‘The Real Friends Of WeHo’: Starring Brad Goreski & Todrick Hall premieres 1/20

Wasn't an unwatched version of this with lesser knowns on last year?

[quote]The Real Friends Of WeHo

What does that even mean? It sounds like babytalk, something Trump the lazy buffoon would utter.

R1 Men of West Hollywood was a different show.

I am so excited to see this!!!!!!!

Says no one.

They ALL look so straight

This is why I hate them.

[quote]and successful LGBTQ+ celebrities[/quote]

Why don’t they just say “gay”?

Todrick Hall has friends?

Something that nobody asked for or cares about

Brad Goreski makes even me feel homophobic.

Oh, please.

If he does have friends I am pretty sure Brad Goreski is not one of them, R8.

The Real Friends Of WeHo: Thirsty Bitches

If Todrick Hall acts as he did in Big Brother, he will lose more fans.

I’m here for trash TV… but I absolutely will not watch anything with Todrick Hall.

Chris Salvatore claims he was fired from the show after a week of filming because cast members refused to work with him when they discovered he had an OF.

Can’t link to it but it’s on his Twitter

I shall not be watching.

But let me know if Brad makes a fool of himself.

I loved IT'S A BRAD BRAD WORLD but that was mostly because of hubby Gary.

Chris Salvatore is very performative. I know he’s an actor but your real life shouldn’t feel like you’re acting.

I found Chris Salvatore adorable in his first Eating Out movie. His character became insufferable in the sequel.

Frankly, the show and other cast members actually made a huge mistake in cutting him out because of OF. That's the type of drama people want in a reality show. We WANT to hear the other bitches gossip behind his back and smile to his face.

To be fair none of these gays have an OF and clearly they didn’t want that stereotype of a gay man in sex work on their show. They make it a point to all be career oriented. Not that sex work can’t be a career, just not the type most would find respectable.

Chris Salvatore and Karamo were such a weird couple. I couldn’t see their personalities meshing.

[quote]To be fair none of these gays have an OF and clearly they didn’t want that stereotype of a gay man in sex work on their show.

So, they weren't interested in "reality" for their reality show?

They were interested in their reality. Not the reality of so many gay men doing sex work for easy cash.

Prostitution is not a real job. It's a lazy way out. It would be an insult to have a hooker on the show if everyone in the group is supposed to be a professional.

R25 Interesting you chose the word prostitute, because I saw a video recently of someone calling out OF workers and all the people who get upset when they are labeled as such, because that is what it is. Being on OnlyFans is you selling your body for money. It’s prostitution. But they don’t like being called that.

Chris probably would have been the most authentic person out of that group.

[quote] clearly they didn’t want that stereotype of a gay man in sex work on their show.

Jaymes Vaughan was a male stripper!

As if Brad Goreski got anywhere because he's talented

Salvatore doesn't do porn.

Just nude posing.

Not even an erection much less penetration/cum shots.

R28 he worked for Chippendales. They don’t do full nudity where they have their dicks out. He spoke about this. He also never wore anything less than a speedo.

Performing for Chippendales isn’t the same as jerking off and sucking dick on the internet for money. Let’s not act like they’re the same.

They are all "pussy boy bottom bitches"

They cannot be in the same room with other bottoms. Who are these producers kidding?

Bottoms can't stand each other like that!!

[quote]If Todrick Hall acts as he did in Big Brother, he will lose more fans.

This is his redemption from that fiasco.

"Sex work is work"

[quote]Performing for Chippendales isn’t the same as jerking off and sucking dick on the internet for money.

That's the thing, though.

Salvatore is NOT doing those things on his OF.

Sex Work = Digital Prostitution = Onlyfans = hooker = slut = hoe

All these Gen Whatevers try to make their bullshit into something it’s not, call it “scat” all you want honey you still eating doodoo…

[quote]"Sex work is work"

"A handjob is still a job!"

They’re going to be the worst stereotypes of gay men. Unfortunately most masc gays with any dignity would never sign up for a show like this, so we’ll never get well-rounded representation.

What??? R39 I am masc!

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

On episode 1 they will surprise the cast with an additional New Real Friend:

Which one?

1) Frankie Grande

2) Sam Smith

3) George Santos

They should have included at least a dyke or one faghag. Americans do not like to watch a bunch of gay men being the main character(s), unless they’re in drag or playing assistant.

