So this is Dillon St. Paul and he’s our new silver fox crush. He’s the art director for a magazine and he’s 37. He has a beautiful accent and lives in Dublin.
As you can tell we’re totally #TeamDillon.
Boy George’s four brothers would apparently cross the road if they saw him coming down the street in the early days of his career. Speaking at a Q&A the iconic singer said that his appearance was enough to make his family members cross the road especially towards the end of the 70s.
Explaining, Boy George said,
“My brothers used to cross the street when they saw me.
“When they saw me coming down the road they’d cross over.
“Unless they wanted something. Especially towards the end of the 70s when the makeup got really extreme.”
His look was so extreme that he joked he made old ladies “run back into their gardens”.
In the late 70s and earlier 80s, along with Marilyn, the duo were the poster boys for the New Romantics movement. Boy George explained that when the scene first started there were so few people in that scene that you made friends with anyone who looked like a “freak”.
Boy George said,
“At that time, the New Romantic scene was quite tiny, it was a scene with a massive ego.
“There was only 200 people at the most. So when you met other people that were like you, you tended to kind of befriend them. I just saw another freak and was like, “You’re going to be my friend,” it was kind of destined that we would end up friends.”
Read the full Q&A in our latest issue, which you can download for free.
The Eating Out and Paternity Leave actor Chris Salvatore, 31, has taken to Instagram to show off his best ass…ets. The openly gay actor and singer
The openly gay bearded beaut and singer has certainly got his fans hot under the collar with these two pictures, with one fan questioning whether the actor had something to “talk about”!
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Basically we don’t mind. Keep ’em coming Chris.
Is that isn’t enough nudity for you, Geordie Shore star Gaz got totally FRONTAL, which was a bit of a shocker.
So the peeps at Dreams commissioned some research to find out what’s bugging us all before we go to bed… Here’s twenty things that are keeping Brits up at night!
Or maybe you need some Nytol?
So here’s some things you probably didn’t know about Dillon St. Paul.
He’s 37 and he lives in Dublin and is an art director at a Fashion Magazine.
Describing himself as super-creative, Dillon is currently a freelance Art Director at a fashion magazine. He describes himself as talented, kind and very funny. He intends to be ‘Machiavellian’ about tasks and says he will tell white lies if he needs to.
He says: “Sometimes batting the eyelashes can get you a lot in business. Hence, the mascara comes in handy – so they can see those lashes.”
Well, we did some digging and for those who want to know whether Dillion is gay, it looks as though is he is. He’s been spotted attending prides and is known to use a few famous Instagram hashtags like: #Instagay and #Gay.
We’re gathered in the basement of a swanky hotel in central London. We’re about to witness the coming together of two of 80’s queer culture’s pioneers. Marilyn and Boy George are about to have a sit down with Kate Flett and 50 journalists.
M: We met around someone’s (house) I think her name was Jane in Swiss Cottage.
BG: Punk Jane…
KF: Nobody had surnames did they?
M: Punk Jane – Jane was her surname… (laughter) A mutual friend of ours took me round. I didn’t know what the subtext of the script was, but I was being used by said friend to…
BG: Piss me off.
M: That was a bonus…
KF: So there was always a subtext?
M: Always a subtext.
BG: My best friend and I had fallen out and I had been replaced by Marilyn, who was a year younger than me. So replaced by a younger model…
M: I’ve never grown out of the role.
BG: My friend was going around with this young blonde person and it was kind of tense.
M: Very. I was completely unaware of what was going on. I didn’t know the dynamics between (George) and Philip Sallon… It was like walking into a lion’s den. This one (pointing to Boy George) was back-combing his hair and giving me looks, I was so terrified.
KF: So when was this?
BG: ’77?
M: Everything was still in Black and White.
KF: You were super young.
M: What are you implying?
KF: Nothing at all… I just thought it might be ’79 / ’80.
BG: No no, it may have been the end of ’76!
KF: You were children!
BG: Yes… mental. The second time we met was at a club called the Sombrero, which was a run down 70s disco we used to go to on the weekends. He came with Phillip to this club and I done this whole new look, a complete transformation. So Phillip came up and spoke to me, not realising it was me. As he spoke to me, he realised it was me and kind of ran off. I believe that Marilyn walked up to me and said, “What do you think of Phillip?” which is one of Marilyn’s famous lines when he wants you to bitch about people…
M: I wanted to know what was going on… that’s why I asked.
BG: Can we just establish at this point (he) was in full Marilyn Monroe drag.
M: I still wanted to know what was going on. Since the first meeting and then the second one I had a little more info and I knew there was some kind of… Philip was… I’m editing myself. Philip’s wonderful, he really is wonderful, but he has an opinion, a very strong opinion and his perception of what went on. I like to hear both sides before I make up my own mind. The more info the better.
BG: You’re padding this out. I was fabulous, you were fabulous, we were destined to be friends.
