04/21/2008
Viva Hollywood's Vinci Has Crybaby Meltdown Over Gay Role
You may remember Vinci Alonso from the modeling reality series 8th & Ocean (above). Now he's in the new VH1 show Viva Hollywood! a reality show in which Latino actors compete to become the next telenovela (Latin soap) star (the winner receives a contract with Telemundo). The latest episode demanded that contestants Vinci and Berto do a gay scene together, which caused Vinci to lock himself in the bathroom and cry.
GuyTVBlog reports: "In the end Berto won the "lust" challenge which was a $10,000 shopping spree prize awarded for his "triumph" for playing gay. He then shared his vanity prize with Vinci for also being able to come out of this ordeal with their masculinity still in tact."
Watch the clip AFTER THE JUMP...
Viva Hollywood! | Vinci & Berto Flip The Fuck Out When Told They Have To Play Gay [guytvblog]
Posted 10:05 AM EST by Andy Towle in Models, News, Playing Gay, Reality TV, Soap Operas, Vinci Alonso | Permalink
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In Latin America, homosexuality is still far more of a taboo than it is in the U.S. I agree his reaction was pathetic, but it is very much in line with the culture in which he was raised.
One of the regulars on this show is Walter Mercado, a very famous Puerto Rican astrologer who, despite being a 70-plus-year-old lifelong childless bachelor, practically a borderline drag queen, and is obviously very VERY gay, has never "come out". Sadly, it's just the way it is in Latin America. Attitudes are changing slowly, though.
On another note, I would gladly bang the crap out of either one of these guys, especially the bald-headed one.
Posted by: ANDY | Apr 21, 2008 5:06:52 PM
...but appearing in Papi uderwear ads that show up in Out magazine is just fine???
Posted by: oivey | Apr 21, 2008 6:01:31 PM
Derrick,
Being the professional you are, I'm sure you'll manage.
Posted by: John | Apr 21, 2008 6:21:10 PM
Why is it that when gay people get offended by homophobia they instantly jump on the "He's homophobic because he's secretly gay" bandwagon?
Believe it or not, not everyone who's homophobic is in the closet. There are thousands of people who are homophobic because of the way they were raised, their culture and their background.
Posted by: Nicholas | Apr 21, 2008 6:27:37 PM
Nicholas I have to agree with you...there is something about calling every homophobe gay that has a certain "misery loves company" tone to it. some people do not agree with homosexuality for all kinds of moral and/or religious reasons and are not closet cases.
Posted by: yeah | Apr 21, 2008 7:01:55 PM
To cry over playing gay, god, this guy is nuttier than I thought. It annoyed me that he wanted to be an actor yet chose restrictions for it. And for him to react the way he did, he has to be gay!
If he isn't, then why act like that, does he really think that kissing a man would make him gay. Well, considering how sexy his partner was, maybe he had reason to worry for the security of his sexuality. Can you imagine how embarrased he'd be if he got over-excited with the kissing ?
Posted by: ScarlettPink5 | Apr 21, 2008 7:48:49 PM
@TEAM VINCI,
not in my book they don't. "machistas" or "machines" (pronounced: mah-cheen-ez) do not hunker-down in a restroom and sob like a little girl who didn't get her way. this guy is a pussy. they should'a sent his stanky ass-pussah home. i am ill-disposed to give anyone an unmerited free pass.
@ANDY (not TOWLE),
lol at the walter mercado reference. that bitch is a 75+ y.o. scam artist, what with his bouffant and caftans and astrology bullshit. he reminds me of those matrons who go once a week to the beauty shop to get their manies and pedies and get hair-sprayed into a stupor. he is sort of a latin-american liberace, but without the talent.
i do, however, disagree with your broad-stroke assessment of latin-american culture. i visit mexico frequently and watch spanish-language news and programming often. that is how i stay close to my roots, and hence, how i came to know about walter. he is a fixture on "primer impacto" (first impact), a newsy/gossipy one hour program co-hosted by fernando del rincon (is he a babe, or what?).
i don't think that anyone in mexico doubts that walter is a big ol' queer. and what about "juanga" (juan gabriel)? he's considered a national treasure, and he's a major flamer.
mexicans tend to not be judgmental. they let hurt roll off their backs like water off of a duck's back. the native-american world view informs the spanish-catholic dogma inculcated by the conquistadores. a lot of that didn't take. don't forget that mexico city, the political equivalent of washington d.c., but with the cosmopolitan flavor and essence of new york city times two (or three?) in terms of population and divergent cultures, has acknowledged same-sex unions. what is truly sad is that the stereotypically macho countries (mexico, brazil, uruguay, argentina, venezuela, ...) are leaving the united states in their dust. what is impeding progress in mexico, central-america, and the south-american continent is the choke-hold that the backwords-looking pope and his church (in what is becoming a more and more insular city-state: vatican city) have increasingly progressive attitudes in latin-america.
i'm not worried. in contrast to "the land of the free", latinos are regecting right-wing politics and neo-conservatism.
Posted by: nic | Apr 21, 2008 9:35:57 PM
What. A. Pussy. Srsly.
Posted by: seattle mike | Apr 21, 2008 9:48:16 PM
as cliche as this sounds, that reaction really does scream CLOSET CASE. Non-gay homophobes don't respond to gay situations by locking themselves in the bathroom and crying about how they don't have control over a situation. I'm probably wrong but that was a really really really really gay reaction.
Posted by: Pekemo | Apr 22, 2008 12:04:11 AM
A homophoabe does not have religious/moral objections to homosexuality. All they have is a preoccupation with not being perceived as gay and/or frustration over previous same-sex attraction or experience. For that reason, a homophobe is never gay. Gay is a stage of development where one doesn't simply have feelings to have sex with members of the same sex. It's more than that, and encompasses a desire to connect with the same sex through sex because believe it or not, a desire to connect doesn't always accompany the desire for sex, and also identification and security with those feelings. This guy is just an insecure drama queen over how he is seen by others and at the the very most, is a homosexual, but not gay. Possibly none of this is applicable to him if this is all fake and just an act within an act on a scripted "reality" tv show.
Posted by: Punk | Apr 22, 2008 6:50:25 AM
Little hispanic boy on telly, why are you crying?
Posted by: Princess Noxxy | Apr 22, 2008 10:00:07 AM
Umm... he played a straight guy in the scene. I wonder if they re-wrote from a "two guys dealing with their feelings for each other" scene to the classic "straight guy turns down a gay guy" scene. This guy was a giant pussy.
Posted by: keith | Apr 26, 2008 8:22:50 PM
Little latin boy in a dress, why are you crying?
Why is that little latin boy in a dress crying?
Posted by: Crash | Apr 27, 2008 10:41:18 AM
ok. i saw the clip.. whats so gay about it? and he cried about it? wel thats really faggolicious hilarious
Posted by: korn | May 29, 2008 12:03:35 PM