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• WHY JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS PLAYS GAY ON SHOWTIME
• JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS FALLY RURFACED AND MILLENNIALS ARE SHOOKTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSESSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 03, 2021 8:40AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 02, 2021 11:33PM EDT RON GALELLA, LTD./RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTYTHIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR POP CULTURE NEWSLETTER THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, WRTEN BY SENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTER KEV FALLON. TO RECEIVE THE FULL NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX EACH WEEK, SIGN UP FOR HERE.THIS WEEK:GO OUTSI? GROSS! WATCH THE SHOWS STEAD.VERY! IMPORTANT! JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS UPDATE!TOP CHEF WAS FLAWLS THIS SEASON.NEVER NOT THKG ABOUT THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW.THIS HORRIBLE, HEO NEWS WEEK? NO THANK YOU!!! THE EMOTNAL RETURN OF JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS IT IS TEMPTG TO ROLL YOUR EY AND LGH AT AN US WEEKLY HEADLE THAT READS, “JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS SPOTTED HOLLYWOOD FOR THE 1ST TIME YEARS: PHOTOS”—PLETE WH AN ALL-PS “EXCLUSIVE” BADGE OVER —EXCEPT THAT I NNOT EXPRS HOW EPLY, TLY IMPORTANT THIS NEWS IS TO ME. TO YOU. TO SO MANY LENNIALS. TO SOCIETY.THE HOME IMPROVEMENT/THE LN KG STAR IS, INILLY, THE LENNIAL CHILD CSH. THERE IS A SWEET SPOT WHERE, IF YOU WERE A GIRL BORN THE LAST FOUR YEARS OR SO OF THE ’80S, YOU WERE LOVE WH JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS, PERHAPS TO THE POT THAT YOU HAD SCRIBBLED “MRS. JTT” MULTIPLE SCHOOL NOTEBOOKS, SHRIEKED WHEN YOU DIDN’T LAND ON HIM AS YOUR HBAND A GAME OF MASH, AND WALLPAPERED YOUR ROOM WH HIS MAGAZE VERS.IF YOU WERE A BOY, YOU ULDN’T SHAKE THE FEELG WHILE WATCHG HIM OUTSMART TIM ALLEN ( HDSIGHT, NOT AN IMPRSIVE FEAT) THAT YOU SPERATELY WANTED TO BE LIKE THIS GUY, OR AT LEAST HIS IEND.OR, IF YOU WERE LIKE ME, WAS A TORTURO, POTENTIALLY TRMATIZG BATN OF BOTH. YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT YOU WERE GAY, OR WHAT BEG GAY WAS, OR THAT YOU ULD EVEN BE , SO YOU JT LIVED WH THE NFG FACT THAT YOU WERE OBSSED WH THIS GUY ON TV AND CRIED BEE YOU ULD NEVER GET YOUR HAIR TO PART THE WAY THAT HIS DID. VIA TWTER THIS IS A DIGRSN BEE THERE IS NEWS. HE HAS BEEN SPOTTED! THOMAS FAMOLY DISAPPEARED OM HOLLYWOOD LONG AGO. NOW HERE HE IS, BE-STILL-MY-HEART, AND HE IS… WEARG A MASK UNR HIS CH? HAS A GRAYG SCRAGGLY GOATEE? IS VAPG???!!I’M GOG TO NEED TO TAKE A PERSONAL DAY. WHAT WILL I DO WHOUT MY PERFECT SEASON OF TOP