While most of us are starting to worry about the state of our quarantine hair Jonathan Bennett has gone full-on platinum and we’re loving it.
It’s been four weeks since we’ve been able to get a cut or colour from a professional hairdresser thanks to the coronaviruslockdown. You can try cutting your own, at home, but watch this video from JLo’s hunky hairstylist first, but are you brave enough to get a bottle of bleach and do your own colouring?
Film actor turned Cake Wars host Jonathan Bennett, who’s been sheltering in place with his partner, Jaymes Vaughan, bleached his hair and we’ve gotta say, it looks sensational.
Oh the fact that he did the reveal topless, is a plus.
Although it can still be seen as a risk to their careers, even in 2018, there are some incredibly brave, talented and inspiring guys who decided to come out, giving hope to the next generation of actors that they too can be their true selves.
Here are some of the hottest openly gay, bi or queer identifying actors.
Andrew Hayden-Smith
Born: 5th November 1983, Gateshead, England, UK.
Best Known ForByker Grove, Doctor Who.
Came out in 2005 in an interview with a magazine. Andrew is an actor best known for his role as Jake Simmonds in Doctor Who and is set to star in a new drama commissioned by Channel 4 called Cucumber from Queer As Folk writer, Russell T Davies.
Charlie Carver
Born: 31st July 1988 Best Known For: Being one of the twins on Desperate Housewives & Teen Wolf Came Out:On Instagram in 2016. After Desperate Housewives Charlie went on to star in Teen Wolf as Ethan, a gay character who made headlines when MTV aired the first gay kiss, between his character and Danny played by Keahu Kahuanui.
The 27-year-old explained his worries about coming out in the entertainment industry a series of posts on Instagram.
Charlie David
Born: 9th August 1980, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Best Known For: His sexy role in the gay horror series: Dante’s Cove. Since his role on the series Dante’s Cove Charlie has become a film producer and director including titles such as I’m A Porn Star and I’m A Stripper. In 2012 TheGayUK interviewed Charlie along with Elvira The Mistress Of Darkness for their Halloween Special edition.
Chris Crocker
Born: 7th December 1987 Best Known For: “Leave Britney Alone” a viral YouTube video. Came Out: Has always been out. In 2012 he starred in a gay porn film. He made more films with Maverick Men and Lucas Entertainment.
Dan Amboyer
Born: 28th December 1985 Best Known For: Best known for his starring role as Prince William of Wales in the 2011 Hallmark Channel original film William & Catherine: A Royal Romance Came Out: In October 2017. He also announced that he had married his partner, Eric P. Berger.
Daniel Newman
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Born: 14th June 1981 Best Known For: staring in the Walking Dead. Came Out: in March 2017, speaking to People he said, “I don’t want to be hidden and have to dodge the question,” he tells PEOPLE of publicly revealing his sexuality. “I’m proud of who I am.”
David Ames
Born: 10th August 1983 Best Known For: British medical soap drama Holby City Came Out: Has always been “out”, although he has appeared in both Attitude magazine in 2009 and Gay Times magazine in 2011.
Jeffery Bowyer-Chapman
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Born: 21st October 1984 Best Known For: Playing Jay in UnREAL. Came Out: Has always been open about his sexuality and has played mainly gay/bi-identified characters.
Jim Verraros
Born: 8th February 1983, Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA
Best Known For: American Idol and Eating Out Came out: in 2003 with The Advocate Jim appeared in the first season of American Idol and has appeared in a number of gay movies including, Eating Out, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild.
Jonathan Groff
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Born: 21st October 1984 Best Known For: Actor who has starred numerous TV shows and films including, Mindhunter for Netflix and Frozen for Disney. Came Out: Jonathan Groff came out as gay in 2009. He was rumoured to have dated Zachary Quinto from September 2012, until July 2013. He now stars in Looking, along with Russell Tovey and he recently lent his voice for the part of Kristoff Bjorgman in the Disney hit Frozen. He also starred in The Normal Heart.
Jonathan Bennett
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Born: 10th June 1981, Rossford, Ohio, USA Best Known For: Actor who starred in Mean Girls Came Out: Jonathan played Aaron Samuels in one of the ultimate gay cult films, Mean Girls. He appeared in the US version of Dancing With The Stars, three months before he lost his father to brain cancer. He was outed by Julianne Hough during an interview with Extra. He told the Toledo Blade newspaper: “This was his favourite show on television, and when he was sick in hospice the only show he wanted to watch was Dancing with the Stars because he said this show made him feel good. So I’m doing this performance not just for myself but for my father because I know how badly he loved the show and how thrilled he would be that I’m on it. I’m also doing this dance for my mother because she passed away a year before that and they both were huge fans of the show.”
