Hunk-watching in "Madam Beja" results in The Backdoor, a spiritualist comedy troupe, and a gay sketch comedian with a big d*ck

In the Brazilian telenovela Madam Beja (2026), now streaming on MAX, 19th century Brazilian girl Beja is kidnapped by an evil magistrate before she can marry her boyfriend Antonio.  By the time she escapes, he has moved on and married someone else.  What's a girl to do?  

How about open a high-end brothel?  That way she can continue seeing Antonio (David Junior, left) on the downlow, and start a new romance with his best bud, João (André Luiz Miranda, after the break).  Plus get involved in the lives and loves of her workers.

The show is brimming with muscular men and bare backsides, and there are two LGBTQ regulars:  Fortunato (João Villa, top photo), a young apothecary struggling to come out, and the trans sex worker Severina (played by the nonbinary actor Pedro Fasanaro), who starts a romance with the town priest (Arilson Lucas, left)

Another hunk appears when the evil magistrate returns with some soldiers to get his hands on Beja, or her wealth. Colonel Madeira (Fabio de Luca) "betrays" him by becoming a Beja ally, so he storms into the brothel while the Colonel is busily schtupping, and orders him out.  Later he is found floating in the river, dead. 

I started searching for more n*de photos of the big guy, and found a very interesting portrait of Fabio de Luca, a gay chub/bear comedian.  

Saved by Grace Kelly

Fabio was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980, and began performing in children's theater.  But it was his first visit to a gay bar --  Rosa Choque (Hot Pink) -- that drew him into acting as a career.  The police raided, checking ids and arresting underage youth, and he was only 16!  He was terrified, but a drag queen dressed as Grace Kelly pulled him into her dressing room, and told him to be putting on makeup when the police entered.  It worked -- they left him alone.  Afterwards, he associated drag -- and all performance -- with freedom.  You can be truly yourself when you are playing a role.

Fat Jokes

He started in the theater, with roles in The Voyage of Peter the Fortunate (Strindberg), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht) and many plays by Brazilian authors.  Some guest spots on tv followed, often making him the butt of a fat joke.  He had to take those jobs for survival, but he always tried to shift the humor to the situation, not his appearance. 

And he sought out roles where his character could have been played by an actor of any size, such as Lazaro in The First Temptation of Christ (2019),.

Siquiera in the serial-killer drama  Peçanha Contra o Animal (2021), 

Bumbling detective Sabia in Êta Mundo Melhor ("What a Better World," 2025).

And many sketches on Porta dos Fundos ("The Back Door"), a Youtube channel with 19 million subscribers (2022-26), which made him a household name, and permitted him to move into writing and directing.

Fabio and Bruno

 Fabio calls himself "a cross between Fabio Porchat and Bruno de Luca."

Fabio Porchat is the co-founder and head writer of Porta dos Fundos.

Bruno de Luca (left) is a fixture on Brazilian tv, best known for played Fabinho on the teen soap Malhação (1995-97) and Romeu on Os Parças (2024).

His d*ck after the break.  Caution: Explicit.