“I Kissed a Boy” Trailer- UK’s First Gay Dating Show

Is this trans inclusive? At least one of the boys better be female and at least one non binary with he/they pronouns.

R1 it’s only cis gay men. No trans

Bump. Things about to get trashy!

This show is going to smash stereotypes.....well the idea that any gay guy might be masculine.

'Faggy bottom boi' is the general ID of the contestants.

I'd for sure drop trou for the ex-Mo Josh. Gosh, he's handsome.

R4 is right, the femminess is off the scale. Are they beaming this in from the 1990s? Guys need to be at least a little manly to be hot. What are they thinking?

LOL at all the Marys here.

Just be grateful these queens are comfortable being men and don't think their lack of stereotypical manliness means they're actually women.

At least there is some body diversity. Josh is cute. I won’t watch.

Not one mainstream masculine dude in the bunch? No bros or hunks? Sigh

Targeted at a female audience of course - it’s not about showing a cross section of gay men but about showing off the most amusing femme ones…

Well if they want it to be successful they need it to appeal to women also.

Ben looks cute. Bobski must have a nice kielbasa in the pants... the rest of them are total turn-offs. Wont watch.

Just got one word… Minging…

It's certainly not Love Island levels of himbo.

They should do a gay version of The Traitors where one of them is straight and they have to work out which one.

Fags gonna fag.

Another gay dating show in which bottoms chase other bottoms, interspersed with screeching for attention.

R2 there are a few too many crimes against fashion happening in that lineup

Why all effeminate guys?

I guess the “masc 4 masc” type may not have much interest appearing in a gay themed tv show.

Masc gays don't really do reality TV.

If you want masc4masc gays on a reality show, watch Playing It Straight.

The first UK series was won by a Mr Gay UK.

I thought Dannii moved to Australia. Guess she went back to the UK where the work opportunities are for her talents.

R22 you realize she can live in Australia and fly into the UK for work? Celebs travel nonstop.

Thank God my father prevented me from being that bouncy sissy fem queenie pansy pancaked type

When did gays become SOOOOOOO faggy?

I get there would be a 50/50 split but it seems every gay in the media is a screaming mincey fey bottom with a dick that's going to waste.

Watching it now. The camp Essex one has a voice that drives me insane. The guy with the 70s porn moustache from Brighton is quite nice. Scouse guy is nice too. Feel sorry for the Mormon guy.

Ugh this show is utter shit (to no-one’s surprise). Based on this, the make-up show also out now and Drag Race, the bbc and specifically BBCThree think that only camp, screeching yaaas qween gays exist and are what younguns should aspire to be. Fucking pathetic. It would be something if it was at all entertaining but it’s excruciating.

R27, you seem a bit of a screeching queen yourself. Take a breath. It is a cheap show on a little watched channel. Really not sure what you were expecting.

None of the BBC channels are “little channels” in the UK

Fuck you R28 I said “to no-one’s surprise” you twat.

so much self-hate in this thread, it's embarrassing lmao

Yes R31 because being annoyed by representation that was tired in 1998 is self-hate. YOU’RE the embarrassing one.

It should be retitled I Kissed A Hoe. Gareth and Subomi really went for it. Gareth is cute.

Ben is masc but Americans think all British accents are GAY.

Ben and Ollie don't fancy each other.

It's interesting to see people screaming about the lack of diversity according to all the tired politicised categories, but no one mentions the total lack of age diversity here. At 52 Dannii is at least 20 years older than every one of the contestants.

Ross and Joseph are really into it.

First gay kiss on camera for Robert but it was just a peck.

No fats but quite a few femmes.

Because they know the age demographic they wanna reach and this type of show would appeal to. This isn’t gonna appeal to most 50+ year olds.

A female audience wants screaming, non threatening RuPaul contestants that they can imagine having a laff with down the pub. Nothing wrong with those guys being represented. Nothing wrong with being femme. But that's what's happening here.

