{"id":1808,"date":"2016-04-04T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2016-04-04T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:25:05","slug":"bolle-goes-in-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/bolle-goes-in-and-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolle Goes In And Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from <strong>Patrick <\/strong>in Detroit: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard dancer <strong>Roberto Bolle <\/strong>is gay.\u00a0 Is he?\u00a0 He&#8217;s one of the hottest guys I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 And do you have any nude photos of him?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer who is 42 years old &#8211; pretty old by ballet standards.\u00a0 He made history in 2009 when he was named a principal dancer with the <em>American Ballet Theatre <\/em>&#8211; the first time an Italian male was given that honor.\u00a0 The <em>New York Times<\/em> called him &#8220;utterly gorgeous (in both looks and dance)&#8221; &#8211; and who am I to argue with them?\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s pretty cagey about his personal life, although rumors abound.\u00a0 Things heated up a few years ago when a French magazine published an interview where Roberto appeared to come out.\u00a0 He quickly retracted that announcement: &#8220;My statement about the subject of homosexuality was taken completely out of context and misinterpreted &#8211; probably because of my imperfect command of French.\u00a0 I never speak about my private life and I will not start now, so the news of the alleged &#8216;outing&#8217; is not based in truth.&#8221;\u00a0 As to your second question, he has only appeared nude onstage once &#8211; in Naples in 2010.\u00a0 While the theatre confiscated all cameras, someone miraculously snuck a video.\u00a0 If you want to see every inch of Roberto, check out <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question comes from Patrick in Detroit: &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard dancer Roberto Bolle is gay.\u00a0 Is he?\u00a0 He&#8217;s one of the hottest guys I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 And do you have any nude photos of him?&#8221; Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer who is 42 years old &#8211; pretty old by ballet standards.\u00a0 He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}