Rupert Everett too old to be gay

22-09-2006 11:30

Rupert Everett has said he is too old to be gay.The 47-year-old actor, who is openly homosexual, says he is single because young gay men aren't interested in dating someone older than them.Everett told Britain's Daily Telegraph magazine: "Unfortunately, I am single, yes, but I'm too exhausted for anything else and being gay is a young man's game. "Now no one wants me. Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50- year-old? No one let me tell you."I could set myself on fire in a gay bar, and people would just light their cigarettes from me."The actor - who has just written his autobiography 'Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins' - admits he wants to grow old gracefully, but he would like to find a boyfriend first.He added: "I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit, maybe with a partner. In some ways I do feel more settled, but now I want to take part in things."