The Gay Wedding of the Year? Billionaire Brendan Blumer and Salvatore Spano Are Getting Married

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The Gay Wedding of the Year? Billionaire Brendan Blumer and Salvatore Spano Are Getting Married

Brendan Blumer and Salvatore “Tore” Spano are getting married in Sardinia, and apparently nobody involved was interested in the phrase “keep it simple.”

The American crypto billionaire and his Italian partner are expected to marry on September 5, with celebrations beginning the day before around Gallura and the glamorous Costa Smeralda.

Italian media have been covering the preparations with increasing fascination.

And honestly, we understand why. 😂

There is reportedly a ferry being transformed into a floating party venue.

There are reports connecting major music stars including Coldplay and Lady Gaga to the celebrations.

Other names reported in connection with the festivities include Giorgia, Laura Pausini, Kygo and Rita Ora.

Not every artist has been independently confirmed, so it is worth keeping a little distance from the most extravagant guest-list rumors.

But even without every celebrity name locked down, this is clearly not shaping up to be your standard village wedding.

A Wedding That Is Also a Homecoming

For Spano, the location is personal.

He is from Olbia in northern Sardinia, giving the lavish destination celebration a more intimate layer underneath all the spectacle.

The couple have been together for several years.

Italian reports differ slightly on exactly how they first met, with some accounts placing the beginning of their relationship in Sardinia and others linking it to work and mutual contacts during a trip to Hong Kong.

What is clear is that their relationship eventually brought them back to Sardinia for the wedding.

And if you are going to bring a wedding home, apparently bringing an entire ferry is one way to do it. 😂⛴️

One reported celebration is expected to take place aboard the Agata, a ferry being prepared as an event space with restaurants and a concert stage.

The couple have also reportedly been celebrating with friends ahead of the wedding, including a night at a Katy Perry concert.

Then Comes the Part We Really Love

For all the attention around private villas, celebrity guests and enormous parties, the warmest detail may be what Brendan and Salvatore are doing with their wedding gifts.

According to local Sardinian reporting, the couple have already donated €1.6 million to charitable causes.

The largest portion, €1.2 million, is expected to help complete work at a children’s hospital in Cagliari.

Another €200,000 is going to LIDA, an animal-rescue organization in Olbia.

A further €200,000 is being donated to the European Brain Research Institute Rita Levi-Montalcini.

Guests are reportedly being encouraged to support those organizations instead of buying traditional wedding presents.

That is quite a lovely counterpoint to the enormous scale of the celebration.

Yes, there may be global superstars.

Yes, there may be a floating concert venue.

And yes, this may be one of the most extravagant gay weddings Sardinia has ever seen.

But there is also a children’s hospital, an animal shelter and a research institute receiving very real support because of it.

From Spectacle to Something Sweeter

That combination is what makes this story more interesting than simple billionaire excess.

A giant wedding can be fun to gawp at.

A giant gay wedding in one partner’s hometown is even better.

But using some of that attention and money to benefit local causes gives the whole thing a surprisingly warm second act.

There are still plenty of rumors flying around the festivities, so B-Gay will be keeping an eye on which celebrity appearances actually materialize.

For now, though, the essentials are already pretty fabulous.

Two men in love.

Sardinia.

A wedding.

A party ferry.

And €1.6 million going to charity.

Apparently when gay men say “destination wedding,” definitions may vary. 😂🌈💍

📷 @brendan.blumer

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Well, This Is Deliciously Awkward: Milo Yiannopoulos Is in ICE Custody

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Well, This Is Deliciously Awkward: Milo Yiannopoulos Is in ICE Custody

Milo Yiannopoulos, the British-born far-right provocateur who spent years demanding tougher immigration enforcement, is now in ICE custody himself.

Yes, really.

According to CBS News, federal officials say Yiannopoulos is being held in Louisiana and is facing a final order of removal.

The Department of Homeland Security says he entered the United States legally but later overstayed his status.

An immigration judge issued the final removal order on July 22 after Yiannopoulos failed to appear for an immigration hearing, according to DHS.

He is expected to remain in ICE custody while that removal process plays out.