Matt Dallas
Born: 21st October 1982, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Best Known For:Kyle XY Came Out: Came out in 2013, Via a tweet announcing his engagement to Blue Hamilton. Matt Dallas is known for his no bellybutton character Kyle in Kyle XY
Matt Bomer
Born: 11th October 1977, Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, USA Best Known For:Magic Mike Came Out: Came out in 2012 In a speech for his Steve Chase Humanitarian Award, thanking his husband and their children.
Emmy nominated actor, Matt made his television debut in Guiding Light in 2001. He starred alongside Jodie Foster in the 2005 thriller Flightplan. He is married to publicist Simon Halls and the pair have three children together.
Kieron Richardson
Born: 12th January 1986, Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, UK Best KnownFor:Hollyoaks Came out in 2010 September, during an interview with This Morning. Kieron is best known for his role as Ste Hay in the Channel 4 television series Hollyoaks. In 2014 he will make history by playing the first gay character in a British soap to contract HIV, to highlight the growing issue of new HIV Infections in gay and bisexual men. He also hosts a radio show on the World’s largest gay radio station Gaydio.
Luke Macfarlane
Born: 19th January 1980, London, Ontario, Canada Best Known For:Brothers and Sisters. Came out in 2008 during an interview with The Globe And Mail He currently plays the lead role of Jason Howell in the Canadian sitcom Satisfaction.
Nick Adams
Born: 10th June 1983 Best Known For: Theatre actor and starring in the web series Go-Go Boy Interrupted. Came Out: In 2009 He and his boyfriend were denied entry to a nightclub in Manhattan, he says, because of his sexuality. He was holding his boyfriend’s hand when the bouncer denied him entry. Taking to his blog and Twitter Nick caused a huge outcry, which led to the further recognition of him as a personality and, his sexuality.
Michael Urie
Born: 8th August 1980 Best Known For:Ugly Betty Came Out: Michael Urie came to the public’s attention with his fabulously camp character Marc in Ugly Betty. He has since become a playwright and touring actor.
P J Brennan
Born: 11th February 1986 Best Known For: Playing Doug Carter in Hollyoaks. Came Out: Has never officially come out in press interviews, but has not hidden his sexuality.
Ross Adams
Born: 5th May 1982 Best Known For:Hollyoaks Came out: In 2016 he became engaged to his partner, Philip Crusham.
Russell Tovey
Born: 14th November 1981, Billericay, Essex, England, UK
Best Known For:One Life To Love, Younger brother to Chris Evans.
Scott also starred in the campy comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Todrick Hall
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Born: 4th April 1985
Best Known For: American Idol / YouTuber
Came Out:
Tituss Burgess
Born: 21st February 1979
Best Known For: Playing Titus in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Came Out: In an interview with Huffington Post, Tituss talked about his comfort in being gay.
Thomas Dekker
Born: 1983
Best Known For:Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Came Out: The actor who started his career in the television series of Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, publicly come out as gay after comments made by entertainment exec Brian Fuller. Fuller made comments that a gay storyline in the hit TV series, Heroes had to be axed following a dispute behind the scenes. The actor’s management allegedly threatened to pull the actor if the storyline went ahead.
Media outlets worldwide immediately went into speculation overdrive, with Thomas centring.
Zachary Booth
Born: 1983 Best Known For:Damages and the gay movie, Keep The Lights On Came Out:
Zachary Quinto
Born: 2nd June 1977, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Best Known For:Heroes and Star Trek Came Out: Zachary Quinto is probably one of the most famous gay actors under 40 in Hollywood having secured the role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise of films. Before that, he played Sylar in the paranormal television series Heroes.
2017 has been a great year for celebs to come out as LGBT+
A racing driver, a butler, a police chief, singers, actors and even an X Factor star all decided that 2017 was the year to come out about their sexuality.
Here are just 18 of the stars who decided 2017 was time to share their news.
November
Jonathan Bennett
Whilst not exactly stating whether he is gay or bi, Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett quashed some of those rumours about his sexuality by casually uploading three totally cute pictures of himself and his boyfriend, TV host, Jaymes Vaughan. Jaymes posted a number of pictures on to his social media as well.
“This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. I know that there are other stories out there about me and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy,
“As those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life and I choose now to live as a gay man,Gordon Thomas
13 Reasons Why actor, Brandon Flynn came out in an emotional Instagram post. The actor, who is most notable for his character, Justin Foley in the hit Netflix series, 13 Reason Why used his coming out to target those who were against same-sex marriage in Australia. The Australian actor, who was at the time 23-years-old, was spurred on to come out following the No vote campaigns currently active in Australia.
August
Haaz Sleiman
Nurse Jackie cutie, Haaz Sleiman came out as gay – and not just gay – but a total bottom – spelling it out for people, he said, “Not only am I a bottom, but I’m also a total bottom, which means I like it up you-know-where.”
