The National Enquirer is reporting that Queen Latifah has finally decided to make things official with Jeannette Jenkins, her girlfriend of five years, who, incidentally, also happens to be her trainer. (Insert caveat here about how this is from the Enquirer). This is somehow a big deal since Queen Latifah is not technically out of the closet, despite the fact that America has known she's lesbian ever since she played one in that dopey heist flick Set it Off back in 1996. It's also seemingly a big deal because Latifah has endorsement deals with Cover Girl, Pizza Hut, and Jenny Craig, among others, and it's unclear how those companies would react to having an openly gay spokesperson. (Never mind that gay marriage is now legal in California.)

Those concerns happen to be completely unfounded—if any of those companies were to drop Latifiah for coming out of the closet, the backlash would quickly result in a public relations disaster of gigantic proportion. So let's just agree this isn't a big deal at all, okay? Wake us up when Lindsay is officially out.

Amanda Silverman, Queen Latifah's publicist, could not be reached for comment. A message on her voicemail notes that she's only in her office until 1 pm on Fridays during the summertime. Grumble grumble.