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  • Joel Dommett opens up about sex-tape leak, “I was catfished”

    Joel Dommett, potential king of the Jungle, has opened up about how he was “catfished” into having cyber-sex and how his naked pictures were leaked to the internet.

    Stand up comedian, Joel Dommett has revealed that he was “catfished” after a naked solo sex-tape on Skype, ended up on the internet. Images of the I’m A Celebrity star ended up on the internet after his pictures were leaked.

    Speaking to fellow campmates, Joel, 30, told them that his pictures were “easy to find” on the internet and that he was actually having online sex with a fake user. He told his fellow stars that he was “naive” when he got naked and masturbated online. He revealed to the group that the pictures were leaked a week before he landed in the jungle.

    His nudes were leaked as one of a slew of male celebrities including, Shayne Ward, Sam Callahan, Ben Cohen and Jake Quickenden.

    He quipped,

    “I thought I was having Skype sex with someone but it was actually a video and it turned out it was someone watching me, watching porn – a porno Gogglebox.”

    He added,

    It was a “terrible angle”.

    We recent revealed that anybody sharing pictures, from social media, including Snapchat, “of a private or sexual nature” without the permission of the person in the pictures or footage, could land you with a jail term.

    When also spoke to Phil Gorski at Blacks Solicitors about what steps you can take to protect your data and your private pictures if you become a victim of hacked data or revenge porn.

    Most famously Joel got completely snarkers last year, (except a shocking pink cowboy hat and waistcoat) to try out penis painting for a Channel 4 documentary series.

  • CLASSIC CAR REVIEW | Volvo 66GL

    Volvo 66GL  | Elastic Fantastic

    What a strange little creature the Volvo 66 is. It’s not really a Volvo at all. Underneath its square styling lives the Daf 66 and deeper into that is the Daf 55.

    Daf’s car division was taken over by Volvo in 1975 and almost immediately they rebadged the Daf 66 to become the Volvo 66. Being safety conscious Volvo they added their stamp to the Daf by fitting big energy absorbing rubber bumpers to coincide with the newly launched 200 series from 1974. Also added was a revised brake system and inertia reel seat belts both front and rear. A first for a small car.

    From a country that legalised the smoking of the herb, you can be assured that Daf would not make a conventional car. The interior is quite well thought out in terms of space. The mechanism of the front seat backrest tilts inwards to make getting into the back easier. It’s as if time was taken to think about it. A bit like being stoned and really focusing on something. Thankfully they wrote it all down. And then in the fit of giggles and munchies, someone suggested a transmission made entirely of rubber bands. This was back in 1958 and the Variomatic was born.

    The 1970’s were a dark time for the motor industry. The first oil crisis of 1973 caused chaos to those manufacturers who only made big engined vehicles. And there were many who didn’t have small engined cars in their line-up. There was also the problem with the wants and need for the two car family. If there was no small car available, they would look elsewhere. Chances are they would also change the big car to match.

    The cost of developing a new car in the cash-strapped 70s was great. Platform sharing wasn’t quite as rampant as it is today. Volvo already had a 30 percent stake in Daf and in 1975 increased that share to 75% taking over the little Dutch manufacture almost completely. A bonus for Volvo was that Daf was a year away from launching their new 900 project. This would become known as the Volvo 343.

    Daf themselves were not unknown for sharing development costs by using 1300cc Renault engines in their 55 and bigger 66 models. Using Renault engines was not going to be a problem for Volvo either because they had already worked with the French manufacturer to develop a V6 engine with Renault and Peugeot.

    The launch of the Volvo 66 sadly saw the demise of the sporty looking coupe body. If ever there was a company that needed added sexiness it was Volvo. The P1800 coupe that the Saint drove had gone in 1973 with no replacement. There was no sporty derivative of any Volvo.

    Sporty it never was, but, a development within the rear suspension set up saw the development of a De Dion rear axle that was mainly found on Alfa Romeo’s of the time. This did give some improvements, not that you would notice it. The performance was still as lacklustre as the models before it.

