Who has never had libidinous desires for a movie star as a teenager? That first platonic love that captures our feelings... well, even celebrities go through that and often end up discovering themselves. In an interview with the program What Happens Live, when confronted by a viewer via telephone about who the celebrity was that made him discover he was homosexual, Ricky Martin did not hesitate and revealed that as a teenager he had a real crush on John Travolta. Martin, who is in a serious relationship with Israeli artist Jwan Yosef, said that the scenes where Travolta appears in his underwear awakened his first desires for a person of the same sex. “That scene of him in his underwear sitting down and getting up, then he does that little thing. I watched the film eight times and I couldn’t really say why!” Asked by presenter Andy Cohen if he had already met the American actor, Ricky replied yes, but admitted that he never told him that he had been his “first crush”.
