Tell Me About DL Fave Ian Roberts

Very, very into gingers, especially really skinny, twinky ones. Obsessively so.

Was known for doing nude handstands in the sauna at now closed Sydney bath house, Bodyline.

R!: Hi Ian, what are you doing with yourself these days?

Oh! I'm ginger, but far from being skinny and a twink.

I do think he's very hot.

He used to be nicknamed “the can opener”.

He was in Superman Returns so I assume he had to do Singer at some point.

R5 what does that mean?

He's not ginger in the slightest. His young body in the naked flesh, which I saw 20 years ago, was truly phenomenal -- like a living Michelangelo. He's also an exceptionally nice humble *quiet* man. With the emphasis on *man*, which makes such a pleasant change from the present overwhelming tsunami of you know what. He appeared fairly recently in two shows: the fucking phenomenal Mr Inbetween – (available on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, or Google Play), and the doco Queerstralia, available fucking nowhere I think except bits on YouTube.

"[R5] what does that mean?"

Do your mommy and daddy know you're on the internet, dear?

He was a very aggressive Rugby League player in his day. He played for my beloved Manly Sea Eagles in Sydney. He's always had little boyfriends. Don't really know too much about him really. He pursued acting after his footy career.

The Sydney gossip I heard was that he was fond of skinny lads. So none of the lard arses at DL would have had the remotest hope. After all the shit that got poured on him just from the usual rugby homophobia, the fact he comes off so decent and mellow is a miracle.

He hit on me... (23 years ago).

Just for yanks who might make wrong-assuptions: lads as in lean adult guys.

He took in some gay underage street kid rent boy called Aron Light, trying to help him but the kid turned on him and claimed they were sleeping together- apparently they weren't- the kid left and was later murdered and his body was found near a canal. Ian was a suspect but was found innocent, murder has never been sold but apparently the kid was a pass around used by high profile Sydney pedos and the story was that he was blackmailing someone influential and so he was done in.

he has brain damage from football

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R8- death to the british monarchy

As a young gay man in 90s Australia I read his book because i was looking for self esteem and role models. LOL! Can you imagine?

Why not? On an admittedly brief meeting, I was left with the impression he was a level headed, all-round nice guy.

R19 Because being a footballer and supposedly straight acting (whatever that is) are not good reasons to worship him as a role model above any of the many other gay achievers in Australia who don't meet heteronormative standards?

this is so sad

R20- u r right, but gay kids needs a gay athlete idol, so they will feel encouraged enough to join the athletics, so they can grow up with a healthy body unlike all of the previous gay generations who were sickly at best bcoz we were rightfully depressed who affects the appetite n not being brave enough to participate in the sports bcoz of the targeted homophobias

Has anyone suggested R20 those are the reasons he should be held up as a good role model, apart from your presumably 'non-heteronormative' trigger-sensitive self? Or just that, having copped pressure and shit would have crushed many, and having come out the other side intact, and seemly stronger with a better sense of himself, his experience might be of help to others feeling similarly burdened?

He seems like he'd be quite a rough fuck. But I'd be concerned about an ex rugby player who has had multiple blows to the head and possible brain damage that could alter his mood and personality. One day, the injuries could cause him to snap, and with his physicality, I'd be terrified about what he could do.

R23: Look I liked the book at the time, and I like him (dead rent boy stories aside). He did hit on me back in 2000 after all so he can't be too misguided. I'm just saying that these days I wouldn't rush to desperately seek validation and self esteem from a football player, and hopefully no gay kid coming out now would feel they needed to do that either.

I certainly know as a young gay boy growing up I would have LOVED to have seen a masculine gay figure on the cultural horizon like Roberts. Fuck knows they're as scarce as hens teeth. Instead, in terms of 'gay', all kids see is Ru Paul 24/7, and a very disturbing subset of fucked up fem men who harbour a driving need to read books to strangers kids.

So wise to plan your life R24 in respect to possible incoming meteors.

R26: No one is force-fed RuPaul. They can watch it if they want. This is a non-existent problem you've made up in your head. Unlike our generation(s), kids today aren't forced to watch degrading minstrel show depictions of gay men on three free to air TV channels, and told all night on Hey Hey It's Saturday that they are a punch line. They aren't starved for a variety of positive role models. They can choose to be the kind of gay they want. And they have choices for role models that aren't only decided by straight men who think football is all-important.

