(Neal, I am only swayed by cash and alcohol, dollface!)

"Yeah, I have had several meetings with the MTV Network folks, yes. And yes, they have asked that I work on two pilots. One for a digital show, and the other for a show I created. But just stay tuned America anyone out there can make a pilot—the trick is getting it on the air. And who knows. God knows I love the camera, but—just stay tuned."

Good rumor control, Neal! Even though you may have started the rumor. Oh, and here's the P.S., from a previous e-mail:

"Page Six magazine is doing an at home with me and Claire soon. They shot it and interviewed us already. It's hilarious because Claire during the interview proves that she is much wilder than I am. I'll let you know when it comes out."

We're sure he will.

Boulton is with his wife mainly because she is mother to his children. And as he himself recently pointed out, "I am a horrible catch, as I am more married to my work and my guitar than I would ever be to any man woman or child."

Perhaps Boulton will be ready to settle down eventually. But, in the meantime, he should conjure some more sympathy today — now — for gays who would like the option to get married sooner. Gays like Paul Colichman.

(Photo via Queerty)

To my friends at Gawker,

It has been brought to your attention that I carouse around among my local watering holes, occasionally brawl, and, when I can, try to bring the house down with my music. All of this is true—when I am not editing or writing for the magazines I relaunch. Along the way I have left a considerable amount of roadkill in the hook up department.

However, at 41 and back with my love of 16 years, I have resigned and sort of enjoyed evolving into a benign chap who, yes, does love to throw his arm around a couple of stunning blonds (boys or girls) as
was alleged. But for those of you who are a bit mad at my basically tearing through your lives, let me use this vehicle to write to you, personally, and say that I am sorry. Do consider yourself lucky that I am no longer with you though—I am a horrible catch, as I am more married to my work and my guitar than I would ever be to any man woman or child.

Thank you. God bless, and peace to all.

Thanks for letting us know, Neal. (Sorry about sending those photos. We'll stop.)

"I was at my bar American Trash last night and Neal Boulton was there. One of the usual meatheads got wasted and picked a fight with a guy he thought was a fag. He called him a fag. and some guy who we figured out later was Neil stepped in and gave the guy who called the gay guy a fag a major pounding out on the sidewalk. Boulton got hit pretty hard but slugged back big time. It was nothing till we realized who was fighting who and that Neal is gay and all. Dude had balls. The cops came but Neal had already fled on his bike [probably his motorcycle - Ed]. The guy's got some balls man. The guy he beat down was DOWN as in down for the count, too. fuck!"

According to Neal,

"Too funny. The only reason I sing Springsteen is because I am old and I can't sing. At the end of the day the only reason I do this is because I'm still just trying to impress Claire really. (..and wear sunglasses and play guitar in front of the two or three unsuspecting tourists who might be in attendance). Sorry, no videos exist that I am aware of thank god. Please apologize to New York City for booking me, I love to jam but I kind of know I suck. Maybe I should hang up the shades and start selling my wingman skills. They seem to be in demand."

"It's nothing really. Just another fuck up of mine probabably. I've relaunched alot of magazines...Outside, Country Weekly, Food & Wine, Shape, Natural Health, The National Enquirer, oh and that really homophobic one: Men's Fitness... (my friends at the National Enquirer were the coolest) and at some of those magazines just because of the changes you MIGHT make, hell just your damn presence (Cut here to a VOICE OVER of Drexel from the flick True Romance, "I know I ain't pretty.") gets people mad - even if the changes you are making are cool ones.

In the case of HX, if we are to believe Queerty, someone is, well, pissed at yours truly. But I promise, and I really mean this...with the seriousness of the Monica era Clinton, when he wagged that well hung finger at us, denying it, "I did not, and I want you to listen this now, have a Prada suit from last year on last week."

This is the problem with blog responses. They set aflame raging rumours. Genre is NOT only NOT closing, but it is experiencing record growth, the addition of a new bright team of staffers, as well as an increase in circulation, and advertisers across many key categories. What's more, Genre, unlike it's competitors, who seem to be staggering around the competitive set looking for help, is walking taller and stronger than ever before. Mark my words: Genre will be an irrepressible force in publishing, so stay tuned!