CHEF? AT THE TIME I AM FILG THIS NEWSLETTER, I WILL NOT YET HAVE SEEN THE FALE EPISO OF TOP CHEF PORTLAND, WHICH NCLUD LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. YET THERE IS LTLE THE WORLD I HAVE MORE NFINCE THAN BEG ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. THAT IS HOW STEADY THE HAND HAS BEEN THAT GUID THE VENERABLE BRAVO PETN SERI THROUGH THIS FANTASTIC SEASON OF TELEVISN.THE WEEKLY RUAL FOR TOP CHEF FANS IS WHIPPG UP WHATEVER PALTRY FOOD OF THEIR OWN TO EAT WHILE WATCHG THE NIGHT’S EPISO, WH THEN A SUBSEQUENT DASH TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO FAWN OVER HOW SURPRISGLY PROFOUND, THARTIC, AND DISPUTABLY PETENT THIS SEASON HAS BEEN.IT WAS SHOT DURG THE PANMIC, A BUBBLE THAT DISPTED THE SHOW’S ELABORATE PRODUCTN NORMS. AS OTHER REALY SERI HAVE SHOWN , SUCH NSTRATS SHOULDN’T HAVE CREATED SOMETHG THIS GOOD.BUT THIS LANDG, STUCK WH A SIMONE BIL LEVEL OF PRECISN, FOLLOWS WHAT HAD ALREADY BEEN A SEASONS-LONG EVOLUTN OF THE SHOW AWAY OM MANIPULATED REALY-TV FIREWORKS—VILLAY, CUTTHROATNS, IMPLSIBLE SUATNS—AND TOWARDS AN EMBRACE OF SKILL, PASSN, CRAFT, AND MARARIE. THAT THE SHOW HAS BEE SO TENR IS WHAT HAS MA SO FUN.WE DON’T JT LEARN THE CHEF NTTANTS’ RUM, BUT ALSO THE VASTATG IMPACT THAT THE PANMIC HAS HAD ON THEIR REERS, THEIR FAI, AND THEIR EMPLOYE. IT’S IMMEDIATELY CLEAR THAT ’S NOT JT A PETN, BUT AN UNBELIEVABLE OPPORTUNY TO OK AND LLABORATE AGA AMIDST A WORLD SHUTDOWN.THE EMOTN EXTEND TO JUDG PADMA LAKSHMI, TOM COLICCH, AND GAIL SIMMONS, WHO JOED THE ST A PRODUCTN BUBBLE, AS WELL AS AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF ALL-STARS OM THE SHOW’S PAST. THE FAIAL ASPECT STILLED THE SHOW WH A SENSE OF APPRECIATN AND MENTORSHIP. “PACK YOUR KNIV AND GO” MAY STILL HAVE BEEN THE TCHPHRASE, BUT THE THLSNS OF THE CHOP WAS, A NOTICEABLE AND MOVG WAY, MISSG.IT BEME A RICHER, MORE POIGNANT, AND OFTEN MORE HUMORO AND ELECTRIC VERSN OF SELF BEE SGLED OUT THE BASIC ELEMENTS THAT SOMETIM GET LOST OVER-PRODUCG AND EPENED THEM.THIS IS STARK NTRAST TO OTHER SERI LIKE RUPL’S DRAG RACE, WHICH HAS BEE ALMOST CYNIL S CSANT PRODUCTN CYCLE AND NTUED RELIANCE ON EGREG PLITNS AND TWISTS, OR EVEN SOME VERSNS OF REAL HOEWIV, WHICH HAVE STGGLED TO HOLD ON TO THE RE OF WHAT MA THE SHOW NOT JT ENTERTAG, BUT VALUABLE, WHILE DIVERSIFYG STS AND RPONDG TO THE WEIGHTIER ISSU OF THE WORLD THEY EXIST .IF YOU’VE EVER WATCHED TOP CHEF, I WOULD SUGGT GOG BACK AND BGEG THIS SEASON. IT’S REALLY WORTH , PECIALLY IF YOU HAVE ANY STUTNAL MEMORY OF HOW EVOLVED TO GET HERE.