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  • Perez Hilton has an announcement about Celebrity Big Brother

    Perez Hilton has an announcement about Celebrity Big Brother

    The price is not right.

    CREDIT: Channel 5

    Gossip king Perez Hilton has an announcement about appearing on 2017’s Celebrity Big Brother – and that’s the price wasn’t right. In his latest podcast, Perez reveals that he was asked by Big Brother execs to take part in the latest “all stars” version of the show but when it came to his fee, the producers of the hit Channel 5 show, refused to meet his demand of “double” the fee he received in 2015.

    The reality star revealed that he was the most talked about celebrity in the history of the show and helped make the series, which also starred Michelle Visage and Katie Hopkins, to be one of the most successful in the show’s history. His most talked moments were his dramatic fall out with Michelle Visage about her being a spokesperson for the LGBT community and calling Katie Hopkins a c**t.

    Speaking with Chris Booker on the podcast, Perez Hilton said, “I’m worth it…” when he talked about wanting to take home double the fee from his last appearance. He also revealed that the experience was “traumatic” and that the money had to be worth the heartache. He also said that he had left the “door open” to Channel 5 execs for future all-stars series if the price was right. But only if the price was right.

    Meanwhile, transgender star Lauren Harries revealed to THEGAYUK.com that she could be entering the house sharing, ““Looking forward to seeing some interesting people at Elstree on the 2nd of January”.

     

    The new series begins on Channel 5 on the January 2017.

  • The 31 gayest Christmas songs… ever

    The 31 gayest Christmas songs… ever

    We’ve searched high and low for the campest Christmas songs…

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    So here you go, 31 songs from LGBT artists, allies and icons provide you with the perfect soundtrack for a truly camp Christmas. So there’s newcomer Saara Aalto, a bit of Kylie and some RuPaul to make up the perfect soundtrack.

    Playlist:
    All I Want For Christmas – Mariah Carey
    Last Christmas – Wham!
    At Christmas – Kylie
    One More Sleep – Leona Lewis
    Merry Christmas, Mary – RuPaul
    My Only Wish (This Year) -Britney
    Baby It’s Christmas – Bananaramma
    Heartbeat – Steps
    2 Become 1 – Spice Girls
    Mistletoe and Wine – Cliff Richard
    All Alone On Christmas – Darlene Love
    Once Upon A Christmas Song – Peter Kay
    Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt
    Showbiz Christmas – Mr Showbiz
    Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Bette Midler
    Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer – Dolly Parton
    Baby, It’s Cold Out – Glee Cast
    Do They Know It’s Christmas? Band Aid
    Merry Christmas – Bette Midler
    Guiding You – FourNurses
    Step Into Christmas – Elton John
    Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Mariah Carey
    Dear Santa – Girls’ Generation
    Christmas Tree – Lady Gaga
    Santa Baby – Madonna
    Underneath The Tree – Kelly Clarkson
    Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Sam Smith
    Let It Go – Idina Menzel
    Sleigh Ride – Clay Aiken
    O Holy Night – Saara Aalto
    Christmas Conga – Cyndi Lauper

  • Spice Girls Christmas hit re-imagined as a safe sex same-sex single

    Spice Girls Christmas hit re-imagined as a safe sex same-sex single

    And this genius uses a condom as the drums.

     

    So the 16th December marks 20 years since the iconic Spice Girls ballad “2 Become 1” became a Christmas number 1. Well, now musician K Anderson has re-imagined the song as a love song between two men and used a condom as the drums.

    To celebrate this anniversary, singer-songwriter K Anderson has recorded an acoustic cover, changing the song’s lyrics to ‘boys and boys feel good together’.

     

    The singer said,

    “I always wanted to be in a girl band, and there is no finer than the Spice Girls! And, since one of the song’s messages is about the importance of safe sex, I thought it would be fun to use condoms as my percussion in the track (and they weren’t getting much use in my bedside drawer)”.

     

    Amazing.

  • FILM REVIEW | Uncle Howard

    FILM REVIEW | Uncle Howard

    ★★★★ | Uncle Howard

    Howard Brookner was three days shy of 35 when he died of AIDS in 1989.

    Who was Howard Brookner? He was an American film director and famous for his college thesis documentary on William S. Burroughs – the American novelist who was also a member of the beat generation. Brookner also wrote and directed the feature-length film Bloodhounds of Broadway – a period comedic ensemble that starred several big names including Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Anita Morris, Julie Hagerty, Randy Quaid, and Madonna.

