Hey Gorgeous!

So yesterday’s 4:20 commentary on the show was devoted to When Water Bottles Go Bad and I thought you’d get a giggle. Have a listen!

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This, my friends, is leading edge:

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So in the space of 24 hours I received news of the deaths of two great local gay men I’d like to tell you about: Read the rest of this entry »

Me. Want. Cherry.

I’m having a delicious week, so thought in honour of it I would post this pic I took at a bakery I was at last weekend.  (God, I just want to stick my face right in there, don’t you?  And the desserts!)

My final column for Xtra! has turned out to be a doozy, and I’m appreciating the amazing feedback over on Xtra.ca and on Facebook and Twitter.  The column is my insights after Read the rest of this entry »

Oh, BILLY!

Hey, Ho!

My pal Derek Forgie over at MTV sent the above image my way yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

Wowie zowie, what an exhilarating week!  So much to appreciate going into the weekend! Read the rest of this entry »

Every Friday Christine Fix from Soaps.com comes to the show and we let loose on All Things Young & Restless.  Thought you’d enjoy a listen!

Y&R

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My Fave Shot Of The Collins Sisters By Annie Liebovitz.

Can we talk?  Getting set to interview Jackie Collins and Joan Rivers today – hear them tomorrow and Friday respectively on PROUD FM and watch for our chats in the next batch of OutTV shows coming soon!  Today on the show, my pal Buck Angel talks about his recent Yale University honour and the threats that saw the institution hire bodyguards for him. Read the rest of this entry »

Another week bites the dust – with a long weekend ahead for those of us in Ontario, Canada!  Here’s what I’m loving heading into three days off: Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Thursday!  Ron M., who listens to my show, sent me this shot he found.  Isn’t it just amazing?  I love the dirty moment that Grace Jones and Divine are clearly having, I love Grace’s hotness on the bike, and bless those two young gay things lapping it all up, oblivious in such a dangerous time.

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And He Is.

Joyeux vendredi!

Here’s what I’m loving as we head into another weekend!

• Beau Kazer is our special guest on the show today, as Fridays are always our Y&R study group.  Brock Reynolds!  Brock Reynolds! Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: Kyle Whitelaw

Hey Everyone!

I know I promised on Twitter I’d get this up earlier than today, but technical difficulties, Sweetie! Here’s my Adam Lambert interview from last week’s show for your eternal listening pleasure Read the rest of this entry »

Your Bespoke Lining Doesn't Always Need To Be This Outrageous, But For Some Reason In My Case It Was Decided This Was Necessary. Good Decision: Love. It.

Hellooooo!  I hope your week has been going deliciously!  Some pics below from my week, categorized ‘Bullshit’ and ‘Funshit’ – you will decided which is which. Read the rest of this entry »

"Hihowareyou? How has your winter been?"

Happy Groundhog Day, everybody!  According to our furry sources, we’ve got another six weeks of winter ahead.  Hey, as an aside, does Groundhog Day EVER reveal any other forecast?  I don’t recall so, but I digress. Read the rest of this entry »

I Shot This During Toronto's Last Cold Snap - Here We Are Again This Weekend With Another One. Cozy Time!

Holy moly what a week!  I feel so much appreciation for the amazing people, events and circumstances that lit up these last few days of January for me, including:

• Thanks Shinan Govani at The National Post for the ‘main man’ mention in his column this week. Read the rest of this entry »

Today on the show in honour of Matthew Shepard’s mother Judy joining us in less than an hour, we are asking you where it is you see homophobia the most.  In case you don’t know, Matthew was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming just over ten years ago at age 21, a homophobic act that is still as appalling to me today as it was the first time I heard about it. Read the rest of this entry »

About Adam Lambert.

So normally I’d just post one, maybe two pics of cool people I get to interview for The Shaun Proulx Show.  However, given the response I’ve gotten over on Twitter (shout out to all my new Tweeters: I love how much you love Adam Lambert!), I thought the least I could do would be to put together a little image diary of my time with him. (All photos: Kyle Whitelaw.) Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: Kyle Whitelaw

Hey Everyone!

This morning I am interviewing Judy Shepard, mother of slain gay teen Matthew Shepard, who is in Toronto speaking to York University. Her new book, The Meaning of Matthew, is out now.  We’ll air our talk on today’s show at 5:10 pm.

