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  • Watch Duncan James and Adam Rickitt have a cheeky snog

    Duncan James and Adam Rickitt have got it on…

    Okay, it’s only for television but it totally makes our day.Check out this first look promo from e4.

    Speaking about working with Duncan, Adam said in a recent interview,

    “It’s been funny – I’ve known Duncan for years. When I first got the part and they mentioned that Kyle would be gay, I was like, “Oh, that’s fine as long as it’s not with Duncan…” because he was such a good mate. They were like, “Erm… well it is with Duncan”. [laughs] In some respect, you think it’s going to be really awkward because I’d known him for so long, but then at the same time it was really good because he’s such a nice guy and we are good mates! So, my first ever boy-on-boy kiss was with Duncan from Blue! That’s definitely a benchmark! [laughs]”

     

  • Is this the most awkward gay date ever?

    Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Is all we can say.

    It takes a brave man to put your first date with another guy on television – especially when it doesn’t quite pan out how you imagine it would.

    First Dates recently broadcast this clanger between John and Greig. However after John came back from a smoke outside he admitted to Greig, “It sounds really bad, but I don’t find you attractive,”

    “You’re a really genuine guy and we seem to get on, but I just don’t have that connection with you.”

    “What’s the point in staying and having the main course and dinners?”

    Ouch.

    Even the waiter felt the burn.

    Clearly taken aback Greig cancelled his main course and left the restaurant, leaving John to finish his steak and chips alone.

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  • Farewell so schlong… BBUK’s Arthur leaves the Big Brother house

    There’s been a shock departure at the Big Brother house…

    Big Brother producers have revealed that Arthur has left the house and will not be returning. According to sources, he left the house after he said he felt bullied by fellow housemate Kayleigh.

    See the housemates react on Big Brother tomorrow night at 10 pm, Channel 5.

     

  • Ryan Murphy is bringing Bette and Joan to BBC 2

    Ryan Murphy is bringing the iconic Bette Davis and Joan Crawford to the small screen.

    BBC Two has acquired Feud: Bette and Joan, Ryan Murphy’s eight-part series about the legendary rivalry between Hollywood icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The series was acquired from 20th Century Fox Television Distribution and will air on BBC Two later in 2017.

    Starring Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan‘s stellar cast also features Catherine Zeta-Jones as Olivia de Havilland and Kathy Bates as Joan Blondell. The four Academy Award winners are joined by Judy Davis as Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Alfred Molina as director and producer Robert Aldrich, Stanley Tucci as Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner, Jackie Hoffman as Mamacita, Crawford’s housekeeper, and Alison Wright as Pauline, Aldrich’s assistant. The series also stars Dominic Burgess as Crawford and Davis’ co-star Victor Buono, Sarah Paulson as Geraldine Page, and Kiernan Shipka as Bette Davis’ daughter, B.D.

    Beginning with Davis and Crawford’s collaboration on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and continuing long after the cameras stopped rolling, Feud: Bette and Joan explores with great style and wit how the two stars endured ageism, sexism and misogyny while struggling to hang on to success and fame in the twilight of their careers.

    Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two, says,

    “Drama on BBC Two has to stand out for its authorship, unique vision and exceptional craft so I am delighted that Ryan Murphy’s brilliantly realised series Feud: Bette and Joan is coming to the channel. It features some wonderful performances, a flawless recreation of period and a delicious unravelling of a personal drama that had a massive impact on modern cinema. Feud is a real treat.”

    Sue Deeks, BBC Head of Programme Acquisition, says,

    “BBC Two viewers will relish this critically-acclaimed portrayal of Old Hollywood and a famously combustible yet poignant relationship – it is a zesty cocktail of glamour, wit and grit.”

    David Smyth, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution (TCFTVD) said,

    “Feud: Bette and Joan is a whip-smart series with fantastic performances by two of today’s greatest performers, which we’re sure will captivate and delight audiences. BBC Two is the perfect home for our next series from creator Ryan Murphy, whose The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, just won the BAFTA after airing last year on BBC Two.”

    Ryan Murphy serves as Executive Producer along with Executive Producers Tim Minear, Alexis Martin Woodall and Dede Gardner of Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The series is produced by Fox 21 Television Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox Television Distribution.

  • Apparently BB’s Arthur has a huge D*CK

    It’s all the girls can talk about after Arthur took a very long shower, completely naked in front of them

    Arthur gets naked in Big Brother

    Arthur has given the girls of the Big Brother house a show after taking a very long shower in the house’s very exposed shower unit. Between them, Ellie, Rebecca and Kayleigh could help but discuss Arthur’s schlong and remarked that they wouldn’t be having a sausage sandwich after the show.

    Take a look at the picture below and the vid from the scene!

    Arthur gets naked in Big Brother

  • Fans of BB are not happy about homophobic tweets found in housemates timeline

    Big Brother is facing a backlash after a contestant who tweeted homophobic slurs appears on the show.

    Homophobic tweets sent by Tom Barber have come back to haunt him after it was revealed that he used the homophobic slur “faggot” and used “gay” and “lesbian” as pejorative descriptions in tweets sent to friends.

    Fans spotted the tweets after Tom was voted by the public to enter the house this week.

    Some fans of the show have called for a boycott of the show.

     

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    Here are the Tweets sent from Tom Barber’s account.

