John Wesley Shipp made me gay.
As an avid soap-watching teenage gayling in the late 70s/early 80s, I thought he was the most beautiful specimen of manhood that ever existed. Pure beauty...a gift from the gods. The first time I saw his shirtless pics in the soap rags, I knew what I wanted. Up until a few years ago, I had no idea he was gay IRL. Did anyone else who came of age in that time frame have a huge thing for Shipp?
This pic still gets me hard as a rock.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 135 | March 23, 2019 3:37 AM
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My favorite fact about John Wesley Shipp is that he is an unabashed, unapologizing complete Julie Andrews queen.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 6, 2013 5:36 PM
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John Wesley Shipp posts here. Maybe he will respond top this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 6, 2013 5:45 PM
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R1, bully for him! He's still a big hunk!
OP, that pic you mentioned is hot! Is my eyesight bad or does he have a third nipple?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 6, 2013 5:57 PM
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He used to work out at my gym. During his NYPD Blue days. Very hot. He actually gave me his number and we hooked up. BIG disappointment. Turned out he was high on crystal - (and who knows what else) - was barely capable of anything. He was just hoping I'd be able to score him more crystal. I think he's sobered up since and pretty much got his act back together. I hope so. I questioned whether or not I should even post this - but I assume I must have been one of many, and if he does read this I doubt he'd remember - but maybe it would encourage him to stay sober. So to the person who started this thread, what's that saying about maybe it's better not to get what you wish for???
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 6, 2013 6:10 PM
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I was VERY young in his Guiding Light days but I remember my mom and older brother watching it and feeling quite tingly in my swimsuit area when he was onscreen.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 6, 2013 9:06 PM
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In the 1970s (a million years ago) he'd workout at the YMCA on west 62nd street.The place was great...we'd all be in the steam room.... Shipp, Victor Garber, Len Cariou, Tony Hamilton.... all sorts of young (and not so young) actors and models.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 6, 2013 9:16 PM
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Was Victor Garber hot back in the day too? I remember him being handsome, but nothing close to the beauty of Shipp. I remember that he appeared on GL in the mid-80s as a very butched up possible love interest for Kim Zimmer.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 6, 2013 9:18 PM
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I'll never forget his bare butt on "NYPD Blue."
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 6, 2013 9:19 PM
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I'm on his Facebook page and he's very liberal and appears to be a very nice man. I loved how he was clearly hotter than all the other males on Dawson's Creek (ok, so it was a tie with him and Kerr Smith, but, I digress...).
He's a very talented actor. I loved it when he showed his epic bubble butt on NYPD Blue...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | January 6, 2013 9:24 PM
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He is a top or bottom? WHat does he get into?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 6, 2013 9:26 PM
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Nice guy but well known in soap circles at the time that he was enlisted, along with fellow cast member Marsha Clark, to be moles for headwriter Douglas Marland at GL. They would report back to Marland about cast and crew bitching and griping. Marland also enjoyed Shipp's feets.
Shipp had a beautiful body but not a particularly beautiful face. It was shanty Irish with a hint of the simian about it.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 6, 2013 9:33 PM
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Shipp used that sweet ass and those feets to build his career.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 6, 2013 9:39 PM
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Does he have what's known as a Lantern Chin?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 6, 2013 9:45 PM
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That's Mary Margaret Humes, R23. She played his wife on "Dawson's Creek".
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 6, 2013 10:13 PM
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I do remember that in his last series of "Dawson's Creek" he looked like a 'roid-raged Oompa-Loompa...
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 6, 2013 10:16 PM
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"I do remember that in his last series of "Dawson's Creek" he looked like a 'roid-raged Oompa-Loompa..."
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 6, 2013 10:18 PM
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[quote]John Wesley Shipp made me gay
Me too!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 6, 2013 10:19 PM
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OMG - you think he and Bloom did the dirty? Damn! What a visual...
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 6, 2013 10:26 PM
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r28
what would happen if you added Jon Hensley?? I would come just watching it!!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 6, 2013 10:39 PM
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Just an FYI, he will in all likelihood read this. He found a thread last year and commented on it - he talked about it on his Facebook thread.
