Joe Davidson: The gladiator, surfer, soap star, and gator poacher doesn't mind if you check out his d*ck. With bonus Thomas Jane and Takaya

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In Spartacus: House of Ashur Episode 1.1, Gladiator Logus (Joe Davidson) insults the dwarf trio Brothers Ferox: "My d*ck stands larger threats!" They promptly eviscerate him.

During the filming, Joe hooked up with (or buddied up with) the probably gay Mikey Thompson (Music).  Plus a brief internet search revealed this photo from the soap Neighbours: Joe's character apparently has a boyfriend.

Plus there are no girls and a lot of guys on his social media posts.  That's enough for more extensive research to determine if Joe is gay in real life, has played gay characters, or both.  Hopefully both.  

Born around 1992 or 1993, Joe grew up on Australia's ritzy Gold Coast, around Brisbane, and began on-screen acting in some teen series:

A diver in an episode of H2O: Just Add Water (2010), about three teenager girls who turn into mermaids (with Luke Mitchell as their human ally).

A swimmer in SLIDE (2011): A Melbourne girl moves to Brisbane and finds the requisite allies, crushes, and enemies, including a gay-ish boyfriend.

A surfer boy in Mako Mermaids (2013), with those three teenage mermaids up to new antics.  A merman (Chai Hanson) is added to the cast.

Joe also meets a mermaid while grieving over his dead father in Glass Tunnel (2013).  

Plus he worked at Warner Brothers Movie World, a theme park in Queensland, playing characters like Edward Scissorhands and Fred from Scooby Doo.

After graduating from the "prestigious three-year program" at Actors Central Australia in Sydney, Joe was cast in his first major role, playing Cassius Grady in the soap opera Neighbours (2017-2018).   He appears as a muscular mystery man at a Guy Fawkes Day party on the same night that the evil Hamish Roche is murdered.  Hamish's son Tyler is the chief suspect.

Cassius goes on to save Tyler's girlfriend from a capsized boat, start dating her, rescue a kidnapped baby, get a job as a gardener, and finally admit that he was the one who murdered Hamish (gasp) because he is the evil guy's long-estranged son (double gasp). 

Um...Cassius was straight, buddy. 

Maybe there are some gay roles in his later work?

Stranded (2018): A British soldier is stranded with a lady.  They smooch in the water. 

Abandoned (2018).  What do you think?

Sons of Summer (2023):  A surfer brings his buds on a trip to the Gold Coast town where his dad was murdered, and runs afoul of murderous drug dealers.  He's got a girlfriend.

Anyone But You (2023); Ben (Glen Powell) and Bea don't like each other, but Bea's sister is marrying Ben's friend Pete's sister, and for some reason they have to pretend to be a couple at the wedding.  Joe plays the current boyfriend of Ben's ex girlfriend, who dumps him for Bea's ex-boyfriend. It's based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, so you've got to expect some partner switching. 

Joe shows his backside to demonstrate that he's much hotter than Ben.

He shows his d*ck too (after the break).

In an interview, Joe teased that the audience has to decide whether it's real or prosthetic, but "It sure felt real."

In 2024, Joe played a drug-dealing alligator poacher with a girlfriend in Season 2 of Troppo:  Nicole Charmoun as "an eccentric private detective" solves murders in Queensland, along with her "arrogant" partner Thomas Jane (left). 

So, no gay roles at all?  Just a lot of straight guys who do a lot of kissing?  Dude is straight in real life.

Here he calls Darren Barnet (the one getting ready to lick him) "Mr. Steal Your Girl."  Darren's character really did steal his girlfriend in Anyone but You, but this is almost certainly an admission of straightness.

What about the Neighbours scene that started it all?

David (Takaya Honda, left) comes to town to search for his long-lost father, and struggles with gay attraction amid his family's pressure to find a girl.  Eventually he comes out and starts dating Aaron (Matt Wilson). 

In this scene, he sees the shirtless and ripped Cassius working on the grounds, gawks at him, then runs away and returns to apologize.  "It was inappropriate.  You shouldn't be objectified."

 Cassius:  "It's ok, I didn't mind."

David: "It didn't mean anything. I have a boyfriend..."

Cassius: "Actually, I like showing off my physique.  It gets me a lot of gardening jobs."

Later David sees Cassius in the hospital, and Aaron angrily accuses him of having an affair.  Not to worry, they reconcile, and in 2018 have the first gay wedding on Australian tv.

Joe may be straight, but he's fine with guys gawking.  That's something. 

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