Chances are you’ve never heard of Osher Günsberg, a.k.a. Andrew G. He’s basically Australia’s Ryan Seacrest. Only cuter. And with an accent.
The handsome, brown-eyed host of Australian Idol and The Bachelor is 42 and happily engaged to a woman. But, unlike Seacrest, he’s not shy about discussing his past late night liaisons with men.
Günsberg, a heterosexual vegan who loves cycling, recently went on his local radio station to discuss his past dips into the man pond.
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“You’ve got to go on all the rides at Dreamworld before you find the one you want to stay on all day,” he said, before adding he’s gave up fooling around with fellas “a long time ago.”
This is the second time he’s discussed the subject publicly. In January, he told another radio station, “I’ve got no problems talking about that I’ve pashed a bloke or two.”
The handsome TV personality added that he doesn’t believe sexuality is a “polarized thing” and that your twenties are “there for a reason.”
“Sexuality happens,” he said.”It’s a grey, kind of moving fluid dynamic.”
We like the way this guy thinks.
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DDstar1me
O.M.G he’s a bi-sexual vegan. Vegan’s are the worst. I feel bad for the poor girl that is getting married to this thang. Nooo…girl run. Run boo.
Masc Pride
@DDstar1me: I think he technically qualifies as a Kinsey 1. You have to keep in mind that, by his words, he doesn’t desire homosexual encounters presently. Bisexuals are usually rated as 3, or arguably anywhere from 2 to 4.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@DDstar1me : As a vegan, your annoyance is the most (actually only) delicious part of my diet.
Josh447
Wow what a gorgeous hunk of authenticity. Skanky two faced Americans could take a class or two from the sane and happy Aussies, if Americans weren’t so busy farting all over each other, ad nauseam.
martinbakman
@Josh447: Thank you for those lovely comments, and be sure to keep us posted on Australia’s continual failures at marriage equality.
chuck
He’ll be back…
Rimminit
Here’s my phone # WHEN (they all do, eventually, you know) you fall off the poontang wagon: 555-454-1234
BriBri
@Rimminit: “Poontang Wagon” LMFAO!!
Hells_Kitten
@Rimminit:
There’s a poontang wagon? How does one get a ride on the poontang wagon?
Asking for a lesbian friend
DCguy
If he doesn’t call himself heterosexual why does the article? When is the obsession with writing articles with the word “Hetero” in them on here going to end?
bottom250
Ohhh what man doesn’t want to be with men.
Josh447
martinbakman
Gay marriage is a very special Rose that will push through the ground in Australia at just the right moment. It will happen as there is no stopping mother nature. There may be impatience but in this case, there is no doubt.
Xtian99
@Josh447: sorry but you’re the by product of an empire’s unwanted criminal waste and a wombat no? i suppose ur naturally inbred insecurities and deep seated feelings of self doubt and self worth lead you to draw such conclusions and lash out so (go ahead, look those some of these words up luv, we’ll wait for ya!))
Brian
Well, he is no longer a practising bisexual if he’s chosen not to be with men anymore. It’s his choice.
What about Ryan Seacrest?
Billy Budd
Adorable. Bisexuality is beautiful.
Hu7w
I do not understand why this issue should be considered relevant to a gay guy and a gay magazine.
Josh447
Xtian99
Haha, you just forgot to smell the flowers when you woke up today. Go ahead we’ll wait. Even Christians can have a non judgmental day even though their teacher tells them no way, judge at all costs. You’ll see, even you can be Saved from Christianity’s nasty grip. Now take a second wiff of those flowers. Yes again we’ll wait. We do need to save the ChristIans from themselves, quickly before they die and can’t be turned around. Intervention, a good thing.
Violent Rainbow
I don’t believe a word of it, this man is so desperate for attention and he is NOT our version of Ryan Seacrest, he hosted Australian Idol literally about 13 years ago and since then has been an F list celebrity trying to get back some fame. I’m honestly sick of seeing his face every time I open my news page.
dean089
@DDstar1me: LOL! I was also thinking along those lines.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I honestly don’t know what is the purpose of this article? I personally dislike men like him who maintain the illusion of heterosexuality and then says “im Hetro-flexible” or “its a grey area” – I know people like this want to sound hip and liberal, but they are not, and seriously need to f*ck off.
Masc Pride
@Hussain-TheCanadian: You’re saying he has to “f*ck” off because you don’t approve of his sexuality? Sounds rather hypocritical coming from a gay guy. How is that any different from the people that criticize homosexuality? Sexuality is far more fluid than bi, gay or str8, and it can even change up. Live and let live, right?
mz.sam
Another stupid, fucked-up heter-power bottom.
