When asked whether or not he thought the hit ABC reality show featuring a gay or bisexual bachelor would be a "good idea," Juan Pablo Galavis reportedly told The TV Page's Sean Daly, "No... I respect [gay people] but, honestly, I don't think it's a good example for kids..."
Galavis, the 18th man to score the coveted role of "The Bachelor,"
continued his conversation with Daly -- but not before pointing out his
gay friend Peter (because if you have a gay friend, you can't be
homophobic, right?) -- and added:
"Obviously people have their husband and wife and kids and that is
how we are brought up. Now there is fathers having kids and all that,
and it is hard for me to understand that too in the sense of a household
having peoples… Two parents sleeping in the same bed and the kid going
into bed… It is confusing in a sense."
Galavis, who is the show's first Latino bachelor, also stated that "there's this thing about gay people... it seems to me, and I don't know if I'm mistaken or not... but they're more 'pervert' in a sense. And to me the show would be too strong... too hard to watch."
Galavis, who is the show's first Latino bachelor, also stated that "there's this thing about gay people... it seems to me, and I don't know if I'm mistaken or not... but they're more 'pervert' in a sense. And to me the show would be too strong... too hard to watch."
Listen to the full interview here:
Galavis is certainly not the first celebrity to make offensive comments about the gay community.
Recently "View" co-host Sherri Shepherd told Fusion's Alicia Menendez that she "may not agree with" gay people's "lifestyle"
but she still "love[s]" them. And in December "Duck Dynasty" star Phil
Robertson unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he made homophobic comments in a GQ magazine interview.
Need to cleanse your palate after all that ick? Check out Jesse
Tyler Ferguson and George Takei in Funny or Die's "The First Gay
Bachelor" by heading here.
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