Victor Webster to Play Gay in Melrose Place Remake
Victor Webster will play Caleb Brewer, a cigar-smoking, basketball-watching, memorabilia-collecting, Scotch-drinking gay man on the remake of Melrose Place, according to AfterElton.
You likely remember Webster as Samantha Jones's new neighbor on one memorable episode of Sex and the City. Watch that (NSFW) clip, AFTER THE JUMP...
Oh yeah. One of my favorite Sex episodes and I'll admit that's mostly (okay, entirely) due to his towel drop. He didn't look half bad in a suit either.
Posted by: WilliamM | Aug 5, 2009 9:37:20 AM
Thanks, that clip really woke me up. I think I need to go and wake up my husband.
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Aug 5, 2009 9:37:31 AM
That's so weird, I was watching Victor play Cupid on a few episodes of Charmed just yesterday. I was wondering what he was up to. Yowza! :)
Posted by: ColinATL | Aug 5, 2009 9:57:32 AM
Another beautiful body uglied up by tattooing.
Posted by: ggreen | Aug 5, 2009 10:06:07 AM
I disagree about his body being defaced by the tattoo.... I think it's HOT! :-)
Posted by: CKNJ | Aug 5, 2009 10:17:47 AM
They couldn't find a hot out gay young actor to play the role? The description of the character as masculine and not your usual gay, while done to be "enlightening" is actually insulting.
Then again LA is the land of the "straight acting" gay types...since they are all wanna be models and actors.
Posted by: qjersey | Aug 5, 2009 10:20:52 AM
It sounds like they're taking more chances with a gay character this time around. The old gay character hardly had any storylines & they were scared to do anything w/ him. Anybody know if he's actually a cast member or just a 'regular'?
Posted by: scar2 | Aug 5, 2009 10:27:21 AM
Loved him on Days of Our Lives back in the day. Also, search for him on youtube to find an excitingly awkward moment on Mutant X...
Posted by: WPM | Aug 5, 2009 10:47:38 AM
He also played Coop (Cupid) on Charmed and ended up marrying Phoebe in the finale. Plus he was one of the leads in the TV series MutantX. He is *amazingly* hot in whatever he does.
Posted by: Lee | Aug 5, 2009 10:50:10 AM
"All the good ones are getting arrested." Love it!
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Aug 5, 2009 11:14:15 AM
must they shove thier heterosexuality down our throats??? Do they have to flaunt it? SNARK
Posted by: Disgusted American | Aug 5, 2009 11:19:33 AM
more with the obnoxious`tat hate...
Posted by: DR | Aug 5, 2009 12:30:06 PM
if only there really were gay guys like that...sigh....the character sounds SMOKIN' hot...and this guy is perfect.
Posted by: Davey | Aug 5, 2009 1:07:17 PM
Well speaking of Tats.. I am just gonna say thanks cause I now know where my next one is going?
Love the character development of a cigar smokin, sports lovin man! Its not "straight acting".. its called masculinity!
Posted by: Trace | Aug 5, 2009 1:22:24 PM
Coop!
"a cigar-smoking, basketball-watching, memorabilia-collecting, Scotch-drinking gay man" -- Davey, what about that character sounds smokin hot? None of those traits are particularly admirable or impressive in any way. Is what you really mean that he LOOKS hot? Because there are plenty of gay guys who look really hot. Perhaps you should get out a bit more.
Posted by: paul c | Aug 5, 2009 1:28:49 PM
Richard from Dirty Love!
Posted by: Ford | Aug 5, 2009 1:42:48 PM
@ Paul C
What is admirable and impressive in a trait is entirely subjective, just as who looks really hot.
@ Davey
There are gay guys with those traits and who are that attractive; so like Paul C said maybe you should get out more. : )
Posted by: Brian in Texas | Aug 5, 2009 1:44:53 PM
I guess we Pauls are united in our aversion to those traits. Aside from the Scotch, I couldn't deal with someone like that for 5 minutes...Well, if he looked like this guy, maybe an hour or two.
Posted by: Paul R | Aug 5, 2009 2:23:35 PM
Not going to apologize for liking masculine guys....not really into the baking, needle point, diva singer types. No need to feel threatened guys....and by a tv character no less.....c'mon
Posted by: Davey | Aug 5, 2009 3:20:38 PM
i thought he already played gay in MUTANT X. he did in MY script, at least. ;-)
Posted by: jack | Aug 5, 2009 3:51:06 PM
36 year old Canadian ... love it!
He may be getting a little older, hair loss a little in the front, but who cares. He looks hunky!
Posted by: FunMe | Aug 5, 2009 4:04:09 PM
I just didn't think there was anything impressive or sexy about smoking, sitting in a la-z-boy watching basketball, collecting nick-nacks and tchotchkes and drinking a particular kind of booze. Am I missing something? Any dolt could do those things, and many do.
Now if it said he was an MMA fighter with a genius IQ who owned his own vodka distillery, I'd be all over that shit. That would be impressive.
Posted by: paul c | Aug 5, 2009 4:29:51 PM
QJersey, I don't understand what kind of world you seem to want to live in where people can be asked their sexual orientation at a job interview or audition and be denied a job because of it (not a world with ENDA legislation, apparently).
I have an actor friend who wants his personal history to be a mystery and irrelevant to every casting agent. One day he's a gay Puerto Rican janitor and the next day he's a straight Indian prince. It doesn't matter whether David Schwimmer was a paleontologist in real life (he's not) or whether David Hyde Pierce has ever really had a crush on a British woman next door (probably not since he's gay) or whether BD Wong (the priest from Oz) has experience as a priest (in real life he has a husband and kid). And the casting agents shouldn't need to ask or know or even wonder whether Victor webster kisses men in real life.
As an actor, if he nails the audition and can lay a sexy and passionate kiss on a male co-star, then that's what matters.
I'd HATE to see actors getting pigeonholed according to their real-life sexual orientations, when I don't think the casting agents should even have any business asking about that.
Posted by: GregV | Aug 5, 2009 5:17:52 PM
Delish
Posted by: cuntricia | Aug 5, 2009 5:19:24 PM
Okay I'll be the nerd today.
I didn't recognize him from "Sex in the City." I only know him from "Mutant X."
But he's about half of the reason I watched that show. The other half was Forbes March.
Would love to see Forbes play Vic's love interest in Melrose!! squeal!
Posted by: sparks | Aug 5, 2009 8:19:19 PM