{"id":93003,"date":"2024-09-08T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93003"},"modified":"2024-09-08T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:01:08","slug":"who-helped-ezra-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/09\/08\/who-helped-ezra-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Helped Ezra Come Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like so many jilted Bachelorettes<\/em> before her, Jenn will be appearing on Dancing in the Stars<\/em><\/strong> (which I only say in memory of the late Barbara Walters<\/strong>).  While I usually criticize the use of the word \u201cstar\u201d, certainly Oscar <\/em>nominee Eric Roberts <\/strong>qualifies (he\u2019s also an alum of Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>).  Tori Spelling <\/strong>should be fascinating \u2013 in that trainwreck kinda way.  But what about Anna Delvey<\/strong>, the scammer who was immortalized in Inventing Anna<\/em><\/strong>?  Call me old-fashioned, but I bet it would be awfully hard to cha-cha-cha wearing an ankle monitor.<\/p>\n

Anna\u2019s partner is the newly recruited pro, Ezra Sosa<\/strong>.  And he\u2019s made some headlines of his own because he\u2019s openly gay.  GLAAD <\/em>calls him the show\u2019s \u201cfirst Latin queer pro\u201d.  I believe their first openly gay pro was Louis van Amstel<\/strong>, but don\u2019t quote me.  But back to Ezra \u2013 you may recognize him because he\u2019s been a member of the DWTS<\/em> troupe for the past three years.  And, believe it or not, he credits a former contestant with helping him come out.  \u201cShe knew I was in the closet.  She knew I was gay.  But she also knew how uncomfortable I was in my own skin.\u201d  Who was the celeb who helped him on his journey?  JoJo Siwa<\/strong>!  \u201cI went on tour with her and it was constant days where she would put makeup on my face and I would be bawling in her arms because it made me so uncomfortable.  But really it was just because I was raised that that wasn\u2019t okay for guys to wear makeup, for guys to wear glittery things, for guys to wear crop tops.  She was this person starting to introduce these things into my life.  And it took a very long time.\u201d  Don\u2019t take too long \u2013 crop tops have a decidedly short shelf life.  But for now, Ezra can pull it off just fine \u2013 as you\u2019ll see on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Another DWTS<\/em> contestant is Stephen Nedoroscik <\/strong>\u2013 the so-called \u201cpommel horse guy\u201d from the Olympics<\/em><\/strong>.  A friend of mine told me he had a disability, which was news to me.  So, I looked into it, and I suppose it depends on how you define a disability.  Nedoroscik has a condition known as strabismus \u2013 which basically means his eyes easily cross which could cause double vision.  He also has colomba \u2013 which has to do with missing tissue.  These are somewhat helped by him wearing his trademark glasses.  But I was thinking he probably could have competed in the Paralympics<\/em>.  But Stevie went for the regular Olympics<\/em>, and that makes him more of a champion in my book.<\/p>\n

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Like so many jilted Bachelorettes before her, Jenn will be appearing on Dancing in the Stars (which I only say in memory of the late Barbara Walters).  While I usually criticize the use of the word \u201cstar\u201d, certainly Oscar nominee Eric Roberts qualifies (he\u2019s also an alum of Billy Masters LIVE).  Tori Spelling should be<\/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-93003","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\/93003","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=93003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93004,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93003\/revisions\/93004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}