{"id":92139,"date":"2023-12-24T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92139"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:23:09","slug":"rise-and-fall-of-gage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/12\/24\/rise-and-fall-of-gage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise and Fall of Gage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to 2023, nobody knew <strong>Lukas Gage<\/strong>\u2019s name.&nbsp; All we knew was that he was a cute guy whose apartment was trashed by a director during a Zoom casting session.&nbsp; Looking back, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Lukas leaked that footage himself, and used the sympathy as a launching pad.&nbsp; We next saw him bent over a desk getting rimmed \u2013 not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that.&nbsp; Then he was all over social media cavorting with hairdresser to the stars <strong>Chris Appleton <\/strong>(another name I\u2019d never heard before).&nbsp; Within days, they were dating and expressing their love for each other on television.&nbsp; In the blink of an eye, they got married in a ceremony presided over by <strong>Kim Kardashian<\/strong>.&nbsp; That it lasted a few months was the most shocking part of the story to <em>moi<\/em>.&nbsp; Somehow in the midst of it, Gage got to make a movie that received a teensy bit of attention.&nbsp; What will happen to him?&nbsp; It depends on who he meets next.<\/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>Let\u2019s congratulate a few couples who found each other.&nbsp; Comedian <strong>Matteo Lane<\/strong> tied the knot with his short-term beau, <strong>Rodrigo Aburto<\/strong>.&nbsp; I hate to point out they knew each other for less time than Lukas and Chris, but at least they\u2019re still together\u2026for now.&nbsp; Then there\u2019s singer <strong>Ty Herndon<\/strong>, who also tied the knot.&nbsp; \u201cNever in a million years would I have imagined meeting someone who would bring so much love and light into my heart.\u201d&nbsp; This inevitably leads to talk about breakups.&nbsp; <strong>Ricky Martin <\/strong>and <strong>Jwan Yosef <\/strong>divorced after six years.&nbsp; So did <strong>Billy Porter <\/strong>and his hubby <strong>Adam Smith<\/strong>.&nbsp; Straights have the seven-year itch; we have six.&nbsp; I guess we gays just figure things out quicker!&nbsp; On the other hand, <strong>Antoni Porowski <\/strong>didn\u2019t even make it to the altar with <strong>Kevin Harrington<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to 2023, nobody knew Lukas Gage\u2019s name.&nbsp; All we knew was that he was a cute guy whose apartment was trashed by a director during a Zoom casting session.&nbsp; Looking back, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Lukas leaked that footage himself, and used the sympathy as a launching pad.&nbsp; We next saw him bent<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92139","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\/92139","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=92139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92140,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92139\/revisions\/92140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}