Olly Rhodes: Two soap opera murderers, one with a bare bum, two gay teens, one just coming out, and two c*cks

  

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I decided to profile Olly Rhodes (no relation to Robert Rhodes) based on a photo on the teen idol site: black and white, grinning shyly at his boyfriend. And this one, hugging him.  Olly is either gay in real life or is playing a gay character.

Olly grew up in Scarborough, a seaside town in Yorkshire, and graduated from the Pendleton School of Theater (like a secondary school in the U.S.),  in 2021.  

He moved directly into the role of Joseph Holmes on the soap Hollyoakes (2021-22).  His parents discover that he is having a secret romance with his foster sister, Vicky, so they send her away -- to Hollyoakes.  Joseph follows, to continue abusing Vicky and terrorize her good buddy, DeMarcus, presuming that they are secetly dating.

He shows his bare bum in his first on-screen role.

Later he murders police officer Saul Reeves (Chris Charles, left), and frames DeMarcus to get him out of the way.  But he kept Saul's ring, which leads to his arrest and confession.  He leaves the series crying in his jail cell.

After guest spots in The Last Kingdom and All Creatures Great and Small, Olly was cast in a recurring role on Waterloo Road (2024-25).  He plays headmaster's son Billy Savage, who is bedeviled by the bully and child abuse survivor Schuey  (Zak Sutcliffe, right).  Don't worry, Olly states that they became good friends off-camera.

After numerous incidents, Billy sets a wire trap across a road, so Schuey will be thrown off his bike and humiliated.  But he accidentally catches -- and kills -- Schuey's non-bullying sidekick Boz.  

Dad plants evidence in Schuey's locker so he'll be blamed for the murder, but eventually he and Billy are both arrested, and leave the series. 

Departures (2025) sounds like one of those "dying of AIDS" tearjerkers from the 1980s, but the title refers to the departures gate at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, where Benji and Jake (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, David Tag, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) meet and fall in love.  

Olly plays the teenage Benji.  The trailer shows him kissing his boyfriend, but it goes by too fast to get a screenshot.

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Nick Stahl: A career of playing scarred, traumatized teens, with being gay as one of the traumas. Plus zombies, DeKay d*ck, and a gl*ry hole

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In the summer of 2001, everybody in the East Village was talking about Bully, starring 22-year old Nick Stahl.  The South Florida teenager beats up his friend Marty (Brad Renfro), assaults him, and humiliates him by forcing him to become an entertainer in a gay bar. They even make an adult video to sell in gay bookstores.

 Bobby also assaults Marty's girlfriend Ali, while forcing her to watch gay movies and when his own girlfriend Lisa announces that she is pregnant with Marty's child, watch out!  The three friends set out to deadify him, with the help of Ali's new boyfriend (Michael Pitt).

It was not a pretty movie -- girl parts outnumber boy parts ten to one, and the gay world is portrayed as unfailingly sordid and decadent.  Nevertheless, every gay magazine -- In Touch, XY, The Advocate -- gave it a favorable review as a cautionary tale about the effects of internalized homophobia.  If only Bobby had the guts to come out...

Nick was born in Harlingen, Texas, in 1979 (Texas...ugh!), moved to L.A. in 1992, and was cast in a few small roles before his big break, playing opposite the then-famous Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face (1993).  The Man and the boy are both gay in the original novel by Isabelle Holland, but straight in the movie.

My Son is Innocent (1996), Eye of God (1997), Promised Land (1997), and Disturbing Behavior (1998) cast Nick as scarred, traumatized, victimized, violent teenagers, leading to Bully.  Afterwards he did a horror movie (Taboo, 2002) and a true crime (Bookies, 2003), but found himself being manipulated by older women (In the Bedroom), doing stuff with men but denying being gay (Twist), or murdering young girls (Sin City). Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) must have come as a welcome relief.

In the Terminator mythos, John Connor manages to save the human world after it is destroyed by a sentient internet, so Arnold Schwarzenegger is sent back in time (n*ked) to kill him.  In T3, he returns (n*ked) as an ally, to protect young adult John and his future wife Kate (who is unfortunately engaged to someone else). 

Nick was the second actor to play John Connor.  There have been several others, including Thomas Dekker (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) and Christian Bale.

Carnivale (2023-25) features paranormal beings working in a carnival during the Dust Bowl of Depression-era Oklahoma.  Nick plays Ben Hawkins, a farmer, chain gang fugitive, and healer who joins the carnival and eventually becomes an Avatar of Light.  He's hetero, but one of his girlfriends, Sofie, is a lesbian.

Tim DeKay (left) plays Jonesy, who runs the ferris wheel, and Michael J. Anderson, the backwards-talking dwarf on Twin Peaks, his boss, Samson.

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"The Dating Game": A Barbie-obsessed bi Thai guy falls for the boss at his gaming company. With two gay romances and some Thai d*cks

 

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When I was a kid, The Dating Game asked female contestants to choose from three "eligible bachelors" who they could talk to but not see, by asking them a series of weird questions: "What is your favorite type of iguana?" "If you were an ice cream cone, what would you say to me?" "Do you have any friends who are descended from Henry VIII?"  

I never watched, because it was a game show (ugh!), and entirely heteronormative.  Sometimes they had guys choosing from three "bachelorettes," but never a guy choosing a guy.  

But the Thai tv series The Dating Game (2025) is a BL, about two men falling in love in a world where everyone is gay.  It's not even a quesiton.  And there's none of the closeting, rejection, homophobia, and endless angst of Wester gay dramas.  

