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▬Contents of this video▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:46 - Jim Nabors Rise To Fame 02:12 - Jim Nabors Married His Partner of 38 Years In 2013 03:37 - The Rock Hudson Rumors 04:58 - Nabors Was Mocked By 'Andy Griffith' Crew Members Over His Sexuality 05:37 - Nabors and Cadwallader's Private Ceremony 06:47 - Outro
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Before Nabors landed that iconic role, he was working at a Santa Monica-area nightclub called The Horn, singing, and dancing in a cabaret show. In fact, it was Andy Griffith himself that discovered him and offered him a role on his sitcom.
Gomer Pyle was a friendly yet obtusely unsophisticated character. While he might not have been the brightest crayon in the box, Pyle proved to be so popular with audiences that he was eventually even given his own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle USMC.
While he was a gifted comic who played his role quite well, Nabors also had one heck of a baritone singing voice. Throughout the 60s and 70s, Nabors showed off his pipes on a handful of variety shows, including The Carol Burnett Show.
In 1965, Nabors landed a record deal with Columbia Records and proceeded to cut numerous albums and singles, most of which were romantic ballads.
In 2017, Jim Nabors passed away at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii at the age of 87. Just a few years before his death, Jim revealed a secret that he had been harboring all his life. While his revelation might not have been that surprising to many people today, if he had opened up about this secret years ago at the height of his Andy Griffith show fame, it likely would have abruptly ended his career.
Jim Nabors Revealed His Biggest Lie Just Years Before He Died
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