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Used in Georgette Heyer 's Cotillion: Later, she pretends to be flirting with her other cousin, Dolph, in order to cover up Dolph's love affair with another woman. Played less idyllically with Lord John and Bree from the later Outlander books. He's gay, and a good many years her senior, as well as close friends with her dad. Considering the time period, it's not the unhappiest of matches— they get on pretty well after a while— but she doesn't seem to see him as much more than a human shield to cover up being vastly preggo.

Her way of persuading him to declare their engagement? Threaten to publicly out him. Which would mean public disgrace and death. Nobody said she wasn't a bitch. Naturally, this doesn't last. She gets her man, and Rosa is pregnant by another man, who had then run off for an unrelated reason , and so needs a husband, and Sammy is secretly gay. In the novel Thrones, Dominations , the "boyfriend" of a missing actress tells Lord Peter Wimsey that their relationship is only friendly; she dates him to scare off an unpleasantly lecherous colleague, and he dates her because it makes him appear straight.

At the start of the Dexter series of novels, he explicitly refers to Rita as a beard and a disguise used to make him appear more ordinary and normal. Of course, in his case, being gay would be a lot more socially acceptable than the real story. Raoul and Buri's Relationship Upgrade in the Protector of the Small books comes after he got her to accompany him to a party in order to dissuade matchmaking mothers, and then One Thing Led to Another Since they have a cool captain, the crew of the ''Lorelei Lee are allowed to get married to the prisoners, if the women agree.

Pretty much everyone on board likes this idea, so they all pair off The two of them act as the beard for each other. In the Emberverse , Rigobert de Stafford and his wife Delia are beards for one another in the neo-medieval and extremely homophobic Portland Protective Association. She even refers to him as "my dear beard" in a letter.

Thanks to a turkey baster, they have several children together. Meanwhile, Delia is in a monogamous relationship with Lady Tiphaine d'Ath. In Jasmine Cresswell's Love for Hire the main character made up an imaginary boyfriend to avoid her mother's concern about her love life. Faced with being forced to produce said boyfriend as an escort to her unrequited love's wedding to her sister, she told a regular customer at the bakery she owned that she'd pay him for agreeing to play the role. Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre pretends to be in love with Blanche Ingram so that Jane would "fall as madly in love with him as he was with her".

It's something of an open secret that Renly and Loras are lovers, but Renly's supporters don't seem to mind as long as he's not too gay to father an heir on Margaery. The ruse is so transparent that no one finds it surprising or worthy of suspicion when Margaery truthfully, so far as the reader can tell claims that their marriage was never consummated. In the Mary Russell novel Justice Hall , Marsh and Iris are both gay, and knowingly got married to each other to conform to early-twentieth-century social mores.

They were already great friends, and both kept long-term same-sex partners throughout the marriage with the knowledge of many sympathetic friends and relatives. Although they did have sex a couple of times, which ends up as a plot point. Inverted in The Fourth Bear: In Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle , Krulcifer asks Lux to pretend to be her boyfriend for a week, in order to fool a butler from her family who's coming to pressure her about political marriage. This proves unnecessary when the man that Krulcifer was being pressured into marrying is arrested for various crimes - and, in the same incident, Lux is deemed an acceptable partner.

Played with in Good Behaviour , as Aroon seems to believe that Richard truly does love her, but their relationship only develops when Aroon's father begins to get suspicious of Richard's close relationship with Hubert. They pretended to be a lesbian couple to avoid having their rent increased as two divorced mothers with kids, they were considered to be two separate families. In a later episode, Kate was hired to portray the wife of a client to help him get promoted. She ended up falling for his co-worker. One episode had Tony Danza and the woman he was housekeeping for switching between pretending to be married for one person and trying to prove they weren't married for another.

Al," recurring character Al is searching for a new apartment. The one good place he finds won't rent to singles, so Samantha agrees to pretend to be his wife. Of course, as the landlord had already met her, she invokes Wig, Dress, Accent to act as a Dumb Blonde wife named Candy. On NCIS , it is very frequent for agents to pose as couples for one reason or another.

In order to make his ex-wife jealous, Jack has Liz pretend to be his girlfriend. This, of course, in an early episode where there was UST. In another episode, James Franco hires Jenna to be his beard for the tabloids, in order to throw off rumors that he's in a relationship with an anime body pillow. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Willow both play the beard for Xander in one scene in "Teacher's Pet" in order to protect his ego. Similarly, Castle is dismayed when his daughter stops wanting to trick-or-treat with him. You are my candy-beard! It later transpires that the "Professional Couples Only" line in the flat's advertisement was an error inserted by the person working at the paper, and that the whole deception was unnecessary.