(You can imagine what delicate flowers most DL posters were....he didn't have pleasant things to say at the end.)
This comes up in Google search, and since most performers have a Google search set up to be done daily, or every few days, that's probably how he found it.
PS: I think he was a beautiful man then, and now. I saw shirtless photos on his Facebook and the guy is hot. More than that, there's a very sweet person inside who is very thoughtful about politics and religion.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 6, 2013 11:27 PM
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[quote] I saw shirtless photos on his Facebook and the guy is hot.
To clarify, they were RECENT photos. He is STILL hot. For a man about to turn 58, he's in amazing shape.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 6, 2013 11:30 PM
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[quote] he didn't have pleasant things to say at the end.
he actually took it all in jest and was quite good natured about it.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 6, 2013 11:31 PM
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[quote]More than that, there's a very sweet person inside who is very thoughtful about politics and religion.
True.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 6, 2013 11:33 PM
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John Wesley Shipp once sang with Cissy Houston
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 6, 2013 11:40 PM
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He was my first foot fetish wet dream. As a kid, I used to fantasize all the time of sucking on his toes.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 6, 2013 11:40 PM
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That photo of him and Brian Bloom looks like an outtake from a Falcon Studios video.
Yeah, if Jon Hensley had been in it I would have spontaneously combusted, too. No wonder Douglas Marland was so inspired in that era. : - )
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 6, 2013 11:43 PM
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Was always a nice looking guy and showed some acting chops to boot.
I miss the days when celebrities went out of their way to pose for photos like JWS did when he was younger. Hell, if you've got it, flaunt it.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 6, 2013 11:44 PM
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Is it true that the producers had to break up Shipp and Van der Beek's hot love affair during the run of the show?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 6, 2013 11:45 PM
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[quote] Is it true that the producers had to break up Shipp and Van der Beek's hot love affair during the run of the show?
That has long been the rumor. I watched the show and there were a few scenes where that chemistry seemed, to me, to show up on air....yes, I have a daddy fetish but still, it seemed super clear to me.
If it's true that would be a hard mindfuck to balance, having the real life and on screen stuff blur....supposedly the same happened to Jacob Young and Colton Scott on General Hospital. Didn't watch that at the time but the sexual chemistry was apparently quite visible on air.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 6, 2013 11:49 PM
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Kissing his Emmy, while Bloon and Byrne watch with glee.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | January 6, 2013 11:50 PM
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My husband waited tables with him. Said they were good friends but when he got GL, he walked out of the restaurant and they never saw each other again until many years later. I liked him on AMC. He torchered Nataliebin a storyline that crossed over to Loving.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 6, 2013 11:55 PM
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God do I hope this thread lures Spike from the Best Show here
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 7, 2013 12:01 AM
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[quote]I miss the days when celebrities went out of their way to pose for photos like JWS did when he was younger. Hell, if you've got it, flaunt it.
I agree. It would be great to see some shirtless pics of guys like Kellan Lutz and Zac Efron.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 7, 2013 12:13 AM
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His storyline as Douglas Cummings on ATWT was one of the best soap shockers I've ever seen.
One day I'm going to rewatch the whole thing on Youtube
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 7, 2013 12:26 AM
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He got around filming The Flash.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 7, 2013 12:37 AM
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I thought he got hotter as he got older. I also used to confuse him with Michael T. Weiss.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 7, 2013 12:44 AM
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Isn't Michael T. Weiss gay as well? He was walking sex in "Jeffrey". I can see Shipp in that role, come to think of it.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 7, 2013 12:47 AM
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He won an Emmy for his role as Eden's *very* bitter, partially crippled ex on "Santa Barbara". I recall his acting burnign through the increasingly ridiculous camp on that soap.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 7, 2013 12:51 AM
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I loved him on Broadway when he was part of an American ensemble that replaced the original Irish actors in Dancing at Lughnasa in the early 1990s.
I wish he'd return to Broadway!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 7, 2013 12:56 AM
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r48 JWS's Emmy for Santa Barbara came from playing Kristen Meadow's (Tori) abusive ex, Martin Ellis, not Marcy Walker's (Eden) ex. It was a short term role, something like 2 weeks.