(EDOR’S NOTE: THIS NEWSLETTER WAS WRTEN BEFORE ALLEGATNS OF HARASSMENT WERE PUBLICIZED ABOUT THE SEASON’S WNER.) DO WE APPRECIATE THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW ENOUGH? ON THE SUBJECT OF GAY ORIG STORI, LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE MY AGE, PECIALLY GAY MEN, THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW WAS AS MUCH A HAVEN AS THERE ME, EVEN IF WE WEREN’T QUE SURE WHY. IT OPENED UP A WORLD THAT WE KNEW THAT, IMMEDIATELY, WAS OUR WORLD, EVEN IF WE HAD NO IA HAD EXISTED UNTIL THAT POT.WHATEVER THERE IS TO SAY ABOUT THE ROLE OF KDNS, FANDOM, OR WHERE SER ISSU BELONG DAYTIME TV, ’S ROSIE’S SHOW THAT STARTED THE NVERSATN. DURG EXTREMELY TOUGH PERDS OF MY LIFE, THE SHOW WAS A DAILY LIGHT. I’VE SAID BEFORE, BUT ROSIE O’DONNELL IS THE ONLY CELEBRY I’VE EVER WRTEN TO. IN ANY SE, JOURNALIST ASHLEY SPENCER REPORTED A SENSATNAL STORY FOR VULTURE ABOUT THE SERI ON S 25TH ANNIVERSARY, ELUCIDATG MUCH BETTER THAN I JT DID ABOUT WHY WAS SO REVOLUTNARY AND THE IMPACT NTU TO HAVE. READ ! ALWAYS GO TO WIKIPEDIA FIRST FOR MUCH OF THIS WEEK, I WAS SUCH A STATE OF DISGT I ULDN’T TELL WHICH WAY WAS UP AND WHAT STORY I WAS RETCHG OVER.BILL COSBY, PHYLICIA RASHAD, BRNEY’S NSERVATORSHIP REQUT, JAM FRAN’S SEXUAL ASSLT SETTLEMENT, THE NEW YORK BOARD OF ELECTNS’ PETENCE, EVERY TRAGIC UPDATE OM MIAMI, SERENA’S WHDRAWAL OM THE FRENCH OPEN, NXIVM’S ALLISON MACK SENTENCED… MY GOD, ALL OF THAT AND I HAVEN’T EVEN BROUGHT UP THE IKEA BISEXUAL UCH.THIS IS JT TO SAY THAT, AFTER SUCH A DIZZYG, DISMAYG WEEK, I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL TO THE HERO OF THE TER: THE “SHTY PERSON DIED” WIKIPEDIA UPDATERS. VIA TWTER HONORABLE MENTN: THE “SHTY PERSON WHO FEND HER RAPIST S HBAND” WIKIPEDIA UPDATERS. WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: SUMMER OF SOUL: THE SUMMER’S BT NCERT HAPPENED 1969. (FRIDAY THEATERS AND ON HULU)FEAR STREET PART ONE: 1994: I HAVE NO IA WHY THIS WEEK’S SUCH A LENNIAL’S WALKTHROUGH CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA, BUT THIS R.L. STE ADAPTATN IS GREAT. (FRI. ON NETFLIX)I THK YOU SHOULD LEAVE WH TIM ROBSON: ALL I N SAY IS, FALLY!!! (TU. ON NETFLIX)GOSSIP GIRL: STRONG FEELGS WILL BE HAD, BUT ’S NICE FOR THERE TO BE A REBOOT THAT SEEMS LIKE AN EVENT. (THURS. ON HBO MAX) WHAT TO SKIP THIS WEEK: THE BOSS BABY: FAY BS: BLOWN AWAY TO LEARN THAT THE BOSS BABY SEQUEL IS SUBPAR. (FRI. THEATERS AND ON PEACK)THE FOREVER PURGE: THE ONLY THG THAT SHOULD BE MURRED DURG THE ANNUAL PURGE IS THIS ANCHISE! I AM SURE OTHERS HAVE MA THIS JOKE! (FRI. THEATERS) NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY KEV FALLON

WHY JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS PLAYS GAY ON SHOWTIME

But he did speak wh Jay Leno when he was 17 and addrsed the mors about him beg gay. "Pretty much Hollywood, you're not anyone until 's mored that you're gay, so I wasn't that upset about , " he said (per Distractify). " And when the host asked him outright if he was gay, he rpond by sayg, "No, no, no, no, I'm not.

JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS FALLY RURFACED AND MILLENNIALS ARE SHOOKTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSESSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 03, 2021 8:40AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 02, 2021 11:33PM EDT RON GALELLA, LTD./RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTYTHIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR POP CULTURE NEWSLETTER THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, WRTEN BY SENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTER KEV FALLON. TO RECEIVE THE FULL NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX EACH WEEK, SIGN UP FOR HERE.THIS WEEK:GO OUTSI? GROSS! WATCH THE SHOWS STEAD.VERY! IMPORTANT! JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS UPDATE!TOP CHEF WAS FLAWLS THIS SEASON.NEVER NOT THKG ABOUT THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW.THIS HORRIBLE, HEO NEWS WEEK? NO THANK YOU!!! THE EMOTNAL RETURN OF JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS IT IS TEMPTG TO ROLL YOUR EY AND LGH AT AN US WEEKLY HEADLE THAT READS, “JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS SPOTTED HOLLYWOOD FOR THE 1ST TIME YEARS: PHOTOS”—PLETE WH AN ALL-PS “EXCLUSIVE” BADGE OVER —EXCEPT THAT I NNOT EXPRS HOW EPLY, TLY IMPORTANT THIS NEWS IS TO ME. TO YOU. TO SO MANY LENNIALS. TO SOCIETY.THE HOME IMPROVEMENT/THE LN KG STAR IS, INILLY, THE LENNIAL CHILD CSH. THERE IS A SWEET SPOT WHERE, IF YOU WERE A GIRL BORN THE LAST FOUR YEARS OR SO OF THE ’80S, YOU WERE LOVE WH JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS, PERHAPS TO THE POT THAT YOU HAD SCRIBBLED “MRS. JTT” MULTIPLE SCHOOL NOTEBOOKS, SHRIEKED WHEN YOU DIDN’T LAND ON HIM AS YOUR HBAND A GAME OF MASH, AND WALLPAPERED YOUR ROOM WH HIS MAGAZE VERS.IF YOU WERE A BOY, YOU ULDN’T SHAKE THE FEELG WHILE WATCHG HIM OUTSMART TIM ALLEN ( HDSIGHT, NOT AN IMPRSIVE FEAT) THAT YOU SPERATELY WANTED TO BE LIKE THIS GUY, OR AT LEAST HIS IEND.OR, IF YOU WERE LIKE ME, WAS A TORTURO, POTENTIALLY TRMATIZG BATN OF BOTH. YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT YOU WERE GAY, OR WHAT BEG GAY WAS, OR THAT YOU ULD EVEN BE , SO YOU JT LIVED WH THE NFG FACT THAT YOU WERE OBSSED WH THIS GUY ON TV AND CRIED BEE YOU ULD NEVER GET YOUR HAIR TO PART THE WAY THAT HIS DID. VIA TWTER THIS IS A DIGRSN BEE THERE IS NEWS. HE HAS BEEN SPOTTED! THOMAS FAMOLY DISAPPEARED OM HOLLYWOOD LONG AGO. NOW HERE HE IS, BE-STILL-MY-HEART, AND HE IS… WEARG A MASK UNR HIS CH? HAS A GRAYG SCRAGGLY GOATEE? IS VAPG???!!I’M GOG TO NEED TO TAKE A PERSONAL DAY. WHAT WILL I DO WHOUT MY PERFECT SEASON OF TOP CHEF? AT THE TIME I AM FILG THIS NEWSLETTER, I WILL NOT YET HAVE SEEN THE FALE EPISO OF TOP CHEF PORTLAND, WHICH NCLUD LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. YET THERE IS LTLE THE WORLD I HAVE MORE NFINCE THAN BEG ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. THAT IS HOW STEADY THE HAND HAS BEEN