When we speculated that Shelby Lynne was the person who would be coming out in the pages of People on May 5th, everyone was all: Who? Shelby Lynne is a pop-country singer with a long career of successes and false-starts.

We called country singer Shelby Lynne's publicist to ask whether her client will announce her gayness the cover of People on May 5. "I don't have any information on that." How can a publicist not know the answer to that?