    Graeme has owned Daffy for two years. Despite it not being a total basket case, in 2013 when it was discovered, it was destined for the big scrap yard in the sky. Thanks to Daf owners club editor Richard Butler it was saved and made mechanically sound so it could propel itself once more. In Graeme’s ownership, it has received an extensive restoration to the body. Panels are not readily available so new metal was cut in carefully were needed. The company doing the work really did a great job. Graeme told me that several members of the body shop team hadn’t even seen one let alone knew what a Daf was. A sure sign that we are all getting older or an honour for them to be allowed to touch such a rarity from the normal exotica they worked on.

    This 1975 example also has some historical value. On further investigating the car’s history, it is safe to say this was one of the very first 66s to be badged a Volvo and sent to the UK and the only one still in use today! Registered in November 1975 it is missing little touches like the V’s on the hubcaps and the rear seat belts were not Volvo labelled.

    The famous continuously variable transmission or CVT drivetrain was used by Volvo up until 1996 in their 440 series though not quite in the same format as in the 66. Quite ironically that this much-maligned system would eventually be used by many manufacturers and even today it is seen as the best alternative by some companies like Toyota and Lexus on certain models.

    It is more technical than just 2 rubber bands flapping about underneath. It’s easy to mock the system for its simplistic look. However, if you delve in a little deeper it also relies on vacuums and diaphragms. l am told the belts rarely give problems but the vacuum and diaphragms do. An air leak in the system can cause all sorts of problems. Set up correctly it is easy to see why it appealed to the city driver. A simple gear lever protrudes from the floor. It goes forward or backwards. That is how you know which way it is going.

    In motion, it is surprisingly cute. The engine note not really changing but revving more and more. Come off the throttle and it feels like it is winding itself down. It’s not quiet and there was some vibration felt. l was told the system needed a little more fettling.

    It’s a fun little car and the owners of these of whom l know several, all seem to be as eccentric as those who own Reliant Robins. They carry the heart of the car on their sleeves with a real passion. As a result, there is an abundance of support out there for them.

    And before you ask yes it can go as fast backwards as it does forward.

     

    GCCG member Graeme for the use of his Volvo. http://www.gccg.org.uk

  • FILM REVIEW | Doctor Strange

    FILM REVIEW | Doctor Strange

    DOCTOR STRANGE – The 96th superhero film of the year probably. What can Benedict Cumberbatch do in spandex and with this never ending genre.

    Benedict Cumberbatch Doctor Strange
    Photo Credit: Jay Maidment..©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

    Nutshell – A surgeon loses his hands in a horrific car accident and goes on a voyage of discovery to the Himalaya’s where he finds superpowers in magic form meanwhile a mystical bad guy attacks two of the three entry sanctums in Honk Kong and London and it’s New York next and then the World is f***ed .

    Running Time – 115 minutes; Certificate – 12A

    Tagline – ‘The impossibilities are endless’

    The Gay UK Factor – Either you think Benedict is the sexiest man alive in which case you will love him in action mode or otherwise you will just enjoy his superb acting chops as usual. No other eye candy or gay sexiness here except the main henchman Scott Adkins who looks as though he would be a great lay… so bring on the fight and chase sequences.

    Cast – Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Benjamin Bratt and Mads Mikkelson doing the same bad guy thing he did so well in Hannibal and Casino Royale he is the new Alan Rickman of baddies.

    Key Player – Marvel of course who seem to produce an endless supply of new superheroes many of which we have never heard of before and they all hit. They also a clever at creating new angles each time and twists in the story but keeping to the winning formula. This is the 14th movie in the Marvel Universe.

    Budget – $165 Million which is big but already made that back; now on for some serious profit and a bunch of sequels.

    Best Bit – 1.15 mins; When the hero discovers what will become his trademark cloak which turns out to have a life of its own. It becomes its own character and starts stealing scenes from this point on.

    Worst Bit – 0.35 mins; This is an origin film so we know there will be some discovery and a training montage but this one does drag a bit and makes your feet start to shuffle. It is not helped here with the learning curve being about mystical planes and alternate realities basically, out and out bollocks tbh.

