| Fans who disagreed with the Prancing Pony shippers created a web site dispelling the rumors: [http://web.archive.org/web/20030803194729/sanityplease.diversesouls.com/ Sanity, Please]. | | Fans who disagreed with the Prancing Pony shippers created a web site dispelling the rumors: [http://web.archive.org/web/20030803194729/sanityplease.diversesouls.com/ Sanity, Please]. |
− | The actors explicitly denied being a couple several times, making fun of the various rumors. Dom said at a convention Q&A in 2003, that the actors had "read rumors of a contract they signed with New Line that they wouldn't come out as gay until after Return of the King." Dom laughed, and added, in a sarcastic tone that they were "thinking of walking down the red carpet holding hands for Return of the King." <ref>[http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2003/10/05/25326-collectormania-qa-transcripts-2/ Fan report, October 5, 2003] (archived at TheOneRing.net, accessed 2008/10/3)</ref> Nothing like that, or any other kind of public announcement ever happened, and the actors have continued to deny any romantic involvement with each other<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/domreprints/5212.html Sept. 12, 2005 Newsweek interview with Dominic Monaghan] (accessed 2008-10-24)</ref>. As of April 2010, these actors have mentioned long-term girlfriends. | + | The actors explicitly denied being a couple several times, making fun of the various rumors. Dom said at a convention Q&A in 2003, that the actors had "read rumors of a contract they signed with New Line that they wouldn't come out as gay until after Return of the King." Dom laughed, and added, in a sarcastic tone that they were "thinking of walking down the red carpet holding hands for Return of the King." <ref>[http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2003/10/05/25326-collectormania-qa-transcripts-2/ Fan report, October 5, 2003] (archived at TheOneRing.net, accessed 2008/10/3)</ref> Nothing like that, or any other kind of public announcement ever happened, and the actors have continued to deny any romantic involvement with each other.<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/domreprints/5212.html Sept. 12, 2005 Newsweek interview with Dominic Monaghan] (accessed 2008-10-24)</ref> As of April 2010, these actors have mentioned long-term girlfriends. |