Hmmm. It appears antigay reality star, admitted pedophile, serial philanderer and alleged sex addict Josh Duggar on Grindr.
Or is he?
A photo of 28-year-old Duggar holding up his cellphone and proudly displaying the Grindr app has been making the rounds on social media.
So what’s the deal?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Before we dig into this latest Duggar scandal, a little backstory… Josh has been keeping a low profile for over a year now. It all began in May of 2015 when he admitted to molesting two of his sisters. A few months after that, he was outed for having not one but two Ashley Madison accounts. After confessing to cheating on his wife while she was pregnant, Josh said he was going to sex rehab to learn how to control his urges. But when the time came to actually check in, he bailed. The icing on the cake came a few months after that when adult film actress Danica Dillon filed a lawsuit against him alleging he basically paid her $1,500 to beat her up while they had sex. That lawsuit was later dropped.
The rest of the Duggar family has done their best to distance themselves from their eldest sibling. But he keeps slithering back around. Most recently, the Hollywood Bossip recently ran a story about Duggar not appearing on his sisters’ new reality show. Included in the story was this image:
Naturally, tongues started wagging:
Well, the folks over at Inquisitr did some sleuthing and quickly discovered that the picture is, wait for it, photoshopped:
It appears, though, that in this case, the shot was scooped up from a far older source. One of the oldest copies of this image on the internet can be found in a 2013 post on LiveJournal. Since that post is about Josh joining the Family Research Council, a photoshopped image associating Josh with a gay dating app is very apt.
The original image was posted to the Duggar Family Blog years ago in a post celebrating Josh’s 25th birthday:
We think we speak for gay men the world over when we say: Thank God!
Related: Antigay Activist Josh Duggar Being Sued By Adult Film Star For Allegedly Beating Her During Sex
RIGay
Why research, of course!
Masc Pride
My current gym crush looks a bit like Duggar. It’s weird. I don’t really find Josh attractive at all, and he totally looks like he smells funny, but with a gym membership and a hair transplant he has potential.
hrnpip
Now, nowm that’s not entirely true. We can be a generally welcoming community (when we want to be) and he is certainly welcome to join us. No one will go anywhere near him, but he’s welcome to try.
He BGB
He does look like he smells funny. Lol
scotshot
Funny how it’s been reported that only the girls were molested. The family is a smorgasbord, why not the boys?
AxelDC
He’s 28? I know 48 year olds who look younger!
If he’s planning to come out, he’d better shape up a bit.
Moisturizer, sweetie, moisturizer.
rowa
“Ooohh look at this! He has Grindr on his phone so maybe he’s gay….. Actually readers it’s a fake.”
It’s so obvious that this pic is photoshopped so why bother posting about it?!?!? I don’t understand why the ‘media’ feels the need to report on a non-event like this, it’s not a real photo so how is it newsworthy?
ProfessorMoriarty
He’s only 25 in that photo? Oh Josh, honey. You really need to take better care of yourself. Tsk.
GayEGO
Hmmmmmm……this gender is confusing but gay guys do not molest younger girls etc. only pedophiles do.
Caleb in SC
@rowa: Thank you! This is not news.
Goforit
Whoever originated this photo should be grounded for a month and have their internet privileges taken away. Not only is this immature and juvenal, it only gives fodder to our enemies. It is like the boy who cried wolf. Whenever we do catch a hypocritical bigot with his hand in the cookie jar (so to speak), they can simply refer to things like this and claim that we make everything up. And for Queerty to “report” on it only makes matter that much worse.
batesmotel
Any intelligent being would immediately know that was photoshopped, but nice try.