{"id":94407,"date":"2025-11-09T22:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94407"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:48:07","slug":"sexiest-man-kills-sondheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/11\/09\/sexiest-man-kills-sondheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexiest Man Kills Sondheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to <strong>Jonathan Bailey<\/strong>, who was named <em>People<\/em> magazine\u2019s <strong><em>Sexiest Man Alive<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;It\u2019s been noted that he is the first openly gay man to hold this title \u2013 although there are at least two non-openly gay men who have dabbled.&nbsp; That aside, this honor has always troubled me.&nbsp; They pick a new guy every year.&nbsp; So does that mean that the previous \u201calive\u201d titleholders are chopped liver?&nbsp; Bailey now tops <strong>Pitt<\/strong>, <strong>Clooney<\/strong>, <strong>Idris <\/strong>and <strong>Jackman<\/strong>?&nbsp; Now, there\u2019s a visual I could get behind!&nbsp; Last week, Jonathan proved he\u2019s as beautiful on the inside as he is on the outside.&nbsp; After <strong>Robert Irwin <\/strong>did a <strong><em>Wicked<\/em><\/strong>-inspired routine on <strong><em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/strong>, Bailey sent him flowers with a note that said, \u201cYou are the shiz, Robert.&nbsp; You\u2019ve done all the Fiyeros proud.&nbsp; Cheering you on from afar.&nbsp; Big love.&nbsp; JB.\u201d&nbsp; If that doesn\u2019t tempt Irwin, then he must really be straight!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Bailey had one very notable fan?&nbsp; <strong>Marianne Elliott <\/strong>directed Jonathan in the gender-swap version of <strong><em>Company<\/em><\/strong> in the UK back in 2018.&nbsp; Three days before <strong>Stephen Sondheim <\/strong>died, Elliott told him that she\u2019d be directing Bailey in a revival of the play <strong><em>Cock<\/em><\/strong> in London\u2019s West End (I saw the original production with <strong>Ben Whishaw <\/strong>and <strong>Andrew Scott<\/strong>).&nbsp; Sondheim allegedly closed his eyes, put his hand on his chest, and said, \u201cBe still my beating heart.\u201d&nbsp; Another casualty of Bailey\u2019s beauty.<\/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>Another Jonathan made some news last week.&nbsp; When asked if he thought his character in a <strong><em>Mean Girls<\/em><\/strong> sequel should be gay, <strong>Jonathan Bennett <\/strong>was pretty direct.&nbsp; \u201cI think Aaron would be straight because I wouldn\u2019t want to change the narrative of Aaron Samuels because Jonathan Bennett is gay.\u201d&nbsp; Finally, someone talking sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Jonathan Bailey, who was named People magazine\u2019s Sexiest Man Alive. &nbsp;It\u2019s been noted that he is the first openly gay man to hold this title \u2013 although there are at least two non-openly gay men who have dabbled.&nbsp; That aside, this honor has always troubled me.&nbsp; They pick a new guy every year.&nbsp;<\/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-94407","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\/94407","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=94407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94408,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94407\/revisions\/94408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}