Unfortunately, this is only revealed after the landlady uncovers the lie, and is deeply hurt by it. In Coupling , Patrick's constantly one-upping co-worker was showing up with his wife and Patrick had to keep up the facade that he was married to a real looker. He recruits Sally to be his beard, but when the co-worker's supermodel wife shows up, Patrick throws Sally over for Susan. A humiliated Sally gets Susan's boyfriend Steve to be her beard, until it's too much for all of them and Steve proposes to Susan in front of everyone - and Patrick couldn't be happier for them.

Monk Gets Married", Monk and Sharona pretend to be married in order to investigate a criminal at a marriage counseling retreat. Occasional Wife , a short lived Situation Comedy , was based on a "junior executive pretends to be married to get ahead in the company" variant of this trope. Friends "The One in Massapequa" features Ross and Rachel pretending to be married to perpetuate a lie Ross's parents have told their friends.

Naturally, this makes Ross and Rachel realize yet again their feelings for each other. Jack on Three's Company pretended to be Janet's husband twice, once to please her parents and another time to placate Chrissy's father. He also pretended to be Terri's husband to help her get a promotion and ward off the advances of her lecherous boss. The whole premise of the series is an inversion: Jack is wearing a fake shave, so to speak. Played with when the Doctor discusses the latest appearance of the Master with himself.

Does he still have that rubbish beard? No, no beard this time. He went back to playing for the other team. Being a woman, I only really have access to the, uh And that's on a good week. How can I be expected to have the same expertise as people who own this equipment, and have access to it twenty-four hours a day, their entire lives?

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Well, Niccolo, I can see how much you like my daughter. But if you think I'm stupid enough to be taken in by this charade, you've got another think coming. Ken doesn't have a beard. Barbie is his beard. No straight man wears shorts that tight. She's got a famous boyfriend They go out in style She makes him look hetero And he helps her profile. Pose, you've gotta save your reputation They're close to finding out about your girlfriend.

Ironically Sparx bascially had a Friendless Background prior to the HOT and the group would drop its hedonistic party image as Lethal became it's most popular member. Played with at the end of the musical Anything Goes. Reno Sweeney dresses up as a Chinese woman and pretends to have had Lord Evelyn Oakleigh's lovechild, so that he can break his engagement with Miss Hope Harcourt who is in love with Reno's best friend, Billy Crocker.

Reno and Evelyn do eventually get married in a double wedding with Billy and Hope , which possibly subverts this trope. But Reno was in love with Lord Oakleigh before she agreed to play the abandoned lover.

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It was the reason she agreed to do it in the first place. Husband a la mode!

Depending on the player's characterization, the spouse of the protagonist in Fallout 4 could potentially fall into this realm. Unlike the past games in the series where the protagonist's origins are only vaguely framed "Vault Dweller", "Tribal", or "Courier" , Fallout 4 establishes that the protagonist is in a heterosexual marriage and has a son, meaning that anyone wishing to play their character as homosexual would likely rely on this trope.

Of course, given that the game takes place in a that has the social sensibilities of s America, it makes sense that homosexual people might "fake" being straight to avoid ridicule. De Cava is a little In The Sims 3 two men in Roaring Heights are romantically involved despite one of them being married.

Ironically Mark's wife is also in love with a woman and neither know of their partners sexuality. Of course, considering how much a Chick Magnet the typical Persona protagonist can be, it can become a reality at the end of her link. Junichi in Da Capo acts as Mako's beard to help her get rid of an unwanted female admirer. While the motive is genuine, the very first day of acting she's already feeling awkward and begins to treat it more and more as though they were really going out.

When They Cry , Kanon is this to Jessica during the school festival in EP2, since her friends have been teasing her about not having a boyfriend though Jessica does in fact have a crush on Kanon. However the series heavily implies that Kanon and his "sister" Shannon who's also Jessica's oldest friend are actually the same person. This trope forms the basic premise of My Forged Wedding , a Romance Game in which the protagonist must, for various reasons, pretend to be the fiancee or wife of one of six attractive men. Since it's a romance game, it goes without saying that the feigned relationship soon becomes more real than they'd intended.

In Kissed by the Baddest Bidder , Eisuke can't directly reject Carolina Bucci's extremely ardent and determined pursuit of him because offending her will sour his business relationship with her father's Mafia family.

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He therefore decides to have the protagonist pose as his girlfriend, claiming to have fallen deeply in love with her in order to convince Carolina that there's no chance of winning him over. In Sfeer Theory , Luca is married and has a son. Considering the time period, it's rather expected. Also an Arranged Marriage. Fred and Daphne from Penny and Aggie , for one another, at least initially. Later, when she's no longer pretending to be closeted, she's still pretending to be a mundane, but she has started watching classic science fiction late at night.

Katherine agrees to be Shanna's "beard," this time giving her an excuse to be with the fans she won't really admit she likes.

