Have you been seeing the rumors that a character on Pushing Daisies is gay? Couldn’t figure out who it might be? (We guessed Digby.) AfterElton.com got the scoop, directly from Bryan Fuller. Check it out after the jump.

“It’s the coroner,” Fuller told AfterElton.com, referring to the character played by Sy Richardson. “We were going to slowly expand his character and kind of reveal that he has a little crush on Emerson,” the private investigator and business partner to the show’s lead, played by Lee Pace.

“I didn’t want to just do another, like, pretty gay person,” said Fuller. “I thought it would be interesting to have an older character be gay.”

The guy that says “mmm hmmm” has a crush on Emerson? Love it! Read the rest of the interview at AfterElton.com for more from Brya, including the Star Trek storyline that never made it to screens.