Contents:
- JONATHAN BENT SAYS HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- IS GEE KRISSA GAY? HIS SEXUALY AND LOVE LIFE
- ‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR JONATHAN BENT JOK HE’S THE ‘GAY KG OF CHRISTMAS’
- JONATHAN BENT SAYS THE HOLIDAY STER IS THE GAY VERSN OF THIS '80S CLASSIC - EXCLIVE
JONATHAN BENT SAYS HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY
Bent knew om the age of 5 that he is a gay man. The otherns needs to be removed om gay weddgs.
"If I saw a movie that had a storyle like this – wh a gay uple who are adoptg a child and startg their own fay wh unndnal love – I thk I would’ve felt a ltle ls sred at Christmas, " he says. Bent, who stars the new edy “Take Me to Tarzana” and had a recent gut stt on ABC’s “Statn 19, ” told the magaze that he and Vghan ially planned to have their ceremony at a Palace Rorts property Mexi, but allege that they were turned away bee they are gay.
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
Easton Schirra/The KnotBent, 39, broke h ground on the small screen last fall as the star of “The Christmas Hoe, ” the Hallmark Channel’s first holiday movie to feature a gay storyle. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage.
'" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022. " And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay? Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is.
IS GEE KRISSA GAY? HIS SEXUALY AND LOVE LIFE
As gay men, we're navigatg what our liv look like wh kids, or gettg married, or whout kids, and 's not black or whe — there's so many different avenu to startg a fay and havg a chosen fay.
Somethg I found so funny is how Sam realiz that Jason is gay — when Jason ments on Sam's sho. Like, "Oh wow, he is gay. Gee Krissa and Jonathan Bent ma history by starrg Hallmark’s first-ever holiday rom- centered on a gay uple.
Gee Krissa is gay and a relatnship wh his long-term partner Bri Waters. Bent’s primary requise for Jason’s actor was beg gay. “It’s was important that the actor was openly gay and out; was important to me that we were able to tell the story loud and proud, ” Bent told NBC News.
‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR JONATHAN BENT JOK HE’S THE ‘GAY KG OF CHRISTMAS’
Gee Krissa was the perfect ndidate for the role – he’s been openly gay for years and is a skilled actor.
Jonathan Bent has dubbed himself the “gay kg of Christmas. Jonathan Bent jok he’s the “gay kg of Christmas. Bent and Gee Krissa star Hallmark’s first Christmas romantic edy centered on a gay uple.
JONATHAN BENT SAYS THE HOLIDAY STER IS THE GAY VERSN OF THIS '80S CLASSIC - EXCLIVE
Bent, who is openly gay, sistepped the ntroversy.
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