    But Brookner was more than just a film director – he was also an uncle, an uncle to Aaron Brookner. And Aaron has made a film about his uncle in a moving documentary simply titled Uncle Howard.

    Aaron, 35 years old, was inspired by his uncle to make movies. In the documentary we see home video footage of Howard hanging out with Aaron when he was a kid, with Howard parading Aaron around on his shoulders. These scenes are touching and sentimental because it sets the tone of the short relationship Aaron had with his uncle, an uncle who passed away when Aaron was only 8-years-old, an uncle who made such an impression on him that decades later Aaron would want to make a documentary about him. Aaron’s early memories of Uncle Howard included being on the set of Bloodhounds of Broadway, a film that turned out to be Howards only major studio film, and unfortunately, he passed away before its release.

    Aaron wanted to seek out Howard’s original film footage for his Burroughs documentary, and found it in a place called The Bunker in lower Manhattan, the former home of Burroughs. There are scenes of Aaron watching the old tapes which are then inter-spliced with the actual film footage, which gives us, and Aaron, a glimpse of the early work of his uncle, an uncle with high doses of passion and talent. The old footage also includes glimpses of Allen Ginsberg and Andy Warhol, while both new and old footage shows Jim Jarmusch, with Howard in the 1980’s, and then with Aaron in the present day.

    The writer Brad Gooch gives us a raw insight into his ten-year relationship with Howard, while discussing the loss of Howard and many friends during the height of the AIDS pandemic, scenes that are emotional, touching and sentimental. But what most pulls at the heartstrings is Aaron’s conversations with Howard’s mother, Elaine, who walks down memory lane with Aaron about the life of Howard and how he was taken from them at such a young age. Uncle Howard is a film with a personal touch, and Aaron has successfully delivered a fitting tribute to an uncle who died way too young.

    I wish I had an Uncle Howard.

  • Dillon St. Paul reveals how tense the Apprentice board room really is

    Apprentice star Dillon St. Paul has revealed how tense the boardroom process actually is for the candidates.

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    Apprentice star Dillon St. Paul has revealed how tense it is in the boardroom. When asked if the Apprentice boardroom was a bit like a strict school room, the magazine art director revealed exclusively to THEGAYUK.com, “Yeah, totally. It’s a really tense atmosphere, and it’s really, really serious.”

    And if it looks as though the process from waiting room to boardroom is seamless, Dillon revealed that the candidates are actually kept waiting in complete silence for ages to build the tension and possibly to psyche each other out before they’re allowed to enter the board room. He told us,

    “The thing is, what people don’t realise is, you’re kind of outside for ages, and you’re waiting for a long time. I don’t know whether that’s so that you psyche each other out, or whether it’s to give you time to think.We’re kept in complete silence outside for quite a bit longer than you realise”.

    So, once inside the boardroom and the candidate meet the 69-year-old billionaire Lord Sugar for the first time, what do they make of him?

    “Every time he makes a joke, everybody laughs regardless of if it’s funny or not because it’s so tense in there,

    “He’s quite a serious guy. He just likes straight up. I wouldn’t call him the most patient man in the world. He kind of wants you to get to the point quickly before you’ve even started a sentence. He likes things fast, he likes thing straight talking, and he doesn’t like anybody kind of beating around the bush. You will get called out for that pretty fast anyway, so you learn pretty quickly not to do that.”

     

    The Apprentice continues tonight on BBC 1 9PM

  • Straight guys touch another man’s penis for the first time

    Straight guys touch another man’s penis for the first time

    So some YouTubers, BriaAndChrissy decided to get some self-identifying straight guys to touch another man’s penis and the results may surprise you.

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    CREDIT: BriaAndChrissy / YouTube

    The video, which was posted earlier this year was an experiment to see what self-identifying straight guys felt when they touched another man’s penis. One of the guys even went as far as to say it was a “beautiful experience”. Another, whose identity remained secret, said that it “didn’t turn him on”, but “didn’t turn him off either”.

    Straight men touch penis for the first time
    CREDIT: BriaAndChrissy / YouTube

    Aleks happens to be that man who’s penis gets all the attention…and it appears as though he’s got a sizeable asset! Check out the comments in the video.

    Don’t forget to leave your comments in the box below.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Is Lauren Harries going back into the Celebrity Big Brother house

    Is Lauren Harries going back into the Celebrity Big Brother house

    There are mutterings that Lauren Harries could be set to star in the next series of Celebrity Big Brother… Let the havoc commence.