And somehow, the story gets even messier.

Far-right activist Laura Loomer is publicly taking credit for helping bring Yiannopoulos to the attention of immigration authorities.

Loomer says she previously reported him to ICE and the FBI and celebrated his detention online.

There is, however, no public evidence establishing that Loomer’s report directly caused his detention.

Still, watching one MAGA provocateur celebrate the detention of another has produced exactly the sort of political family drama the internet was invented for.

From immigration hardliner to immigration detainee

Yiannopoulos became famous during the 2010s as an openly gay conservative media personality associated with Breitbart, Gamergate and the emerging MAGA movement.

He built much of his public persona around provocation, including attacks on immigrants, transgender people, women and racial minorities.

In later years, he converted to Catholicism and began describing himself as no longer gay, leading many outlets to refer to him as “ex-gay.”

He has also remained an enthusiastic supporter of aggressive immigration enforcement.

In 2025, Yiannopoulos publicly called for vastly expanded ICE checkpoints and mass deportations.

He also argued that ICE agents should receive broad legal immunity while carrying out their duties.

Which makes his current predicament somewhat difficult to ignore.

There is a well-known internet meme about people supporting the “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party” and then expressing surprise when the leopard eventually reaches their own face.

We are not saying anything.

We are simply placing a small leopard emoji here. 🐆

What happens next?

Unlike the earliest reports Friday, we now know more about why Yiannopoulos is in custody.

DHS says he is subject to a final removal order and will remain detained pending removal.

That means this is no longer merely a case of an unexplained ICE detention.

What remains unclear is exactly when he will leave the United States and whether any additional legal maneuvering could affect that process.

Yiannopoulos is a British citizen, and DHS says he overstayed his legal status in the United States.

He was reportedly apprehended in the New Orleans area, where he had been ahead of a scheduled performance by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.

Yiannopoulos has previously worked with Ye on political and business projects.

Meanwhile, Laura Loomer is celebrating.

She says Yiannopoulos is heading back to Britain and has framed his detention as a victory.

Whether she personally deserves the credit she is claiming is another matter entirely.

But the central fact is now clear.

The man who repeatedly demanded mass deportations is sitting in ICE custody under a final removal order of his own.

Sometimes irony arrives quietly.

And sometimes it arrives in a federal detention facility in Louisiana. 🥶🐆

Marc Jacobs Looks Back at His Grindr “Scandal” — and He’s Not Apologizing

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Marc Jacobs Looks Back at His Grindr “Scandal” — and He’s Not Apologizing

Remember when Marc Jacobs allegedly had a 10-man Grindr party and it somehow became an international scandal?

More than a decade later, the legendary gay designer has a pretty simple response.

“Yes, I’m a gay designer who likes to have sex. What can I tell you?”

Honestly, fair. 😂

The quote comes from a new Vanity Fair profile in which Jacobs looks back on the infamous 2015 episode, when Page Six reported that he had hosted a gathering involving up to 10 men he reportedly met through Grindr.

At the time, the story was treated like a major celebrity sex scandal.

Jacobs pushed back on some of the juicier details and famously joked that the evening had been more “mild” than “wild.”

He also briefly deleted Grindr.

“The Grindr Thing Was Such a Big Deal”

Looking back now, Jacobs seems less interested in relitigating the exact details than in questioning why everyone cared so much in the first place.

“I remember the Grindr thing was such a big deal,” he told Vanity Fair.

What seems to matter more to him today is being honest about who he is.

Jacobs says he has reached a point where openness feels good.

“If I don’t want to answer, I won’t, but I’m not going to lie about it.”

That is a distinction worth making.

Privacy does not require shame.

And refusing to lie about being a gay man who enjoys sex does not mean anyone is entitled to every intimate detail of your life.

The “Scandal” Says As Much About 2015 As It Does About Marc

There is something almost quaint about looking back at how enormous the story became.

A famous single gay man used Grindr.

He invited men over.

People apparently had sex.

And somehow the event became front-page celebrity gossip.

That reaction says something about the strange expectations often placed on public gay men.

Be open, but not too sexual.

Be proud, but preferably respectable.