Rumisiel is Ash's beard on Misfile , to Ash's eternal annoyance. While it makes Ash's life easier because she doesn't have to deal with guys hitting on him because he is currently transformed into a girl, Rumi's presence has strained Ash's relationship with one of his best friends, netted her Rumi's angelic ex-girlfriend as a psycho-stalker , and forced her to be Rumi's beard for his brother, who Can Not Tell A Lie and therefore isn't allowed to find out the real reason they are together.

Scandinavia and the World: Denmark uses this trope here. Sweden reluctantly allows Sister Finland to all but coerce him into a sexual relationship with her in a desperate attempt to hide his homosexual tendencies early on. This was probably the one silver lining he could find in this situation; otherwise he'd probably have gone along with it anyway because she's a knife-wielding maniac who wouldn't take no for an answer and let him walk away alive.

Yoona had boyfriends in high school when she was heavily closeted about her sexuality and forcing herself to be straight. In college she comes to the conclusion she shouldn't lie to herself but she doesn't wanna be gay so she decides to never date , though this train of thought doesn't last too long. Discussed in Wilde Life: His parents know that he's gay, but don't know that HE knows that they know.

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Once his gay siblings came out of the closet his parents started nagging them to settle down and have kids , so whenever they visit he has to convince a female friend to be his fake girlfriend so that he can pretend to still be in the closet, even though he's not. At Super Hero School Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe , Bladedancer once male, now female against his will has a girlfriend, but accepts a date with Chain Lightning so no one will realize that Bladedancer likes other girls.

Chain Lightning really likes her, and she finds that she likes him. A bizarre version of this trope appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series full length episode of Zorc and Pals, when Zork the giant, male, world-destroying god evil pretends Bakura who is arguably male is his wife so that his mother will stop pestering him to get married. They even have a child together it's set in the 19th century. Dracula naming Dracula 's dead wife " Carmilla Karnstein ," because, well, you know.

In one episode of Father of the Pride Sarmoti tells his girlfriend that he was raising Hunter himself so that she thinks Sarmoti cares about someone other than just himself. An episode of The Venture Bros. This was because after many tries to have a son their marriage eventually became sexless until they discovered she was barren. Colonel Gentleman was married and had a daughter, Dr. Quinn but never showed any sexual interest in his wife and neither did she.

Also done in an episode of Drawn Together , where Spanky acts out a gay mariage with Xandir who actually is in hopes of getting free health insurance. And an episode where Xandir acts as Toots lover for her fat camp reunion. Which he accomplishes by drawing on his time watching Three's Company. In this case, Leela used Fry to keep Zapp Brannigan away from her, and Amy used him to deflect her parents' attempts to hook her up with any guy they could find as long as it resulted in grandkids.

But then Leela started actually getting jealous when she saw Fry and Amy "together" Naturally, The Simpsons did this. Homer and Selma had to fake marriage in order for Selma to be allowed to adopt a child from China. Apu and Marge did the same for Apu to get out of an Arranged Marriage which ultimately failed. And there's also the time Troy married Selma to resurrect his career in light of rumors of his fish-related "sexual abnormality". And with Marge's other sister, Patty, her onetime relationship with Skinner might've been a retconned form of this, since Patty was eventually revealed to be a lesbian.

The Series , Pleakley tries to get out of an arranged marriage by pretending he's engaged to Nani ew. Made all the more difficult by the episode featuring a Living Lie Detector experiment. In the first episode where she appeared, Mr. Waterman is putting together a Santa costume and calls for his beard, at which point Mrs. On King of the Hill , Dale's dad, Bug, tried to pull off the gay version of this trope when he was still in the closet.

After Dale's wedding, Bug was flirting with an attractive Filipino caterer when Dale came into the room. He quickly grabbed, in his own words, "the nearest thing in a dress"—which happened to be the bride, Nancy. Twenty years of estrangement followed. The Smiths' gay neighbor Terry promises his partner Greg that he'll come out to his domineering father Terry's dad seems to buy it, despite the obvious signs and Stan not doing a single thing to act gay. In "Haylias," Stan tries to set Hayley up with the obviously-gay son of a senator.

He can't see it, but she can and flatly refuses until Stan Mind Controls her into doing it. Francine joins the Ladybugs, a group of popular, powerful housewives who turn out to all be cheating on their husbands. When Francine finds out, they plan to kill her, since they don't have any scandalous information to blackmail her with.

Just then, Francine's friend Linda appears, asks to say goodbye, and kisses Francine. The Ladybugs take this to mean that they are secretly lovers and let them go, accepting this as blackmail material. Francine thinks this was just quick thinking on Linda's part, but it's clear to the audience that this was actually meant to be a Dying Declaration of Love. In Kim Possible , Doctor Vivian Porter's boyfriend Oliver was actually an android she created to accept credit for her ideas because people had trouble accepting that someone with supermodel looks could also be a genius.

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