When she does go to see him, she (gasp!) brings him a gift he already owns. But the shows deals with the incident only in the context of the season’s petty drama, choosing to highlight the fact that one of Gorgeous’s friends takes a whole week to visit her coalescing costar. Then the camera drops, we hear sirens, and later find out that Gorgeous was the victim of an assault at the hands of multiple attackers.Īll parties confirm that the attack was real, and that Gorgeous was left with bruises on his face-the implication being that it was a hate crime. In a dubious camera sequence, Gorgeous is seen leaving the club, walking down a sidewalk in gold sequins. Gorgeous is left alone at a downtown Toronto nightclub after getting into a typically absurd fight-something to do with one of his friends’ guests, a sloppy drunk named Carina, calling costar Arta Ghanbari a lesbian.
Take, for example, the most dramatic plot point of the current season, one that was endlessly hyped in promotional packages. This is 2013.”Īt the same time, the series’ most transparently staged-and frankly, cringe-worthy-moments have to do with its stilted efforts to deal with its star’s queerness.
“The way we address it is that we don’t address it. Scott Fisher, who recruited Gorgeous for The Avenue at a Toronto house party (he had become something of a local celeb) and now serves as both his manager and the CEO of Foreground, the show’s production company, says the decision was a conscious one. On one hand, the show deals with Gorgeous’s androgyny in a refreshingly matter-of-fact way, which is to say hardly at all. But it’s The Avenue, especially, that has managed to turn his most magnetic asset into a point of contention. It’s not difficult to see why Gorgeous is polarizing outside the enclave of his video subscriber base. Your father “is not proud,” Belli tells him. Willam Belli, a breakout star of RuPaul’s Drag Race, chose Gorgeous as the subject one of his YouTube “beatdowns” last week, mocking Gorgeous’s femininity with a biting harshness. “How many gay Canadian YouTube gurus is too many?” one prominent gay writer wondered aloud on Twitter recently. Even among the LGBT community, he can’t seem to catch a break. The mainstream fashion world has so far paid Gorgeous little notice, though he says he’s actively seeking product deals. Oh, and the protagonist in the sequin dress is actually a boy.īuoyed by Gorgeous’s online following, The Avenue is in the middle of a revamped and expanded Season 2, and the increased exposure has him itching to make the leap from Toronto to New York and L.A.īut YouTube stardom, however vast, has barely registered in the real world.
Picture Whitney Port in Toronto, with a smaller budget and a looser grasp on reality.
For the past year, he’s been the star of The Avenue, a gossipy YouTube-distributed reality show in which a group of young fashion upstarts party, bicker, and reconcile with the predictable and soothing undulations of a generation reared on The Hills. The androgynous 20-year-old Canadian, who really is quite pretty, has racked up 47 million YouTube views and 345,000 followers with kitschy makeup and fashion tutorials, product reviews, and stream-of-consciousness rants. What’s not to like about a man who calls himself Gregory Gorgeous?
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