English actor Rupert Everett hates the gay world's "obsession with youth" - but admits he'll still be partying well into old age. The 48-year-old Shrek The Third star doesn't plan to ditch his current lifestyle, and has vowed to stay on the gay scene regardless of his increasing years.He says, "Gay culture is youth obsessed. I don't want to be the old guy w**king in the corner at the bath house while all the young people have sex."But I probably will be. Or I'll be the 70-year-old in the tie-dye t-shirt taking Ecstasy in the nightclub, while being wheeled out in a trolley."Everett got his break in 1982 starring alongside Kenneth Branagh in the West End production Another Country followed by the film version two years later.But in 1989 he openly admitted that he was gay, a move viewed by many damaged his career.But his acting career was revitalised in 1997 starring alongside Julia Roberts, as her gay best friend, in My Best Friends Wedding.

Since then he has gone on to star in Midsummer Night's Dream, The Importance Of Being Ernest, Stage Beauty and Shrek 2.

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