    Lauren Harries
    CREDIT: Lauren Harries / Twitter

    So there are all types of rumours flying around about who is going into the Celebrity Big Brother house for the new series which starts in January, one of those rumours is Lauren Harries.

    If you don’t remember who she is, she appeared in series 12 and caused mayhem and laughter in equal measure and she’s been lined up along with a long list of potentials to join the new series on Channel 5 as part of their “old stars, new stars” theme. They’re planning to bring back some of the show’s most controversial stars as well as chucking in a few newer ones.

    She placed third in that series.

    So who else is rumoured to be entering Britain’s most famous house? Katie Hopkins is among the rumoured entries as well as Jedward.

    Lauren was recently spotted with Big Brother’s Bit On The Side presenter Rylan. They both shared a selfie, which Lauren shared on her social media saying,

    “Having a selfie with #Rylanclark at his dressing room at Elstree it’s been too long Rylan we should have a good old natter after so long,”

    Anyway, THEGAYUK.com reached out to Lauren to ask her about whether she’s was going into the house she replied,

    “Looking forward to seeing some interesting people at Elstree on the 2nd of January”

    Now whether she’ll be in the audience or in the house we have no idea!

     

    The new series starts on the 3rd January, we’ve cancelled all plans!

     

     

     

     

  • THEATRE REVIEW | Charming Dick

    THEATRE REVIEW | Charming Dick

    ★★★ | Charming Dick

    Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a couple of cut-price synthetic-fibre-clad drag queens, a Eurovision medley, and a huge sack full of festive double entendres and innuendos – we at THEGAYUK can’t wait for Kris Kringle to cum down our chimney – falalalala la la la la.

    Producer Catia Ciarico and The Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s production of Charming Dick has more puns than letters to Santa requesting penis pumps. If you’ve a penchant for musical theatre, know your way around a winklepicker-tapping Dolly Parton number and the melody to ‘Money Money Money’ sends your baubles into a figgy-pudding frenzy, then this should be right up your North Pole.

    Charming Dick is a posing-pouch-packed with everything an adult yuletide panto should be, audience participation – “oh yes there is”. A Twankey (Tim McArthur), a wicked witch (Matthew Floyd), a prince (Stewart Briggs) a Little Red Riding Hood/blind mouse/chem-sex party fag-hag (Abigail Carter-Simpson) and of course, a Big Dick (Ali Frederick). Imagine Westminster City Council as the witch, then you’ve got the Noel narrative.

    Not every scene was like skating around the rink at Somerset House, a few of the lines took the same route as the lemon does with the Turkey on the nut-cracking day, and the ‘Twelve Day Of Christmas’ almost got lost in a snow-hole – but it all added to the jingle-belling jollity. Any mince pie indulgence from the derrieres-on-seats would have been worked off with the continuous guffaws.

    This is a stuffer for your stocking, a trimming for your tree, full of festive vulgarity – head to the Cockpit Theatre and we hope you ‘Oh Cum All Ye Faithful’.

    If we gave halves – we’d give three-and-half.

    The Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH
6 – 23 December 2016 | Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm 
£16 (adv), £18 (on the door), £12 (conc) | www.thecockpit.org.uk | | 020 7258 2925

  • Have you seen McDonald’s X rated Christmas cups?

    Have you seen McDonald’s X rated Christmas cups?

    So once you see it you can’t unsee it. Is it spreading Christmas cheer or cheeks?

    Apparently, there’s no hidden meaning other than they are  “festive McCafe cups” but someone has doctored their cup to make it looks like a man is spreading his cheeks.

    Sam Sykes, a fantasy author, seemingly altered his McDonald’s coffee cup to add hands to what should be a picture of two mittens to make it look like, well a man spreading his butt cheeks.

    The pictures have gone viral with thousands of people sharing the picture.

    A spokesperson from McDonald’s said,

    “the altered image circulating on social media is the result of someone getting a little cheeky and adding some hand-drawing to a cup.”

    So what did you see first?

  • X Factor runner ups: Where are they now?

    X Factor runner ups: Where are they now?

    Sometimes the runner up acts do better than the actual winner – actually, this is pretty much standard practice. We have a look at the X Factor runner ups to see where they’re today and how their careers panned out.

     

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    The classical pop-opera lads released four albums, with three of them being successful. They disbanded in 2007 apparently because they were “sick” of each other. An attempted re-band was made in 2015 when they released their flop Christmas album G4 Christmas. Only three of the original members performed on the album after Matthew Stiff decided not to rejoin. They lost out to Steve Brookstein.