    Little Secret – Benedict was the first choice for the role but had to turn it down due to his stage schedule in Hamlet. Joachim Phoenix was then cast but he went AWOL, so back to Cumberbatch it went. Casting Tilda Swinton as a Tibetan guru is seen as whitewashing the film in a partially racist way by many to placate the vitally important Chinese market who are touchy about anything Tibetan.

    Further Viewing – Surely you can work this out for yourself – every X-men, Iron Man, Captain America, Spiderman, Batman, Deadpool, Antman, Guardians, ad infin..effing..nitum.

    Any Good – Very good indeed there are two major action beats where reality is truly skewed in a sort of Inception/Matrix fashion that makes it unlike any other Superhero movie around. Having a truly great actor in the lead makes it all so believable and he is on top form here. So great characterization, humour, action and a cool story with a better bad guy and evil plan this could be really jumping onto everyone’s fave superhero film lists. The sequel could be incredible but he is in the new Thor next.

    Rating – 21/100 (21st out of the last 100 films reviewed with 1 being Gay UK filmatic heaven and 100 being a dud).

  • “Non-conventional” sex acts censored by UK Government

    Sex scenes described as “non-conventional” could be banned in the UK under a little-discussed clause in the Digital Economy Bill.

    The UK government could censor porn or filmed sex scenes it deems “non-conventional” under a proposal which is part of the digital economy bill. The proposal would enforce a strict age verification and force Internet Service Providers to block access to footage which couldn’t be classified by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) for sale to the public under the R18 certificate.

    The BBFC’s classification system has been described as controversial and lacking in scope for modern viewing habits.

    A spokeswoman for MindGeek, one of the world’s biggest pornographic website operators, said,

    “Many of the sexual activities prohibited from R18 [the BBFC’s most explicit certification] are normalised and accepted aspects of healthy sexuality, and are proudly celebrated by the feminist, queer and ethical porn movements internationally,” she said.

     

    “Non-conventional” scenes could include fisting as it falls under the “four finger rule” as well as female ejaculation.

     

     

     

     

  • Film Review | SHARED ROOMS

    Film Review | SHARED ROOMS

    ★★★★ | Shared Rooms

     

    Shared Rooms gay film review
    CREDIT: Rico MJPublicity

    The story of a set of three couples grappling with life, love, and children is told in the new gay comedy ‘Shared Rooms.’

    Set in Los Angeles, these three couples are all somehow connected to each other. There’s married couple Laslo (Christopher Grant Pearson) and Cal (Alec Manley Wilson) who live in a very cosy home and make fun of their friends with children – always telling themselves that ‘they are not that couple’ who ‘always have to arrange play dates for their children.’ And then there are roommates Julian (Daniel Lipshutz) and Dylan (Robert Werner). Dylan travels 36 weeks out of the year for work, so Julian rents his room out to strangers on LGBTQBnB while he’s away. But Dylan comes home early from a business trip to find a stranger named Frank Turner (David Vaughn) in his bedroom, so he has to share Julian’s bed, a thought, and fantasy, Dylan has had for two years! And finally third couple Sid (Justin Xavier) and Gray (Alexander Neil Miller), who casually meet up on an app called Manfinder. They instantly connect, while Sid shares with Gray a deep dark secret about his past, and lucky for us, they spend all of their time together naked.

    These men all happily share their lives, and their rooms, with other men, during Christmas, however, there is drama lurking in the background. Houseguest Frank Turner is in town to look for his long-lost kidnapped brother, and Cal’s gay nephew Blake (a very good and natural Eric Allen Smith) arrives after having been kicked out of his parent’s house.

    Shared Rooms, by writer and director Rob Williams, is cleverly written and very cute and funny. It’s like watching a gay version of Modern Family – everyone is a bit dysfunctional yet sweet and charming in their own way. Everything wraps up a bit too easily at the end, culminating in a New Years Eve Party where everyone has found what they were looking for (if only life were that easy), but it’s a funny and cute journey to get there.

    Available on Amazon and iTunes

  • Is Jonathan Bennett gay?

    Film actor and now Cake Wars star Jonathan Bennett is our new muse and hundreds of people are searching our site to find out whether he is gay or not.