M: In a nutshell.
BG: It was kind of instant really. I loved the way he looked, I think he quite liked the way I looked. At that time, the New Romantic scene was quite tiny, it was a scene with a massive ego. There was only 200 people at the most. So when you met other people that were like you, you tended to kind of befriend them. I just saw another freak and was like, “You’re going to be my friend,” it was kind of destined that we would end up friends.
M: That’s all great, the way you look and everything, but for me when you look into someone’s eyes, what I see beyond whatever the facade is, that’s the thing that’s important to me. When I looked at him there was a connection…
BG: Are you being romantic?
M: It wasn’t that kind of look.
KF: You just clicked?
M: On a really deep level… That doesn’t happen very often.
KF: Where did ‘Marilyn’ come from? Let’s find out how you ended up being in that room with Phillip, wearing your full Marilyn Monroe drag. What’s the journey?
M: I started off at school. I had huge problems at school. I was hiding. I was always hiding and trying to get through the experience. I had it from every angle. I felt really repressed. I started getting into punk. I was attracted to the freedom of it because I felt so repressed. I started going to these nightclubs and there was this one club, called the Embassy Club. By this time, my hair was bleached and I put on a little bit of makeup and I was sitting on this stool at the bar and there was a group of guys standing next to me and one of them turned round and went, “Oh my god! Look at him!” There was a spotlight above the stool I was perched on. He was going, “Look, he could be in my front room he’s like a work of art!” and for me, who had that repression, it was like, ‘oh my god’ I was used to getting attention, but not that kind of attention. He was going, “Oh, you’re beautiful, I could have you in my front room under a spotlight and I found out after that his name was Roy Miles, who was the Queen’s art dealer. That validation felt amazing to me. In my head it was obviously to do with the makeup. I had a little bit of blusher on. So the next week I had a little bit of lip rouge on, and I got more attention, I kept thinking it was to do with that. I didn’t think it was anything to do with people liking me for the inside.
KF: It gave you a confidence?
M: Yeah. I was being noticed and in an appreciative way. That felt good and I wanted more of it.
KF: What kind of life were you living outside of the nightclubs?
M: I just didn’t exist. I stuck black bin liners on my bedroom walls and windows. I would sleep. I was like hibernating until the next nightclub I went to.
KF: Were you more unhappy than your average teenager?
M: I think something had snapped in me by then, I was like, “Oh f*** off”. It might sound bitchy, but something inside me snapped. I would look at people and go, “You are picking on me? Get a mirror.” I started being really judgmental of how other people looked. “Don’t f***ing tell me about me, take a look at yourself before you start picking on this”. It went from one extreme to the other. I turned into this creature.
KF: (to Boy George) did you meet ‘the creature’?
BG: My story is quite similar. I think what happens when you’re a kid, your defensiveness becomes a powerful tool. When I met my first manager Tony Broaden, and he was trying to get me signed to a record deal, he said that I would walk along the road with him and I’d be really dressed up and people would stare and make comments and I’d scream at them, “What you looking at”… That weird defensiveness was very much part of the 70s. You don’t know whether people are laughing. A lot of eccentric people don’t like be to honed in on. You dress up, but you don’t really want people to make comments. Which is odd because obviously they’re going to. I recognise a lot of myself in that weird defensiveness and becoming a bit spikey to manage yourself getting through… You were always running the gauntlet. Particularly in the 70s because you had all that fabulous tribal stuff, with Mods and Rockers and Skinheads. There was always someone to punch you. It was quite brave. When you’re a kid, long before you start dressing up, you’re made aware that you’re different. Because you’re not interested in the same things as other boys, in football… You’re made to feel different. Later on you start to discover fashion and music and start to build an identity and then people pick on you for different reasons. I guess you make a choice. You either fold in on yourself or become… fabulous.
You can read the entire Q&A in the latest issue in THEGAYUK. Subscribe now to never miss another issue.
Watch Marilyn’s brand new single “Love or Money”
The ONS released statistic today that show that the number of young people who identify as bisexual has increased by 45 percent in just three years.
This is the first time that more young people have described themselves as bisexual rather than gay or lesbian. A survey by YouGov last year revealed that 50 per cent of people aged 18-24 defined themselves something other than purely heterosexual. Overall a quarter of the entire population revealed that they felt this way.
Overall a quarter of the entire population revealed that they felt this way.
In the most recent statistic released by the ONS 1.8 per cent identified themselves as bi, while 1.5 per cent said they were gay or lesbian.
However, it hasn’t stopped some social media users commenting that people are referring to themselves as LGBT+ because it’s “trendy” or fashionable rather than you know, the truth.
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The super-excitable duo, from the X Factor, have an entertainment company called, Planet Jedward, which is registered in Dublin and it seems to be in a financial sinkhole. The last two years of account both show losses of over €100,000.