[quote]They aren't starved for a variety of positive role models.

Like who? (For a non-nelly gay boy in the burbs.)

R29: Like I'm going to indulge your internalised homophobia any further. I got rid of mine decades ago, along with Ian's mouldy book.

He almost knocked me over coming out of the toilets in the Dome one Sleaze Ball at the Sydney showgrounds. He grabbed me by the shoulder and apologized but all I could think of was how hot he was. I stammered “No problem” and he was gone. If I’d been a minute earlier I could have copped an eyeful of his cock at the urinal.

Has he presented hole on camera?

He did to my friend. (Yeah, sorry).

Op, he’s ugly as fuck and most definitely not a DL fave.

R8 you need to try reading for comprehension - nobody suggested that Roberts is a ginger.

For those who got hit on, what was his line?

the can-opener from urban dictionary - A sexual movement when penetrating partner from behind, reaching over their head and gripping the roof on their mouth pulling up while thrusting, simulating a can being opened.

Thank you R37 - you learn something every day!

R37 Do you grip the roof of the passive partner's mouth with your two thumbs?

And grip the outside of their cheek with the Index finger, Middle and Ring finger?

[quote] He's a very hot ex-rugby player…

Not hot anymore, according to the bitches here—

R40- he is still hot

Here he is in Mr Inbetween

I love that Aussie DL is out (heh) in force.

I'm told that he is no intellectual.

I'm told that he's gruff, brusque, impulsive and explosive in dealing with other people.

I’ve met him a couple of times over the years - physically very intimidating as he’s a very big guy but personally very friendly.

[quote] "Very, very into gingers"

Me too! My favorites.

[quote] "especially really skinny, twinky ones."

Except those.

Hot. 6'5". Could be an Australian Jack Reacher.

About 15 years ago, his twink boyfriend filed assault charges against him after they broke up (allegedly over Ian's cheating). Ian tried to get some of his belongings back from the ex, who threw a drama fit and attacked him first. It was very messy and highly publicized in Australia, but he was ultimately acquitted after persuading the judge that he was just trying to get Missy-Ma'am to calm down and give him his stuff.

[quote]One day, the injuries could cause him to snap, and with his physicality, I'd be terrified about what he could do.

MARY!

The twink boyfriend at R48 was gorgeous. Roberts is decidedly not.

Don’t know who this is really but he is the textbook physical definition of a brute. Like most athletic Australians, his skin is one shade below Tan Mom.

Obviously on steroids, doesn’t seem to be a dumb as he looks. From his public statements his heart is in the right place at least.

R51 you don’t know who he is but you do know that he’s on steroids and is not as dumb as he looks?

[quote] "From his public statements his heart is in the right place at least."

Not for long ,if he's on steroids.

Anyway, he absolutely is a brute, and I'm okay with that. A gay brute. I don't see them terribly often, so I'll consider it a bit of a treat. I just wish he wasn't on steroids. Ah, well.

And he looks WAY better now (bald) than he did in the pic with the ex-boyfriend @R48 (though I appreciate that poster sharin the link).

I remember when the news came that he was going to NIDA. We all gasped. I think he was on a special course and not the full 3 years.

He should have done porn.

R53 nobody has said that he’s on steroids other than R51 who doesn’t know who he is.

Having seen too many roided bodies for comfort, and having seen the charming Mr Roberts unclothed, revealing supple muscles I didn't even know men had, I can assure that he's simply the product of remarkable genetics. To employ some eloquent Australian slang that's stuck with me, R53 is a perfect example of a total dropkick.

Why did you see him nude?

[quote] … doesn’t seem to be a dumb as he looks. From his public statements his heart is in the right place

He's barely literate. His minders tell him he needs to read from a pre-prepared script.

^ To be fair, you are describing a lot of celebrities, and pretty much 99% of those from sports and athletics.

[QUOTE]Like most athletic Australians, his skin is one shade below Tan Mom

He was born in Britain.

More importantly R57 - WHERE did you see him nude? And are there pics.

[quote] "Hot. 6'5". Could be an Australian Jack Reacher."

He looks like Popeye in thay photo, R47. He just needs the getup. Though at 6'5", his Bluto would have to be seven feet tall. Hot.

