Aiken has said emphatically that he's straight — and The Advocate has no information about Lynch's or Ramirez-Rial's orientation — but Hay speculates that even the teenage Claymates probably wouldn't mind a gay Idol.
As a Biophysics major, devoted Claymate, and writer of 7th Heaven fanfic, Tanu is someone I've long considered to be the human equivalent of unbuttered toast.
2007 — Rossie O'Donnell, Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game, Grand Central Publishing (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
He had his Claymates in the crowd, holding up signs and screaming for him, and he tried too hard — and she was having none of it.
Is anybody really ever ready for fatherhood? Who knows, but it's safe to say nobody was ready for this: Clay Aiken is going to be a dad. […] But don't get jealous, Claymates. Aiken's paternity was accomplished via artificial insemination, so he's still on the market (though he plans to be involved in the baby's life, friends say).
On another, the Clayboard, a Claymate wrote about feeling lost after spending years defending Aiken's heterosexuality.
2009 — Kelli S. Burns, Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination With Popular Culture, Greenwood Publishing Group (2009), →ISBN, page 149:
Claymates were "tweeting" before Twitter was around!
2009 — Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning, St. Martin's Press (2009), →ISBN, page 110:
One former Claymate posted her final message on his fan site with this gem: "I will never be able to listen to him sing, 'O Holy Night,' knowing he desires unholy nights."