THAT GUID THE VENERABLE BRAVO PETN SERI THROUGH THIS FANTASTIC SEASON OF TELEVISN.THE WEEKLY RUAL FOR TOP CHEF FANS IS WHIPPG UP WHATEVER PALTRY FOOD OF THEIR OWN TO EAT WHILE WATCHG THE NIGHT’S EPISO, WH THEN A SUBSEQUENT DASH TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO FAWN OVER HOW SURPRISGLY PROFOUND, THARTIC, AND DISPUTABLY PETENT THIS SEASON HAS BEEN.IT WAS SHOT DURG THE PANMIC, A BUBBLE THAT DISPTED THE SHOW’S ELABORATE PRODUCTN NORMS. AS OTHER REALY SERI HAVE SHOWN , SUCH NSTRATS SHOULDN’T HAVE CREATED SOMETHG THIS GOOD.BUT THIS LANDG, STUCK WH A SIMONE BIL LEVEL OF PRECISN, FOLLOWS WHAT HAD ALREADY BEEN A SEASONS-LONG EVOLUTN OF THE SHOW AWAY OM MANIPULATED REALY-TV FIREWORKS—VILLAY, CUTTHROATNS, IMPLSIBLE SUATNS—AND TOWARDS AN EMBRACE OF SKILL, PASSN, CRAFT, AND MARARIE. THAT THE SHOW HAS BEE SO TENR IS WHAT HAS MA SO FUN.WE DON’T JT LEARN THE CHEF NTTANTS’ RUM, BUT ALSO THE VASTATG IMPACT THAT THE PANMIC HAS HAD ON THEIR REERS, THEIR FAI, AND THEIR EMPLOYE. IT’S IMMEDIATELY CLEAR THAT ’S NOT JT A PETN, BUT AN UNBELIEVABLE OPPORTUNY TO OK AND LLABORATE AGA AMIDST A WORLD SHUTDOWN.THE EMOTN EXTEND TO JUDG PADMA LAKSHMI, TOM COLICCH, AND GAIL SIMMONS, WHO JOED THE ST A PRODUCTN BUBBLE, AS WELL AS AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF ALL-STARS OM THE SHOW’S PAST. THE FAIAL ASPECT STILLED THE SHOW WH A SENSE OF APPRECIATN AND MENTORSHIP. “PACK YOUR KNIV AND GO” MAY STILL HAVE BEEN THE TCHPHRASE, BUT THE THLSNS OF THE CHOP WAS, A NOTICEABLE AND MOVG WAY, MISSG.IT BEME A RICHER, MORE POIGNANT, AND OFTEN MORE HUMORO AND ELECTRIC VERSN OF SELF BEE SGLED OUT THE BASIC ELEMENTS THAT SOMETIM GET LOST OVER-PRODUCG AND EPENED THEM.THIS IS STARK NTRAST TO OTHER SERI LIKE RUPL’S DRAG RACE, WHICH HAS BEE ALMOST CYNIL S CSANT PRODUCTN CYCLE AND NTUED RELIANCE ON EGREG PLITNS AND TWISTS, OR EVEN SOME VERSNS OF REAL HOEWIV, WHICH HAVE STGGLED TO HOLD ON TO THE RE OF WHAT MA THE SHOW NOT JT ENTERTAG, BUT VALUABLE, WHILE DIVERSIFYG STS AND RPONDG TO THE WEIGHTIER ISSU OF THE WORLD THEY EXIST .IF YOU’VE EVER WATCHED TOP CHEF, I WOULD SUGGT GOG BACK AND BGEG THIS SEASON. IT’S REALLY WORTH , PECIALLY IF YOU HAVE ANY STUTNAL MEMORY OF HOW EVOLVED TO GET HERE.(EDOR’S NOTE: THIS NEWSLETTER WAS WRTEN BEFORE ALLEGATNS OF HARASSMENT WERE PUBLICIZED ABOUT THE SEASON’S WNER.) DO WE APPRECIATE THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW ENOUGH? ON THE SUBJECT OF GAY ORIG STORI, LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE MY AGE, PECIALLY GAY MEN, THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW WAS AS MUCH A HAVEN AS THERE ME, EVEN IF WE WEREN’T QUE SURE WHY. IT OPENED UP A WORLD THAT WE KNEW THAT, IMMEDIATELY, WAS OUR WORLD, EVEN IF WE HAD NO IA HAD EXISTED UNTIL THAT POT.WHATEVER THERE IS TO SAY ABOUT THE ROLE OF KDNS, FANDOM, OR WHERE SER ISSU BELONG DAYTIME TV, ’S ROSIE’S SHOW THAT STARTED THE NVERSATN. DURG EXTREMELY TOUGH PERDS OF MY LIFE, THE SHOW WAS A DAILY LIGHT. I’VE SAID