"Sherlock" actor Benedict Cumberbatch inadvertently sparked rumors about the sexual orientation of the iconic and brainy sleuth Sherlock during an interview held several months ago. In response, the series' co-creator has decided to set the record straight.

While having a conversation about the lead on the series "Doctor Who" and "Sherlock," Cumberbatch stated, "They've got different dress senses, different taste in the sex of their partners..." The co-creator of the series Steven Moffat has challenged those claims.

While some thought Cumberbatch's statement was referring to Sherlock and The Doctor's tastes in procedural partners, others assumed that Cumberbatch was implying that Sherlock was gay. Often, this misconception is toyed with during the series, but this doesn't mean that he's gay.

"We walk into that one all the time," Moffat told Entertainment Weekly. "It's a funny thing when a character for over 100 years has been saying, 'I don't do that at all.' He's been saying it over 100 years! He's not interested in [sex]. He's willfully staying away from that to keep his brain pure -- a Victorian belief, that. But everyone wants to believe he's gay. He's not gay. He's not straight. And Doctor Watson is very clear that he prefers women. People want to fantasize about it. It's fine. But it's not in the show."

That settles it -- Sherlock isn't gay... though fan fiction and fantasy sequences will continue to suggest otherwise. Also, to retire other rumors, a crossover episode featuring the characters from "Sherlock"/"Doctor Who" won't likely happen, but it could.

"My instinct -- and this is probably from years of doing 'Doctor Who' -- is I'm just such a tart. If people want to, we should give it to them," Moffat, who works on both series, told Entertainment Weekly.

When he was asked about a crossover in the past, Moffat told the Independent, "You know in some ways, I think Mark [Gatiss] has got a point when he says that however good you imagine [the crossover], it would be almost better in your imagination than it would be if the two grand old egotists actually met. They'd just both go off in opposite corners and sulk that there was someone cleverer than them."

Season 4 of the series is scheduled to return in early 2016, and the special episode of the series will air during 2015 Christmas season.

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