Sorry, but at least three of them could pass for female-to-male transsexuals. Also, the producers seem to be trying to amplify every single gay stereotype imaginable to the umpteenth degree.

This doesn't look like something that any self-respecting gay man would want to watch. In fact, R41 is right: this is a collection of best friend prototypes for every frumpy 25-to-45 year old admin assistant, who fancies herself a revolutionary because she 'is down with the gays'. So we know who'll be watching this utter and complete mess.

This is a British gay. If you go into Britain and going to gay areas, because over there they all do you live within the same areas like we used to, a lot of them are fem

You know what to expect with Danny as host.

R40: So you're saying that Dannii is too old to watch her own show?

R43 Not true at all.

It's the same everywhere R43.

I'm sure Danny has a house in the UK still. She aint going back and forth to Australia.

Dannii (note the spelling) lives full time in Australia when not working. She has a large house in one of Melbourne's nicer suburbs. She hasn't lived in London for a very long time. I'm not sure if she has any property there.

R48 I thought you worked in the industry. You would know that she would be staying in the UK while filming and be staying in a hotel most likely. You don’t have to actually live there.

And Mikey is the first bombshell!

Ah yes a hotel. I never thought of that.

Boring DL fuckers discussing everything but the cast of the show. Who cares about Spazzy Minogue.

Josh needs to put Bobski out of his misery. Mikey is a hoe. Gareth just said that he's a top. Bobski said he's a 'raging bottom' and the others said versatile.

Where are you watching it?

R54 bbc iplayer in the U.K.

It’s in the show’s easy balance of the basic and the specific that it most succeeds, conversations over who is top or bottom casually mixed with inane flirting over cheap wine. At a cautious eight episodes, it’s unlikely to infect the nation in quite the same way as the woozy, all-consuming Love Island but it’s a fun and grounding reminder that we all deserve a chance to graft around the pool while a Dua Lipa song plays in the background. Luv is luv.

- The Guardian

[quote] it's embarrassing lmao

Using the term “Lmao” is embarrassing.

[quote]None of the BBC channels are “little channels” in the UK

BBC3 and BBC4 are both little channels.

BBC3 was "retired" in 2016 and went to an online only "channel" but was resurrected last year as an option to watch live with a schedule, partly because of the success of Drag Race so people could watch it "live" without using on demand services.

The BBC understands that viewing habits have changed and is trying to make shows for younger people that they can watch at their own leisure. Yes this is cheap and trashy as fuck, but it ticks diversity boxes and clearly cost next to nothing to produce.

BBC One have a new series of Survivor starting soon. It ran for a couple of series in the early 00s on ITV but didn't do well. After the success of The Traitors they'll be expecting another hit.

Faggy femmes wearing rainbow coloured attire, squawking about who is top or bottom. We all know the answer to that one.

Extra points for any that have their nails painted.

A truly groundbreaking show would be to have handsome, masculine gays without a trait (taint) of fagginess, participate. But that handsome, straight MAN would go on a freak show like this.

I do beg your pardon, R59? So according to you, handsome, masculine gay men are straight by association? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

I will agree with you, though, when it comes to the fact that this is a huge embarrassment.

Self hating gays like R59 are so boring. And usually awful at sex.

How would you know R61, you've only ever had sex with yourself.

It’s not that fem guys shouldn’t be included, it’s that all or almost all of the gay guys are fem. Couldn’t they recruit one of the masc TikTok homiesexuals and brosexuals who would have provided more balance in representation? Even a Bi or mostly straight dude would be cool.

Ollie is the only one who isn't effeminate.

People LOVE it.

Fraus and women love these type of shows (reality tv shows and drama shows like Heartstopper). They are its main demographic. For Gays / LGBT only shows are usually canceled after one season. There are not enough of us to make these type of shows a decent enough success.

Love Dannii but since the music career is mostly on pause, QVC's a bust, Simon's not calling anymore and that bitch Sharon Osbourne is not around to start shit I guess there's not much left for her to do these days.