ErikO
This guy is not hetero/straight at all. Why does this site obsess over hetero/straight men or believe that “All hetero/straight men are secretly bisexual”?
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Masc Pride: Come on Masc, this ass-hat is peddling that he’s straight while in reality he isn’t. I disagree with you that there is such a thing as “hetroflexable”. Human sexaulity is indeed a range, but with defined markers – people like him gives our enemies the justification that being gay is a choice.
cdndmf
“a … vegan who loves cycling”. This easily passes for “gay” in 47 states, and most countries.
Karlis
I scrolled all the way through the comments section to see if anyone else posted this question, and no one did, so I will: What does “to pash” mean in Australian, as in “I’ve pashed a bloke or two”? Oh, wait. There’s such a thing as Google. Now we know. It means to tongue kiss. Not all that much of a dip of the toe in the pond, it seems to me.
Brian
If you identify as straight then you identify as straight. It’s his choice and his right.
Now, that’s not saying that he can’t feel attraction to men. Feelings are not a choice.
Grumpy gays need to stop trying to own people’s identities.
Sluggo2007
@Brian: Grumpy gays = “not getting any” gays.
Xtian99
@Josh447: actually not Christian at all – sorry. but i see now you may be dealing with some developmental disabilities, not intellectaul handicaps, for which i will throw no stones. I would just encourage you not to engage in battles of wits when you are so obviously half (or un)armed.
Dave Downunder
@Xtian99: I think you need to brush up on your Australian history before you go denigrating an entire nation. You went for the low blow and it just showed your pettiness and ignorance. I am not commenting on your feud with Josh447 just your method of attack. Get informed.
Josh447
Ahhh whiney boy can’t seem to find his way.
I see the nuns have let you out of your play pen. Again.
You have lost your peacefulness. Unfortunate. It happens to the best of us. You can get it back, but you have to want it first. Careful who you pray to, it has consequences little Christian tyke. And you need not keep apologizing, it’s weak and unreal, much like you.
Now. Your diapers are full and could use a change, which is why your so darn cranky. Go ahead. Check it. There ya go. Nasty isn’t it. I know your just seeking attention. But I’m just not that into you. Now toddle along. The adults have work to do.
Josh447
Dave Downunder,
I don’t have a fued with Xtian99, his fued is very internal with himself. He can’t get out of his own angrway way so he comes swinging at others to try and reduce his insanity. Doesn’t work. He has a lot of inner work to do. He’ll pop out of it someday.
Me, I’m off to a fab day. I hope you are too.
Always, Be brilliant.
Masc Pride
@Hussain-TheCanadian: Actually, the article is labeling him hetero. Gunsberg never really specifically stated how he identifies. However, by the Kinsey scale, he’d still fit into the “heterosexual spectrum”.
So are you saying that a guy who identifies as gay and who lives a super rainbow lifestyle is no longer gay if he has any type of sexual experience with a woman? I’m sure the ex-gay crowd would just looooove such a logic to be true! lol
Sansacro
@Hussain-TheCanadian: It may not be a choice for you, but it is for some people, especially over a lifetime.
dwes09
@cdndmf:a … vegan who loves cycling”. This easily passes for “gay” in 47 states, and most countries.
Perhaps in some states, but certainly not in most countries where cycling as a sport is understood and followed. Most professional cyclists are both meat eaters and heterosexual and those who actually have a connection with reality know this. American “sports lovers” who get off on seeing “real men” give each other traumatic brain injuries don’t. There are no former or current pro racers who have come out, and none who are rumored to be gay.
As an aside, the first international black sports superstar, who broke down race barriers was a cyclist: Major Taylor, who raced at the start of the 20th century (broke the mile record in 1899 and launched an international career from there) when ultra marathon track events were hugely popular.
dwes09
@Sansacro: There is no evidence of any sort that even implies sexuality is a choice. And much evidence that it is not. I will never understand why gay folks (if indeed you are gay) cast their lot with those who make up and cling to myths about us to keep us disenfranchised.
dwes09
@Xtian99: “i suppose ur naturally inbred insecurities and deep seated feelings of self doubt and self worth lead you to draw such conclusions and lash out so (go ahead, look those some of these words up luv, we’ll wait for ya!)”
