Karma Gives Russell Tovey A Crusty Butt Cheek For A Week

It looks like karma has come to bite Russell Tovey in the butt (literally!) after questionable comments he made about effeminate gay men to The Guardian earlier this week.

Tovey received heat for calling effeminate gay men “tapdancing freaks” who like to “prance around” and “sing in the street.” Many accused the Looking star of perpetuating the idea that that femme is bad and masculine is good.

He later took to Twitter to apologize for the remarks, saying he didn’t articulate himself well. But that didn’t stop self-proclaimed “professional effeminate homosexual” Alec Mepa from releasing a statement in defense of “young sissy boys” and expressing his “disappointment” with Tovey.

Well, we can all relax now. Because Mr. Tovey has been sufficiently punished for his misguided behavior.

While in Australia filming his new BBC series Banished, the 33-year-old revealed that he developed “a crusty bum cheek.”

During an interview with the U.K.’s This Morning, Tovey talked about what it was like to film Down Under during the height of summer: “I did have a grub on my tongue and I could feel it pulsating… I was retching. It was gross.”

“We had leeches,” he continued, “and there was one time we were filming in the bush and production rung me up and said, ‘Someone has got six ticks on their body that they’ve found, so can you check yourself?’ and I said I was fine and went back to the U.K.”

Turns out, he wasn’t fine. A week later, Tovey found a tick feasting on his butt cheek.

He was in the shower when he made the startling discovery, which sent him into a panic.

“I twisted it around and then went on Twitter and they were like, ‘No, you’re not meant to twist it – you’re going to get Lyme disease’,” he said. “So I called my mum who said, ‘Go down to A&E’ and it was fine. I had a crusty butt cheek for about a week which I was paranoid about.”

We’re glad that happened. The scores have been settled. Now we can go back to loving the heck out of him. (Although it might take some time to get those images of blood-sucking leeches and grubby tongues out of our heads.)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Gays and lesbians are fighting for the same equal rights that African-Americans fought for decades ago, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the historic march in Selma, Alabama.

An early supporter of gay marriage, Biden sought to draw parallels between civil rights for gays and African-Americans as he addressed a summit of the Human Rights Campaign, a major gay rights group. Just as he could never have imagined serving alongside a black president, Biden said, he never anticipated seeing a time when gays would serve in the military openly, the Supreme Court would strike down anti-sodomy laws and a majority of U.S. states would legalize gay marriage. “Selma and Stonewall were basically the same movement,” Biden said, invoking the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots in New York that marked the symbolic start of the modern gay rights movement.

Biden’s remarks come the day before President Barack Obama and surviving marchers were to gather at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to commemorate half a decade since white police officers beat civil rights protesters who were fighting segregation in the South. Reflecting on the number of southern states where gay marriage is still banned, Biden said the next step for activists is to help bring gay rights to the South.

Activists responded with fervent applause when he recalled announcing his own support for gay marriage during a 2012 television interview, putting pressure on Obama, who followed suit a few months later. “I told the president I wasn’t going to change my brand,” Biden said with a grin.

Presidential politics also popped up at the summit, where a brief mention of presumptive 2016 candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a warm reaction and cheers.

In his speech, Biden — another possible 2016 contender — called out potential Republican candidate Ben Carson for saying that homosexuality was a choice and citing sexual activity in prisons as evidence.

“Every ridiculous assertion from Dr. Carson on, I mean, ridiculous,” Biden said of the former neurosurgeon. He added, “I mean, Jesus, God.”

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Nobody ever said South African musical duo Die Antwoord was supposed to be the model of political correctness, but this just seems like pushing it.

Drake and Die Antwoord are both touring Australia as part of the traveling Future Music Festival, and apparently Die Antwoord member Yolandi Visser was not a fan of Drake’s set.

So much so, in fact, that she posted a photo of Drake to her Instagram with the quote, “I’m a massive faggot” overlaid. The cation read, “Fuk. Drake was kak.”

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Yolandi, for her part, doesn’t see this as homophobic. Or something.

Here is what partner Ninja had to say about word sensitivity in a previous message. DJ Hi-Tek is the group’s DJ, for clarification:

I’d like to set the record straight here once and for all. Number one: DJ Hi-Tek is gay. So there you go. Now you all know. Number two: Dj Hi-Tek says the word faggot doesn’t hold any power over him. Hi-Tek says faggot all the time cause he’s like, kind of taken that word and made it his bitch. Number three: Just to be fucking clear, the Antwoord is not homophobic… Number four: It comes across to us that some people from America are heavy sensitive about the use of certain words. But the thing is, what you need to understand is, we’re not from America. We’re from South Africa. And South Africa people aren’t so pumped up about these words.

You can see that video message below:

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