Rumor: Toni Tennille dumped the Captain for another woman

The Captain and Tennille

While I know we HAVE to take anything in the National Enquirer with a a grain of salt, I have also seen reports from events I personally attended and found very "inside" information that I knew to be true made available in the tabloid.

That disclaimer said - the National Enquirer is now "reporting" (if you will) that Toni Tennille filed for divorce last month, surprising fans everywhere, because she is allegedly lesbian and left the Captain for another woman.

From the National Enquirer:

After the singers’ 39-year marriage re­cently collapsed, the Internet lit up with claims that 73-year-old Toni Tennille dumped her ailing 71-year-old husband “Captain” Daryl Drag­on because she’s been seeing another woman.

One blogger insisted that the songbird “is gay and has had a girlfriend for years.”

Another online celebrity watcher, who said her information came from a friend of the performers’ family, added that Toni is happy with her lover and “no longer found Daryl useful, ever since his illnesses caused him to cease playing keyboard or performing music.”

It has been widely reported that Daryl Dragon suffers tremors caused by a neurological condition similar to Parkinson’s disease.

I hate when divorce gossip defaults to a "coming out" story. It connects a story to the LGBT community from an unfortunate perspective.

However, it is actually much more common than the general public is aware that many marriages happened for reasons other than physical love. And as seniors, people have been known to "come out" late in life.

I don't know if Tennille is gay or not. Nor do I care.  Both Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon have always seemed very likeable and I have nothing negative about them to say.

But if it were true it would make for an interesting conversation, much like Meredith Baxter's story, about how love and marriage were lived in the not too distant past and now present.