Talk about equality, but perhaps don’t remind everyone that gay men actually have sex.

Jacobs was never particularly interested in playing that game.

Fashion had already made him famous for provocation, excess and refusing to behave exactly as people expected.

His response to the Grindr story ultimately followed the same pattern.

He didn’t pretend it had never happened.

He just refused to accept everyone else’s shame about it.

Life Looks Very Different Now

Much has changed for Jacobs since 2015.

He has been sober since 2016.

In 2019, he married longtime partner Char Defrancesco in New York.

And these days, the couple live in Rye, New York, where Jacobs appears to have embraced a considerably quieter rhythm.

According to the new profile, one of his current pleasures is feeding squirrels and chipmunks around their home.

Which gives us perhaps the most magnificent before-and-after imaginable.

2015:

Grindr party scandal. 🌈

2026:

Married and feeding squirrels in the suburbs. 🐿️😂

From Grindr to Gay Elder Era

There is something oddly charming about that evolution.

Not because one version of Marc Jacobs is more respectable than the other.

That would miss his point entirely.

People change.

They get older.

They get married.

They get sober.

They leave Manhattan for quieter places.

Sometimes they stop meeting men on Grindr and start developing strong opinions about the squirrels in their yard.

None of that requires pretending the person they used to be was shameful.

Jacobs’ new comments feel less like a confession than a refusal to perform embarrassment for somebody else’s comfort.

Yes, he’s gay.

Yes, he likes sex.

What can he tell you? 😂🌈

📷 @themarcjacobs / @chardefrancesco

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Heated Rivalry Just Found Its Next Gay Hockey Couple

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Heated Rivalry Just Found Its Next Gay Hockey Couple

Shane and Ilya are getting company.

Heated Rivalry has officially cast Ryan Price and Fabian Salah for season two, adding another major gay romance from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers universe to the show.

Daniel Diemer will play Ryan, while Shaheen Jafargholi will play Fabian.

And if you already know Tough Guy, you know this is not a tiny supporting-story announcement.

Ryan and Fabian are the couple at the center of that book.

Meet Ryan Price

Ryan is a former hockey enforcer whose intimidating reputation on the ice hides a much more vulnerable man underneath.

By the time his story intersects with the wider Heated Rivalry world, he has moved into coaching and becomes connected to Shane and Ilya through a summer hockey camp.

Daniel Diemer steps into the role after appearances in projects including The Half of It and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Rachel Reid herself had a wonderfully affectionate reaction to the casting.

She referred to Ryan as her “big sad son.”

Which, frankly, tells readers of Tough Guy almost everything they need to know. 😂

And Then There’s Fabian

Fabian Salah is Ryan’s very different counterpart.

He is a musician, far removed from Ryan’s hockey-enforcer world, and their relationship gives Tough Guy much of its emotional tension and charm.

Shaheen Jafargholi, known from Lost Boys & Fairies and The Agency, has been cast as Fabian.

Reid’s description for him?

Her “rockstar son.” ❤️

The pairing instantly gives season two another dynamic that looks very different from Shane and Ilya.

And that is probably a good thing.

Season Two Is Becoming Much Bigger

The success of Heated Rivalry could easily have led producers to simply keep the focus tightly on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.

Instead, season two appears to be expanding the world around them.

Ryan and Fabian join another previously announced couple, Harris Drover and Troy Barrett, played by Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie.

That means the series is starting to look less like one central gay hockey romance with supporting characters and more like an interconnected ensemble of queer love stories.

For fans of Reid’s books, that makes perfect sense.

The Game Changers novels were always built around multiple couples whose lives overlap through hockey, friendships and relationships.

Now the television adaptation appears increasingly willing to embrace that structure too.

Ryan And Fabian Still Connect Back To Shane And Ilya

Importantly, Ryan and Fabian are not being dropped into some completely separate corner of the show.

Their story connects with Shane and Ilya’s world.

That gives season two room to expand without abandoning the couple who made Heated Rivalry such a phenomenon in the first place.

It also means viewers who have never read Tough Guy should not need homework before meeting them.

Ryan can enter through the hockey world.

