Instagram recommended someone named Skyler Paulley, who has an alphabet soup of acronyms in his tagline: SPH, 2x AFKA, 5 Star Ambassador, Regal HOV, JV, Christian, CPR.
It doesn't include much more information, just a lot of shirtless, sports, and hugging-buddies shots.
His Dad, Ronnie Paulley Jr. (Proverbs 3:6: "In everything you do, put God first."), translates on his Facebook page:
SPH is a casting studio.
AFKA: American Freestyle Karate Association. Two wins.
5 Star Ambassador: for martial arts.
Regal HOV: Induction in the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Junior Varsity in soccer, basketball, football, baseball, wakeboarding, and track. When does the dude find the time to act?
Skyler is also a model. Here he poses for Dillard's, and tells us: "I truly believe that God gives us these journeys, and we only succeed when we let Him lead the way.
The teen idol website doesn't add any information. More shirtless and sports photos, sometimes with cute companions. He doesn't say who his buffed friend is.
He posts two photos with his girlfriend.
So, quoting Bible verses and saying that "God gives us these journeys" usually means homophobic, and "girlfriend" usually means straight .I 'd give him a miss except for his role in Hocus Pocus: The Mini-Series (2025).
The Sanderson Sisters, three wacky witches from Hocus Pocus (1993), are zapped into the modern world, where they bedevil teenage Kevin (Skyler) and his family. Winifred, the character made famous by Bette Midler, is played by director Nathan Lampone in drag.
The romance doesn't last -- by the second season, Kevin has a girlfriend, and Billy has moved on to a guy named Noah (Connor Roden), who reveals a "secret" in Episode 12.
Wait -- how did Bible-quoting Skyler get involved with a queer-friendly group?
He's got ten acting credits listed on the IMDB. In 2023 he appeared in Kelly Clarkson's music video I Dare You (to Love), which features a gay couple getting married, another with their baby, and several rainbow hearts. Everything else is from 2025 or 2026.
Shorts:
I F*king Hate Oranges: Brothers Skyler and David Hernandez hate oranges. Written and directed by students at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Left: David Hernandez. Not the one who hates oranges.
Exterra: A young boy (Skyler) makes first contact with alien's (yes, they used an apostrophe as a plural). A local North Carolina production.
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Fourth Place: No plot synopsis. 50 photos, but they don't really tell us anything. Skyler looks depressed, a middle-aged man is grinning, a girl is waiting on a staircase, and The Joker is anguished. Written/directed by Elijah Reed, a student at Benedictine College. Vincent Massi (left) may play Skyler's dad.
Grog: Scout hasn't figured out "how to be a 12 year old girl." Then her best friend (Skyler) reveals that he has a crush on her, and she takes refuge in the bathroom. Sounds like she's transgender, but it actually promotes stereotypic gender roles. A student production.
Trigger: Damon (Greg Rodes Jr.) invades a diner with a bomb. Skyler plays one of the hostages. Directed by Ashley Zahorian, who produces films with titles like Faith Working, God's Way, and Which is True, Evolution, Creation, or Both?
Movies:
Break the Cycle: Superman turned homophobe Dean Cain (left) plays a pastor who helps children rebuild the relationships with their parents, who were absent. Skyler plays one of the kids, of course.
Right on Time: "A skeptical love critic is won over by a soulful jazz musician." At Christmastime. Written, directed, and starring Oliver Crooms IV, founder of the Carolina Film Fest, and Jolee Cyphert.
Other than Kelly Clarkson's video, none of these Christian and student films give us the slightest hint that Skyler would next star in the queer-positive Hocus Pocus: The Mini-Series or the short Hocus Pocus: Snowpocalypse (2026), along with his brother Bruno and his dad Ronnie.
The spin-off Camp Salem Lake (2026) was actually written by Dad Ronnie and co-directed by Ronnie and Nathan Lampone. No plot available, but there are werewolf and vampire characters. Over 100 photos show Skyler buddy bonding with Silas Green, who wears fruity swim trunks (literally fruity).
Sounds like Dad doesn't have any qualms about gay-subtexting his son. Or giving him a canonical gay role.
I went through a year of Ronnie's Facebook posts, and found only one indication of his romantic interests: he is totally into Courtney Cox in Cougar Town. So he's a Bible-quoting gay ally.
In June 2026, Ronnie takes Skyler and his date to The Mandalorian and Grogu. But if Skyler has a girlfriend, wouldn't he take her?
As of this writing, Skyler has been 18 for about a month, so nothing of him. Instead, how about Skyler Gisondo? A new photo just dropped; if it's real, he's getting a blow job from a guy with an obscured face. In 2014, he was 18 years old.
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