In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• Our Hamlet 2 obsession grows: there is indeed a gay character in the central cast (Rand Posin) and he's played by Skylar Astin, best known as Georg in Broadway's smash hit Spring Awakening. He's the one in pink (natch!) in front of Sexy Jesus in the above pic.

• Professional disaster Pete Burns couldn't make his same-sex marriage work ... and neither should you.

• You know, I really don't need a reason to stop watching Ugly Betty ... but thanks, Lindsay.

• Tiim Gunn hobnobbing with the newly-sworn-in governor of New York? That can't be a bad thing.

• What with Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Michael Urie and a host of other gays and gay-faves (Spice Girls! Sylar!), the Upright Cabaret series looks like about the most fabulous thing ever.

• Cheyenne Jackson has joined the Encores! cast of Damn Yankees, joining Will & Grace's Sean Hayes, Jane Krakowski, and Ana Gasteyer.

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

Yes, it’s back! The BAFTA-award winning hit series, Wife Swap returns with another celebrity special this Sunday on Channel 4. And boy, is it a hum dinger of an episode!

Queue lots of diva hissy fits, monumental strops and foul language as singer/songwriter and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Pete Burns and his new hubby Michael Simpson (pictured together above) swap places with hard man of football, Neil “Razor” Ruddock and his partner, glamor girl Leah Newman.

The flamboyant Burns, who shot to fame in the 1980s as the front man of Dead or Alive (they had a number one hit single, You Spin Me Round) is well known for his cosmetic surgery and straight-talking, feisty personality. So pairing him up with a man’s man like Neil Ruddock is car crash telly heaven.

Viewers will get to see pampered Pete experience “how life could’ve been if I wasn’t queer”. Famed for his bizarre fashion sense, Pete throws a new tantrum every five minutes and goes from one over the top diva strop to the next.

Burns was married to wife Lynne Corlett for more than 25 years, but the couple divorced in 2006. He married his long-term partner Michael on July 6th, 2007, at a civil ceremony in Central London. He is soon to appear in Pete’s PA, a new reality TV series on Living television in October. Seriously though. Who in their right mind would want to be this man’s PA? He makes Jade Goody seem stable!

Celebrity Wife Swap is on Sunday 30 September at 8pm on Channel 4.