     

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    Andy Abraham

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    Who can forget the Dustbin man turned pop star Andy Abrahams. He released 3 studio albums and a “best of” however only two of those albums charted. Andy can now be spotted on stage performing in musicals. He lost out to Shayne Ward.

     

     

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    h2>Series 3

    Ray Quinn

    Ray Quinn
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    Ray Quinn has become a bit of body builder since his time in X Factor, he’s also appearing in musicals. He released just one album Doing It My Way, which reached number 1 in the UK and sold over 300,000 copies. He lost out to Leona Lewis.

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    Rhydian

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    Who could forget the platinum blonde Welshman. Losing out to Leon Jackon in 2007 didn’t harm Rhydian’s recording career having released five albums. The first two managed to achieve Platinum and Gold sales status. The following three managed to reach the top 40. Oh, and he got most of his clothes off when he played Rocky in Rocky Horror!

     

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    JLS

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    JLS are the only boyband to come runner up, but not the most successful one – that crown goes to One Direction who actually came third in series 7. JLS has a slew of hits including 5 number one singles. They also released four albums all of which entered the top 3 in the charts. They disbanded in 2013 and left fans with a compilation album called Goodbye.

     

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    Olly Murs

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    Olly is probably the most successful solo male artist to come out of X Factor having clocked up four number one albums and four number one singles. Thirteen of his 20 singles have reached the top 20. He’s also gone on to become a TV presenter. He lost out to Joe McElderry.

     

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    Rebecca Ferguson

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    Rebecca was the first woman to come runner up on the X Factor has she’s gone on to release a number of albums and is a spokeswoman for Walkers Crisps. She also opened a shop called Beauty Boudoir in 2012. She lost out to Matt Cardle.

     

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    Marcus Collins

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    Marcus was the only openly gay finalist to come runner up. He released an album but is now appearing on stage in various musicals. Including Kinky Boots and Hairspray. He lost out to Little Mix.

     

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    Jahméne Douglas

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    Jahméne has a largely forgettable career despite being hailed as one of the X Factor‘s best vocalists ever. He’s released a number of albums, but it’s his seemingly changing face that keeps him in the public spotlight. He lost out to James Arthur in 2012.

     

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    Nicholas McDonald

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    I mean who knows what’s happened to Nicholas? He released one album called In the Arms Of An Angel which reached number 6 in the UK charts. He lost out to Sam Bailey.

     

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    h2>Series 11

    Fleur East

    Fleur was hot favourite to achieve massive world-wide successful after she was the first to sing “Uptown Funk” during the live shows. However, her career has seemingly and sadly stalled after her second and third single “More and More” and “Breakfast” failed to chart.  They were both from her 2015 album Love, Sax and Flashbacks which only managed to achieve 60,000 sales in the UK. She has resigned with another Sony Music label and hopes to launch an international singing career. She lost out to Ben Haenow.

     

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    Reggie ‘n’ Bollie

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    Reggie ‘n’ Bollie were the second group to become runner-up from the X Factor have largely fallen out of the public eye since placing second. They released two singles, the first of which achieved a charted of 26, the second failed to chart.  They lost out to Louisa Johnson.

     

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    Saara Aalto

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    It’s too early to tell how Saara’s career post X Factor will turn out, but she’s already made history by becoming the first openly bisexual woman to reach the final.

  • Saara Aalto makes X Factor history after being first openly gay woman into the finals

    Saara Aalto makes X Factor history after being first openly gay woman into the finals

    Saara Aalto has made history by becoming the first openly gay woman to reach the finals of the X Factor.

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    Saara Aalto‘s journey to the finals is history making, after she became the first LGBT woman to reach the finals of ITV’s X Factor. She missed out on the top spot after Matt Terry won the competition outright. Saara Aalto had been the firm favourite to win the competition with one excited fan putting a £30,000 bet on the Finnish singer to win this year’s competition.

    The powerhouse vocalist revealed that she was engaged to be married to her girlfriend, Meri, during the series. The pair have been partners for a number of years and are considered one of the only openly gay celebrity couples in their native Finland.

    To date the only other runner-up to out at the time of the show is Marcus Collins. No one, who was openly gay at the time of the competition, has won the X Factor. Joe McElderry who won series 6 came out after he won the show.

    It has been reported the Saara Aalto actually wanted to come second in the competition. According to the Sun, the 29-year-old revealed that, “‘Coming second would be better than the number one spot, as it would mean having the freedom that the winner does not”.

    Saara has ready released a number of albums in Finland, including this Christmas one.