Colin Jackson
Former Olympian and BBC presenter Colin Jackson came out as gay in the most chilled way in August. The 50-year-old came out in a TV interview with SVT reporters Kajsa Bergqvist and Peter Häggström. He had previously denied rumours about his sexuality when a kiss and tell story surfaced about him in the mid-noughties. He told Kajsa, “The way you asked me, it was a whole storytelling kind of thing and you were just interested in the way it affected me sports-wise, emotionally-wise and my preparation.”
Singer Aaron Carter told his fans in a heartfelt note that was bisexual. Aaron Carter made his fame in the late 90’s as pre-teen pop singer. At the time of coming out he had recently split with his girlfriend Madison Parker, the Daily Mail reported.
July
Honey G
One of X Factor‘s most controversial acts, Honey G, came out in an interview with The Sun, revealing her perfect woman is Queen Latifah. Honey G, real name Anna Gilford told The Sun‘s Dan Wooton that she has decided to come out and reveal that she wants to be with women.
Greyson Chance
Singer, Greyson Chance who is signed by Ellen Degeneres’s record company after appearing on her show took to Instagram in July 2017 to confirm his sexuality. Talking on the social media site and sharing a rainbow picture, he said
“I came to fully recognize that I was gay when I was sixteen. I decided not to publicize my sexuality largely due to a matter of privacy, as I was still trying to find comfort and confidence within my own skin”
Thomas Dekker
Terminator actor, Thomas Dekker publicly came out as gay after comments made by entertainment exec Brian Fuller. Fuller had alleged that a gay storyline in the hit TV series Heroes, had to be axed following a dispute behind the scenes. The actor’s management allegedly threatened to pull the actor if the storyline went ahead.
Tyler The Creator
It appeared that Tyler, The Creator, real name Tyler Gregory Okonma came out as gay or bisexual in a track on his latest album.
Tyler left fans questioning whether he had come out, after lyrics on the track from his album, Flower Boy revealed that he had been kissing boys since 2004.
April
Cressida Dick
London’s highest-ranking police officer, Cressida Dick revealed in April that she was in a same-sex relationship with a co-worker. Cressida Dick was appointed London’s Commissioner in February 2017 and is the first woman to take the job. She was appointed by the Queen and was recommended by the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd.
Walking Dead actor Daniel Newman came out in March. He decided to use YouTube as a way of telling his fans.
Paul Burrell
In March the world’s most famous butler, Paul Burrell came out and told the world about his plans to marry his partner.
February
Danny Watts
An award-winning, high profile racing driver came out as gay and is believed to be the first in the sport. Speaking to THEGAYUK.com he said it was “such a good feeling” to be out. He came out in an interview with Autosport.com in which he revealed that he felt he had to hide his sexuality within his industry because “it’s a very masculine sport”.
January
Rob Mallard
Coronation Street Actor Rob Mallard spoke out about his sexuality for the first time in a revealing interview with Gay Times in the beginning of 2017. He said that he didn’t want to hide who he is, despite being out to his family and friends since he was 17.
Jonathan Bennett has kind of, sort of, come out in the perfect way.
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Whilst not exactly stating whether he is gay or bi, Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett has quashed some of those rumours about his sexuality by casually uploading three totally cute pictures of himself and his boyfriend, TV host, Jaymes Vaughan. Jaymes posted a number of pictures on to his social media as well.
Rumours were circling when in 2009 Perez Hilton noted that Jonathan was“this close to coming out publicly as gay” in a post. The Ohio-born hunk’s Wikipedia page has references to his sexuality removed and reinstated numerous times.
It’s unclear how long the couple have been together, but they both shared a picture of their matching Halloween costumes, where they dressed up in Top Gun jumpsuits.
Taking to Instagram, Jonathan shared, that he loved Jaymes and that Jaymes always made him look good in selfies, because “he’s better looking and standing next to me”.
Cake Wars and Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett looks like he’s been chained to a call centre desk, but perhaps all is not as it seems. Apparently the heartthrob has joined the entertainment team at KTLA 5 newsroom for the day. But fear not his pretty face won’t be sitting behind the desk as he’s actually the host for entertainment, taking over the usual guy Sam Rubin. So Jonathan will be breaking celeb news all day.
Ever wondered how presenters keep up their energy on set during the long long hours on a reality TV show?
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The job of a reality TV presenter is to look excited and interested – constantly… So how do they keep their energy levels up? It appears they turn it off immediately the camera shuts off. Cake Wars star Jonathan Bennett shared a clip on social media showing how when they film a ‘to camera’ ident for their show they are able to turn off the smiles as the director calls cut!
Sharing a behind the scene clip with co-host Tamera Mowry, Jonathan Bennett demonstrates how they both turn the energy on the moment the camera starts rolling.
Also, not everything goes to plan! It also seems the Mean Girls actor is a bit of an ad-libber to boot, however, his co-star Tamera didn’t think his snow bake gag was up to scratch after jokingly called him a “fool”.
If you’ve not caught up with Cake Wars yet make sure you tune into ITV Be to catch up
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.
