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Gay baby causes audience walk-out of Bruno’s new talk show

“I will say this. He made a lot of people very mad. But at least it gave us something to talk about. We’re still talking about it.”

An unnamed woman who was present at a taping of a new talk show hosted by Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion model. Audience members were paid $50 to attend but many walked out of the show in anger when Bruno brought out a toddler that wore a t-shirt proclaiming he was gay. (”Bruno” is an alter ego that’s often used by British funny man Sasha Baron Cohen — a/k/a ”Ali G” — to expose unsuspecting people’s homophobia. (Dallas Morning News)

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