We've all seen him nude. He posed in one of those mid 90s Australian "art photography" magazines that gays used to have on their coffee tables before easily accessible Internet porn. It was either Black & White or (Not Only) Blue.

It was Black & White, R64.

R62 by the time that you typed that about his nude pics, you could have simply typed “Ian Roberts nude” into a search engine, instead of needing to be spoon-fed.

[quote] He's barely literate. His minders tell him…

One of his minders is called Greg Fisher who's been charged with corporate fraud.

Well pardon me R62

The question 'Where did you see him nude?" meant I was asking if it was in real life or just photos.

Sorry to be so patronising.

That means talking down to people.

You’re responding to the wrong post, you nitwit, R67.

How’s that for patronising?

Nitwit? Never have I been called something so nasty.

I'm going to flounce off now.

Don't remember hearing about him previously... But any man who came out of the closet 37 years ago and was a rugby player? Well, the man's got some serious stones. A recent DNA article is interesting. As much as I'd like to believe he's this ripped due to decades of effort, but... seriously? He looks like he's taking some heavy-duty supplements and more.

Wasn't there an English rugby player who came out ages ago as well? Not 37 years ago, but many years. Gareth Thomas perhaps? Man, wonder what he's doing these days.

Gareth Thomas is still around. Wasn't their a court case where an ex-boyfriend accused him of deliberately infecting him with HIV?

Gareth's on the apps - and liberal with his nudes.

*There a court case, before I go OH DEAR-ed.

Which doesn’t change the fact that you responded to the wrong post, you twat / tool / idiot / fuckwit / take your pick R69. That’s the risk of trying to be patronising when you’re in no position to do so.

Yas kween! I'm so slayed with all the shade.

Now can we get back to Ian?

R74 we don’t do “yas kween”, “slayed” and “shade” in this country - but you keep mentally fapping to someone of whose existence you weren’t aware until today.

Hope that wasn’t too patronising for you. Kween.

R44- wish he would explode his cum all over me

[quote] "Having seen too many roided bodies for comfort, and having seen the charming Mr Roberts unclothed, revealing supple muscles I didn't even know men had, I can assure that he's simply the product of remarkable genetics. To employ some eloquent Australian slang that's stuck with me, [R53] is a perfect example of a total dropkick."

I'll be a dropkick, when you become a truthteller, R57.

Yeah sorry but if you harbour fantasies of massive, hulking footy stud Ian ravaging your hole in a brute act of straight-acting, blokey masculinity it's not going to happen. For two reasons.

1: You're not his type. Too old and too fat.

2: That's not his usual MO.

e Ian Roberts' long time

^ His long-time squeeze.

I want to ravage HIS hole.

is ian gay or pansexual

Pan? Well, Ian has a really broad sexual palate. He likes all shades of ginger hair on his skinny twinks, and he'll quite often even throw in a blonde, or a small, slim middle aged guy with a baby face.

Is he a top or a bottom?

He's as bulky and ineloquent as Keegan.

I'm not watching anyone called Keegan.

What about this dumb Keegan?

[quote] I remember when the news came that he was going to NIDA. We all gasped.

I've seen him in only two roles and he played a moron-thug in both. IMDB says he's done 60 roles.

Do you really think he's going to be cast as anything else? A brain surgeon, perhaps? I'm not saying he is actually or a moron or a thug (by most accounts he is neither) but he certainly looks like one.

I was cast as a brain surgeon!

^ And multiple reviews commented on how silly that was.

R64 Black And White Magazine and Blue!

Blast from the past. It was a rite of passage for Australian athletes to undertake Artistic Photoshoots in the 1990s to prove they have sex appeal beyond being muscle bound butchy lunkheads, especially the women, and for soap opera stars to gain a non teeny-bopper fanbase.

Of course most athletes don’t have an ounce eroticism and managed to look constipated.

Simon Baker did it.

He goes to the same gym as me and like a lot of football players he's solid and huge. Big neck, massive hands. Lifts weights like an old school gym dude – lots of weight and low reps. Is usually accompanied by a not so hot twink type in his mid to late 20s. He smiles at me sometimes and we've said hello to each other at the local supermarket.

R92 Ivan Scannell did it.

[quote] we've said hello to each other at the local supermarket.

I wonder if Roberts says hello to Tim Draxl at the local supermarket?

R94- share more please