{"id":92281,"date":"2024-02-04T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92281"},"modified":"2024-02-04T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:05:19","slug":"af-boys-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/02\/04\/af-boys-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#038;F Boys Speak Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard that the UK docuseries <strong><em>Panorama<\/em><\/strong> recently did an episode called <strong><em>The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I sat down with my popcorn, ready to watch, when all of a sudden I said, \u201cThat\u2019s <strong>David<\/strong>!\u201d&nbsp; Yes, on the screen as one of the primary talking heads was <strong>David Bradberry<\/strong>, who had a litany of stories to tell.&nbsp; But, full disclosure \u2013 because I\u2019m sure someone will find photos of us on the Internet \u2013 yes, I was close-ish with David shortly after the events he talks about in this doc.&nbsp; Many of you probably remember him from <strong><em>Below Deck<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;Getting back to the doc, it\u2019s primarily about <strong>Mike Jeffries<\/strong>, former CEO of <em>Abercrombie &amp; Fitch <\/em>and possible victim of some sort of palsy.&nbsp; What this cyclops-esque guy seemed to want more than anything was to look like an <em>A&amp;F <\/em>boy.&nbsp; What\u2019s the next best thing?&nbsp; Surrounding yourself with <em>A&amp;F <\/em>boys in various forms of undress.&nbsp; Say what you will about Jeffries, he did transform a stodgy company into the \u201cit\u201d brand for a decade or so.&nbsp; Once his peccadilloes became public, he was pushed out and the brand became more diverse and approachable \u2013 to the point that nobody slows down by an <em>A&amp;F <\/em>store anymore, let alone goes in.&nbsp; The other model interviewed is the lovely <strong>Barrett Pall <\/strong>\u2013 who I don\u2019t completely believe or trust.&nbsp; Each of the guys interviewed were clear that while they felt they had to \u201cperform\u201d, they were never forced to do anything.&nbsp; And they were always paid for their \u201cservices\u201d \u2013 and all had some sort of background in payment for sex on some level.&nbsp; To the best of my knowledge, none of them ever ended up working for <em>A&amp;F <\/em>formally.&nbsp; But some of them did get flown to parties around the world.&nbsp; And got shaved\u2026but that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard that the UK docuseries Panorama recently did an episode called The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool.&nbsp; I sat down with my popcorn, ready to watch, when all of a sudden I said, \u201cThat\u2019s David!\u201d&nbsp; Yes, on the screen as one of the primary talking heads was David Bradberry, who had a<\/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-92281","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\/92281","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=92281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92282,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92281\/revisions\/92282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}