You obviously do not know many, or any, Australians. They are refreshingly free of the cultural baggage weighing down so many Americans (Thankfully i was not born or raised Christian), and have healthier attitudes about a lot of things.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Masc Pride: No Masc, thats not what im saying. My critique quite simply is this: “Don’t have sex with men and then say you’re straight” – Having sex with the opposite sex once or twice for whatever reason doesn’t qualify that you have jumped over your sexual marker.
Of course each individual has a different experience, and sometimes, uniqueness exists and is the case – but generally speaking, experimentation is one thing, and saying “yeah its a grey area” is another.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Sansacro: What dwes said.
Masc Pride
@Hussain-TheCanadian: You’re kind of contradicting yourself. Gunsberg is discussing his experimentation. He also hasn’t gone into much detail about what the experimentation included, so we don’t even know that he was even having sex with other guys. However, even a guy that has had same-sex experiences in the past wouldn’t be considered homosexual if he doesn’t desire to have those experiences anymore. There are two Kinsey scale ratings that are identified as heterosexual with varying degrees of same-sex experience, so same-sex experience obviously doesn’t mean a person can’t accurately identify as heterosexual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
Masc Pride
When a heterosexual guy is hypermasculine and sometimes anti-gay, guys will accuse him of being secretly gay under the assumption that he’s not secure in his manhood/sexuality. It doesn’t make any sense that a guy who’s secure enough to be totally open and rather nonchalant about discussing his past same-sex experimentation is met with the same criticism as the insecure guy. Makes this community look like a bunch of bitter crabs in a barrel.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Masc Pride: I will agree and concede to you regarding Gunsberg; you are Right, we don’t know the extension of his “experience” with men, so it would be moot to argue his case any further.
As for the second half of your point; I do see a distinction between “experimenting” with men if you’re a straight man, and if you’re Bi, sleep with men for a good portion of your life, then magically choose to stop and switch to woman. To me, kinsey scale or not, that doesn’t make you straight.
I understand what you’re saying, and I want to make sure that you and I are discussing the same point, because for me, I’m trying to say that choice plays no part in same-sex attraction, just as it doesn’t for opposite sex attraction.
The only folks who can potentially be attracted to either sexes are Bisexuals, and even those attractions operates within its own set of marker/limits.
Captain Obvious
What is it with calling gay and bisexual people “straight” nowadays? So many steps backward…
Masc Pride
@Hussain-TheCanadian: It seems you’re interpreting Gunsberg’s statements as him claiming that he’s choosing to be straight now, which isn’t at all what he said. Could be that his past interest in men wasn’t all that strong. Sexuality has different components. The Kinsey scale factors in experience and desire to sort of measure one’s sexuality. Experience doesn’t mean much of anything once the desire is lost. Desire without experience can be misleading since experience could totally change what one desires. The lifestyle one desires could also impact sexual desire for someone who isn’t a 0 or 6. In terms of sexuality, so many people are programmed to think 0 or 6, and nothing else exists. Lots of gay men seem to use a “homo one-drop rule” logic in which any experience a guy has had with another guy has “tainted” him, after which he must be considered bi or gay no matter how he lives or what he desires presently. Sexuality is far more complex than straight OR gay.
Brian
@Masc Pride: Well said.
Bellamy
Saying “he doesn’t believe sexuality is a “polarized thing”” is just as WRONG and DANGEROUS as the right-wingers who say homosexuality is a choice, and it spits on all of us who are true homosexuals or heterosexuals! I have NEVER been attracted or even remotely interested in ANY sexual or romantic interaction with the opposite gender, and the very idea makes my flesh crawl and makes me want to throw up into my mouth! I LOVE people of the opposite gender – every one of them is precious to me – but only on a human level. I have no desire to “experiment” or anything stupid like that. And I also stand up for my heterosexual counterparts who feel exactly the same way about the same-gender. Just because this Aussie is a man-whore doesn’t mean everyone else is and just because HE’S screwed up in the head doesn’t mean he should assume the rest of us are, too. My father screwed around with dudes when he was young, and my mother divorced him when I was two when she caught him with another guy in his van – but then he married another woman because he is NOT gay and stopped screwing around, and because HE went against his nature to do what is unnatural FOR HIM, he thinks that ALL homosexuals are just heterosexuals who are perverts like he was! THAT IS A TOTAL LIE FROM HELL. Heterosexuality and Homosexuality ARE FIXED GENETIC SEXUAL IDENTITIES, like being left or right handed. All else is just uncontrolled willful BEHAVIOR – not sexual identity.