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- RYAN PHILLIPPE THOUGHT HIS RELIG PARENTS WOULD DISOWN HIM AFTER TAKG GAY ROL AND CEL INTENTNS
- RYAN PHILLIPPE'S PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY ROLE, CEL INTENTNS
- RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
RYAN PHILLIPPE THOUGHT HIS RELIG PARENTS WOULD DISOWN HIM AFTER TAKG GAY ROL AND CEL INTENTNS
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RYAN PHILLIPPE'S PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY ROLE, CEL INTENTNS
Phillippe, who played the manipulative wealthy teen Sebastian Valmont Cel Intentns, reflected to Barstool Sports’ KFC Rad podst that his parents were already fur for him wh his role as gay teen Billy Douglas on the TV soap One Life to Live when he took on Cel Intentns.
“My first role, g out of the Christian school, when I was a senr high school, I played the first gay character on a soap opera, first gay teenager ever, and so I was shunned at that pot, so they were already out of the picture. “I mean this was 1992, and I was playg a gay teenager and I was a Christian school. Phillippe has prevly spoken out about how his nu scene Cel Intentns is often touted by men on Twter who said seeg ma them realise they were gay.
He said: “So many guys on Twter are like, ‘That’s the moment I knew I was gay, '” he ntued, “and there have been guys like, ‘I behaved like Sebastian to get laid! Richard and San Phillippe "shunned" the Big Sky actor for his role as One Life to Live's Billy Douglas, the first gay character on a soap opera, which he portrayed durg the early '90s. "My first role ever, though, g out of the Christian school when I was a senr high school, I played the first gay character on a soap opera, the first gay teenager ever.
RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
Notably, the cult movie featured a kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair; Joshua Jackson also portrayed a gay role. In addn to an ct plotle -- Phillippe tri to sce his stepsister, portrayed by Gellar -- the film also featured a nu pool scene wh Phillippe that many gay men have creded as a sexual awakeng.