The whole thing is a bit wrong to be honest, I know MM is an actor and wanted to be in and on tv, but volunteering??? to do the topless thing is a bit wrong.
If you’re going to have the presenters salivating over a torso, you hire a fake-tanned professional muscle model guy, who knows that’s why they are there.
I know it’s all good fun when the crew join in on the show and appear in little bits, but it can’t be right to get young crew on half-naked. And not at equity rates.
If a female runner was asked to step in to model a bikini and male presenters were going “cor, phew look at her” there would be uproar.
Totally agree with this. That whole segment, viewed in the context of what we now know, is incredibly dark.
in general I think there’s a huge double standard whereby somehow society sees it as ok to fetishise young gay men where they would clearly see it as inappropriate if it was a young woman. On Twitter there’s loads of people excusing PS’s behaviour today saying, oh it’s just an age gap relationship, not great but MM was an adult. NO, PS met him underage, kept him ‘warm’ until he was 18 (euch
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) and then got him a job where he clearly had a huge amount of power over MM, in London where MM was isolated from his family and people he grew up with. That’s a clear abuse of power even IF (big if) there was no physical relationship under 18.
Presumably these PS defenders understand that what Harvey Weinstein did was wrong, likewise all the creepy old male broadcasters who openly perved over the teenage Britney Spears. So why the double standard for a gay youth?