I've been watching The Neighborhood (2018-2025) about two nuclear families who are...um...neighbors, because someone on Reddit said that the femme, long-haired Grover (Hank Greenspan) was gay. So far he hasn't expressed any interest in men or women, or really interacted with anyone outside the two families.
Hot Pizza Guy is Bridger Buckley -- great name, attractive face, beautiful physique (pectoral perfection except for a dumb tattoo). He's got one movie and two tv appearances listed on the IMDB, and I'm going to try to watch all of them.
An article in the Washington State Pullman student magazine provides some biographical details: Bridger Buckley grew up in Snohomish, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. He was an "angry fat kid" who changed his diet, bulked up, and went out for football. -- Snohomish Panthers, class of 2014.
He went to Washington State Pullman on a football scholarship, but was hit by a car during his sophomore year, resulting in a concussion and two fractured vertebrae. It took a long time to recover, but eventually he returned to WSU and the football team. Another injury, this time a badly sprained ankle, put an end to his football career, but not to his fitness goals.
By 2018, he was ranked #44 in West Coast Men in the Crossfit Games.
In 2019, he competed in The Titan Games, a sports reality show hosted by Dwayne Johnson: Fitness trainers, paramedics, accountants, soccer coaches, and other amateurs with amazing physiques faced Greek mythology-type challenges.
Bridger won the Hammering Ram and Mount Olympus, permitting him to go on to the Battle of the Titans and win Herculean Pull, In the season finale, The Titan Championship, he lost the Uprising (pulling an anvil through a series of concrete barriers).
James-Jean Louis, a truck driver from Miami Beach, was named top male Titan.
After graduating from WSU Pullman in 2019, Bridger pursued a career as a fitness trainer and model. He won #3 in the Male Commercial Actor of the Year Awards at the IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association).
And he began auditioning:
1. The Neighborhood (2022)
2. NCIS, Episode 13.10 (2022), "Where Loyalties Lie": A scientist working with the marines is murdered, and her advanced technology stolen, so the NCIS team has to "race against the clock" to catch the baddie. Bridger has a walk-on.
More after the break