has said in an interview that he's not interested in it anymore.

'Sex has passed me by,' said Everett to the Observer's Victoria Coren.

'It's over! I've spent most of my adult life, since the age of 10, thinking almost exclusively about sex, and getting it, or recovering from it. But it's all smoke and mirrors to me now.'

Openly gay actor Rupert Everett has again warned Hollywood stars not to come out for the sake of their careers.

The British star who is best known for his roles playing flamboyant gay men in My Best Friend's Wedding and The Next Best Thing spoke about his frustration at not being offered 'straight' parts in movies.

'Straight men get every opportunity to play gay parts that they want and then win tons of awards for doing so, but the other way doesn’t really work out,' Everett told the BBC's Hardtalk program.

Gay British actor Rupert Everett said writer Oscar Wilde, who died in disgrace in Paris in 1900, is his personal Jesus during an interview broadcast on the BBC yesterday.

'He fills me with the same compassion that Jesus fills other people with,' said Everett, who is is currently playing Wilde in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss.

'As a gay person he's really the beginning of the gay movement in public,' said Everett to interviewer Andrew Marr.

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Rupert Everett has claimed the lack of gay athletes and torch bearers in the Olympics reflects how homophobia is still very much present in sport.

The 53-year-old actor, best known for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding, criticised the lack of gay people that took part in the Games, arguing that the commentators failed to discuss an openly gay person.

Everett said: 'You listened to the commentary and they would say "this is a mother…this is someone else." But they never said "this is an openly homosexual person."'

Rupert Everett, who has called marriages between same-sex couples ‘beyond tragic’ and said he couldn't think of 'anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads' claims to now be getting death threats.

In another instance of foot-in-mouth disease, gay actor Rupert Everett has called marriages between same-sex couples ‘beyond tragic’.

In an interview with The Guardian, he said: ‘Why do queens want to go and get married in churches?

‘Obviously this crusty old pathetic Anglican church – the most joke-ish church of all jokey churches – of course they don’t want to have queens getting married.

Gay actor Rupert Everett has ridiculed the idea of two men raising a child.

In an interview with the Sunday Times today (16 September), he said: ‘I can’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.’

The 53-year-old actor, who is well known for playing a gay man who made Madonna pregnant in The Next Best Thing, said the gay community should not be offended as he does not consider himself a role model.

Oscar winner Colin Firth will play gay playwright, actor and composer Noël Coward and the best friend and confidant of Oscar Wilde in forthcoming biopics.

In details announced at the Cannes Film Festival, the King's Speech actor is due to star as Oscar Wilde's gay friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner in the upcoming Oscar Wilde biopic, This Happy Prince.