Gawker Founder To Marry Boyfriend

Gawker Media founder Nick Denton will marry his boyfriend next year, according to the gossip column of the New York Daily News.

The British media mogul got engaged to his actor boyfriend, Derrence Washington, over the weekend, with Denton telling us the two plan to marry in upstate New York next May. “This is the one event even I wouldn’t gossip about,” gossip king Denton, who publishes blogs including Deadspin and Jezebel, told us. Denton was the one who popped the question to Washington, whose grandfather was the first black chiropractor in Texas. “Nobody else compares. You know how guys wrestle with marriage, with all the possibilities they’re giving up. I’m not giving up anything,” Denton gushed. One person who won’t be celebrating the news is Washington’s ex, who sources say threw a brick through a window of Denton’s SoHo loft last year after losing the battle for Washington’s affection.

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