The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif.
Contents:
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
* vito sopranos gay in real life *
In 2004, the Season 5 episo "Unintified Black Mal", is disclosed to viewers Vo is fact homosexual after he is seen performg fellat on a secury guard early one morng at the Esplana nstctn se by Meadow's boyiend, Fn De Trol.
Vo at the gay bar. Later, that eveng while makg a llectn at a gay bar, two Lupertazzi Fay associat, one named Sal Iaccuzzo, saw Vo dancg provotively wh a gay man.
The Iaccuzzo character was based on real-life Gambo Crime Fay po Matthew Lanniello, who was known to extort and own several nightclubs New York Cy that tered to homosexual clientele. Vo claimed that his homosexual behavr had been ed by meditn. Lupertazzi crime fay boss Phil Leotardo, a vilent homophobe, mand Vo's ath, so Tony quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make a h on Vo.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
It was later revealed that Vo was found wh a pool cue stick his rectum, a msage that he was killed bee of his homosexualy. Phil Leotardo later told Vo's wife, Marie, that her hband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vo had picked up at a bar. Gannasli?In what Gannasli cheerfully lls “the year of the queer,” when “Brokeback Mounta” beme a phenomenon and Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Osr playg Tman Capote, Gannasli’s character (spoiler alert: read no further if you haven’t seen the episo yet) was outed Sunday night on “The Sopranos.”Drsed appropriate leather bar attire, Vo Spatafore — the heretofore closeted gay mobster — was sighted by a uple wiseguys who me by the sweaty S&M jot to llect their protectn money.“It’s a joke,” Vo weakly offers, then begs: “Don’t say noth’!”By the end of the episo, he’s checked to a motel wh a gun, lookg suicidal.Fans of the HBO seri were stunned last season when Meadow’s boyiend, Fn, saw a secury guard stg the driver’s seat of a tck — and then Vo’s head popped up.This season, Vo has hung around the hospal while Tony Soprano was reverg om a gunshot wound, tryg to gratiate himself wh Tony’s wife while plottg wh Plie Walnuts to grab her cut of a big sre.
WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
(In real life, he’s down to 260 om a high of 400 pounds.)Now that the gay story le is heatg up, the 47-year-old Brooklyn-born actor is immensely pleased, part bee was his ia to make Vo homosexual.“I saw him as, like, a cross between Mike Tyson and Liberace,” Gannasli told The Associated Prs an terview at his home.