Simon was definitely calling for a while. It's just that Dannii was not picking up. She refused to work with him again after he confirmed their affair in a book.

R68 Well the current state of his face is just another reason for her (or anyone else for that matter) not to pick up.

Indeed, Simon looks like he’s consented to taxidermy now.

R14/R56 much of the appeal of ‘Love Island’ is that it’s still very much a popularity game-within-a-game, involving set challenges that rely on audience interaction, perks to be won, and a bigger cash prize at the end for the winner, making for a competitive atmosphere and lots of drama rather than everyone just nebulously ‘looking for love’ or whatever. It’s more akin to ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here!’ in that aspect.

Another factor explaining its success is the contestants are selected only if they’re conventionally hot according to their bio sex, and have general appeal visually/physically to a mass audience. People like to look at sexy young people, for whatever psychological reason. So it’s blissfully easy to watch, but not boring or sexless. In this age of YouTube having eyes in every home no matter how mundane, it’s no longer enough to just isolate people in a house or on an island and roll camera—there needs to be more incentive to watch, sizzle on the steak.

And yes, there have been a few instances of same-sex attractions, though in the U.K. at least they’re rarely officially coupled in that configuration (there was a bi female coupling for half a series years ago, and it came to nothing) because producers say the logistics are too difficult to work out with gays & straights mixed. The titillating ‘bromances’ are a kind of baiting, but it’s clearly not too calculated or malicious, just banter.

^forgot to add a final point that many LI alum go on to do OF, yachting and escorting, modelling, hosting etc. And some of the most rewatched clips of the show online are the infra-red fumbles and fingerings the contestants share. To appear on LI is more about building a brand and getting a chance to fuck someone hot that it is about romance or connection.

So again there’s a hustler incentive and a raunch factor underlining the whole show that productions like ‘I Kissed A Boy’ lack. Never underestimate the public taste for smut.

what do they serve for breakfast? Penicillin?!

They're not allowed to share beds, which is different from Love Island where they're forced to. All in single beds.

'They're not allowed to share beds, which is different from Love Island where they're forced to. All in single beds'.

What noble, upstanding young men. Their demonstrations of self-restraint and respect are an inspiration to us all.

Single beds because the fraus and teen girls who watch this shit only like their homos to be so gay not all the way gay, at least not in front of them.

BBC Three

" We produce content aimed at 16–34 year-old audiences, with a creative focus on ideas that can engage 16-24 year-olds."

Looking at their program schedule their offerings are pretty dire. Plus not even full day broadcasting which is probably for the best. Daily schedule padded by repeating the same program several times on different days.

No one under 55-60 watches broadcast TV, darling. There's no reason to have a regular schedule with anything but live programs (sports, news).

R76 has been living under a rock and never heard of the yaoi smut phenomenon😏gay sex would send their ratings sky high

I've not watched this yet but I agree with a lot of the comments, I was quite disappointed in the trailer which showed overwhelmingly one particular 'type' of gay man, and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with it I was hoping to see a more realistic portrayal of gays than we usually see on TV shows.

I'll check out at least the first episode sometime this week and see if I get into it regardless of not finding any of the contestants hot.

The one from Brighton and the Mormon are straight passing. The Scouse one is almost straight passing.

Regular, gay guys aren't entertaining enough. Entertainment relies on big drama to get people to watch. Big drama = big ratings.

Someone should tell Dannii she is too short to be the new RuPaul.

So many nellies, they may as well mix in a trans

Femmy gay guys are gross

Finally watched the 2 episodes and enjoyed it.

Great to see normal gays, especially gays with normal bodies. I could see the stretch marks on Brighton Ollie's arms so it came as no surprise he had a No Fats! story.

I find it hard to believe that the Scottish guy is a pussy magnet but the only unlikeable one is the Mormon who claimed to have never kissed a guy before.

If the handsome Scouser doesn't pick Bobski there'll be trouble.

Why on earth would the Scouser pick Bobski?

Because Mormon Virgin is a borish twat and he has chemistry with Bobski.