Straight Eye works because they’re basically worshipping straight people. Will & Grace worked because they were sidekicks.

Is Brad Goreski’s dong as attractive, as sizable, as circumcised as Chris Salvatore’s? That’s the big dramatic question for me.

R43 the main cast are gay men. The hags will be friends of…

R45 and it will fail.

TV Show Ratings Poison: Toddrick Hall

Todrick has A LOT of skeletons in his closet. People HATE him.

Bob, Eureka & Shangela said no to Salvatore's sexy ass.

Salvatore showing off his ASSets.

[quote] They’re going to be the worst stereotypes of gay men. Unfortunately most masc gays with any dignity would never sign up for a show like this, so we’ll never get well-rounded representation.

Gay men are very uncomfortable with mainstream depictions of gay men. This is a show for str8s.

Never heard of him before, but Joey Zauzig looks quite handsome.

R49 most drag queens are mentally ill, it’s a fact, and they love nothing more than to persecute other gay men.

Shangela, J’Accused?

Pass.

Oh no. Oh hell no.

Y’all will watch. Stop.

MTV? Will no one think of the children?

R43. The A List NY (remember that trainwreck) added a woman to the main cast and it killed the show. She was terrible.

[quote]Wasn't an unwatched version of this with lesser knowns on last year?

It must have been a challenge to find people who were less known than these people.

Nope.

No R57. Todrick in anything is an absolute hard no. There will be no audience for this. Canceled after first season.

Some minimally talented, largely unknown attention whores. This sounds like it has the potential to be a very long series of eyerolls. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[quote] Y’all will watch. Stop.

No, these hoes are not playing. They don't want to see gay men in anything except porn. They have tanked every gay themed reality show. Remember "Coming Out Colton"? Me, neither.

And yet they did, R60 .

"Dorión Renaud" née Dorion Standberry. Youth shrouded in mystery.

They are all shady shady gays.

Great. This will set back LGBT people a decade and give the haters lots of fodder to vilify us with.

It’s creeping on us soon.

Wonder if Jonathan Bennett will make a cameo

Why couldn't these queens have been on that Nepal flight

r66 well Dorian has been around forever. He was on College Hill, a 2004 reality show about college students at historically black colleges. That predates most of anything these other guys were doing

I'll definitely watch to see how he's evolved over the last 20 years, he's a pretty cool guy

His nudes leaked online many years ago too 😛

Ok he just got more interesting.

Curtis Hamilton is fine as hell.

He was terrifying as Dr. Dre in "Surviving Compton"

Well he certainly won’t be cast in the future now.

I think not being a good actor would also help R74

They are already getting on my nerves with this Onlyfans foolishness... I know they are all hoes when not pulled up for MTV cameras, why judge someone else 🤷🏽‍♂️

Nah. OF cheapens what they’re going for.

r77 well if it's an "honest look" about gays in WeHo it surely would include someone who sells their body online.

It’s about career oriented gays r78. Not about gay stereotypes who sell their bodies for easy cash.

They’re all whores. What’s the point?

I have no idea who R71 is but he's now my favorite.

R67, you think homophobes will watch a show about gay guys in WeHo? Well, maybe the repressed, closeted ones will...

I'll watch this, but only so I can do research on the sinful gay lifestyle

I'm watching the premiere episode right now. Nice to see Brad and Gary. The rest are trash and not as important as they think they are.

I have SO BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS!!! It will give me and my friends an in-depth look at famous Los Angeles homosexuals! I rabidly follow Andy Cohen and Jeff Lewis already. We will really be on the inside track now.

I’m sure they’re great fun at cocktail parties, but my precious crunch-surfing time will not be wasted on this.

Why is Todrick hated? I vaguely remember something about him not paying his bills.

• Alleged scammer who doesn't pay his rent, vendors, or performers and exaggerates his wealth

• Played a vicious, sociopathic game on Celebrity Big Brother

• Alleged sex pest

It's not alleged. Many people have called out Todrick Hall on how he hires people for services, but never actually follows through on paying them. Manila Luzon called him out how she never got paid for a event she did for him.

And yeah, it's public record how he got sued for not paying rent. On this house that he tried to pretend he owned! Because he is that much of a petty person he needed people to think he bought it rather than renting it. It's so pathetic.

