In recent celebrity news, KATHY GRIFFIN reveals that “Modern Family” star JESSE TYLER FERGUSON was “nervous” about touching her boobs during their shoot for Out Magazine.

Why was he nervous? Well, you can see for yourself:

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It’s quite understandable for most gay men to be nervous about having to encounter such a large amount of female skin—especially if that female happened to be the feisty, hilarious, and somewhat aggressive Kathy Griffin.

If you didn’t already guess, Kathy and Jesse are re-enacting Janet Jackson’s famous (or infamous?) 1993 Rolling Stone magazine cover, in which the singer can be seen posing shirtless while an unknown man’s hands covers her boobs.

Kathy, who obviously played the role of Janet in the photo, told Page Six:

Jesse got nervous [about re-enacting the Jackson setup for the Out shoot].”

She added:

“I don’t know why. He’s a gay man, and it’s not like I was going to do anything to him. Well, maybe I would have with the right sedatives. But boobs are boobs, and mine are real. Maybe that’s what surprised him. Being a Hollywood actor, he was probably like, ‘What are these things? I’ve never felt these before.’ ”

The racy (but hilarious) photo, which appears on the magazine’s latest issue, was shot for the Out100—a list of the most influential men and women (both gay and straight) in the LGBT community, in which both Kathy Griffin and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are included.

What do you think of Kathy and Jesse’s Janet-inspired photo?

image by Gavin Bond / OUT Magazine

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