Tomorrow is the radio air date of yesterday’s chat with Adam Lambert (our interview got a mention in today’s National Post), and the TV date for our chat will be sometime in April, when the next batch of shows hit OutTV.

Above is a cool pic from yesterday’s shoot – I’ll post more later!

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Bizzy morning underway – interviewing Adam Lambert in a couple of hours for the show on PROUD FM and OutTV – but there’s always time for our friends in Genoa City.  We’d especially like to focus on Lauren, who is clearly having a midlife fashion crisis of sorts, drawing on both Lady Gaga and Wilma Flintstone for wardrobe inspiration: Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, some fun success for some of the less self-aggrandizing Haiti fundraisers over the weekend here in Toronto: local Craig Dominic and Ryan G Hinds‘ To Haiti With Love raised a whopping $4000.00 last night.  Tomorrow night, Heather Mackenzie from Big Momma’s Boy on Parliament Street is organizing Give Hope To Haiti 7 to 10. Its a variety show hosted by my pal Deb Pearce. As well, my gal pal and GGT blogger Richard Ryder is performing along with others.  $3000 in prizes to be won! Read the rest of this entry »

Visiting With Kids In The Hall's Scott Thompson Was A Great Highlight This Week. The Whacked-Out Convo We Had On-Air Even More So!

Why hello, Friday, what took you so long? Actually, another week has sped by, and what a great one it was – I hope yours was too! Here’s my love list as we head towards a really oddly balmy weekend (it IS January in Toronto, right?)

• Beau Kaizer who plays Brock on Y&R emailed me last night. He’s heard about my Y&R addiction and wants to come on the show and chat. Woop! AND that’s not all – Victoria ‘Drucilla’ Rowell is coming aboard when she visits Toronto for Casey House’s Snowball. Her character is probably the most missed in daytime. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s talk Tyra.

I guess when she started her talk show and said she was the Oprah for the next generation, she meant it.  Following in Oprah’s footsteps, the former model recently announced she, too, is quitting her talk show.

It’s probably a good thing she didn’t last as long as Oprah, if what I witnessed over last month’s holidays is any indication.  Can you imagine the horror on my face when I turned on the boob tube Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, this week sure went by faster than last week, the first workweek of 2010, which seemed endless after a two week Christmas vacation.  Hope yours was groovy – here’s what I’m loving as we head to a well deserved weekend!

• Spring in the city?  Following last weekend’s cold snap, glorious Toronto warms up to plus temps for a few days! Bless!
• I have a new gig: a semi-regular column for Soaps.com on The Young & The Restless.  Read the rest of this entry »

My daily commentary The 4:20 apparently upset a few people listening to yesterday’s show.  One woman phoned the studio and said I needed to be “reigned in”.  Ironic, considering the theme yesterday was political correctness.  So I should be “reigned in” because someone doesn’t like what I think?  Got it.  Several other people said they wished they’d heard it; here’s a transcript: Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Thursday!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week – so mild suddenly here in Toronto!  Here’s a bunch of pics from the week thus far!

If I had 1000 reasons why I love my dog, Ella, as of this photo I now have 1001.  That’s a ‘Danger – No Entry’ sign she’s sauntering past.  Who’s my girl? Read the rest of this entry »

I just want to give a shout out to my Facebook peeps.  Friends, I’m lovingyoulongtime.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to tell you that as much as I do enjoy your Friendship, I don’t enjoy those cuddly kisses you keep posting on my wall.  Read the rest of this entry »

I like Kathy Griffin as a comic, but I don’t love her rabidly the way so many of my friends do.  And I appreciated the opportunity to have her on as a guest on my PROUD FM and OutTV shows  last year, but she wasn’t my favourite interview (you can hear our chat below).  Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re not an OutTV subscriber, you’re not just missing my show but you missed a cute Happy Holidays promo that ran last month, featuring a couple characters you might recognize.  The editors put together this cute outtakes video with an HQF (high cute factor), so I thought I’d post for those suffering post-holidays blahs

Happy Holidays | Deck the Halls OUT takes!

From Inisde The Allan Gardens Conservatory Yesterday Afternoon.