The category he won in was for Outstanding Guest Performer in 1987, the only year the Daytime Emmy's had such a category.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 7, 2013 1:00 AM
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I was in high school when JWS did The Flash and NYPD Blue and I believe this is where my daddy fetish started. He was so fucking hot back then.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 7, 2013 1:05 AM
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He was on One Life To Live in 2011 as the bad, formerly in prison daddy and was so hot and dirty.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 7, 2013 1:53 AM
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That's the assumption, R54. I honestly don't think he is, but would love it if it were so.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 7, 2013 2:06 AM
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I loved JWS as the Flash. I was in elementary school when that show aired, and I thought he was the coolest. I was saddened when some people here made negative claims about JWS on that last thread - I guess I had this idealized image of him. It's hard to know who is telling the truth and who is not...
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 7, 2013 2:06 AM
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He was good in The Flash. He also gave me a daddy fetish in The Neverending Story 2 as Bastian's dad.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 7, 2013 3:46 AM
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I wish he would marry me.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 7, 2013 3:59 AM
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When I saw this scene, I knew as sure as fuck that I was gay.
And I wish he'd smack ME like that.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 60 | January 7, 2013 4:04 AM
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When I saw this scene, I knew as sure as fuck that I was gay.
And I wish he'd smack ME like that.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 61 | January 7, 2013 4:05 AM
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I remember an article in one of my mom's magazines.. maybe Us?...about him and his romance with dykey Marsha Clark, who played Hillary. I didn't even know *I* was gay yet, and I knew something was fishy.
I loved when he turned out to be a psycho on ATWT and Julianne Moore went on trial for his murder. One of the best soap stories ever!
by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 7, 2013 4:12 AM
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[quote] And I wish he'd smack ME like that.
With my ankles on his shoulders....yes, slapping my ass as he handles it so he can push his cock deeply inside me.
Oh. Sorry. I had a moment....
by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 7, 2013 1:02 PM
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JWS made a whole generation of soap watching males teens gay.
Before he came along, shirtless scenes for male characters were very rare. And if they did happen, the actor didn't have an sculpted body.
Then JWS arrived on GL with his gorgeous body and his Speedo. That did so much to change the nature of soaps.
And it also helped to convert so many of the prepubescent and teenage males watching.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 7, 2013 7:35 PM
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[quote]John Wesley Shipp made me gay.
Please tell me you have taken the time to send him a hand-written thank you note on proper stationery in blue-black ink.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 7, 2013 7:48 PM
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[quote] Then JWS arrived on GL with his gorgeous body and his Speedo.
And the enormous cock stuffed inside that speedo...
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 7, 2013 9:25 PM
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In the movie 'Longtime Companion,' one of the characters is a closeted gay soap actor and I've always wondered if he was based on JWS.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 7, 2013 9:33 PM
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JWS and George Clooney were both in the TV series Sisters in 1994. Wonder if JWS made Clooney gay like he did so many others.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 8, 2013 8:19 PM
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JWS and George Clooney both were on Sisters, but not at the same time.
The creators and show-runners of Sisters won an Emmy from writing 'An Early Frost' and produced the US version of QAF.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 8, 2013 8:23 PM
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John, if you're reading this, we love you.
And, uh, a nice cock shot would be a wonderful way to thank us!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 8, 2013 11:18 PM
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Does anyone else remember THE DIRTIEST SHOW IN TOWN.I think it was on Showtime.He was full frontal. My grandparents had all the channels and I can Probably still give the minute of male nudity in any 70s or 80s movie ever on cable.
One weekend my sister was there and DIRTIEST SHOW was repeated un the afternoon.I didn't change the channel.When he got naked my sister exclaimed "He's on my soap opera!"
I had no idea who he was but he's been on radar ever since.
He worked out at a friend's gym in Atlanta.I think he lived there part time.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | January 9, 2013 12:25 AM
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I just looked up "The Dirtiest Show..." and the synopsis has gotten me interested. I wonder if it's on Ebay for sale.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 9, 2013 1:20 AM
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John!
