All I can say about Jamie Durie is, “wow!” He first caught my attention when PBS had him host their snooze fest of a gardening show, The Victory Garden. He seemed held back as its host and didn’t fit with the other drab segment hosts.

I was intrigued when I heard he would be hosting a new gardening show on HGTV and tuned in. OMG he shines on this show as he seems in his element as the designer whose eye is always changing and seeing new things to do and accomplishing the impossible. He is dirty. He is sweaty. His muscles bulge as he digs right in with the workers and doesn’t maintain the cookie cutter “show host” persona that HGTV has come to style all of its hosts as — making them unwatchable. Jamie is the exception to the rule in every sense and his show, The Outdoor Room is a true gem and may even help reignite the “garden” part of HGTV as the channel seems to have forgotten they have a G in their name.

Here’s hoping for more seasons of The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie and his hot, dirty, sweaty and muscled Aussie self.

Now things have been set right. John Barrowman was voted Favorite Male TV Star in AfterElton’s Second Annual Gay Peoples’ Choice Awards!

John crushed the competition (Neil Patrick Harris) by a landslide, correcting the injustice when Neil stole the crown of Gay of Decade from him by mounting a tweeting war. Pay back is a bitch and she is a hot 41-year-old dude named John who can do everything from singing and dancing to wielding guns and time travel to save the world from invading aliens. Take that Neil Patrick Harris!

AfterElton and its readers have crowned Neil Patrick Harris with the title of Gay/Bisexual Man of the Decade, with John Barrowman being runner up. The caption for the photo they ran with the story should have:

Neil: “Ohhh yeah. Was there any doubt?”
John: “Are you fucking kidding me?”

You must be very disconnected if you haven’t heard about the social media battle between the two hot celebs. To ensure each would win, they enlisted their gazillion Twitter and other media followers to vote. They were neck-in-neck until Neil pulled out his bullybamboozle and escalated a war of tweets. Well, if John didn’t win then I’m glad Neil did. However, John Barrowman is still the Gay Man of the Decade in my eyes.

Adam Lambert not only rocked the American Music Awards, but riled up with his provocative performance. Though his style’s not my thing, he’s extremely talented and pushed the envelope by kissing and simulating a blow job with a male band member and dancer.

Had it been performed by a woman or a straight man with female counterparts, no one would’ve noticed it for anything other than a mediocre rock performance (I’ve seen him do better). Nothing that he did hasn’t been done before with all parties being straight. Had this been during the 8PM time slot, I’d agree that it was in appropriate, but given that it was nearly 11PM, there was nothing at all wrong with it. Rock on, Adam!

Whoa! Okay, so I am totally on team Lance. Well, always was! How incredibly hot is he looking? NYSNC’s popularity went as fast as it came, but as a former follower (please don’t hate me) I could never understand the appeal of Justin Timberlake, who became the breakout star from the former boy band. Maybe I don’t like him because he reminds me of an almost-sort-of boyfriend? Who Knows!

But Lance on the other hand was kind of the dark horse behind JT’s limelight, whose own light has been shining brighter and brighter. Look out Timberlake… you could be the next one to have his ass kicked into the dust just like the dude in this photo.