Fabian enters through Ryan.

And suddenly Shane and Ilya are surrounded by considerably more gay romantic chaos than they had in season one.

Apparently One Gay Hockey Couple Was Never Going To Be Enough

The fan reaction to the announcement was immediate.

Crave’s official casting post quickly attracted tens of thousands of likes and a flood of comments from viewers who already knew exactly who Ryan and Fabian were.

Others were simply discovering that Heated Rivalry season two intends to keep adding attractive men and queer storylines at an impressive rate.

We see the strategy.

And we support it. 😂🏒🌈

Season two is currently in production and is expected to arrive on Crave in spring 2027.

By then, Shane and Ilya may no longer be the only couple everybody is obsessing over.

Meet Ryan and Fabian.

Something tells us they’re about to become very popular. ❤️

📷 @cravecanada

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Fans Think They Found The Real-Life Shane & Ilya — But Their Actual Love Story Is Even Better

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Fans Think They Found The Real-Life Shane & Ilya — But Their Actual Love Story Is Even Better

At first glance, Tom Garneau and Damien Verhaegen look like they wandered straight out of Heated Rivalry.

There are hockey photos.

There is kissing.

There is a handsome Canadian couple looking very comfortable together around a rink.

So naturally, fans started making comparisons to Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.

But Tom and Damien are not newly dating hockey boyfriends with a complicated secret.

They have been together for about 15 years.

They are married.

And instead of escaping to a cabin, they bought an abandoned French château. 😂🏰

Meet Tom And Damien

The pair met in Montreal after being introduced at a dinner with mutual friends.

Tom has said Damien became his first boyfriend after he came out.

The relationship moved quickly.

Within roughly six months, they were living together.

Over the years, they built a life in Canada, eventually settling in Vancouver.

Tom also became part of the city’s inclusive hockey community through Cutting Edges, an LGBTQ+-friendly organization that gives queer players a place to enjoy the sport without having to leave part of themselves outside the rink.

That hockey connection, combined with the couple’s romantic photos, is what helped spark the recent Heated Rivalry comparisons online.

And honestly, we understand it.

Gay couple.

Hockey.

Canada.

Excellent cheekbones.

The algorithm was always going to have thoughts. 😂

But Then The Story Takes A Turn

The comparison is cute, but Tom and Damien’s real-life story becomes considerably more interesting once you leave the rink.

After years in Vancouver, the couple decided to make a dramatic change.

They moved to France.

And they bought a château.

Not a neat little renovated holiday home.

A genuine 19th-century château that had reportedly been empty for decades.

The property, now known as Château Poséidon, dates to the 1860s and needed serious restoration.

For Tom and Damien, that apparently sounded less like a warning and more like a project.

So they packed up their Canadian life and began restoring it together.

From Vancouver To Château Poséidon

The couple now documents much of the restoration online.

Room by room, they are bringing the enormous property back to life while also building a completely new chapter for themselves.

The long-term vision includes turning part of Château Poséidon into a place for weddings and other events.

Which feels particularly appropriate for two men whose own relationship has already survived 15 years, an international move and the apparently minor challenge of restoring an abandoned castle. 😂

The château project also gives their story a lovely sense of scale.

When Tom and Damien first met, Damien became Tom’s first boyfriend.

Fifteen years later, they are husbands rebuilding a piece of French history together.

That is quite a first relationship.

The Real-Life Shane And Ilya?

Not really.

And that is probably the point.

The online comparison works because the images are irresistible and the hockey connection gives Heated Rivalry fans something instantly recognizable.

But Tom and Damien have a life and identity of their own.

Their relationship did not begin as a secret rivalry between elite hockey players.

It began over dinner with friends.

It became a long-term partnership.

Then a marriage.

Then, somehow, a château.

So yes, feel free to enjoy the Shane-and-Ilya vibes.

But the real story is arguably better.

Fifteen years together, gay hockey, a move across the Atlantic and an abandoned French castle they are rebuilding side by side.

Forget the cabin.

These two have a castle. 🏰❤️

📷 @tom.garneau / @damien.verhaegen / @chateau.poseidon

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