CELEBFLASH: Show Me the Muscle

Back in the mid 90's when I came to the States, both Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place were in the shows to watch. Teens and twentysomethings gathered around their TV sets eagerly anticipating what wicked and vindictive acts Brenda and Amanda would inflict upon their fellow castmates.

In 1994, for Melrose's 2nd season finale I gathered with friends, and a large selection of snacky foods, to watch the highly anticipated kiss between Matt, the gay-on-paper-only character, and some hunky guest star. After hyping the hell out of this kiss, FOX unceremoniously cut it, leaving us instead with a slow-mo shot of Matt going in for the kill!

Kiss or no kiss, Matt was still the most boring character on the show, and I had not come out yet, but I was strangely enamoured with resident bad boy Jake Hanson. Like 90210's Kelly I would have followed Jake to ends of the earth... well, to West Hollywood anyway.

Cut to the 24 Hour Fitness at Arclight, 12 years later. There I am working out next to Jake Hanson himself, Grant Show, still looking surprisingly buff and chiseled.

The only reason I tuned in to FOX's quickly-cancelled 2005 supernatural drama Point Pleasant was because of Show and his portrayal of the devilish Lucas Boyd, a character particularly similar to one Lucas Buck from 1995's American Gothic, played by Gary Cole, who I coincidently work out next to at Gold's!