    CREDIT: ©-bossmoss-Depositphotos

    In 2014, Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett was seemingly outed by Julianne Hough when she told presenter Mario Lopez that Jonathan was gay, although the actor himself has never confirmed or denied the rumour. In 2014 he was also voted the number one hottest LGBT celebrity, despite not publicly confirming his sexuality. In 2009 PerezHilton.com noted that Jonathan was, “this close to coming out publicly as gay”, however in 2016 it still hasn’t happened.

    The Ohio-born hunk’s Wikipedia page has references to his sexuality removed and reinstated numerous times. The actor himself has never spoken about Julianne’s comments nor confirmed or denied whether he is gay or bisexual.

    It has been reported that Jonathan dated Kyle XY actor, Matt Dallas who came out as gay in 2013.

  • Teenager found guilty of the murder of a gay man he found on Grindr

    Teenager found guilty of the murder of a gay man he found on Grindr

    A teenager has been found guilty of the vicious murder of a man he met on the gay dating app, Grindr.

    Ben Bamford, 18, has been found guilty of the murder of a 52-year-old man he met via the gay dating app, Grindr. Mr Bamford who was 17-years-old at the time of the murder unleashed a vicious attack on Paul Jefferies, reportedly a tax advisor to George Osbourne, who lived in East Sussex.

    The attack happened on the 23 February 2016.

    A sustained and bloody attack left Mr Jefferies with over 40 stab wounds. The court heard that Bamford also slashed the tax advisor’s throat, leaving him to die in a pool of his own blood. His body was discovered two days later when concerned work colleagues noted that he had not been into work.

    Mr Bamford left the body with a tea towel covering his head.

    CREDIT: Sussex Police
    CREDIT: Sussex Police

    Mr Bamford denied murder and claimed that he was acting out in self-defense after alleging that his victim had tried to rape him. The court heard Bamford describing that Mr Jefferies had “got on top” of him and continued to have sex after Bamford had told him to stop.

    Mr Bamford had sought out Mr Jefferies after accruing £400 in debt. A statement from Sussex Police remarked that they believed that he “went to see Mr Jefferies with the intention of exploiting him for money to pay off his drugs debt.”

    Detective Chief Inspector Tanya Jones, who led the investigation for Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, said,

    “This was a horrific attack by a teenage boy who preyed on his victim with the aim of exploiting him for money.

    “The level of violence he inflicted on Paul Jefferies was extreme and then he fled the scene in his victim’s car. He showed no remorse smirking for a selfie photo just hours later.

    “However the jury did not believe his story. Although this can never undo what he has done, I hope it will bring some justice for Paul’s family, friends and colleagues.”

    Mr Bamford will be sentenced on Wednesday.

  • THEATRE REVIEW | The Commitments – Sheffield Theatres and National Tour

    ★★★ | Set in Dublin in 1986, The Commitments charts the rise and fall of an unlikely group of misfit musicians who are brought together by young music entrepreneur Jimmy Rabbitte. The hardest working soul band in Dublin start out as friends and skirt on the edge of greatness, but as egos clash, band members squabble, fights break out and passions get in the way, the backstage harmony couldn’t be more different from the harmonies on stage.

    Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle and building on the success of the 1991 film, The Commitments is a story of empowerment through music and of the hopes and aspirations of a group of youngsters trying to break away from the mid-eighties urban decay and from their dead end lives.  Adapted for the stage by Doyle himself, the show is on tour after a successful run in the West End; and with over 20 soul classics in the show, including “Mustang Sally”, “River Deep, Mountain High”, “Mr Pitiful” and “Try a Little Tenderness”, it’s a production that really does have soul music at its heart.

    “There is a story behind every song”, says Jimmy Rabbitt at one of the band’s rehearsals, but ironically this adaptation is fairly light on both plot and social commentary. The narrative skims the surface of the story of the band’s rise to the top and limits the development of the characters in exchange for lively performances of the songs that the audience clearly came to hear. The show, wisely, keeps the ballads to an absolute minimum, and instead employs a set-list of upbeat numbers, blasting open the show with an upbeat rendition of “Proud Mary” and maintaining the energy levels cranked up throughout the duration.

