Siegfried and Roy
are finally COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET! 

The trick to a good illusion is that it all happens right in front of you, and you know you're being fooled. But you can't figure out how, no matter how carefully you watch!

For years people suspected the duo were romantically linked, but there was no proof and it was never really discussed until a few years ago.

The dynamic duo illusionists are now writing a tell-all book about their lives together and in it they finally admit they were once lovers.

They were both from Germany and met in 1957. Siegfried worked as a steward while Roy was a waiter on an ocean liner. Roy soon became Siegfried's assistant.

When their affair ended, they remained partners and good friends. Both flamboyant performers battled drug problems - Siegfried was addicted to Valium twenty years ago, and Roy confessed he was hooked on painkillers after he was mauled. 

What next? They're going to tell us Liberace was gay?

Seriously though, it's not as though it was a big secret, really. Siegfried avoided answering the question in a 1999 Vanity Fair interview, and here in Vegas the pair have never had any presence in the gay community outside of buying ads in the program book of a major AIDS fund-raising show. Yet  MGM Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said the night of the tiger attack, he was frank: "It's well-known that they were lovers at one time," shrugged Feldman, whose company owns the Mirage Hotel and Casino, "I don't think anybody is hiding that." Similarly, that 1999 Vanity Fair article--headlined, by the way, "Married, With Tigers" included a quote from the duo's pal Shirley MacLaine that acknowledged their past romantic involvement. And in Siegfried's first solo interview, with CNN's Larry King five days after the mauling, Siegfried himself confirmed with considerable emotion that his connection to Roy "is a relationship second to none" in his life.

It will be nice to actually hear it from THEM. We've all known it, but it's nice they're going to admit and discuss it. I'm also eager to hear the story of Roy's stroke and recovery. It's been WAY too long since their last book. I had the pleasure of working for them for about 7 years, as a freelance writer. They never once discussed their private lives in front of me, so I have nothing revealing to share. They were very wonderful  to work for and it was an honor for me to work with such celebrity royalty!