{"id":95259,"date":"2026-07-12T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95259"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:41:27","slug":"heated-emmys-and-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/07\/12\/heated-emmys-and-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Emmys and Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut I, you know, had to hire a
\nprofessional to teach me how to bottom.<\/em>\u201d 
\n\u2013 <\/em>Billy Porter<\/strong> admits that in his younger years,
\nhe was a total top (mostly a \u201cfear-based response\u201d). 
\n\u201cBut by 30, I was ready to be versatile.\u201d  And he never looked back!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, people started talking about the Emmys<\/em><\/strong>, which begs the question \u2013 is it time for the Emmys <\/em>already?  Nope.  They don\u2019t take place until September 14th<\/sup>.  But they announced the name of the host \u2013 Mariska Hargitay<\/strong>.  Out of left field?  Perhaps.  But she is a bona fide <\/em>television star.  One might call her an icon (although I wouldn\u2019t be that one).  She just wrapped her limited run in the Broadway<\/em> production of Every Brilliant Thing<\/em><\/strong>, replacing Daniel Radcliffe <\/strong>\u2013 talk about range!  Every Brilliant Thing<\/em> is now starring Tracee Ellis Ross<\/strong>.  I shudder to think…<\/p>\n

Back to the Emmys<\/em>.  Nominations were announced, and one nod took me aback (which I typically like) \u2013 Connor Storrie<\/strong>.  Talk about a back!).  Sure, he made a splash on Heated Rivalry<\/em><\/strong>, but this nod was for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series <\/em>stemming from hosting Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong>.  Again…range.  What about Heated Rivalry<\/em>?  The show was shut out for good reason \u2013 since it was a Canadian production, it didn\u2019t qualify.  I know many of you will ask about other foreign shows that have won Emmys<\/em>.  But they only qualify if they\u2019re a co-production with a US company.  While HR<\/em> is on HBO Max<\/em>, it was made for the Canadian network, Crave<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This leads to an inevitable Hudson Williams <\/strong>story.  He has a tiny cameo in a short film wearing a skimpy costume.  The flick, Human Nature<\/em><\/strong>, premiered at the Run N Gun Film Festival <\/em>\u2013 my invite clearly got lost in the mail.  Williams\u2019 appearance in one of those Borat <\/em><\/strong>\u201cmankinis\u201d helped the snippet to win the coveted Audience Choice Award<\/em>.  That\u2019s the good news.  The bad news is that Hudson was removed from a Peloton <\/em>ad campaign after a photo of him as a teen surfaced where a bunch of symbols and slogans are drawn on his face \u2013 including a swastika and the word AIDS.  The underaged Hudson claims he was completely unaware of what his friends had drawn on his face.  \u201cThe markings do not and have never reflected Hudson\u2019s beliefs, values or character.\u201d  If we\u2019ve learned nothing, please remember \u2013 friends don\u2019t use Sharpies <\/em>on friends\u2019 faces!<\/p>\n

Another of our favorites made a stir in a short film.  Zane Phillips <\/strong>appears in Something Still<\/em><\/strong>, which features the hunk in a steamy three-way.  Like I always say \u2013 stick with your strengths, Tracee!  Although the short has turned up at a few film festivals, and some footage has appeared on lesser sites, the full flick has found its way to BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.  You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut I, you know, had to hire a professional to teach me how to bottom.\u201d  \u2013 Billy Porter admits that in his younger years, he was a total top (mostly a \u201cfear-based response\u201d).  \u201cBut by 30, I was ready to be versatile.\u201d  And he never looked back! Last week, people started talking about the Emmys,<\/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-95259","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\/95259","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=95259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95268,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95259\/revisions\/95268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}