Drama continues to develop on the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother this week as James Jordan, a professional ballroom dancer who occasionally likes to be “butt fucked” with “a cheeky finger,” reveals what he really thinks about gay people.
James made sure to assert his heterosexuality during the first week of the show, threatening to punch fellow houseguest Gary Busey for asking if he was gay. “I’ve never hit a seventy-year-old before,” he said, making sure to inform the house that he has “lots of gay friends” but is “happily married” to a woman.
This week, the 36-year-old former Strictly Come Dancing contestant weighs in on the hot topic of dance competition shows casting same-sex couples. (This is very in in Europe right now).
“Latin dancing is about a man and a woman dancing with each other, not two people of the same sex,” he advised. “Just because you’re gay doesn’t mean you can’t dance with a woman.”
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When asked if the current season of Strictly features a same-sex couple, he said: “No, I don’t believe in that either.”
Quick to play the “..but I have gay friends” card, James adds that his childhood dance idol was gay, and therefore his words cannot be homophobic. “My dance idol growing up was as camp as a butcher’s hook — he was totally gay. But he was the most masculine dancer you could ever meet. Why would you want to dance with men? Men with men?”
Strictly Come Dancing viewers in the UK have been asking the BBC One show to add a same-sex couple for at least two years, and have even found a perfect starter couple in Robin Windsor and Marcus Collins.
In 2010, the Israeli version of Strictly‘s multinational franchise cast its first same-sex couple, lesbian TV sportscaster Gili Shem Tov and professional dancer Dorit Milman.
h/t Gay Star News
Cam
The gayest professions ALWAYS have the most homophobic fools in them.
They are so terrified of anybody thinking they are gay that it gets ridiculous.
Similar things were said on So You Think You can Dance once season when they had a gay dance duo try out, and the “Edgy” choreographer Sonya, who was, you know, “Edgy” because, she had a mohawk and lots of piercings, looked SO confused and was saying things like “I don’t even know how to judge this”
Gee, you’re a choreographer in New York, but yes, seeing a gay couple dancing was SO shocking that it totally brought your mind to a stand still.
Worse was Series producer Nigel Lythgow who told the couple they should try dancing with girls because “They might like it”.
This is the same show that whenever a dancer came off as too “Girly” Nygel would make sure to mention at least once a show how hot the woman they were dancing with and it must have been so great to dance with somebody that beautiful.
So am I surprised that a dancer is a raging homophobe? No.
Cam
http://www.thebacklot.com/so-you-think-can-knock-off-the-homophobia-nigel-lythgoe/05/2009/
DDstar1me
It’s funny you would comment on that Cam. Because some of the so called “str8-acting” gay men feel the same way about fem guys. Isn’t that funny. lol. This is what I love about the gay community. We embrace everyone.
Cam
@DDstar1me:
You would hope wouldn’t you?! 🙂
NiceNCool1
He doesn’t have any gay friends. He thinks there’s something fundamentally wrong with being gay, otherwise he wouldn’t feel it necessary to threaten anyone for asking if he was gay.
Thad1527
***yawn….***
dan1989
I think if Queerty readers actually listened to what he said in its context you wouldn’t be calling him a homophobe, if you actually watched the whole episode (rather than the quotes Queerty provided ha) he just mentioned that that woman and men compliment each each other when they dance together as they dance differently due to the fact their different genders I.e women dance in glamorous dresses (this makes i
dan1989
Tends to make it more entertaining, im gay and I think he’s right, why is it some ppl in the gay community have a massive chip on their shoulder? Lol, opinions are like arseholes everyones got one. It’s funny you insult someone for not having the same opinion as you label them intolerant ha.
Guess im harbouring some internalized homophobia eh? haha
Xzamilio
@DDstar1me: And some of the fem guys feel the same way about masc guys. You accuse them of “trying too hard to be straight” or denying who they are. There’s nothing being told by straight and gay friends that you don’t “look” or “act” gay. How do you “act” gay? Is there a protocol or standard?
DarkZephyr
@dan1989: I like dancing with guys, especially my hot fiance. If you think its ugly look away.
Saint Law
@dan1989: Your post reads like a series of non-sequiturs randomly generated by some idiot software.
Mark
“Latin dancing is about a man and a woman dancing with each other”
Nononononono. Latin dancing, out of all dances, is about PASSION, and if your passion happens to run towards someone of your own gender then have at it. A couple performing a Latin dance should have chemistry, it is essential.
Good gried and this clown calls himself a professional dancer?
Gusteau
Already happened in other countries, was a shocker but not that special. Although the 2 guys did a fantastic Tango, the professional dancer faced the same direction as the celebrity but still managed to throw in some “female” dance moves. Was pretty fabulous, and they came in 3rd, so wasn’t really that much of a problem to the audience.
michael mellor
Two men dancing together represents male power. Women fear it. Men fear it because it offends women.
Interestingly, two women waltzing together has been occurring for centuries but not two men. Women exploit the double standard.
pressuredrop
@michael mellor:
As usual, this makes no sense and is not actually true.
Cam
@dan1989:
There’s always somebody willing to defend the homophobe isn’t there?
So what if he said that there shouldn’t be interaccial couples because blacks and whites dance differently?
Stache99
@dan1989: “When asked if the current season of Strictly features a same-sex couple, he said: “No, I don’t believe in that either.”
What other context is there to his bigoted statements?