Link to the n*de dudes

In the Brazilian telenovela Madam Beja (2026), now streaming on MAX, 19th century Brazilian girl Beja is kidnapped by an evil magistrate before she can marry her boyfriend Antonio. By the time she escapes, he has moved on and married someone else. What's a girl to do?

How about open a high-end adult entertainment salon? That way she can continue seeing Antonio (David Junior, after the break) on the downlow, and start a new romance with his best bud, João (André Luiz Miranda). Plus get involved in the lives and loves of her workers.

The show is brimming with muscular men and bare backsides, and there are two LGBTQ regulars: Fortunato (João Villa, top photo), a young apothecary struggling to come out, and the trans worker worker Severina (played by the nonbinary actor Pedro Fasanaro), who starts a romance with the town priest (Arilson Lucas, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Another hunk appears when the evil magistrate returns with some soldiers to try to get his hands on Beja, or her wealth. Colonel Madeira (Fabio de Luca) "betrays" him by becoming a Beja ally, so he storms into the brothel while the Colonel is busily schtupping, and orders him out. Later he is found floating in the river, dead.

I started searching for more n*de photos of the big guy, and found a very interesting portrait of Fabio de Luca, a gay chub/bear comedian.

Saved by Grace Kelly

Fabio was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980, and began performing in children's theater. But it was his first visit to a gay bar -- Rosa Choque (Hot Pink) -- that drew him into acting as a career. The police raided, checking ids and arresting underage youth, and he was only 16! He was terrified, but a drag queen dressed as Grace Kelly pulled him into her dressing room, and told him to be putting on makeup when the police entered. It worked -- they left him alone. Afterwards, he associated drag -- and all performance - with freedom. You can be truly yourself when you are playing a role.

Fat Jokes

He started in the theater, with roles in The Voyage of Peter the Fortunate (Strindberg), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht) and many plays by Brazilian authors. Some guest spots on tv followed, often making him the butt of a fat joke. He had to take those jobs for survival, but he always tried to shift the humor to the situation, not his appearance.

Plus he sought out roles where his character could have been played by an actor of any size, such as Lazaro in The First Temptation of Christ (2019)

Siquiera in the serial-killer drama Peçanha Contra o Animal (2021),

Bumbling detective Sabia in Êta Mundo Melhor ("What a Better World," 2025).

And many sketches on Porta dos Fundos ("The Back Door"), a Youtube channel with 19 million subscribers (2022-26), which made him a household name in Brazil, and permitted him to move into writing and directing.

Fabio and Bruno

Fabio calls himself "a cross between Fabio Porchat and Bruno de Luca."

Fabio Porchat is the co-founder and head writer of Porta dos Fundos.

Bruno de Luca (left) is a fixture on Brazilian tv, best known for playing Fabinho on the teen soap Malhação (1995-97) and Romeu on Os Parças (2024).

His d*ck after the break.

The D*cks

On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: Bruno's beneath the belt equipment compared with Fabio's.

Chub Fetishization

Interviewed on CNN Brazil, Fabio says that he fell into the trap of thinking that you have to be a certain body type to be desirable in gay communities. Gay bars and hookup sites are overrun with guys with "no fems or fats" profiles and, often worse, guys who fetishize chubby physiques. Neither can see the person behind the belly.

He has a boyfriend now (obviously), but he is still working on his body image: "There are days when I think I'm handsome, and there are days when I think I'm a troll."

I'm going to go with handsome.

Spiritualism

Fabio follows Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion dedicated to the veneration of orixás, emanations of the creator god, like the orishas in the Afro-Cuban Santeria.

He also practices Kardecian Spiritism, a new religious movement that traces the spiritual growth of the soul through many lifetimes. He and members of the Amigos de Luz troupe, founded in 2015, use comedy to promote spiritism. They have a Youtube channel.

I'm running out of space. Do you want a picture of the Amigos de Luz, or Fabio's backside?