Bobski is the only one Scouser Mike has kissed! The Mormon is a gay virgin who's never kissed a man. Bobski at least would know what he's doing as a self declared 'raging bottom.' Josh the Mormon is seething with internalised homophobia.

r87 Their kiss was incredibly hot.I got an erection watching.

R79 not in the UK it wouldn’t.

Femmes= dick wilters.

How can I watch this show in the US? I tried watching it on BBC iPlayer, but it said I needed to be in the UK.

Try a VPN R93

r93 Wouldn't a subscription to BBC America give you access to BBC Iplayer?

r93, that's what VPNs are for, they tell sites that you access the site from an acceptable region.

r96 But even brits can't access Iplayer if they don't pay a licence fee?

R97 yeah but let's face it they just ask if you have a licence and you click yes. Nobody can tell.

Women and technology.

[QUOTE] Their kiss was incredibly hot.I got an erection watching.

You're a frau who's a Klan Granny, so nope.

r100 I'm a gay man from Liverpool so Yep. Are you promoting the stupid half baked idea that only women are interested in royalty?

They now repeating this on BBC One-its going mainstream!

Cannot WAIT for Episode 3 to see who Mikey chooses.

r103 Bobski me thinks?

Would eat Joshie out all night long, he's 110% my type. The rest are a complete opposite; I get exhausted just thinking about hanging out with them, let alone dating one.

meet the cast

R102 All BBC Three shit is shown on BBC1 on weekdays late night.

That ginger with the tatts in the front row. Sad femme

I can't believe we have to wait until SUNDAY to find out if the masc4masc virgin gets the boot or Bobski does.

r109 Oh I hope Bobski doesn't get the boot. I reckon he'd be a top shag.

r107 Oh? I wouldn't have thought there was enough room in BBC Ones schedules to show all of it?

Some nasty bitch is determined to denigrate this show, but it's actually a lot of fun, and at least there isn't a sleazy escort on it like there was on America's Finding Prince Charming.

Episode 3 is on Sunday night.

R106, they all have gay face

#Gayssogay

THIS IS BULLSHIT!

Have watched both episodes. So basically, all gays like a straight acting bloke. When Mikey entered the group it was game over for some of the muscle queens.

Mormon gay is similar in appearance to Zayn Malik it his hotter, slimmer days.

The two new episodes bored me a bit.

Ollie has been SHAMED on Twitter for being nonbinaryaphobic after his Grindr profile was alleged to have said no NB people.

Josh friendzoned Mikey. What an idiot. Definitely not ready for gay dating. Josh will be wishing that he chose Bobski.

Gareth and Sumomi are the only genuine couple in there.

And in Episode 4 Josh left the villa and ran straight back into the closet, leaving Mikey free to get with one of the newcomers.

Gareth is my favourite.

Ben is so gorgeous

Dannii Minogue lost followers

Her 8 fans are now 4.

Dannii on One Show

I wouldn’t have even recognised Danii. She’s definitely been undergoing procedures. Looks good though, unlike a lot of celebrity cosmetic surgery victims.

r125 I feel she is underated.

This was Dannii's finest moment. A total bop.

Subomi is 29! Looks about 21.

Wow, Ben is turning into a real asshole.

Is anyone still watching?

It was a good series over all, I hope it gets another. Tawdry in a parts but the producers managed to find a mostly nice bunch of people.

I googled Matty and he once dated a celebrity who I can't really remember.

Dannii is back in Australia.

Can't believe that Matty's surname is HOLEHOUSE! Hilarious.

Interest in this really fizzled out.

I did clutch my pearls when one of the gays said he took part to make people like him more visible. Babe, hun, girlfriend, there have been queens like you on TV FOREVER.

A bit like when John Whaite said he never saw gay men on tv growing up. Julian Clary came 3rd on the second series of Strictly when Whaite was 15.

r134 That is a very unusual surname!! He is fit though posts lots of thirst trap photos on social media!

Bump