{"id":90886,"date":"2022-11-06T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90886"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:53:23","slug":"heartstopper-heartache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/11\/06\/heartstopper-heartache\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartstopper Heartache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is becoming a habit \u2013 just as we\u2019re about to put this column to bed, we get word about the untimely death of yet another celebrity.&nbsp; File this one under surprised\/not surprised \u2013 <strong>Aaron Carter<\/strong>.&nbsp; To look at the positive side, it\u2019s kind of a miracle he made it to 34.&nbsp; As someone who met him a handful of times, I can tell you he was really lovely \u2013 but tormented by his demons.&nbsp; From what we know, he was found unresponsive in his bathtub by the house sitter.&nbsp; What is it about addicts and bathtubs?&nbsp; Let this be a cautionary tale, kids \u2013 stick to showers!&nbsp; Rest in peace, Aaron.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big story of the week was about <strong>Kit Connor <\/strong>\u2013 who plays a rugby player who is in a relationship with another boy on <strong><em>Heartstopper<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Back in May, he got fed up with social media comments and <em>Tweeted<\/em>, \u201cSome people on here know my sexuality better than I do.\u201d&nbsp; He went radio silent until last week, when he made the following proclamation: \u201cback for a minute.&nbsp; i\u2019m bi.&nbsp; congrats for forcing an 18 year old to out himself.&nbsp; i think some of you missed the point of the show.&nbsp; bye.\u201d&nbsp; My first question \u2013 forced?&nbsp; Don\u2019t look at me \u2013 I haven\u2019t forced an 18-year-old boy to do anything since I was 16!&nbsp; It appears that the online comments got really nasty after Kit was photographed holding hands with his female co-star from the film <strong><em>A Cuban Girl\u2019s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; People were outraged that he might be straight.&nbsp; Oh, the horror!&nbsp; Look, people \u2013 where do you think gay babies come from?&nbsp; Straight parents.&nbsp; If Kit can help populate the world with hot young boys, I\u2019m all for it!&nbsp; Frankly, I think the culprits are all the folks insisting that gays play gays, and straights play straights.&nbsp; If someone holding hands with a girl is gonna trigger you \u2013 you have serious problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is becoming a habit \u2013 just as we\u2019re about to put this column to bed, we get word about the untimely death of yet another celebrity.&nbsp; File this one under surprised\/not surprised \u2013 Aaron Carter.&nbsp; To look at the positive side, it\u2019s kind of a miracle he made it to 34.&nbsp; As someone who<\/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-90886","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\/90886","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=90886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90895,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886\/revisions\/90895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}