BEFORE, BUT ROSIE O’DONNELL IS THE ONLY CELEBRY I’VE EVER WRTEN TO. IN ANY SE, JOURNALIST ASHLEY SPENCER REPORTED A SENSATNAL STORY FOR VULTURE ABOUT THE SERI ON S 25TH ANNIVERSARY, ELUCIDATG MUCH BETTER THAN I JT DID ABOUT WHY WAS SO REVOLUTNARY AND THE IMPACT NTU TO HAVE. READ ! ALWAYS GO TO WIKIPEDIA FIRST FOR MUCH OF THIS WEEK, I WAS SUCH A STATE OF DISGT I ULDN’T TELL WHICH WAY WAS UP AND WHAT STORY I WAS RETCHG OVER.BILL COSBY, PHYLICIA RASHAD, BRNEY’S NSERVATORSHIP REQUT, JAM FRAN’S SEXUAL ASSLT SETTLEMENT, THE NEW YORK BOARD OF ELECTNS’ PETENCE, EVERY TRAGIC UPDATE OM MIAMI, SERENA’S WHDRAWAL OM THE FRENCH OPEN, NXIVM’S ALLISON MACK SENTENCED… MY GOD, ALL OF THAT AND I HAVEN’T EVEN BROUGHT UP THE IKEA BISEXUAL UCH.THIS IS JT TO SAY THAT, AFTER SUCH A DIZZYG, DISMAYG WEEK, I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL TO THE HERO OF THE TER: THE “SHTY PERSON DIED” WIKIPEDIA UPDATERS. VIA TWTER HONORABLE MENTN: THE “SHTY PERSON WHO FEND HER RAPIST S HBAND” WIKIPEDIA UPDATERS. WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: SUMMER OF SOUL: THE SUMMER’S BT NCERT HAPPENED 1969. (FRIDAY THEATERS AND ON HULU)FEAR STREET PART ONE: 1994: I HAVE NO IA WHY THIS WEEK’S SUCH A LENNIAL’S WALKTHROUGH CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA, BUT THIS R.L. STE ADAPTATN IS GREAT. (FRI. ON NETFLIX)I THK YOU SHOULD LEAVE WH TIM ROBSON: ALL I N SAY IS, FALLY!!! (TU. ON NETFLIX)GOSSIP GIRL: STRONG FEELGS WILL BE HAD, BUT ’S NICE FOR THERE TO BE A REBOOT THAT SEEMS LIKE AN EVENT. (THURS. ON HBO MAX) WHAT TO SKIP THIS WEEK: THE BOSS BABY: FAY BS: BLOWN AWAY TO LEARN THAT THE BOSS BABY SEQUEL IS SUBPAR. (FRI. THEATERS AND ON PEACK)THE FOREVER PURGE: THE ONLY THG THAT SHOULD BE MURRED DURG THE ANNUAL PURGE IS THIS ANCHISE! I AM SURE OTHERS HAVE MA THIS JOKE! (FRI. THEATERS) NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY KEV FALLON

The teen star tells EW Onle that homophobia won't keep him om a good role Common Ground Fearg a box office backlash, a lot of young heterosexual actors would steer clear of gay rol — pecially if they were beg dogged by mors that they were, fact, hidg the closet. But not teen heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played a gay htler last year’s die ”Speedway Junky” and stars as a high school gay-bashg victim the new TV movie ”Common Ground” (Saturday, Showtime, 8 p.

The ntroversy dat back to 1998, when the webse CyberSleaze said that the then 16-year-old was about to pull an ”Ellen” and announce his homosexualy.

(It also dubbed his holiday film ”I’ll Be Home For Christmas, ” ”I’ll Be Homo For Christmas.

Thomas says he signed to do ”Ground” bee the film sensively chronicl the stggl faced by gays and lbians a small town om the ’50s through the ’90s. ”Over the generatns we’ve bee more acceptg [of homosexualy], ” he says, ”but that don’t mean, by any stretch of the imagatn, that we should get fortable or settle to some false pretense that everythg is okay.