    There is an air of organised chaos to the proceedings, with enough raucous energy to help cover the slightly cumbersome scenery changes, and to keep the pace as enthusiastic as the young cast. There is plenty to like about those on stage. Andrew Linnie’s optimistic and happy-go-lucky portrayal of Jimmy Rabbitte is easy to warm to, whilst Brian Gilligan belts out the songs with aplomb as lead singer, Deco. As an ensemble, the cast really do give it their all, in a fusion of talented musicians and soulful singers who are well cast and who, unlike the fictional band, work well together, and it is during those 20 or so musical numbers scattered over the show’s two hour duration where the show really comes alive.

    Bringing the audience to its feet in the finale with a mini-concert of some soul standards, the music is infectious and the definite strength of the production. There is little effort to weave the songs into the narrative; but quite frankly, this doesn’t matter when the songbook is so toe-tappingly good.

    The Commitments is currently on national tour until April 2017 and details can be found at www.thecommitmentsontour.co.uk . The show was reviewed at Sheffield Theatres, who will soon be launching their new musical Everyone’s Talking About Jamie (www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/everybodystalking-jamie)

     

     

     

  • COMMENT | Sleepwalking into the political closet – Gay Trump voters are a warning to us all

    COMMENT | Sleepwalking into the political closet – Gay Trump voters are a warning to us all

    Given we’ve all become political pundits over the last few weeks, let’s try a little thought experiment. Take a moment to imagine you’re running for election. 10 million LGBT votes up for grabs. What policies do you think would be vote winners?

    You’ll be forgiven if gay conversion therapy is low down on your list. Likewise, any policies that allow shops to refuse LGBT customers. And I doubt you’ve written down that companies should be able to fire people because of who they have sex with, rather than competency in the job.

    So it’s not unreasonable that all three – just for starters – would be a complete turn-off. What then are we to make of the 14 percent of LGBT voters who plumped for Trump?

    Take a look at what they voted for:
    1) Opposing a ban on electrocution therapies to ‘shock away the gay’
    2) Attacking same-sex adoption and parenting
    3) Repeal of equal marriage – he’s now claimed the law is settled, but do we really believe anything he says?
    4) A new law that would allow rampant religious discrimination of LGBT people, in the workplace, as consumers, when they’re ill

    Almost a million LGBT people looked at this platform and gave it a thumbs up. Or at best, a dismissive shrug. That’s a lot of turkeys voting for Christmas.

    For anyone working on equality and human rights issues, this is the loudest of wake up calls. The hard-won progress achieved by western countries over the last few decades always seemed irreversible, even if we knew better in the back of our minds. Plus, we had our opponents pegged. We knew the far right and fundamentalist Christians wanted to push the LGBT community back in the closet and lock the door, but they were on the fringes.

    Turns out we didn’t spot the danger of those much closer to home. Before this election, who would have thoughts there were LGBT people who were willing to overlook policies that would fundamentally attack their human rights. Not only that, but they would also support a candidate who has fanned the flames of the far right, empowering those very groups that have attacked the LGBT community so viciously for all those years.

    What’s going on? Ask LGBT people who voted Republican at this election and they’ll claim that Trump is actually a friend of the gays, proving that Facebook isn’t the only one with a strange definition of that term. Strict controls on immigration will protect the LGBT community from anti-gay foreigners, they say. Have they not noticed the huge elephant in the room? The one with the white pointy hat and robes? It’s like jumping into the jaws of a crocodile to hide from a wolf howling in the distance; I guess ‘they’re homophobes, but at least they’re our homophobes’.

    Then there are the voters who claim that there are ‘bigger issues to solve’. It’s hard to disagree with that sentiment when American fascism is on the rise. But I guess that’s not what they mean. They’re primarily talking jobs and wages. In short, for the sake of a decent pay cheque each month they’re not too fussed with outright racism, they’re fine with a Muslim registry, and if women are caught in the cross-hairs too, well so be it.

