Former Taco Bell TV dog: Gay! – CoverUps.com

By Matthew “Scratch” De Reno
CoverUps Investigator

Los Angeles — Gidget, the most famous Chihuahua/former pitch-dog for Taco Bell Restaurants has came out of the dog house recently in LaGrange, Texas, and announced to the world he is gay.

Gidget’s owners, Mike and Jessica Langford of LaGrange raised the little fella from his birth in 1995 and were shocked by the announcement.

“Jeez… I didn’t even know dogs could be gay,” Mike Langford said, holding a beer, “Although come to think of it, there was something suspicious about that guy (Bowman) coming around with milk biscuits every night for four years.”

Gidget gained worldwide fame as the talking Chihuahua for Taco Bell with his catch phrase, “¡Yo quiero Taco Bell! (I want Taco Bell!)." He retired in 2002, amid complaints that he was an offensive, thinly veiled latino stereotype.

Langford may have been surprised, but media speculation about Gidget’s sexuality has mounted steadily over the years, due in no small part to paparazzi candids.

“Gidget did the wild thing on my leg,” complained noted rapper Tone Loc. “I thought it was that Medina thing at the time.”

Gidget originally planned to announce his gayness in a People magazine cover story on July 26, 2006, but was upstaged by former n’Sync boy band member Lance Bass, who chose to announce his gayness on that day as well.

The picture got cloudier still when rumors of an illicit affair with megastar Tom Cruise surfaced.

“Tom saw Gidget last year at a Scientology picnic,” a spokesperson for Cruise stated via e-mail. “They were very cordial… He thought Gidget looked great and wished him well.”

But other reports – admittedly unsubstantiated – paint a different, less savory picture.

When news of Gidget’s status as a “gaynine” broke nationally, a tear-streaked Cruise was allegedly spotted wandering the streets of LA, holding a beret and muttering, “You broke my heart you stinking little mutt… You broke my freaking heart…”

Another report claims Cruise was allegedly kicked out of an LA Taco Bell for jumping up and down on a booth and gulping fistfuls of anti-depressants yelling, “I hate him… I hate him.”

Despite denials from his publicist, rumors (spread by us) persist about Gidget and Cruise. We asked Gidget if he could confirm whether Top Gun Tom was secretly gay.

He smiled, and said, “Let’s just say he has all the right moves.”

(Scratch DeReno can be reach at Scratch@CoverUps.com)