A woman who said she was Boulton's lover wrote to the site:

I have been living off and on in New York unbenownst [sic] to Neal for one year. Let it be known that I am not homophobic because I, like his wife Claire, and his entire secret troupe of girls, were never in the dark that he was blatently [sic] bisexual. However, what annoys me is that he is the Editor In Chief of a gay men’s magazine and blatently [sic] goes around like he did the other night at The View (a gay bar in Chelsea) making out with women (a red headed one this time) who come on to him without a care in the world (to the suprise [sic] of the bartender), yet stands up and writes in his editor’s letter that he is gay!

Boulton's highest-profile gay hookup was an alleged makeout session with Rolling Stone and Us Weekly publisher Jann Wenner in front of the Time Warner Center, but questions surfaced about that hookup as well.

But really, who cares, Out Magazine almost hired a straight as editor, then hired a guy Andrew Sullivan mistook for straight, and if I found out Hugh Hefner never boned those three "girlfriends" of his the nightmares would end and I'd be very happy.

Emily Eisen-Berkeley, a daughter of Margaret M. Eisen of Darien, Conn., and Joseph W. Berkeley of Osterville, Mass., was married last evening to Alexander Jann Wenner, a son of Jane Wenner and Jann S. Wenner, both of New York. The Rev. Dr. Jon M. Walton, a Presbyterian minister, officiated at Villa Des Amis, a private home they rented for the occasion in Bridgehampton, N.Y.

Mrs. Wenner, 23, graduated in May from the New School.

Her father, who is retired, worked at the Boston office of A.G. Becker & Company, a financial services concern in which he was principal. Her mother works in New York, as a managing director of the marketing and communications department at the CFA Institute, the organization of Charlottesville, Va., that administers the chartered financial analyst certification program.

Mr. Wenner, 22, was a summer intern, from 2003 to 2006, at Electronic Arts, the video-game maker in Redwood City, Calif., where he helped design games.

His parents are founders of Rolling Stone magazine. His father is the chairman and the chief executive of Wenner Media in New York, the publisher of Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal magazines; his mother is a vice president.

We hear that the item that ran in Page Six last month—which read, in part, that Jann Wenner "has been spotted around town with Neal Boulton, the editor-in-chief of Men's Fitness magazine. Boulton is married, to a woman, with kids."—was in fact planted by Boulton himself. Sadly, there was no affair between Jann and Neal—and the general impression is that this was some weird press play by Neal. Curiouser and curiouser! Well, it seems to have worked, whatever it was. Except for Mrs. Boulton, maybe. Oh and jobless Neal. —Doree

Men's Fitness Editor Neal Boulton Leaves Title [AdAge]

has been stepping out on his long-term life partner and co-father of his young son, Matt Nye. The publisher of Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal - who dumped his wife, Jane, of 28 years for pretty-boy fashion designer Nye in 1995 - has been spotted around town with Neal Boulton, the editor-in-chief of Men's Fitness magazine. Boulton is married, to a woman, with kids.

"It isn't clear whether Nye is aware of his partner's cozy relationship with Boulton," the Page Sixers typed, although we're pretty sure he's got some idea of it now.

In any event, so many questions, particularly "Do men's magazines make you gay, or will men's magazine editors do anything to kiss Wenner's ass?" And who is Neal Boulton, alleged Jann paramour?

Well, for starters, he's a 1989 graduate of Washington College. In an article he penned for the Spring '05 issue of that institution's alumni magazine, Boulton reveals his love of words, specifically the words 'Neal Boulton'.

"Secretly," he notes, "my favorite pastime is hitting the magazine racks—in grocery stores, airport newsstands, and tiny Manhattan sidewalk kiosks—and spotting all the magazines with my name in them." Something tells us Neal's gonna have a busy week. —balk

WENNER'S NEW FITNESS FRIEND [NYP]
Determined From The Git-"Go" [Washington College]