His chief claim to fame was as gomer pyle a role originated on the andy griffith show and spun off to its own series.
Rock hudson and gomer pyle.
In the early 1970s a middle aged gay couple who threw the year s biggest party in huntington beach california usually exceeding 500 guests thought their invitation was a riot.
If rock hudson married gomer pyle he would be known as rock pyle that was the gag behind the party invitations that went out.
Dying jim nabors shocking confession.
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The queens printed invitations to witness the marriage of rock hudson and jim nabors with the punch line being that hudson would be taking on the last name of jim nabor s famous character gomer pyle thus becoming rock pyle.
Rock hudson born roy harold scherer jr.
It all started with a joke invitation to an annual gay party in huntington beach.
The group apparently invited its members to the marriage of rock hudson and jim nabors as a running gag for hudson taking nabors character gomer pyle s last name to become rock pyle.
November 17 1925 october 2 1985 was an american actor one of the most popular movie stars of his time hudson s screen career spanned four decades.
The rumors spread and because of this the two made sure they were never seen in public together.
Jim nabors was also covering up his secret life as a gay man before being dragged out of the closet because of a gay prank with rock hudson.
One year the group invited its members to witness the marriage of rock hudson and jim nabors at which hudson would take the surname of nabors most famous character gomer pyle becoming rock pyle.
It s not true that jim nabors married rock hudson back in the 1960s fans probably wouldn t have been accepting that the bumbling gas station attendant of gomer pyle was played by a homosexual actor.
In a shattering deathbed confession tv legend jim nabors admitted what he d been denying for decades he had a steamy affair with secretly gay screen hunk rock hudson that ended in a hush hush hawaiian commitment ceremony.
Including a supposed relationship between he and rock hudson.
On gomer pyle both gomer and sergeant carter change because when it starts out gomer is pretty raw.
It wasn t something jim nabors actively hid it just wasn t something that was openly acknowledged at the time.
Unfortunately plenty of people took the joke too seriously and as a result hudson and nabors never spoke again.
Gomer pyle married rock hudson.