Come wag that big daddy cock at us!
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 9, 2013 9:04 PM
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I wasn't gay either until I got a look at John Wesley Shipp in his Speedo.
That sight probably converted an entire generation of young teens.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 20, 2013 12:10 AM
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ATWT had the most gorgeous men - JWS, Jon Hensley and the Italian stud who played Damian.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 23, 2013 9:06 PM
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I saw John and the actress who played "Nola" (I think) at a personal appearance here at Greenbrier Mall. His Grandmother was with the two. I got an autographed pic of him. Of course this was years ago, at the height of the soap opera.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | April 23, 2013 9:17 PM
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That scene with Nola was classic where she screams "OOOH I hate that name!". I loved how melodramatic the soaps used to be, to the point where they were great camp entertainment but not self-conscious of the fact.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 23, 2013 9:37 PM
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[quote]ATWT had the most gorgeous men - JWS, Jon Hensley and the Italian stud who played Damian.
Don't forget Michael Swan...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 80 | April 23, 2013 10:41 PM
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Hilarious scenes of Andy drunk driving:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 81 | April 24, 2013 8:09 AM
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Mmm....John Wesley Shipp!!!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 14, 2013 9:14 PM
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R80 Michael Swan still looks good at *gasp* 65:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | August 14, 2013 9:16 PM
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He once responded to DL thread about him.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 14, 2013 9:17 PM
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JWS did, yes. And unfortunately there were some rude things in that thread, so he never came back.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 14, 2013 9:49 PM
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R83
Good Lord, Michael Swan looks great for any age much less 65.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 15, 2013 1:41 AM
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Michael Swann could definitely still get it. So could JWS. And Don Diamont. Ron Moss. Doug Davidson...
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 15, 2013 1:44 AM
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If I saw Michael Swan and he looked like that, my legs would go up over my ears so fast I would get a hernia.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 15, 2013 1:50 AM
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Yeah, Michael Swan's actually hotter now than he was on ATWT.
This shot with the cigar makes me .....I have no words for the hotness.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 89 | August 15, 2013 1:53 AM
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That Michael Swan person sure does love himself...
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 15, 2013 2:01 AM
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And we love him for that, R93.
His 1989 Playgirl shots...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 94 | August 15, 2013 2:07 AM
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R91
Does he still act ? I haven't seen him in years but he looks amazing.
He was gorgeous back in the day and is still very handsome. He does not look 65 at all.
Is he family ?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 15, 2013 2:20 AM
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Michael Swan is hot, but if anyone was ever a pussyhound, it's him. I don't think he has a gay bone in his body.
But I think he likes the attention!
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 15, 2013 3:00 AM
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Several of the ATWT actresses rode on his sizeable cock.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 15, 2013 11:36 AM
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I recommend that Shipp fans download his JAG guest appearance episode if you can find it. He plays this uber-macho drill instructor, it's way over the top like he's a victim of testosterone poisoning. Great j/o material.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 15, 2013 11:43 AM
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R99 I assume you mean this:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 100 | August 15, 2013 11:58 AM
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Oh, I most certainly would...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 101 | August 15, 2013 11:18 PM
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I'm half Michael's age but he could still fuck me silly.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 16, 2013 1:17 PM
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At Miami Beach lives a very handsome daddy doctor, he's very tanned with an amazing body and very similar-looking to JWS. I think this doctor - who is just an anonymous guy - beats JWS.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 16, 2013 1:34 PM
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You guys may still find Michael Swan hot (I don't disagree) but you might freak out a bit if you spent time at his facebook page... he's something of a right-winger... a lot Obama conspiracy theory posts.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 16, 2013 3:54 PM
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Which means he's totally a right-winger r104, don't hold back.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 16, 2013 3:56 PM
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Wow, you're right R104. I hadn't noticed.
Ergh. My boner for him just shrunk.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 16, 2013 4:26 PM
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What's amazing about JWS is that he was undoubtedly preparing in his trailer before his uberbutch performance on that JAG episode at r100 lipsyncing to Julie Andrews singing "I Have Confidence."