Can someone recap the episode instead of rehashing gossip about TH? He had numerous threads on him and those incidents already

Should this be called The Exhausting Try-Hards?

That would involve someone watching it r90.

"Can someone recap the episode instead of rehashing gossip about TH?"

Some nobody was getting engaged to another nobody, and they were throwing themselves an engagement party to which a lot of other nobodies were being invited.

That's all I got. I was more engaged with the solitaire game I was playing on my phone.

Joey is exhausting. Then there's some douche who keeps telling everyone he's an entrepreneur and travels with a bodyguard. Todrick is on some kind of a redemption tour. Brad at least has a career and a successful long term relationship/marriage to someone else who has a real career and they both seem out of place with these losers.

r94 = Brad

[bold]'The Real Friends of WeHo' Is a Colossal, Gay Nightmare[/bold]

[quote]MTV wants to use [italic]Drag Race[/italic] as a flagship franchise to launch a new property, and the six stars of [italic]The Real Friends of WeHo[/italic] see it as a paycheck and branding opportunity, rather than a job. That means that no one is actually considering what audiences ultimately want to see, because it sure as hell is not this.

Pretty boring

I just watched...bland for the most part.

Brad is the eldergay of the group. Agree with r94 about Joey, he's the trainwreck and Todd is on a damage control tour. Dorion had a bad attitude on College Hill and he still has it. Jonathan Bennett's husband is forgettable. Curtis is really the only compelling one to watch because he's just coming out as gay and dealing with it in real time.

The reviewer at r96 calls them arrogant self-branding machines, but what alterative is there? A-list gays (the handful of them) will never do reality TV, and if they did the gays would say they are desperate. And apparently Onlyfans whores are an underclass that we bust nuts too but don't want to see on TV. So here we are.

Speaking of A list gays, why was I never asked to be on this show?

Brad makes it clear he wasn’t one of the 3 cast members who refused to film with Chris Salvatore

R98. I actually forgot about Jonathan Bennett's husband who was at least honest enough to admit that they really wanted to cast Jonathan but he turned them down. Smart guy.

Why do they have to be celebrities r98?

I think a cast of a real gay social group that lives in WeHo and watching their antics would be more fun. Celebrities are going to be more hyper aware of the camera and their image. A Real World style show would be messier and more fun.

r102 those type of shows really only exist online now, ie Bad Boys Club on Zeus. The gays on these online shows are messy and violent as fuck, as they have no "brands" and images to uphold. MTV has a brand to uphold now as well, they can't have anything too crazy following RuPauls now multi-Emmy award winning show.

[italic]Bad Boys Los Angeles,[/italic] for those who didn't see it, came out about a year ago and was produced by [italic]Bad Girls Club[/italic] alum Miss Natalie Nunn. The cast includes Andrew Caldwell, who went viral for being "delivert" from wanting mens. It is, in a word, ELEGANT.

Well, r104, Bad Boys is a Bad Girls spinoff. Those shows cast people who are violent and crazy. Most other shows don’t do that.

Bad Boys is aired on Zeus because no regular network will air that shit in 2023.

Poor, victimized Todrick feels all the feelings in a nine-page handwritten statement after the show's premiere

Only fans whores is a better concept for a reality show. The ones on the way up, and the ones on the way down, and the never will be anythings.

r106 he has great handwriting if he wrote that

Official show Twitter deletes post bragging about 20,000 viewers

[quote] Can’t link to it but it’s on his Twitter

Of course you can link to it, dummy.

[quote] Official show Twitter deletes post bragging about 20,000 viewers

Why?

r108, that is the handwriting of a 17 year old girl. It is very controlled (no perceptible slant in letters and sentence line) , so he's being very careful of what he's writing about

R111 Because they have nowhere near that amount

[quote]Brad at least has a career and a successful long term relationship/marriage to someone else who has a real career and they both seem out of place with these losers.

I think part of the problem is that they cast this show around Brad, who is in his mid 40s. Its hard to imagine him associating with most of these guys. If this show was on Bravo and the rest of the cast was older it may have worked better.

Brad is exhausting.

I have no idea who any of these people are. Why would I care?

Jaymes is 39, Todrick is 37. I forgot who else is in this. The cast isn't much younger than Brad r114.

R114 their twink years are but a dim memory, hunty.

