Yesterday, Star Jones' ex, Al Reynolds took to the YouTube to confront rumors that he's gay. While he might seem homo because he's a "spiffy" dresser (and more so because he was involved with Jones), Reynolds insists, "I am not a homosexual.... I look good, so people call that kind of soft." We didn't ask, but good to know? Inspired by Big-Not-Gay-Al and his insistent heterosexuality, we got to thinking about other heteros persisting in their hetero-ness in the face of similarly vicious rumors. A list of of our Top 10 Greatest Moments In Heterosexuality follows!

Oprah Winfrey
The media empress has long denied rumors of a lesbian relationship with her BFF Gayle King. ''People think I'd be so ashamed of being gay that I wouldn't admit it? Oh, please.'' In August 2006, she addressed the issue in an O magazine article, writing, "I understand why people think we're gay.... There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it—how can you be this close without it being sexual?" She went on to say, "Something about this relationship feels otherworldly to me, like it was designed by a power and a hand greater than my own. Whatever this friendship is, it's been a very fun ride."

Jake Gyllenhaal
Questions about his sexuality have happy-trailed Gyllenhaal since he starred in 2005's Brokeback Mountain. His thoroughly modern response to man-love rumors earned him effusive love in the gay community. The pretty boy has said, "I can honestly say I've never been attracted to a man sexually, but I don't think I'd be afraid of it if it happened." We think he said that before he met Lance Armstrong.

Brandon Routh/Superman
In July 2006, Larry King quizzed the Superman star about the super hero's gay appeal and assumptions that he was gay and enjoyed wearing tights both in and out of character. In response to a viewer-submitted e-mail regarding an Advocate article, How Gay Is Superman, Routh defended his performance as perfectly macho: "Well, I think anybody that sees the movie and anybody that's worried about [Superman's gayness] for whatever reason ... if you see the movie you can see that Superman is as he always is, always has been, in a lovely relationship, or trying to work on his relationship with Lois Lane."

When King asked Routh about rumors about his own sexuality, the strapping actor answered, "I'm very confident in who I am and my relationship with my lovely girlfriend."

Mike Piazza
After the New York Post ran a blind item in 2002 about a gay star player for the Mets, Piazza held an impromptu press conference to deny that he played for the other team. "First off, I'm not gay," he told the dozen or so reporters in attendance, "I'm heterosexual. That's pretty much it. That's pretty much all I can say. I don't see the need to address the issue further.... I can't control what people think. That's obvious. And I can't convince people what to think. I can only say what I know what the truth is and that's I'm heterosexual and I date women. That's it. End of story."

Kordell Stewart
When his sensitivity and distant nature prompted questions about his sexuality, the then-Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback held a team meeting before the 1999 season to quash gay rumors. "You'd better not leave your girlfriends around me," he allegedly told teammates, "because I'm out to prove a point!"

Some say that after the gay rumors, Stewart's skills were less-than-fabulous.

Tom Cruise
The gay rumors and Cruise camp responses are vast, so we'll just share a favorite moment. In 2001, Cruise filed a $150 million lawsuit against Chad Slater, a porn actor, who claimed to have had an affair with him. Slater went by the name "Kyle Bradford" in his films, which included such titles as The Cockpit Club and Forced To Submit. "Defendant Chad Slater has concocted the completely false story that he had a continuing homosexual affair with Tom Cruise and that this affair was discovered by Mr. Cruise's wife [Nicole Kidman], leading to their divorce," the lawsuit read. "There is not a germ of truth in Mr Slater's story. While Cruise thoroughly respects others' rights to follow their own sexual preference, he is not a homosexual and had no relationship of any kind with Kyle Bradford and does not even know him."

Cruise's longtime lawyer and friend, Bertram Field, said of the porn star's allegations: "He never had a homosexual or any other relationship with Bradford, whom he does not even know.... He is tired of it and it hurts his children. And damn it, he's going to stop it." The lawsuit, which also included this businesslike line, "Losing the respect and enthusiasm of a substantial segment of the movie going public would cost Cruise very substantial sums. Cruise believes in the right of others to follow their own sexual preference," was a win for Team Cruise. Bradford said he had made the story up, and Cruise was awarded over $10 million.

Keanu Reeves
In 2000, rumors circulated that Keanu was involved in an ongoing affair with openly gay movie mogul David Geffen. Geffen came forward to defend Keanu's heterosexuality. "There are people who are gay who would love to believe that anybody who is cute must be gay," Geffen says. "Unfortunately, it's not so."

The always Zen Reeves didn't outrightly deny the allegations. "I mean, there is nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment," he said. "Why make a big deal of it? If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm gay, well, I have to deal with it, I guess."

SpongeBob SquarePants
In 2005, conservative groups questioned the happy yellow Porifera's sexuality. His creator and network responded to the ridiculous accusations: "We never intended them to be gay," his creator said of the cartoons. "I consider them to be almost asexual. We're just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show." "He's a sponge, for crying out loud," cried a spokesperson for Nickelodeon.

Mel Gibson
Always an equal opportunity guy, Mel was saying offensive things about gays long before he went on that infamous drunken anti-Semitic rant. A 1992 interview with the Spanish paper El Pais featured this quote, attributed to Gibson: "Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them? I think not."

Kazuhito Tadano
In 2004, a gay porn video featuring the minor league baseball player engaging in a homosexual act surfaced. Tadano denied he was gay, tearfully saying, "I'm not gay. I'd like to clear that fact up right now." He explained his participation in the video: "I was young, playing baseball, and going to college, and my teammates and I needed money.... All of us have made mistakes in our lives.... Hopefully, you learn from them and move on."