     

     

     

    This is not the first time Big Brother has faced criticism over past homophobic actions by housemates. Last year contestant Andrew Tate was removed after it appeared that he had used racist and homophobic language on social media.

    THEGAYUK reached out to Channel 5 for comment. So far they have refused to respond to requests for comment.

     

  • The story of Marsha P Johnson will be shown on Netflix

    Netflix has announced it will show the documentary of Marsha P Johnson.

    David France’s The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, is a deeply compelling look at the murder of a transgender legend, known as “the Rosa Parks of the LGBT movement.”

    The powerful, haunting film is France’s follow-up to his Academy Award-nominated How to Survive a Plague. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is presented by Public Square Films; Joy A. Tomchin and Sara Ramirez (Grey’s Anatomy) served as executive producers; L.A. Teodosio produced.

    The date of release has not yet been released.

  • TRAILER | Netflix’s The Keepers

    From the man who brought us the landmark documentary, The Case Against 8, Netflix presents The Keepers

    Ryan White’s determination for justice as seen in his last documentary The Case Against 8 about the legal challenge to California’s marriage equality ban is continued in his upcoming docuseries The Keepers on NetFlix bringing light and justice to the 50-year-old unsolved murder case of a Baltimore nun.

    The Keepers examines the investigation of an unsolved murder of this 26-year-old nun, Cathy Cesnik, who taught at Southwest Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School and the horrific secrets and pain that still linger nearly 50 years after her death. Striving for an answer of what happened to their high school teacher, these two female novice detectives, Gemma & Abbie, lead the investigation efforts as they guide the viewer through countless accounts from friends, relatives, journalists, and government officials. The film encompasses clergy abuse, government and religious institutions, and repressed memories of what really happened behind closed doors or more importantly were covered up at Archbishop Keough.

    Netflix’s new riveting 7-part true crime docuseries is available to Netflix members worldwide on May 19, 2017 at 12:01 a.m. PT.

  • Ben Whishaw, Russell Tovey and Alan Cumming join stellar cast for Gay Britannia

    A stellar cast is to appear in BBC Four’s Queers. Ben Whishaw, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan and Fionn Whitehead will star in eight 15 minute monologues.

    Curated and directed by Mark Gatiss, Queers sees eight new and established writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The series will be broadcast as part of the BBC’s Gay Britannia season this summer.

    Taking in 1957’s Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offence Act itself, the monologues will explore some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay history and the very personal rites-of-passage of British gay men through the last one hundred years.

    In ‘The Man on the Platform’, Ben Whishaw (London Spy, Spectre) returns from the trenches of the First World War, whilst a hundred years later, Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) reflects on gay marriage in ‘Something Borrowed’.

    ‘More Anger’ finds Russell Tovey (Him & Her, Being Human) playing a gay actor in the 1980s, and Rebecca Front (War and Peace, Humans) contemplates her very particular marriage in ‘Missing Alice’.

    Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones, Decline and Fall), Kadiff Kirwan (Black Mirror, Chewing Gum), Ian Gelder (Snatch, Game of Thrones) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk, HIM) appear respectively in ‘A Perfect Gentleman’, ‘Safest Spot in Town’, ‘I Miss the War’ and ‘A Grand Day Out’, each examining the very different attitudes and social changes in gay men’s lives over the century.

    The plays are written by Matthew Baldwin, Jon Bradfield, Michael Dennis, Keith Jarrett, and Gareth McLean, who are writing for television for the first time, alongside established screenwriters Jackie Clune, Brian Fillis and Gatiss himself.

    The 8×15 mins series was commissioned by Cassian Harrison and Mark Bell, Head of Commissioning, Arts and is made by BBC Studios. The Executive Producer is Pauline Law.

    Queers is being produced in partnership with The Old Vic theatre who will stage all eight of the monologues in July, in the run up to the television transmission. Tickets for the live staging are on sale now, with casting to be announced.

  • Fox about to make Rent into a live TV musical

    Fox has unveiled plans to make Rent into its next live musical.

    rent to made into a TV musical by fox

    Producer Marc Platt has announced that Rent, one of the 90’s most enduring LGBT musicals is to get the Live TV experience. The show was written by Jonathan Larson who died in 1996 the morning of the first preview performance of Rent Off Broadway. His estate and the Mr Platt will produce the show together.

    Rent is a modern take on the Puccini opera La Bohème and is a story of young impoverished artists overcoming adversity and gentrification to save their creative space. In Rent, the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 80s and 90s replaces tuberculosis from La Bohème’s era. The musical has won numerous awards including Tonys, a Pulitzer Prize and a Drama Desk Award.

    The show is planned for broadcast in 2018.

    Marc Platt has also produced Wicked, Into The Woods, and La La Land.

     

     

     

  • Did you see the bare bottom on Eurovision

    We may not have won the competition, but we did get to see a cute ass on stage (and not we’re not just talking about Mr Italy)

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    A guy, who draped himself in an Australian flag guy managed to sneak up on stage during the 2017 Eurovision and bare his ass to around 200 million viewers. Which by our estimation makes him the world’s most famous ass (not Boris Johnson as previously thought – we kid we kid).

    According to the Sun, the man behind the bum flash was Vitalii Sediuk, a Ukrainian prankster.

    It’s not known if the man himself was Australian, but bravo that man.

     

    Eurovision 2017 was won by Portugal, the UK came 15th with 111 points.