R115 = Rachel Zoe.

Expiration Date approaches for all of them. Todrick's shtick makes since for a guy 25-35 tops.

The show hinges on whether we aspire to be these guys. I can’t imagine anyone who does. It reeks of Life Plan B.

R121 I only WISH I'd used Plan B. Sorry to unleash this creature on the world.

r120 makes SENSE.

r121, I dont think that the intent. Do women who watch Real Housewives aspire to be like them? I doubt it. RH is trashy fun.

The real ratings are out. While Drag Race came in at number 6 for the night this shit lost all of that audience and debuted at 69.

People didn't even want to hate watch this.

According to those numbers, only 186,000 people watched WeHo. I can’t imagine any national advertiser being happy about that. That’s about 1 in 2,000 Americans.

I hated the first episode so much I'm not planning on watching another episode.

Who is the idiot who programs MTV.

He needs to lose his job, STAT.

Did Billy Eichner co-write Hall's ridiculous rant?

Could Deatbeat Todrick shut the fuck up?

Todrick is alright with me. Its not like he ran for office like George Santos.

They need to stop trying to make this format happen. Now, hand me a dating/reality/paradise hookup competition show with all gay men and that I’ll watch.

George Santos pays his rent and his employees.

It was neither good nor bad. I enjoy Brad Goreski. If he hadn't been in it, I probably wouldn't have watched more than 20 minutes.

R134 = I love Brad. I would have watched it for him but Todrick? No fucking way am I watching.

Brad is the definition of extra, and not in a remotely good way.

Brad's creepy canned laugh was disturbing.

It was an exhausting watch, even though it was as dull as ditchwater. We're the individuals interesting, likeable, or aspirational? Nope. Not in my book.

Honestly, I struggled watching it all. Todrick bleating on about the negative comments surrounding him was exhausting to watch. He's been banged to rights for his various short comings, he should suck it it and move on, but no we have this exhausting 9 page look at me diatribe.

I got to the end not wanting to know anymore about any of the dull individuals. I do think the idea of a less celebrity approach to the show would go well. Surely, there must be some interesting and not totally fucked up gay men in the gay nirvana that is West Hollywood!

If it is based on the female versions of Real Whatevers, then this cast of D and Q list "celebs" is appropriate. I rarely like the Real series though I found the Dubai one very illuminating, and with a lot of eye candy from Emirates glamour.

I found it riveting! All those A list gays lead fantastic lives! I'm so jealous!

Brad Goreski is a shrieking queen who's desperate need to be the center of attention is exhausting.

Can't wait for tonight's new episode!

Reality TV has devolved since the Real World popularized the genre.

Everyone is hustling and positioning themselves at every moment, looking to fuel conflict, thereby pushing and clawing their way into the spotlight for the benefit of their “brand.”

If you can enjoy it for the staged/heightened conflict, go forth. Or turn it off. It’s kind of good for the soul.

Todrick is wearing a caftan and at least one earring in OP's photo.

Sucked in cheeks, plucked eyebrows.

Todrick looks like the guy who is always wearing 2 pairs of spanx.

[quote]Todrick Hall

No.

This week's episode felt less awkward, but still bland.

Dorion and Joey both are self-branding douchebags! Dorion must've said CEO about 100 times in this episode.

Curtis is hot as hell and really the only interesting part of the show. Its hard to watch him struggle with the realization that he can no longer can't satisfy everyone in family and have his own life.

No wonder Todrick's home has been burglarized. He has the whole gayborhood up in there, using it for a dance studio, fashion studio and everything else.

This show was originally supposed to be "The A-List: Los Angeles", a reboot of "A-List New York". Dorion says it ended up being rebranded and put on MTV, instead of Paramount+, like it was originally intended. He also says the cast were largely unfamiliar with each other, and of course, some of them don't live anywhere near WeHo.

Explains a lot of why the show seems disjointed and out of place, it has been totally regurgitated by executives who likely thought gay people would watch it anyway.

I was totally bored by the second episode. I won't be watching again.

I only enjoy watching Curtis. Brad is funny…but he’s messy. James is fine but only in small doses and he’s best with Jonathan. The rest are ick

James came off way better in the episode, he actually seems like a nice person and I like that he still has an accent

Curtis was country as hell too, here he is during his football days way before he became an actor