{"id":93270,"date":"2024-11-24T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93270"},"modified":"2024-11-24T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T05:30:19","slug":"when-gladiators-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/11\/24\/when-gladiators-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"When Gladiators Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from <strong>Daniel <\/strong>in Chicago: <em>\u201cWhat\u2019s the truth about this <\/em><strong>Gladiator II <\/strong><em>same-sex kiss that <strong>Denzel<\/strong>\u2019s been talking about?&nbsp; Will we ever see it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During an interview promoting <em>Gladiator II<\/em>, <strong>Denzel Washington <\/strong>said, \u201cI kissed a guy full on the lips, and I think they got chicken.&nbsp; I guess they weren\u2019t ready for that yet.\u201d&nbsp; When asked about it on the red carpet, director <strong>Ridley Scott <\/strong>contradicted him.&nbsp; \u201cNo, that\u2019s bullshit.&nbsp; They acted the moment and it never happened.\u201d&nbsp; At the premiere, Denzel changed his tune.&nbsp; \u201cThey\u2019re making more of it than it was.&nbsp; I kissed him on his hands and gave him a peck.\u201d&nbsp; By the by, Denzel\u2019s initial claim was during a video interview with <em>Gayety<\/em>.&nbsp; The second one was on the red carpet standing next to wife <strong>Pauletta<\/strong>.&nbsp; I think you can figure it out after watching both interviews on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><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\"><\/p>\n<p>When a kiss is not always a kiss, we\u2019ve come to the end of yet another column.&nbsp; I dunno about you, but I now have no interest in seeing either <em>Gladiator<\/em> flick.&nbsp; But I would definitely check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that doesn\u2019t beat around the bush.&nbsp; In fact, we show you the bush, the whole bush, and everything around the bush!&nbsp; If you want to get to the bottom of anything, drop a note to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before McBride tinkles in Johnson\u2019s toilet!&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Ask Billy question comes from Daniel in Chicago: \u201cWhat\u2019s the truth about this Gladiator II same-sex kiss that Denzel\u2019s been talking about?&nbsp; Will we ever see it?\u201d During an interview promoting Gladiator II, Denzel Washington said, \u201cI kissed a guy full on the lips, and I think they got chicken.&nbsp; I guess they<\/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-93270","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\/93270","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=93270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93271,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93270\/revisions\/93271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}