Redding Munsell: Soap opera kid, gay angst author, werewolf victim, fierce flower fan. With some adult acting coachs and co-star d*cks

  

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Why do they include little kids like Redding Munsell on the teen idol website?  A teen idol is someone you're supposed to sigh over, or write their name amid little hearts in your chemistry notebook, imagine holding hands with.  Nobody over age ten is going to be sighing over this kid.  But he's one of the more popular "teen idols," so let's take a look at his acting career and social media to see if he's gay.  And maybe he'll have some hunky adult co-stars.

Born in 2015, Redding began modeling at age five, and at age six won the Child Performer of the Year Award at the International Presentation of Performers (a showcase that connects actors with talent agents).   He has done a lot of print media, runway modeling, and commercials, for American Family Insurance, Wal-Mart, and Spider-Man Christmas Toys.

He has studied with several acting coaches, including Jareb Duplaise (above) and Connor Weill (left).

His on-screen roles include:

Red, White, and Blue (2023) a short about a woman who must go out of state to get a necessary abortion, but she can't afford it.

Hurricana (2025): Anna Nicole Smith  descends into chaos.  I remember a lot of comedians and talk show hosts ridiculing Anna Nicole Smith in the 1990s, but I don't recall what she did to become so hated.  Wikipedia just says that she was a model. 

Back to Redding's acting roles:

Werewolf (2025): A single mother turned werewolf targets her young son, presumably Redding.

At the Sea (2026): After rehab, a woman returns to her family's beach house to face her demons.  Henry Eikenberg (left) appears.  

Eikenberg's d*ck is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

None of these movies have plot synopses available, so I don't know if there are any gay characters.  

The Shards (2026) is a teen horror series with a fictional version of Brett Easton Ellis (Igby Rigney). gay but closeted, with a girlfriend and several downlow boyfriends.  They facing a serial killer in  1981 Los Angeles.  Redding plays the young Brett.

Wait -- Brett Easton Ellis is gay?  But he writes dark angsty novels about heterosexual youth, like Les Than Zero, American Psycho, and The Rules of Attraction.  There are either no gay characters, or homophobic stereotypes in brief walk-ons. Apparently the guy was "not into labels" until 2012, when he came out at age 58.  

So, werewolf victim, toy seller, something about a woman's demons, and a closeted angst author.  But Redding's main claim to fame is the soap The Young and the Restless, where he has played Harrison Abbott in 39 episodes (2024-26).

More after the break

Harrison's mother claimed that he was the son of the wealthy, powerful Ashland Locke, but a DNA test proved that his biological father was really the reformed scoundrel Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor, left), whom she weas...um...dating.  After a custody battle, Kyleand his girlfriend du jour took over parenting.  The lady in the photo is Claire Grace, Harrison's nanny, who is kidnapped along with him in one of his plotlines.

Harrison is being raised by a village.  Among his parental figures is Kyle's Uncle Billy (Jason Thompson), the one wearing clothes.

Mentioned so I could post a n*de photo of him.

Now that I've met my penis quota, I'll check to see if Redding is gay in real life.  

It won't be easy.  Kids growing up in a heteronormative society often don't figure it out until their teen years or later, and even if they know, it's difficult for outsiders to distinguish romantic interests from non-romantic buddy-bonds.  

I usually go by gender-atypical traits, interests, and mannerisms, such as we see with Dashiell Messick; buddy-bonds with gay or gay-coded actors, such as we see with Alfie Williams; or lack of expressed interest in girls.  None of them are definitive, of course.

Gender-atypical traits:

 Redding is studying piano, voice, and dance, but what theater kid isn't?  He also enjoys the macho sports of basketball, football, and snowboarding.  He wrote a children's book about flowers, but it's The Furious Flowers of Doom

Gay/gay coded chums:

Redding is excited to meet  L. Steven Taylor, Mufasa in The Lion King on Broadway (left).. I figured that L was gay, but he's actually married to a woman. 

Here Redding is big-brothered by Paxton Mishkind, who plays Uncle Billy's son Johnny on Y&R.  But as far as I can tell, both Paxton and his character are straight.  There are a few gay actors working on The Young and the Restless, but Redding does not seem to be actively seeking them out. 

Lack of interest in girls:

No girls are mentioned on Redding's Mom-curates social media.

I'm going to go with: inconclusive.  Come back in about eight years, and see who he has invited to the senior prom.

See also: Dashiell Messick: A homophobic tv mom, a gay brother, a pretty princess outfit, and a hunky male au pair, all before his 12th birthday

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple: A cured zombie, the Devil's son, a Jimmy cult, musclemen, d*cks, and 8 gay actors.

Euphoria Episode 2.3: Two high school boys in love in the 1990s, followed by gay/bi affairs. penises, and Brock O'Hurn