Jonny Gray: Researching the "Max and Shred" skater and Boots boyfriend. With costar d*cks and a Priestly backside

 

Link to the n*de dudes

I have so many guys waiting to be profiled that I forget who some of them are.  Today I looked in a folder entitled "Johnny Gray,", with a lot of screen shots, probably taken from the IMDB or his Instagram before I moved on to other tasks. They haven't even been adjusted (converted to .jpgs, cropped, reduced,  brightened, desaturated).  

Problem: I have no idea who Johnny Gray is.  

But he's obviously gay (one photo is entitled "JohnnyBoyfriend), and probably an actor, so I don't mind conducting the research.  

The research sent me down quite an internet rabbit hole. Various configurations of John/Johnny and Gray/Grey yielded:

A famous brand of guitars.

A runner who won at the Olympics four times and holds the record for the 600 meter sprint.

A rugby player who received the Sir Willie Purves Quaitch Award in 2014.

The author of the gender-polarized and heteronormative best-seller Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

A Wall Street broker, played by Mickey Roarke, who gets involved in heterosexual BDSM games in 9 1/2 Weeks.

A "secretly gay" 18th century gentleman, played by Oscar Kennedy and David Berry (left), in the tv series Outlander.

Returning to the folder for clues, I found photos of two n*de guys.  Maybe boyfriends or co-stars?

1. Brazilian actor Daniel Rangel, who appears mostly in telenovelas like Novo Mundo (2017) and Amor Perfeito (2023-205).

2.  Jake Goodman, right (n*de photo of the grown-up Jake on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).  In the Disney Channel teencom Max & Shred (2014-16):  he plays the superego in the gay-subtext buddy bond, science nerd Shred, who must mentor a professional skateboarder, the indefatigable id Max (Jonny Gray).  

Found him. 

Our Jonny Gray was born in 1999, and grew up in a suburb of London, Ontario   His on-screen career began in 2012, when he reported on the King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Hua Hin, Thailand.

It's to support elephant conservation, but it still looks strange.

Next came Disney stardom with Max & Shred, and three Bruno & Boots movies: Go Jump in the Pool (2016), This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (2017), and The Wizzle War (2018).

Based on the Macdonald Hall book series by Gordon Korman, the movies feature two students at an exclusive private school near Toronto.  Jonny changes from superego to id as the impulsive "let's put an iguana in the headmaster's bed" Bruno, who buddy-bonds with the wet-blanket "but I have to write a report on thumbtacks" Boots (Callan Potter).  

The book series seems to push up the gay subtext and eliminate the hetero-romance.  I'm not sure about the movies.

More after the break

Private Eyes (2016-2021) sounds like Moonlighting: former hockey player Matt (Jason Priestley, left) goes to work for Toronto-based private detective Angela, who thinks he's "arrogant!", meaning hot.  

Jonny plays Liam, who is dating Matt's teenage daughter, in 17 episodes.  Uh-oh, you graduated from childhood gay-subtext buddy-bonds to the heterosexist trajectory.  

On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, the iconic shot of Jason Priestly's backside, from the movie Calendar Girl (1993).  He's in the middle.  The shy guy is Jerry O'Connell.

After Private Eye, Jonny may have gone to Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario: he was the assistant director on two shorts written and directed by film student Noah Levac: Under the Light of the Harvest Moon (2024) and Forgive Me (Gotta Die of Something) (2024).  Neither look like they have gay content.

In 2025, Jonny became assistant director on five episodes of The Love Club (2025): Four middle-aged women help their friends find true love.  I checked: it's always true love with men.  

So after an adolescence of gay-subtext buddy-bonding, you graduated into a heteronormative adulthood.  And I had such high hopes.

In spite of his gay-free acting and directing roles, Jonny fills his Instagram with guy-hugging photos and few to no girl-hugging photos.  We'll conclude that he's gay in real life, just not willing or able to take gay roles.

At least we have some n*de photos of Jonny's boyfriends...or co-stars...or whatever his connection to Daniel Rangel is.

See also: Blake McIver: The "musical" kid from "Full House" grows up, sings, snoots, and shows us what Superman is packing

Nick Vardakas: Adult toy guy, lucky f*king dude, Atari spirit, Dillon's boyfriend, IT major. A lot of d*ck pics, but is he gay?

"Waterloo Road," Episode 10.1 or 14.1, "What I did last summer," with a new headmaster, a side piece, dark secrets, and d*cks.