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Bad Beefcake Volume 2: Dekker, LaBeouf, Chesney, and more!

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Dennis Ayers

Last month we were honored to bring you our first installment of Bad Beefcake™, which included such gems as Sean Connery in a thong, Chace Crawford as a come-hither cowboy, and Ralph Fiennes channeling George of the Jungle for a Vanity Fair cover. (You can click on the thumbnails below to enlarge these gems.)

We thought Bad Beefcake would only be a one-off feature, but no, in the last month even more egregious lapses in male celebrity judgment have surfaced. And so we bring you....

Bad Beefcake Volume 2!

First up is Thomas Dekker, the young heartthrob whose Heroes character who was so infamously de-gayed last year. Given that history, one wonders how these publicity shots for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles slipped past his agent. And, er, what does a mylar heart balloon have to do with Terminator?

Stilll, we're not complaining because they certainly are good for a laugh.

Speaking of Heroes...

Here's a bit of classic Tarzan-ical whimsy from none other than Adrian Pasdar (a.k.a. Nathan Petrelli). This is obviously a publicity still from a movie, but I have no idea which movie. Can anyone identify?

And for you country western fans, how about Kenny Chesney in the pool? In a hat. Somehow every photo ever of Chesney seems like bad beefcake to me. Call him Kenny Cheesy.

Here's a rather interesting contribution from Shia Labeouf - Call it "Bad Beoufcake". The boy has obviously been working out lately and he seems anxious to show it off.

Actually, I could go either way on the Shia pic. What do you think? Artistic or just plain cheesy?

Got any bad beefcake you'd like to share? Please post in the comments.

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    • Submitted by
    Dennis Ayers
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 12:39.
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    Angelmonster's picture

    Well...those Dekker images

    Submitted by
    Angelmonster (165 points) (33 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 13:22.

    Well...those Dekker images really do not help the fact that he wants to look like he isn't gay. Every single photo makes him look more gay then 90% of the gay community, lol. Especially that last one...what do any of these have to do with Terminator? not just the heart but the poses too...really weird.

     

    That Shia pic looks fake to me, anyone else agree? His head looks awfully small and just...odd o_O

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    H's picture

    Are the pictures of Thomas

    Submitted by
    H (355 points) (70 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 13:40.
    Are the pictures of Thomas Dekker real?? LOL Is that really him? His face looks different. The pictures are really funny to look at, and weird. They have nothing to do with Terminator really, and why is he posing like that? That third picture of him.. LMAO
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    Roguy's picture

    Shia looks phony to me

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    Roguy (56 points) (11 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 14:28.
    That Shia photo looks like a bad photoshop job.
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    HenryZ's picture

    You know those cheesey

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    HenryZ (477 points) (94 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 18:39.
    You know those cheesey greeting cards, that have the distorted faces of puppies and kittens so that their eyes look really huge and sort of fishbowl-y? That's what that picture looks like to me. Nice gym work, though, whoever's it is.
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    Personally, I preferred

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    zanefan (396 points) (85 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 15:34.
    Personally, I preferred Kenny Chesney when he was a bit thicker and sported his chest hair.  Now he just looks like every other sad aging metrosexual.
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    Alan Pasdar

    Submitted by
    Dennis (338 points) (68 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 15:43.

    I'm not sure, but that still looks like one from Mad Max, Beyond the Thunderdome. Anyone?

    Dennis

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    Actually I think the picture

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    AbqGWM (277 points) (59 posts)
    on Sun, 2008-02-24 11:45.
    Actually I think the picture of Adrian is from the movie Slave of Dreams. I think. It was a Showtime made for TV movie about a Jewish slave falling in love with a Pharaoh's wife or something along those line.
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    Auditioning for ANTM?

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    Matty (683 points) (128 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 15:47.
    Those three pics of Thomas Dekker look like he's auditioning for America's Next Top Model. In the first episode they take all 30 of the semi-finalists, put them on a beach or on top of a skyscaper or something, and take three pics where they're supposed to strike their fiercest poses, but almost all of them end up being really corny and not high fashion at all. Totally looks like that, lol.
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    Could that Shia picture BE any more gay?

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    Brent Hartinger (345 points) (412 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 15:57.

    I'm just sayin'.

     

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    mike309's picture

    Shia's pic could look more gay

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    mikey likes it (279 points) (68 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 16:52.

     If he were kissing say, Zac Efron.  Then it'd be kinda hot too.   I'm just sayin' ....

     

    Don't trouble yourself Doctor -- I'm a celebrity, I'll write my own prescription.

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    Dekker

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    luvluke1 (573 points) (107 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-02-22 23:03.

    Cheesy or not I would most definitely love to have him as a special friend.

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    My beloved Adrian Pasdar...... A total stud no matter what.

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    Guillermo Serri... (2792 points) (731 posts)
    on Sat, 2008-02-23 23:27.

    I am still bitter over the cancellation of his masterful show Profit after less than a handful of episodes. If that show were airing today, it would be a hit on FX/Showtime/HBO.

    My poor Adrian is looking like a reject from the Sylvester Stallone-directed Staying Alive. In order to add to the pot of tragic beefcake, I give you Leif Garrett.

    What is up with that Farrah Fawcett mane and no sings of testosterone? And then you have to love (not!) the high-waisted pants in the second picture and the Leif holding that skateboard as if he'd never seen one much less been on one before. He was the Zac Efron of his time. Given that it's all about the tweeners theswe days, it may be time to introduce a new term to describe these pictures: Vealcake. You heard it here first.

     

    Frankie's long lost older brother?Frankie's long lost older brother?

    Look away from the male cameltoe......Carol Anne, listen to me. Do NOT at the male cameltoe......

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    Adrian Pasdar

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    Dane Hill (493 points) (106 posts)
    on Sat, 2008-02-23 02:29.

    My first thought was that the pic of Adrian was from Solarbabies.  But I don't recall him being near-nekkid in it.

    I absolutely love me some Shia.  Like his pic there, but wish he was standing a bit more upright (and revealing) though.  Mmmm...

    And good golly, Guillermo, is that a big enough bulge in Leif's pants!  Sock stuff much!

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    When Beef goes Bad

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    afhickman (1994 points) (406 posts)
    on Sat, 2008-02-23 03:46.

    afhickman

    "It takes a village (to make Village People)"

    Beefcake was probably always a bad idea, especially in the 1950s, when nobody seemed to have a clue how to depilate.  However, if beef is your thing, here is a website for sore eyes:

    http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake.html

    Check out the Tab Hunter link and see him swapping recipes with Roddy McDowell. 

     

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    Pasdar

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    luvluke1 (573 points) (107 posts)
    on Sat, 2008-02-23 18:20.
    Did you see  a young hot Adrian in "Near Dark"? Very good movie with subtle homoerotic undertones. 
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    You can't be that desperate

    Submitted by
    Randy Cragin (60 points) (11 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-03-06 02:43.

    Unfortunately he can't stay young, but he's still hot. Have you not seen the take off scene with him in his pajama bottoms in Heroes? I mean seriously it has to be in his contract to expose his chest, what else does he have going for him anyway? If you find anything erotic, gay or otherwise in 'Near Dark' you have an imagination that has gone completely out of control. The movie is a bad B vampire flick in which the main character actually finds a cure by then end. Oops, spoiler. There is nothing sexy about it.

    Randy

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    OMG

    Submitted by
    Frank (435 points) (86 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-03-06 04:56.

    These pics of Leif Garrett bring back old memories. ;-)))

    He was one of the first guys I had a thing for. And now I don't really understand why.

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