In a PopCrunch Exclusive, a source close to both Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell, and intimately involved with the American Idol production has reported to PopCrunch that Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest are involved in an on again, off again gay love affair.

According to our source, the innuendo on last night’s American Idol between Seacrest and Cowell almost sent Cowell, whose publicist Max Clifford stages photo ops with beautiful women, as a clever attempt to misdirect the public about Cowell’s bi-sexual tendencies, over the edge as this revelation could create devastating PR for the biggest TV show in the world.

Both Seacreast and Cowell are well known to be playboys, and while speculation has been rampant for years about whether they play on the same side, hardly anyone expected this.