NySocBoy's Beefcake and Buddy-Bonding: Dean Petriw: Child actor turned fifth Walter Boy turned business major, old enough for beefcake and d*ck photos.

Nov 13, 2026

Dean Petriw: Child actor turned fifth Walter Boy turned business major, old enough for beefcake and d*ck photos.

**Link to the n*de dudes**

My Life with the Walter Boys (2023-26) sends a New York girl to a ranch in Colorado, where she lives with the seven "Walter boys" and their parents (and a baby sister). She falls in love with Cole and Alex, helps Nathan come out, pushes her way into the soap-opera problems of Will and Danny...

And babysits Jordan (Drew Petriw) and Benny.

If we include Dad (Marc Blucas, backside on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) and a seemingly endless stream of cousins, coworkers, classmates, buddies, and love interests, the number of hunks skyrockets.

So why did I decide to profile Dean Petriw?

1. I've already checked the other brothers, and they're either straight or have no beefcake photos online, or both.

2. Aspiring filmmaker Jordan doesn't display any hetero interest, so he can be found gay by omission.

3. He has an unusual last name. It's of Ukrainian or Polish origin.

N*de Ukrainian dude and potential Dean on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

4. He's nearly 19, enough for beefcake photos and even n*de photos.

Dean was born in Vancouver on July 4, 2008 (which is not a big deal in Canada), and started acting in commercials at age four. His on-screen acting begins in 2015 with an episode of Falling Skies.

On a 2016 episode of Once Upon a Time, he played the young Baelfire, son of a pre-magic Rumpelstiltskin, and the father of Chosen One Henry Mills. Other Baelfires are played by Brandon Spink and Michael Raymond-James.

He also played a kid opposite Dolph Lundgren in Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016), and played the young Luke (Jonathan Whitesell as an adult) in Beyond (2016).

More after the break

Lots of guest spots followed, plus a starring role in Home Before Dark (2020-21), one of the countless shows about journalists or cops returning to their home town to investigate a murder. Dean plays the young version of Matt Lisko (Jim Sturgess), who comes home to investigate the disappearance of his childhood friend Richie (Kiefer O'Reilly as a child, Derek Richardson as an adult). Yep, Richie is still alive.

Jim and Derek d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

Dean is also famous for:

Star Beam (2020-21), an animated series about an 8-year old girl who becomes a superhero. He plays her best friend and no doubt straight subtext boyfriend, a bookish tech whiz.

Love Hard (2021) is a Christmas romcom about a girl who starts an online romance with a gorgeous guy, only to find that she's been catfished by an ugly guy (Jimmy O. Yang). But she agrees to pretend to be his girlfriend for the holidays, anyway, and somehow ends with guy used for the photos, who is gorgeous (Darren Barnett).

Left: I'd date Jimmy O. Yang.

Wait -- what part does Dean play in all this? Turns out that he is at the bottom of the cast list as The Paper Boy.

I don't see any immediately visible gay content in Dean's other on-screen acting: Heritage Minutes, When Calls the Heart, Sonic the Dinosaur. But for actors under 18, gay and gay-adjacent roles are rather rare; you can't hold it against him.

And as a plus, there are no girl-hugging photos on his Instagram. But not many guy-hugging.

Drew attended École Dr. Charles Best in Coquiltlam, BC, where he was the photographer for the sports teams, played soccer, and worked part-time at the Mundy Street Bakery. He graduates as valedictorian in June 2026, and is currently a business major at Simon Fraser University.

Sounds like our boy has left the arts behind in favor of corporate. It's happened before, but rarely among gay guys. My verdict: our boy is straight.