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 16, 2013 4:32 PM
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In my fantasies, R107, he and David James Elliot were having a 69 session in that trailer!
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 16, 2013 4:34 PM
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But it would still be while a Julie Andrews was playing, you know.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 16, 2013 5:46 PM
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Wow. Michael Swan truly is a nut job! I just looked at his facebook page.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 16, 2013 5:59 PM
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Swan was one producer Kenneth Johnson's best friends...until he fucked his daughter. A right-winger with low morals, big surprise.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 16, 2013 6:03 PM
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Is Michael Swan gay, or just a hot heterosexual guy?
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 16, 2013 6:04 PM
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R112 see R96 and R97. In a word: straight. And apparently a rightie.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 16, 2013 8:22 PM
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So many other Shipp era hot men on those shows, anyway. Brian Bloom, Jon Hensley, Gregg Marx, Grant Aleksander.
Shit, even Jerry ver Dorn was a hot fuck back in those days.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 16, 2013 8:25 PM
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Michael Swan is still bitter towards Earl Hammer for shafting him after the Falcon Crest pilot.
He had played the part of Richard Channing. After that pilot the entire script was rewritten, eliminating his character.
Later introduced with David Selby in the part.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 16, 2013 8:27 PM
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He probably thought he had it in the bag too, R115. His Wikipedia says he comes from a California wine family.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 16, 2013 8:29 PM
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IIRC Swann had a real life relationship with the actress who played Shannon. They were paired together on ATWT
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 16, 2013 10:08 PM
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He also dated Robin QUivers
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 16, 2013 10:30 PM
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Has anyone seen the Shipp cock?
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 17, 2013 12:33 AM
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{quote]He also dated Robin QUivers
Seriously? Wow, never knew that. Didn't he bang Tamara Tunie as well?
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 17, 2013 1:34 AM
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[quote]Has anyone seen the Shipp cock?
I wish. He did show his plump ass in an episode of NYPD Blue, though. The most we've ever seen of the cock was behind a pair of tight jeans or speedos...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 121 | August 17, 2013 1:50 AM
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I remember jacking off to that middle photo in R121's link.
The idea of him sitting above me while I licked his feet and then sucked his cock....mmmmmm.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 18, 2013 12:51 AM
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Holden Synder's crotch bulge made me gay, too.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 19, 2013 9:22 PM
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Gregg Marx, what a dreamboat
Too bad he retired from acting.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 19, 2013 9:32 PM
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I believe there are nudes of JWS around. I have one -a greeting card I bought back in the 80s at an adult book store. Naked JWS with a condom-covered hard-on... Blank inside. Nothing on the card to prove it's him, but looking at the photo there's no doubt in my mind.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | January 11, 2015 7:43 PM
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R125, not a greeting card, but I remember buy a set of postcards with nudes on them and one looked exactly like JWS.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | January 11, 2015 8:05 PM
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Michael Swan is a rightie, meaning he is right-wing. What a shame he is politically abnormal. Thankfully, John Wesley Shipp is politically normal.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | June 8, 2015 4:32 PM
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I printed the middle photo. I still beat off to that one. Hell, even with clothes on, I beat off to the sight of JWS.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 129 | June 8, 2015 4:34 PM
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I used to see him all the time in the NY Subways--usually getting on at 14th street,
by Anonymous | reply 130 | June 8, 2015 4:41 PM
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Holy shit! His ass in that NYPD Blue scene could turn a straight man into Paul Lynde. Jesus, that's a work of art.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | January 12, 2019 10:39 PM
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Dude, 100% agree. Watching him as the Flash as a kid made me so horny for him and I didn't even know what that feeling was ha! He recently donned the suit again on the crossover, he's definitely old now but still probably can get it!
by Anonymous | reply 132 | January 13, 2019 12:45 AM
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If he's still hung onto that sexy ass of his, my face is all his. Sit right on down, John.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | January 13, 2019 12:51 AM
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Any recent pictures of the hunk?
by Anonymous | reply 134 | March 22, 2019 12:04 PM
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He sucked Doug Marland’s toes to get a job. Ewwwwwww!
by Anonymous | reply 135 | March 23, 2019 3:37 AM
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