By Express News Service
Actor and comic Kal Penn has come out as homosexual and has additionally acknowledged that he’s engaged to his accomplice Josh. The couple has been collectively for 11 years and is planning on a grand wedding ceremony quickly.
Penn, identified for his function portraying Lawrence Kutner on the hit tv program House, in addition to the character Kumar Patel within the Harold & Kumar movie sequence, shared his story throughout an interview with CBS Sunday Morning programme on which he was selling his new memoir, “You Can’t Be Serious”.
“Josh and I’ve been together for 11 years. We had our 11th anniversary in October. So, writing about it… it’s very matter-of-fact in our lives, and when you’re the son of Indian immigrants who says that you want to be an actor, the chaos that creates in your family and your community, will trump anything else, always,” stated Penn.
The 44-year-old-actor took a hiatus from performing to marketing campaign for President Barack Obama in 2012 when he labored throughout the administration within the workplace of public engagement, working to attach Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. It was throughout this time in Washington, DC, he had apparently met his fiance.
“I discovered my own sexuality relatively late in life compared to many other people. There’s no timeline on this stuff. People figure their sh*t out at different times in their lives, so I’m glad I did when I did,” he later informed People journal.
“‘I’ve always been very public (about my relationship) with everybody I’ve personally interacted with. I’m really excited to share our relationship with readers. But Josh, my partner, my parents, and my brother, four people who I’m closest to in the family, are fairly quiet. They don’t love attention and shy away from the limelight,” he added.
He additionally added that sharing the information along with his shut circle of individuals has made him really feel “very supported by everyone”. On the skilled entrance, Penn lately starred within the sequence Clarice which relies on Thomas Harris’ best-selling novel The Silence of the Lambs.