I don’t know what this time of like is like where you live, but these days on the show, Wigmore teases me about my new found appreciation of this thing we’re in here in Toronto called Canadian winter.  Read the rest of this entry »

She Must Be On A Cleanse.

Happy weekend as we end the first work week of a new decade!  Here’s what I’m loving as we head there:

• Thank you to Richard Burnett and Hour magazine in Montreal for naming me along with some pretty impressive company on their just-out Hot List this week!
• Like last year, I’m doing a detoxifying cleanse all month.  Read the rest of this entry »

Let Me Put It Like This: I WOULD MAKE A BETTER MALCOLM!

Let’s start in the HIMBO! mailbag, where many have written to denounce the new Malcolm.  “Wanda” says: “I demand to know who’s in charge of casting for Y&R.   The new Malcolm looks (and acts) like a gorilla*. And don’t get me started on Daisy. *PS – Please don’t put use my real name in your blog or TV/radio show, due to possible racist interpretation.”

No problem, Wanda, and I couldn’t agree more, neither could the reader who wrote of “Nu Malcolm”: “Ugh. Make. It. End.”  Indeed.

Here’s what else is up and down in the ups and downs of Y&R of late: Read the rest of this entry »

Excuse My Ugly: It Was 8 A.M.

Part of my recent holidays found me in Montreal at a men’s shelter folding underwear.  The full story was my first 4:20 of the 2010 when I returned to the show Monday – you can hear here.

(You can hear The 4:20 daily at … 4:20 on The Shaun Proulx Show – 103.9 PROUD FM.)

And The Last Word goes to … Kabbalah Daily Tune Up! “There was once a man who complained of having no shoes until he met a man with no feet. Count your blessings today.”

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Sherri Shepherd’s stylist hates her!

P.S.  Two of my favourite GayGuideToronto.com bloggers – Maha and Andrew Vail – join us on the show today to face off on the topic of aging.  Andrew’s approaching the glorious 50 and Maha is 30-something in person, 19 on Facebook.  It’s all inspired by Andrew’s reaction to Pride Toronto’s recent announcement that this year during Toronto Pride that they will have a 40+ initiative, featuring  a dedicated website, plus activities where older participants can share their stories about what Pride (and life) was like back when. You can read his take here, listen to the show online here, and take part in today’s Shaun Proulx Show Poll Of The Day (on … surprise! AGING!) here.

Must dash, got a Botox appointment at 9:00.

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Two pressing matters before a bizzy day starts (Ahhh the anticipation of time off and the mad rush to get everything done in time to enjoy said time off!):

1) Many who missed my on-air confession re: my affair with Tiger Woods asked if I could post the audio file.  Your wish, my command:

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2) Are you missing a wig?  Read the rest of this entry »

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It was a thrill to chat with Harvey Fierstein yesterday.  Legendary Broadway royalty, Fierstein was the very first really out gay man I ever saw on a screen (Steven Carrington on Dynasty doesn’t count). Read the rest of this entry »

Why Give My Story To Them When I Have My Own Platforms?

Wow, what a weekend and what a show this will be today.

Undoubtedly you heard over the last couple of days that I, too, have slept with Tiger Woods.  Life has been a nightmare of paparazzi and seven-figure offers to tell all, but I’ve decided that since I have my own show, I should use it, Oprah be damned.  So today on my show, on today’s  4:20 specifically, I will spill all, just like Tiger did that one session we had together. Read the rest of this entry »

Wow! It’s really starting to feel like the wind-down has begun! Not just the end of the week but creeping towards the end of the year and the end of a decade. Here’s what has me jazzing on this frigid Friday! Read the rest of this entry »

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It was a real treat to have Toronto music legends Lorraine Segato and Micah Barnes drop by the show last week.  Micah was promoting a show he and his brother were presenting the next day, Lorraine was on the bill. Read the rest of this entry »

God I loved the madcap Friday night in London several years back with my cousins Edward and Shez.  I think there was food, for sure Ed did the traditional sugar cube bit with some absinthe and then, floating, we made our way into the back of one of their glorious huge black cabs, heading to central London for Friday night fun.  Vibrating, buzzing, and Shez falling from one end of the cab to the other, cue hysterical laughter; memory ends there.

