{"id":94727,"date":"2026-02-08T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94727"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:36:11","slug":"ben-wants-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/ben-wants-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wants Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question came from <strong>Stan <\/strong>in Detroit: <em>\u201cAre you watching <\/em><strong>The Beauty<\/strong><em>?&nbsp; Who is the hot guy that <strong>Ben Platt <\/strong>became?&nbsp; Is he gay?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Life isn\u2019t always fair.&nbsp; You win a Tony for <strong><em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em><\/strong>, you star in the questionable movie version, sell hit records, play \u201cresidencies\u201d, and get a call from <strong>Ryan Murphy <\/strong>to be in his series <em>The Beauty<\/em>.&nbsp; And what is your role?&nbsp; The star of an episode called \u201cBeautiful Chimp Face\u201d.&nbsp; If we\u2019ve learned nothing from <em>El Presidente<\/em>, nobody likes being portrayed as any type of simian.&nbsp; Oh, sure, the fact that Platt turns into <strong>Isaac Powell <\/strong>is small consolation.&nbsp; He also probably got to see him naked&#8230;and that\u2019s gotta be worth a considerable amount.&nbsp; By the by, anyone who comes up with a medication to turn Ben Platt into Isaac Powell should win the <strong><em>Nobel Prize<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; Since Stan asked, yes, Isaac Powell is gay.&nbsp; He was previously engaged to the wildly talented <strong>Wesley Taylor <\/strong>and is currently dating <strong>Tate Justus<\/strong>.&nbsp; But what he likely spends most of his time on is his derriere, which is displayed on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 Ben Platt can only dream of having Isaac\u2019s ass, it\u2019s definitely time to end another column.&nbsp; I, too, recently dreamt of Isaac\u2019s ass.&nbsp; It was so good I put it up on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that can make all your dreams come true.&nbsp; If you\u2019ve got another question for me, send it in to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before <strong>Ty Pennington <\/strong>helps with those <em>Kennedy Center<\/em> renovations.&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question came from Stan in Detroit: \u201cAre you watching The Beauty?&nbsp; Who is the hot guy that Ben Platt became?&nbsp; Is he gay?\u201d Life isn\u2019t always fair.&nbsp; You win a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen, you star in the questionable movie version, sell hit records, play \u201cresidencies\u201d, and get a call from<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94727"}],"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=94727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94732,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94727\/revisions\/94732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}