During the summer press tour of the Television Critics Association (TCA), Sara Gilbert - best-known for her role as wisecracking Darlene on Roseanne - announced that she is, in fact, homosexual.

Gilbert has recently signed on to co-host and executive produce a new talk show called The Talk. Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne and Marissa Jaret Winokur are also on the show – which seems to have an MSNBC meets The View vibe.

Sara explained her decision to spill the beans at TCA: “So obviously I’m going to be discussing my life more, and I felt that the first place I wanted to do it wasn’t in a CBS press release It just seemed impersonal, and I felt like I’d rather come in person and talk to you about all that stuff here.”