First came the flirtation, followed remarkably quickly by an awfully touchy-feely bath:
The bromantic escalation between Celebrity Big Brother UK contestants Shane Jenek (a.k.a. Courtney Act) and Andrew Brady only kept accelerating from there.
“If Courtney didn’t have a d*ck, I’d go to town on that,” Brady said. Right, that’s what straight guys usually say about their gay mates.
Then the two flashed their cakes–and more?–together:
How about we take this to the next level?
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Now Jenek, who came out as the triumphant and well-deserving winner of the season, is setting the record straight.
In an interview with Metro, the Drag Race runner-up said that while many fans have discussed the possibility of the two hooking up, it’s “really important to acknowledge that gay and straight men can be friends.”
“I think how me and Andrew convulse that clear message is that there’s a strange love triangle where he thinks Courtney’s hot and I think he’s hot, so it’s not like our attraction was removed from the equation. But we acknowledged that he’s not attracted to male-bodied people.”
He continued: “I’ve had straight friends, one who I was in love with for years, which wasn’t reciprocated, and that can very easily create a negative psychological impact where you’re reinforcing this idea that you’re unlovable because you’re giving love to somebody and it’s not being returned.”
“That can be really unhealthy,” Jenek said.
The CBBUK winner also said he’d experienced some of those unhealthy dynamics in his 20’s, but eventually grew out of those patterns.
“I have the tools to understand what Andrew and my relationship is. Also, I’m validated because I don’t think my love for him is unrequited – we do love each other.”
Jenek is up for the 2018 Queerties Award for Badass of the Year, in part for the strong and vocal stance he took defending queer and gender issues on the show.
Kieran
We need a “None of the above” choice for many of these award categories.
Tête Carrée
Try not voting.
leobaga
Beautiful couple. Love Andrew. What a lovely straight guy.
tham
Awesome, could have said it better myself
DCguy
The best part, Courtney was in the house with an older conservative “Respected” former member of Parliament I believe, who would say anti-lgbt things. And the OTHER gay person in the house, not only didn’t respond out of “Respect” but stated that things like the gay laws, bigotry etc… didn’t effect her.
So Courtney, went in, exposed the bigotry for what it was, and the UK responded, she won against many others with more than 50% of the vote.
Nowuvedoneit
Yay for Courtney winning a crap reality show, but let’s not delude ourselves that it is a real friendship. It and every “reality”, is scripted. I enjoy watching drag race but I’m fooled by the shenanigans. Shame on Queerty for pushing commercials on us.
SiamSam
You don’t actually look to “Queerty” for anything with substance or integrity, do you? It’s a gay online gossip rag.
Tête Carrée
@SiamSam
Yet you keep coming back to bitch.
dean089
“Male-bodied people?” You mean men?