ALSO READ: Are Jedward gay? 7 things you probably didn’t know about Jedward
The company has two sole directors, Edward and John Grimes.
According to Heat Magazine, the latest accounts for the company show a loss of €130,182 (£114,888) last year and €104,447 (£92,177) in 2014. A combined loss of over €234,000.
However, we wouldn’t be too worried for the boys, in September 2013 their estimated net worth was €6 million and they were ranked as the fifth most financially successful X Factor act in the history of the competition.
Things were starting to look down for the duo when Louis Walsh revealed that the flamboyant brothers were his most embarrassing career move. Despite this, the boys have managed to rack up some incredible achievements. They’ve released three number one studio albums and 11 singles, three of which went to number one in Ireland.
They’d better start getting back on the road before Bratavio takes their place.
The Aussie pop princess and her boyfriend, Joshua, have just done something that will totally and forever endear them to us…
They’re not going to tie the knot until same-sex couples get to say “I Do” down under.
Surprisingly same-sex marriage is not yet permitted in Austrailia and they’re not happy about it.
Kylie’s husband-to-be, Joshua Sasses, 28 helped launch the equality campaign, “Yes” and the “Say I Do Down Under” and said even though the pair would like to get married in Melbourne they won’t until the laws change to allow gay couples to get civilly partnered.
Speaking to Australia’s Seven Network Joshua said,
“When I found out that gay marriage was illegal in Australia, I was astounded,”
“..we will not get married until this law has passed in Australia”.
The Australian government has proposed a public referendum on the issue in February 2017.
Joshua continued,
“I simply can’t fathom on any level, whether it’s moral or religious or anything, that I have the right to get married and to marry the person that I love and that somebody else doesn’t because of their sexual orientation.”
Despite being seen as progressive Austrailia’s laws affecting LGBTs are quite regressive. There’s no same-sex marriage and there are no adoption rights in some territories. The age of consent was only recently equalised in Queensland.
Fans rejoiced at the rather dishy 25-year-old Andrew as he was made Star Baker in last night’s episode of Bake Off with his showstopping 24 mini mousse cakes.
In fact, it sent thousands of people to THEGAYUK to find out a little bit more about the aerospace engineer.
Yes, it’s true we do have a bit of a candy crush on Andrew and it turns out he’s now favourite to win the series.
To celebrate his win, Andrew celebrated with a mini bottle of prosecco and commiserated with Tom Gilliford who was eliminated from the competition.
We would have chosen a Blue Nun chaser to go with that prosecco.
A poll, of 15,000 adults, found that despite bed being a haven for most, some could be sharing the sheets with pet hair and old cigarette smoke.
The average Brit also tucks into snacks or food while in bed at least once a week.
But one in four admit they can go three weeks or more without washing their sheets.
And one in twenty have a mattress which is more than 15 years old.
Lisa Bond, Marketing Director at Britain’s leading bed specialist, Dreams, which commissioned the research, said,
“For many, our beds are the most comfortable place in the home, and the area we would like to spend most of our time.
“It’s important to be comfortable and have a supportive mattress which is why we recommend for the best night’s sleep, you replace it every eight years.”
“Many people replace their cars more often than their mattress, yet you spend a third of your life in bed. You can’t underestimate the benefit of a good night’s sleep.”
Researchers found just 43 per cent change their sheets at least once a week, while another 34 per cent do it once a fortnight.
One in ten even admitted to leaving it a month or more between changing the sheets while another one in twenty regularly go for two months without clean bedclothes.
The average pillows have also been on our beds for just over three years while duvets are an average of almost four years old.
Brits have even been using the same bed sheets for an average of more than five years.
Researchers also found the average adult will spend an hour and 30 minutes lying awake, on three nights each week – a total of four-and-a-half hours a week.
But women lose more sleep – struggling to get a full night of shut eye four times a week compared to a man’s three nights.
Being too hot is the most common reason for disturbed sleep, followed by stress, struggling to get comfortable and worrying about money.
A snoring partner, health issues and being nervous or excited about something happening the next day also leads to sleepless nights.
On top of that, 48 per cent of adults reckon they have at least one night a week where they wake up in some kind of pain or discomfort.
Top 20 reasons for having a disturbed night’s sleep:
1. You’re too hot
2. Stress
3. You struggle to get comfortable
4. Worries about money
5. Your partner is snoring
6. You are nervous about something you have to do the next day
7. Health issues
8. You’re not tired
9. Worries about your relationship/family
10. You’re too cold
11. You often have bad dreams or night terrors
12. Worries about work
13. You hear noises during the night
14. Young children keep you awake
15. Your partner fidgets a lot
16. You spend too long looking at your phone/tablet before bed
17. You’re too excited about something to sleep
18. Your bed isn’t very comfortable
19. You’ve eaten too late
20. You’ve had too much caffeine