{"id":19658,"date":"2014-01-18T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterfever.com\/blog\/?p=19658"},"modified":"2014-01-17T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T08:04:28","slug":"british-boy-band-star-lee-ryan-comes-out-as-bisexual-on-big-brother-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/18\/british-boy-band-star-lee-ryan-comes-out-as-bisexual-on-big-brother-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"British Boy Band Star Lee Ryan Comes Out As Bisexual On \u201cBig Brother UK\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 16px;\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/YqGMJYvHaUs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Tharrett<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/YqGMJYvHaUs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lee_Ryan\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/Lee_Ryan-360x360.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Things are bound to get interesting on this homophobic season of <i>Celebrity Big Brother<\/i> <i>UK <\/i>(not to be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/big-brother-houseguest-aaryn-gries-feels-horrible-about-racist-homophobic-remarks-20130830\/\" target=\"_blank\">racist American version<\/a>). Current houseguests including N-Dubz rapper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/unlike-the-american-version-big-brother-uk-addresses-homophobic-houseguests-in-real-time-20140107\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dappy<\/a> and boxer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/watch-boxer-evander-holyfield-says-being-gay-is-a-choice-and-a-disability-and-doctors-can-fix-it-20140106\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Holyfield<\/a> have been slammed for anti-gay statements made on-air, but that didn&#8217;t stop Lee Ryan from coming out as bisexual this week.<\/p>\n<p>The member of British boy band <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GZRUjmVQw5Y\" target=\"_blank\">Blue<\/a> reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2536234\/Celebrity-Big-Brother-2014-Lee-Ryan-reveals-sexual-experimentation-man.html\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> for the first time that he had a relationship with another man during a conversation \u201cabout orgies and same-sex relationships.\u201d We don&#8217;t get good ol&#8217; Channel 5 here in the States, so we&#8217;re not sure whether he fully came out as bisexual or if he simply dabbled in dudes, but the British tabloids seem to unanimously agree: Lee Ryan <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2014\/01\/09\/celebrity-big-brother-2014-lee-ryan-reveals-hes-bisexual-luisa-zissman-suggests-an-orgy-4255974\/\" target=\"_blank\">is bisexual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah I&#8217;ve been with a man. Everyone&#8217;s done experimentational [sic] shit. I&#8217;ll tell you later,\u201d he said, adding \u201cof course, man. I&#8217;m a well-travelled person. I&#8217;ve never admitted it anywhere. No one&#8217;s bothered to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, he kissed two different female houseguests. Shortly after, a female houseguest suggested (and consequently began planning) an orgy. You crazy Brits! Please cast one of the One Direction boys next season!<\/p>\n<p>Below, more of Lee Ryan in less clothing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/Lee-Ryan-naked1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lee-Ryan-naked\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/Lee-Ryan-naked1.jpg\" width=\"577\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/tumblr_m13horVKd81qliludo1_5001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tumblr_m13horVKd81qliludo1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/tumblr_m13horVKd81qliludo1_5001.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tumblr_m9xr4xhGdk1r90e96o1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/tumblr_m9xr4xhGdk1r90e96o1_500-446x670.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"670\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"British Boy Band Star Lee Ryan Comes Out As Bisexual On \u201cBig Brother UK\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/YqGMJYvHaUs\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Boy Band Star Lee Ryan Comes Out As Bisexual On \u201cBig Brother UK\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Tharrett Things are bound to get interesting on this homophobic season of Celebrity Big Brother UK (not to be confused with the racist American version). Current houseguests including N-Dubz rapper Dappy and boxer Evan Holyfield have been slammed [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/18\/british-boy-band-star-lee-ryan-comes-out-as-bisexual-on-big-brother-uk\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[3442,1474],"tags":[3589,1422,3590,3457,49,3588],"class_list":{"0":"post-19658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment-2","8":"category-pride","9":"tag-big-brother-uk","10":"tag-bisexual","11":"tag-british-boy-band","12":"tag-coming-out","13":"tag-gay","14":"tag-lee-ryan"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Lee-Ryan-naked1.jpg","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6qn-574","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions\/20144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}