**Link to the n*de photos**

Two of these three statements about Bentley Storteboom are false. Guess which.

1.He's Dutch

2. He's 25

3. He's gay

1. Is he Dutch? Storteboom means "Fallen Tree" in Frisian, spoken by 400,000 people in the northern regions of the Netherlands, like these musclemen on the beach.

No, he's Canadian.

2. Is he 25?

No, according to the IMDB, as of this writing he's 13 1/2!

He may look 25 in the top photo, but here he looks like 16-year old Gavin Munn of The Righteous Gemstones.

Bentley was born in August 2012, in Maple Ridge, a suburb of Vancouver. According to his mom, “He wasn’t your typical boy that wanted to play soccer or sports,” but he was interested in movies and the theater, and started asking about how kids got on tv. His parents had no experience in performing arts, and had no idea. Kudos for not trying to push him into sports, Mom and Dad. My parents never let up. "You're a boy! Boys like sports! Try out for football!"

They did some research, enrolled Bentley in the LeClerc School of Acting, and found him an agent, and he started auditioning at age six. Soon he was appearing in commercials, and got the starring role in the student film Small Boy (2020): "After getting left out during a hide and seek game, a small boy realizes what he wants is different than what he was seeking from others." So, different from the others? Gotcha.

That fall he won two Joey Awards (for Canadian youth): best actor in a commercial and best actor in a student film.

In 2020 he won an iconic role in the series finale of Supernatural (2020). As Dean is dying, he tells his gay-subtext partner Sam that he must "carry on." The time for the "manly love of comrades" is over; it's time to accept his heterosexual destiny. A few years later, Dean looks down from heaven and sees that Sam has acquiesced: he's got a wife and kid (Bentley). And the kicker: they're playing ball! Bentley might not be "like the other boys," but his son is. We hear the Kansas song:

Carry on, my wayward son. There'll be peace when you are done.
Lay your weary head to rest. Don't you cry no more.

Funny, I feel like crying at this negation of the gay experience.

Episodes of Nancy Drew (2021) and YoShowBiz (2021) followed, but Bentley's big break (at age eight) came with what the local papers breathlessly praised as "a recurring role on a hit tv show!" It was Riverdale (2017-2023), the campy, over-the-top, NSFW adaption of the Archie comics world.

KJ Apa, formerly Archie, on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

More after the break

Bentley played Dagwood, one of the twin children of Betty's older sister Polly and Cheryl's brother Jason (Trevor Stines, left), in Seasons 5 and 6 (2021-22). Who names their kid Dagwood? He gets the worst of both families: the Blossom curse that kills all firstborn children (he manages to live), and the darkness that plagues the Cooper family, which turns him into a bully. According to Bentley's Mom, this was a lot of fun for the "gentle child" who sometimes got bullied himself. Gay kids are often bullied, Mom.

Next Bentley appeared in Our Italian Christmas Memories (2022): At Christmastime, a family tries to recreate Grandma's legendary spaghetti sauce to alleviate the dementia of Grandpa (Beau Bridges). They have spaghetti at Christmas? Two of the grandkids fall in love: Anna, a sociologist, with the doctor treating Grandpa's dementia (Markian Tarasiuk); and aspiring chef RJ (Jesse Irving), with the boss's daughter. Bentley plays the young RJ.

Left: Jesse Irving has played gay characters several times, most recently in Summer Fling (2025).

Bentley has also been in two shorts:

Do You Know the Boogieman (2022): Some adults and children are interviewed about their interactions with the Boogieman, who is apparently a real paranormal being.

School Play (2023): An elementary school performance of "Little Red Riding Hood" is interrupted by the constant loud comments, hooting, and yelling of a boorish audience member (Joel Ashton McCarthy), who turns out to be the father of the Woodchopper. Bentley plays cast member Timmy.

Joel Ashton McCarthy directed Why Does God Hate Me (2011), about a 14-year old gay boy facing small-town homophobia and attempts to "cure" him. No connection, probably.

Bentley's most recent role is in the upcoming I, Object: ten-year old Tom (Bentley) is grieving the loss of his father, and talking to the inanimate objects around him. And they talk back. It's not a comedy.

Karl Urban n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

Skywalker Hughes, a girl about Bentley's age, gets second billing, so doubtless Tom meets The Girl of His Dreams.

But two or three gay-subtext roles are enough for a 13-year old.

Bentley says on Instagram that he's not auditioning for "Young Boy" roles anymore. It's "Teenager" all the way. So he got some new surly teen headshots, and started lifting. And wearing lavender.

3. Gay in real life? Probably. Bentley (or his mom) posts lots of photos with girls, but he calls them "friends." He also has a best guy friend, Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez, who has 27 acting credits on the IMDB and two Joey Awards.

Sebastian played Nibs in Peter Pan and Wendy, and stayed friends with Noah Matthews Matofsky. Boys "who aren't like the other boys" always seem to find each other, even at an early age.

I'm still not sure about the top photo. Here Bentley poses with 18-year old Malachi Barton in January 2026. Does he look like the same guy? I think it was misidentified.

Valin Shinyei: Billy Elliot's gay friend, a gay monster hunter, a straight ballet dancer, and a Lego boy who cooks. With Valin bulge and Vladimir c*ck

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Noah Matthews Matofsky: Head Lost Boy, model, disability advocate, Oscar Wilde fan, boyfriend. With bonus n*de Matthews and Captain Hook's hook