Jon Furlong and Ruben Reuter, the wacky drug dealers of "Pushers": Both are short, but which has muscles, which is gay, and which has d*ck pics?

Link to the n*de dudes

I was researching Ryan McParland, the Irish actor who plays the younger brother on How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, and I found a cast photo from Pushers (2025), a Channel 4 comedy. With two short guys.

Two short guys?  I'm definitely watching this show!

Turns out that Pushers is not available to stream in the U.S., but I watched some clips on Youtube.  

It stars Rosie Jones (below center) as Emily Dawkins, a woman with cerebral palsy who loses her benefits and needs some way to make money -- and impress her crush (a lady). Enter lovable doofus Ewen (Ryan McParland), who wants to "make money fast" in the amateur drug-dealing game.  He notices that Emily is invisible; people are disturbed by her disability, and pretend not to see her.  A perfect drug runner!

Emily suggests using her charity, Wee CU (providing accessible toilets), as a cover for the drug business.  And she recruits some other disabled people for the crew:

Hope (Libby Mae, not shown) handles the money-laundering, and pushes to expand the business into spice (an artificial cannabinoid).

Sam (Jon Furlong, left) became aggressive during her first drug sale, so she hired him as the muscle. He's garrulous and rather a tipster.

Francis Magee of East Enders (right) plays Lennie, an evil drug kingpin.

Short Guy #1: Jon Furlong was born in Manchester in 1986, and made his acting debut in The Last Kingdom (2018), playing Brother Godwin.  He went on to Ghosts (the British version), Odd Squad, All Creatures Great and Small, Adolescence, and Here We Go.  

Here We Go (2020-25) sounds particularly interesting: teenage Sam records his family's antics with a hand-held camera. Jon plays the mate of Sam's mercurial Uncle Robin (Tom Basden).  There are some gay characters.

It's available to stream on BritBox, which I don't subscribe to.  Grr.

Muscles: Definitely.  

Gay: Jon posts a lot of Instagram photos where he's hugging guys in various configurations, so he could be gay.

D*ck Pics: I couldn't find any, so I posted a n*de dude from Canterbury on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

More after the break.  

The rest of the crew:

 Harry (Ruben Reuter, hugging Ryan) wanted to make a documentary about the experience, but they reject the idea.  He handles the website and  the social media.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch of Coronation Street (right) plays Masir, who provides the minivan.

Harry is an actor, dancer, and filmmaker (his dream is to direct Hollyoakes).  

In the first clip I watched, Harry and Ewan are hiding from a real drug lord - the kind that cuts your d*ck off -- and he suggests disguising themselves with drag.  He's an expert on hairstyling and makeup.   

Ewan: "F*cking hell, I look like me nan."

Harry: "No, you're sexy."

Ewan "Are you saying me nan ain't sexy?"

In another clip, the gang interviews for their jobs. Harry says that he's working at a pub with his Dad, but he wants to make enough money to ask his boyfriend Kevin to marry him.

A gay character!  They already had a lesbian character, so there's really no reason to make Harry gay -- unless the actor is gay in real life.

Short Guy #2: Ruben Reuter was born in 2000 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.  He has eight previous on-screen acting credits, most significantly the teen soap The Dumping Ground (2015-2024) and the short Mobility (2023), which won a BAFTA Award.

He's also a reporter for Channel 4 News; he won the SENSE and BASW  Journalism Awards, and was nominated for the RTS Young Journalist Award.

And a dancer: in April 2025, he performed at the International Draftworks.

He made his on-stage debut in 2025, playing Percival in Lord of the Flies, performed at the Festival Theater in Chichester.  Percival is "a small, fragile boy" who is traumatized by the barbarism of the plane-wrecked boys and predicts the coming of the Beast.

 Ruben made the list of the Disability Power 100 in 2025, and was invited to a gala at Westminster Palace to celebrate the start of Disability History Month.

Who was your plus-one, buddy?

Muscles: He's won medals at the Paralympics, so probably.

Gay: Definitely.

D*ck Pics: Two possibilities on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

See also:  "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast": Dark secrets, twisting plots, hunky guys, bulges, and d*cks. And the Irish countryside

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

The Brothers Ferox: A bodybuilder, a swimmer, and the Joker's nemesis walk into a gladiator arena. With bonus short guys

"Hollyoakes" tackles trans bullying, with teen bodybuilder and ant Dan Hough as the bully. Plus bonus  twinks