    As a group LGBT people have suffered the very worst forms of discrimination and prejudice. Although many now live under almost full legal equality, none of us should be blind to how hard it was to get here, or the ongoing struggles of minority groups within our community. LGBT people of all stripes should be defending equality and human rights like our lives depended on it, because at one time, that was exactly the case. And for others it still is. Yet there are those who seem content to vote us all back into the political closet. It makes you wonder just how bad it would have to be before groups like Gays for Trump prioritised equality? A Uganda-style ‘kills the gays’ bill and maybe they’ll pause for thought?

    We need to find answers to why people are so willing to give this administration the benefit of the doubt. And urgently, because you’d probably find similar constituencies across the Western world right now. Fascists and the far-right are on the march, in America of all places. If the dream of progress is about to turn into a nightmare for many LGBT people, it’s time we all woke up.

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  • When We Rise first look

    When We Rise first look

    In February a new seven-part mini series premieres in America about the early gay rights movement.

    When We Rise
    CREDIT: ABC/YouTube

    I’ve written about the Stonewall riots before, and this new series focuses on that time period. Written by Tom Daley’s fiance, Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (who also directed two of the episodes) it is based on true stories of the brave LGBT community members who fought tooth and nail to be heard, and to be accepted. There’s also some big names involved as well, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Guy Pierce, Michael K Williams David Hyde Pierce, and Mary Louise Parker, to name just a few.

    Dustin Lance Black has always been a strong vocal advocate for the gay rights movement, and it appears with this series he is showing how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go. I for one will be watching it when I can, and I hope with it being on the TV station ABC that it will also appear on Netflix soon after it’s release so UK viewers will have a chance to watch it.

    The first trailer has just been released, and I must say I was actually quite choked up after watching it. It really hit home that people had to, and are still going through hell just to be accepted for who they are, and with the divisive US election still fresh in people’s minds, this series is coming at a time when a fresh struggle for our community is upon us. I hope that the younger generation of LGBT folks, will watch the show, and know that the type of freedom they have today is thanks to a generation that endured violence, seething hated and brutality, and who cried out that they had had enough and fought back. I don’t want to waffle on with a big piece so I’ll let the trailer speak for itself, and hope it touches you in the way it touched me.

     

     

  • Milo Yiannopoulos school lecture cancelled after Department for Education gets in touch with school

    Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was supposed to host a lecture at his former school, The Langton Grammar School for Boys, however, it has been cancelled due to “safety concerns” after the school was contacted by the Department for Education’s (DfE) “counter-extremism unit”.

    CREDIT: LeWeb14 / Flickr

    Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-proclaimed, super villain of the internet has had a scheduled talk cancelled after the school was contacted by the Department for Education’s (DfE) “counter-extremism unit” after concerns about safety were called into question.

    Around 220 students had signed up to hear Milo speak. A spokesperson for the school noted that, “the staff and students of the school were overwhelmingly in favour”, of Milo’s visit.

    Concerns for the security of the school site and the school’s community were raised after activists planned to demonstrate during the event.

    The school’s spokesperson said,

    “This decision was taken following contact from the DfE counter-extremism unit, the threat of demonstrations at the school by organised groups and members of the public and our overall concerns for the security of the school site and the safety of our community.

    “We note that, within 24 hours of advertising the event, 220 Langton sixth formers had, with parental consent, signed up for the event and that objection to our hosting Yiannopoulos came almost entirely from people with no direct connection to The Langton. The staff and students of the school were overwhelmingly in favour.

    “Whilst disappointed that both the pastoral care and intellectual preparation we offer to our students has been called into question, we at The Langton remain committed to the principle of free speech and open debate and will resist, where possible, all forms of censorship.”

    Writing on his Facebook page on Monday, Milo said,

    “My old high school has been bullied into canceling my talk on Tuesday by the “counter-extremism” unit at the U.K. Department of Education.

    Who even knew the DoE had a counter-extremism unit? And that it wasn’t set up to combat terrorism but rather to punish gays with the wrong opinions? Perhaps if I’d called the speech “MUSLIMS ARE AWESOME!” they’d have left us alone. Disgusted.

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