Hudson Yang: From "Fresh Off the Boat" to Harvard, cooking, dudes, and the best gay comedy of the year. With Hudson and Xu bedroom stuff

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Redding Munsell: Soap opera kid, gay angst author, werewolf victim, fierce flower fan. With some adult acting coachs and co-star dicks

 

Why do they include little kids like Redding Munsell on the teen idol website?  A teen idol is someone you're supposed to sigh over, write their name amid little hearts in your chemistry notebook, and imagine holding hands with.  Nobody over age ten is going to be sighing over this kid.  But he's one of the more popular "teen idols," so let's take a look at his acting career and social media to see if he's gay.  And maybe he'll have some hunky adult co-stars.

Born in 2015, Redding began modeling at age five, and at age six won the Child Performer of the Year Award at the International Presentation of Performers (a showcase that connects actors with talent agents).   He has done a lot of print media, runway modeling, and commercials, for American Family Insurance, Wal-Mart, and Spider-Man Christmas Toys.

He has studied with several acting coaches, including Jareb Duplaise (above) and Connor Weill (left).

His on-screen roles include:

Red, White, and Blue (2023) a short about a woman who must go out of state to get a necessary abortion, but she can't afford it.

Hurricana (2025): Anna Nicole Smith  descends into chaos.  I remember a lot of comedians and talk show hosts ridiculing Anna Nicole Smith in the 1990s, but I don't recall what she did to become so hated.  Wikipedia just says that she was a model. 

Back to Redding's acting roles:

Werewolf (2025): A single mother turned werewolf targets her young son, presumably Redding.

At the Sea (2026): After rehab, a woman returns to her family's beach house to face her demons.  Henry Eikenberg (left) appears.  

Left: Eikenberg's cock

None of these movies have plot synopses available, so I don't know if there are any gay characters.  

The Shards (2026) is a teen horror series with a fictional version of Brett Easton Ellis (Igby Rigney). gay but closeted, with a girlfriend and several downlow boyfriends.  They facing a serial killer in  1981 Los Angeles.  Redding plays the young Brett.

Wait -- Brett Easton Ellis is gay?  Apparently the guy was "not into labels" until 2012, when he came out at age 58.  But he writes dark angsty novels about heterosexual youth, like Les Than Zero, American Psycho, and The Rules of Attraction.  There are either no gay characters, or homophobic stereotypes in brief walk-ons. 

So, werewolf victim, toy seller, something about a woman's demons, and a closeted angst author.  But Redding's main claim to fame is the soap The Young and the Restless, where he has played Harrison Abbott in 39 episodes (2024-26).

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"Justified": Episode 1.1: Kentucky cowboy has a gay-subtext romance with an unhinged thug. Lots of thug dick

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Complete Savages: In 2004, a sitcom about a dad and his five macho sons fails dramatically. With Ryan Pinkston, Jake's junk, and two nude Carradines

In September 2004, ABC added Complete Savages, about a single dad raising five "savage" sons, to its Friday night TGIF schedule, expecting a hit.  Star Keith Carradine belonged to a famous showbiz dynasty (see bottom photo), Erik von Detten was a well-known teen idol, and there were many famous guest stars, including Betty White, Shelley Long, and even President George W. Bush.  Yet the ratings were awful, and it was yanked after 15 episodes, with the remaining four burned off during the summer.

Maybe Savages  didn't do well because its lead-in was the third season of Eight Simple Rules, a nuclear family sitcom left in a precarious position after the death of John Ritter, who played the Dad.  Episode 3.1 got some buzz when son Rory (Martin Spanjers) showered with guest star Sam Horrigan, but after that viewers abandoned Rules for Joan of Arcadia on CBS, and it  ended up with a dismal rank of #90

Or maybe it was because of its similarity to Quintuplets, over on Fox: Andy Richter starred as the father of five kids, including dreamy short guy Ryan Pinkston (left) and Jake McDorman (right, nude photo after the break).

Maybe it was because Savages was produced and directed by Mel Gibson, whose homophobic, racist, and anti-semitic mania was just starting to limit his box office appeal.  

Left: Mel Gibson in 1985, when he was presenting as a leatherman and the source of gay rumors.

In 2004, I was at the age where you sometimes wanted to stay home on Friday nights, but felt guilty about it, so I may have dropped in an episode or two while "not feeling well" or "having a lot of work to do."  I think that Savages failed due to its astonishingly retro premise, an assertion that hegemonic masculinity is a biological imperative, so "all" boys are naturally violent, aggressive and posturing, into sports, cars, mechanical stuff, and especially girls.  

The savages cannily personified each of the characteristics of hegemonic masculinity.

Dad Nick (Keith Carradine, left): Big Wheel, be powerful, in charge, a leader.  He worked a firefighter, along with his younger brother Jimmy (Vincent Ventrescu, top photo).

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