I can't wait to see a cute guy choosing from among three eligible bachelors. 

Scene 1: Hill awakens in a room cluttered with images of Yuka: a pink-haired anime girl.   He tells his Yuka AI how much he loves her, then gets dressed and walks out onto the street, where a real girl asks him out.  "Nope, I already have a girlfriend."  Dude's got a problem.  Wait -- how is this BL?  He's obviously straight.

Scene 2:  Nice view of downtown Bangkok.  After his morning workout (nice chest), Hill goes to work -- his first day at Prismstar, a tech company that created the "Yuka! Love me!" video game.  So that's why you want to work there?

A woman named Milk shows him around.  It's an open office plan.  Workers are designing various charactersm including a cute salaryman and a barbarian.  

Bay (a guy) approaches and criticizes Milk for being old and out-of-touch.  She swipes back: "You'll be 25 too, some day!"  Har-har, wait until you turn 50. Or 60..  Or...

The mean-looking Boss appears, and does that "stepping out of your way" dance, as Hill stares in Boy-of-My-Dreams intensity.  The others tell him to not get his hopes up: the Boss is not as nice as he looks.  He fired the last game designer. 

Scene 3: Hill's cubicle is loaded down with religious and magical icons, including a voodoo doll of the Boss.  Apparently the old designer wasn't happy.  I can relate.I spent almost a year at the Getty Consternation Institute, being constantly humiliated: "Write a ten-page report and put my name on it."

Next it's time for a staff meeting.  Hill brings out his image of Yuka to pray to, which everyone finds weird.  So do I.  

Boss announces a "Bye Bye Yuka Day": they're canceling the Yuka game and the merch.  

Hill jumps to his feet.  "But..you can't phase her out!  Yuka and I are in love!  We met through the game, but now we're in a real relationship!"  

Everyone is shocked.  Me, too: this guy is psychotic. 

"But no one else is in love with her.  No new downloads.  Nobody is buying the merch." 

"That's not true.  Millions of guys are in love with her.  You'll destroy their happiness!"  But they've downloaded the game. Can't they continue to play?

The Boss suggests that he take his love for Yuka and channel it into something...non-psychotic.  Like being in charge of the "Bye Bye Yuka Day" events.  Why doesn't he fire Hill for being psychotic?  And how is a story about a guy in love with an anime girl BL?  

Scene 4: Hill sits at his desk, distraught over the upcoming loss of his girlfriend.  Coworker Bay tells him that video games are created by a team, who put some of themselves into the character.  Maybe he can find what he loves about Yuka in "a hot guy like me." 

 Left: I think Hill ends up with someone else.

Scene 5: Lunchtime.  Hill is crying at his desk when the Boss drops by.  He explains that this company runs by Japanese rules: everything done at its proper time.  This is the time for eating, not crying.  He hands Hill his lunch.  When I was working at the Getty Consternation Institute, we got two crying breaks per day, but you could also cry during lunch, if you wanted.

He manages to do a little work, creating a poster for Bye Bye Yuka Day.

Scene 6: Hill is back home, ready for another romantic evening with the anime Yuka.  He holds her tightly -- his cell phone, anyway -- and tells her that he loves her.

Cut to the Boss, at home in his pajamas, looking up Hill's game statistics.  He's impressed. But he doesn't like the poster designs.  He calls Hill and orders him to come to the office, right away.  

"But it's late...oh, it's 5:00 am.  I've been crying all night.  Sure, I'll be right there."

Scene 7: When the Boss orders you to the office right away, what do you do?  Right, go to the gym first.  When Hill finally shows up, the Boss tells him that the Bye Bye Yuka Day poster is awful.  It looks like a funeral. 

The Boss is n*de on RG Beefcake and boyfriends.  I'm not sure.

  

"Well, millions of guys will be losing their True Loves, so we should get a chance to mourn."

"No, I understand that you are sad about losing your girlfriend, but Yuka is a joyful, positive character. Make it a joyful event."

"Sorry, I just love her so much, I'll need some time to mourn."  He starts crying.  

The Boss feels sorry for him, and asks him out. 

"Go out with a real human person?  I don't know..."

"Come on, we can do anything you want."

Scene 8: Hill's idea of a fun date: being blessed by a Buddhist monk. 

"You two are well matched in destiny," he points out.  "I hope you cherish each other for life."

"Oh, no, we're not together...um..."

Next they stop for pork skewers and sticky rice. The Boss is too upper-class for street food, but Hill insists -- and accidentally crunches his very expensive sunglasses.

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You are invited to Kelvin and Keefe's wedding, with 10 new scenes and exclusive photos from the honeymoon

  

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Here are some additional scenes from the event of the year, wedding of Kelvin Gemstone (Adam Devine) and Keefe Chambers (Tony Cavalero), on The Righteous Gemstones Episode 4.9

1. The cover of the wedding program.

2. Martin, the church accountant: "Once upon a time, there were two  princes who fell in love."  The family applauds.

3. Sola, the nanny for Baby Billy and Tiffany's children: "Alles gutes zum Hochzeitstag." (Happy Wedding Day).

4. Nephew Pontius: "Hey, Uncle Kelvin and Uncle Keefe. I hope you guys have a great marriage. Don't (censored) too hard, ok?"

5. Nephew Gideon: "What Pontius is trying to say is, let your love... may your love be a blessing."  Looks like he is vaping.

Pontius clarifies:  "Let your love be deep and (censored)..  Best wishes, guys."

6. Kelvin and Keefe dance. Keefe does The Worm.  He lifts Kelvin in his arms.

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