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“Mister Rogers” gay co-star says Fred Rogers told him to stay closeted and marry a woman
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metroweekly.comFrancois Clemmons and Fred Rogers – Photo: Francois Clemmons, via Wikimedia. Francois Clemmons, the actor who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, says in a soon-to-be-released memoir that his co-star and mentor Fred Rogers, advised him to stay in the closet and marry a woman after finding out that Clemmons was gay.
In the memoir, Officer Clemmons, slated for release on May 5, Clemmons details his relationship with Rogers, the show’s titular character and producer, whom he looked to as a father figure.
The men met through Rogers’ wife, Joanne, at church, when Clemmons was 23 and a student at Carnegie Mellon University. Rogers, then 43, invited him to join the show, where he appeared over the course of the next two
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