MAKE IT WORK

Tim Gunn's Admission: A Cry For Help?

I WAS ALL LIKE STFU! AFTER TIM GUNN CONFESSED he's been fallow in the bedroom for 29 years. The Project Runway pacesetter epitomizes polish and charm. And he's a bonafide celebrity after serving nine years as mentor to fashion designers on the cable series hosted by Heidi Klum. He's even guest-starred as himself in episodes of Gossip Girl and How I Met Your Mother. On top of all that he's trim and handsome to boot. You just know sexual opportunity knocks.

And yet, there he is, confiding on The Revolution in the spirit of being "open and transparent and vulnerable" that he hasn't had sex in 29 years. The confession comes ironically on the same show Gunn hosts a segment about women getting "unstuck" and "jumpstarting the sexy in their lives."

"Do I feel like less of a person for it? No! Not even remotely,'' he assures. "I'm a perfectly happy fulfilled individual and I have feelings. It's not as though I'm some barren forest."

And then he immediately betrays that statement by choking up while revealing that a long-time lover walked out because he was "impatient" with Tim's sexual performance. In addition, the spectre of AIDS frightened Lifetime's doyen of fashion, making him "retreat."

Gunn's admission left mouths agape and the media promptly invited experts to weigh in: "It's not a natural sort of decision, nor is it biological or physiological -- we are not wired that way," Beverly Hills sexuality expert Dr. Jennifer R. Berman told the Los Angeles Times. "It sounds like there are issues relating to trust." And she gets paid how much for that insight?

But it turns out that this isn't the first time that Gunn has revealed his celibacy: he revealed it in his 2010 book, Tim Gunn's Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work. And he hinted at it even earlier when he told Ok! Magazine in 2009 that he hadn't "been on a date in 26 years." He said he wasn't "even remotely looking." It was such old news to Gawker's sexy out-and-proud Brian Moylan that he pleaded in a post, "God, Tim, will you shut up about this?"

But TV amplifies news much more than print, so Tim's latest confession snapped us to attention. Which -- you have to wonder -- is perhaps his motivation?

Is Gunn really happiest "greatest pleasure" -- as he contends, he's alone in his apartment? Or are his disclosures a cry for bedroom intervention? Let's send in Grindr fanboy Moylan to find out.