"Boy Meets Boy" Meets Bad Publicity
Not surprisingly, the star of Bravo's gay-themed dating show "Boy Meets Boy" isn't too happy about being lead on to think his ensemble of prospective beaus was gay -- when in fact a few of them were actually straight guys hoping to nab a prize of $25,000.
"I felt betrayed," says James, a California human-resources executive, perhaps the first reality star ever to speak a bad word about his own series. James was finally let in on the big secret when he'd narrowed his suitors down to three -- we won't give away their orientation -- and he was livid. "They told me they put the twist in there because they wanted straight people to watch," he says. "I said to them, 'Well, you've played gay people as entertainment for straight people. Of course they're going to watch'." [Newsweek, 7/21]
Huh? What? The producers embedded the cast with straight guys because "they wanted straight people to watch"? But... but... just a few weeks ago... the producers said something quite different!
Kirk Marcolina, supervising producer of Bravo's new reality show, "Boy Meets Boy": "The idea is to have the straight men there to really challenge the audience's preconceived notions of what is gay and what is straight." [Reuters, 5/28]
Oh, please. Why watch a crappy dating show to challenge my preconceived notions of what is gay and what is straight when I could just browse the photo galleries of NJGuido.com...
Remainders: My original rant on "Boy Meets Boy."