So it was really amazing to welcome the bohemian style Hill’s Absinthe Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, I was made an example of last night on CBC’s ‘Connect with Mark Kelley’ as WhiteHotTruth.com’s Danielle LaPorte’s regular “Career Fire Starter” segment focused on successful people who are “technicaly unqualified, but have managed to rock their career based on sheer talent and moxy.” Thanks Miss D!

Here is my 4:20 commentary from yesterday’s show.  Read the rest of this entry »

Onstage With Eventual Winner David Ivey Saturday Night. (Photo: Serial Sean.)

After several hours of competition this past Saturday, which I co-hosted, seven contestants were whittled down to one.  None other than David Ivey (his blog, Sodomy & The City is a reader favourite Read the rest of this entry »

AIDS Memorial, Cawthra Park, Toronto

Picture if you can, me, young and innocent, like, in the truest sense of those words. I hadn’t been living here in Toronto for very long, but I had certainly made my way to one of the gay community’s more popular gay bars. It was called Chaps; these days it’s a Rabba Fine Foods over on Isabella Street.

On one particular sunny Saturday afternoon during these halcyon days I was at Chaps, and I’d brought Amanda, my oldest friend. It was such a first for both of us, being in a gay bar, that we almost felt sneaky, like we were getting away with something.

At the bar we were being served by the cutest bartender – I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. Read the rest of this entry »

On Set, Poolside

Still playing catch-up, here’s the scoop on my L.A. trip.  Several months ago, my friend Buck Angel asked me to write his life story when we were having dinner together while he was here in Toronto.  Read the rest of this entry »

While in L.A. for five nights I stayed at Le Parc Suites on West Knoll Drive between Melrose and Santa Monica in West Hollywood.  I want to give Le Parc Suites and Director of Sales Barry Podob a special thank you and shout out, because the property was amazing, from check-in to shoot day and throughout my stay as a guest.  They put me in a wonderful suite (larger than many apartments), and on shooting day with Buck cleared their wonderful roof-top pool so that we could have the privacy and quiet that we needed.  And the welcome gift on Day One when I got in from a long afternoon of meetings was an extra nice touch   When you are in Los Angeles and want to stay close to All Things, I highly recommend Le Parc Suites.

A special shout out too, to the West Hollywood Marketing and Visitors Bureau and GoGayWestHollywood.com for their kind assistance.

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Happy Friday!

Still catching up from last week in L.A. (much to discuss), and meanwhile, shooting a World AIDS Day Special for OutTV this morning, and hosting the Mr. Leatherman Toronto 2010 competition tomorrow night.  So while that’s going on, check out Canadian legend Louise Pitre from when she was recently on the show.  She looked so foxy that One Minute talking about it just wasn’t enough …

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Meetings, shooting for the show, and fun in the sun.  Wish me luck, back next week!

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LOVED Laughing + Chatting With Legend Louise Pitre Yesterday On The Show!

Wheredidthisweekgo?  Woosh! Here’s what I’m loving heading into the W-word!

- I think last night’s episode of The Shaun Proulx Show on OutTV was our best yet.  Ever improving!  Thanks to everyone for their support!

- An exciting time in L.A. ahead next week! Meetings, a shoot, and baking in the sun by a pool.  Ahhh … Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, tonight on The Shaun Proulx Show on OutTV (7:30 EST) it’s a cornucopia of guests -enough to make you gag: Lisa Lampanelli, Dragonette, the awesome, awesome Leslie Jordan, and an icon we call Carol Channing.

It was an interesting experience to interview the legendary Carol Channing. When I first announced we were going to be having her on the show, fags everywhere Facebooked and Tweeted that I absolutely had to get her to address the anti-gay remarks she made in 2006, Read the rest of this entry »

Time to check in on Y&R, which is essentially like watching Jerry Springer only the people are rich and beautiful, making their constant base behaviour immediately forgivable and fascinating.

First, a question: Why has Phillip Read the rest of this entry »

God, so there I was watching TV the other night and a commercial caught my eye.  This little hockey card gets hauled into someone’s office like some bad news is coming down, and then eventually the bad news does come down, the hockey card was being traded. Read the rest of this entry »