RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: Anton Starkman: I keep forgetting the teencom star's name and show. But he's got a physique, he plays gay-vague characters, and there are dicks

I found this guy on the teen idol website, star of a Nickelodeon show that I'd never heard of. He's got a muscular physique, he is at the beach with a dude, and is that a pride pillow? Certainly worth a profile. So I checked him on IMDB, then got called away -- and forgot his name and the name of the show. Wham or Whomp or something?

The only other shows I recalled were The Magical Mystery of something or other and Grey's Anatomy, his last acting role, in 2025.

So I went through the Grey's Anatomy Season 22 cast list on wikipedia and the IMDB, , and the only male actors who looked like my guy were Niko Terho, who has never appeared in a Nickelodeon show

Todd Denson, ditto.

Left: Google thinks that this is Todd Denson, but I'm not sure.

And Micah McNeill, who was in one episode of ICarly.

Maybe I could find Wham or Whomp or whatever he starred in?

I checked every Nickelodeon show broadcast during the last 20 years, and the only one close to Wham or Whomp was Warped, with 13 episodes airing between January and April 2022.

It was a buddy comedy set in a comic book store, with superego Milo (Anton Starkman) butting heads with unrestrained id Ruby. They both had heterosexual crushes, but not on each other. Their friend Hurley (Christopher Martinez) worked in the pizza place upstairs.

Harrison Xu of Extremely Unique Dynamic appeared in two episodes.

Darn, I forgot the name of the show while looking up the supporting cast.

Anyhow, it appears that Anton Starkman is our guy.

Repeat: Anton Starkman, aka Anton Lee Starkman.

He'd better be worth it.

Anton lists his gender identity and pronouns on the IMDB, but not his sexual orientation. A good sign.

His on-screen experience begins with the short Henry (2011): the "bookworm" boy keeps interfering with Mom's dates. She tries to date four guys, including Jason Beghle, seen here jumping out of a window naked.

In the short Lucy Falls (2013), a 7-year old small-town girl gets a boyfriend. Guess who.

Next Anton played a young vampire in six episodes of American Horror Story (2015-16).

The younger brother of a boy with a dead pal in Shovel Buddies (2016).

The young version of Gideon, son of Beauty and the Beast Belle and Rumpelstiltskin, on two episodes of Once Upon a Time (2017). As far as I can tell, the older version, played by Giles Matthey, doesn't display any heterosexual interest.

More after the break. Caution: Explicit.

The Magical Mystery of Something or Other is actually Max Winslow and the House of Secrets (2019): Five teens enter a contest to win the mansion of an eccentric billionaire (Chad Michael Murray of One Tree Hill, left), but they are stuck inside with a rogue supercomputer. Max is actually a girl played by someone named Sydne Mikelle; she gets a boyfriend. Anton plays her sarcastic, energetic younger brother, who may not express heterosexual interest.

Anton has also played:

The young version of bookstore manager Forty, who has a girlfriend, on an episode of You

Keith on an episode of 9-1-1 Lone Star: An employee at Ol' Softies, he offers the jocks free ice cream. When the soft serve machine jams, he shoves his hand inside. Coworker Sheila tries to free him, but her whole arm is sucked inside. The jocks think that this is hilarious.

Officers Owen and TK (Rob Lowe, Ronen Rubinstein, left) respond.

At the ER, Keith explains that he just wanted the jocks to be his friends. Nancy tells him that he already has a friend in Sheila, and he agrees. Not a girlfriend? Sounds like a queer code.

And Harrison Meade, a surgical intern, on nine episodes of Grey's Anatomy (2025-26) -- but not the episode I checked on the IMDB. Here he flirts with Dr. Lucas Adams, who is straight but played by the gay actor Niko Terho, above.

Wait -- isn't that Niko with Anton on the beach in the top photo?