Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month

Worthington won a scholarship to the John Curtin School of Performings Arts in Fremantle, and then studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.

After graduating from NIDA in 1998, Worthington performed in a production of Judas Kiss for Company B at the Belvoir St Theatre. He went on to act in a series of Australian movies and TV series; including a supporting role in Bootmen (2000) and leading roles in Dirty Deeds (2002), Gettin' Square (2003), Somersault (2004) and a modern Australian retelling of Macbeth (2006). Worthington won the 2004 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Lead Actor for his role in Somersault. He is well known in Australia for his role as Howard in the acclaimed Australian TV series Love My Way, where he played the main love interest of the female lead.

Worthington's international film career began with a series of small roles in Hollywood productions such as Hart's War (2002) and The Great Raid (2005), which was filmed in Australia. He was one of several actors who was under consideration to take over the role of James Bond from Pierce Brosnan for the 2006 film Casino Royale. Director Martin Campbell stated that only Worthington and Henry Cavill were in serious contention along with eventual winner Daniel Craig.

In 2007, James Cameron chose Worthington for a leading role in his science fiction thriller Avatar. On 12 February 2008 it was revealed he was cast, on Cameron's recommendation, in Terminator Salvation as Marcus Wright the amnesiac cyborg.

Luke Pasqualino is a english actor, best known for his portrayal of Freddie Mclair in the Channnel Four television series, Skins - Series 3 .

Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month for April for Tommy Bowe

Irish rugby hunk Tommy Bowe was a key figure in the Ireland team that won the 2009 Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam, the first for Ireland in 61 years. He plays on the wing for the Ospreys (after leaving Ulster in 2008) and Ireland.

A former pupil of The Royal School in Armagh, Northern Ireland, he was a Schoolboy provincial full-back, only converting to wing whilst playing for Ireland U-21s. His form both here and at Irish club level prompted a call-up to the Ulster squad at the end of the 2003-2004 season, scoring on his debut against Connacht and soon made his name as an Ulster regular. He became a firm crowd favourite at Ravenhill and won Guinness Ulster Rugby Personality of the Year Award at the Ulster Rugby Awards Dinner in May 2005.

Bowe made his international debut against the USA during the 2004 IRB Autumn Internationals becoming the first player from County Monaghan to win an Ireland cap since the 1920s. He marked his introduction to test rugby with a second half try. Bowe won further caps during Ireland's tour to Japan and their Autumn Internationals in 2005. With that experience and an impressive run of form for Ulster in the Celtic League, he made the 22-man panel for Ireland's 2006 Six Nations opener against Italy, and went on to score a try in that game. In the 2009 Six Nations, he has consolidated his Ireland position, with a string of quality performances and tries against Italy and, most memorably, in the Grand Slam winning match against Wales.

Alex Pettyfer is an actor and former fashion model. His films include Stormbreaker and Wild Child, you will also see him soon in a horror film called Tormented.

Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month for March 2009 is Alex Pettyfer

He was born on the 10 April 1990 and is the son of an actor Richard Pettyfer. Alex hits the bigtime young in Stormbreaker, the adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's best-selling novels, playing the teenage spy, Alex Rider. (Horowitz reportedly pushed for him to get the part after seeing him play the title role in ITV's Tom Brown's Schooldays.) The film was released worldwide in 2006. In the film he gets to ride a horse bareback around Hyde Park and act alongside a stellar cast, including Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy and Stephen Fry.

One review of his performance described him as playing the role with an "earnest intensity", although another noted that he "isn't quite at ease as an actor". Media reports specified that the film was expected to make Alex a "teen idol". Pettyfer will not reprise the role if there is another Alex Rider film because he is too old.

He was seen as a model in the Spring/Summer 2008 Burberry advertising campaign, having been signed to Select Model Management. Two years after Stormbreaker, the 18-year old blond bombshell was back in 'the movies', this time as Emma Roberts's lurrrrve interest in chick flick Wild Child.

Tina Turner said we don't need another hero, she obviously had never met Milo Ventimiglia, who plays hotty Peter Petrelli on hit sci-fi series Heroes. Also loved for his roles as Jess on Gilmore Girls, Rocky's son in 2006's Rocky Balboa, the 31-year-old heartthrob reveals why gay fans have always been powerless to resist him, and how he's saving the world -- one shirtless scene at a time. When did you first realize you had gay fans? "It was way before Heroes or Gilmore Girls . I was about 19 or 20 years old. I'd done a short film when I was 18 called Must Be the Music, where I played a gay teenager. I was shopping with my mom and dad one weekend, and these two gay guys came up and said they'd seen the film at a film festival and they just thought I was great. That was actually the very first time I'd ever been recognized for anything. I'm glad that it was my first meeting with a fan, because it wasn't the standard 14-year-old girl chasing me down; it was men who were fans of the work. That was cool."

Did you get any teasing from friends for playing gay? "No, I never did. At the end of the day, I'm playing a part, and there are many parts to play. I would hope that if I'm playing a killer no one would frown upon or tease me for that."

How did you prepare for the role? "I didn't do much preparation; I got the part and dove right in the next week, and we filmed in a club called Arena in Hollywood. I'd always had friends who were gay, straight -- just a huge mix of friends-so I understood the story of what this kid was going through. It was less about him being gay and more about him meeting someone he's interested in."

After Gilmore Girls made you a heartthrob, you played gay again in the 2005 horror film Cursed. Any hesitations about taking that role? "No, I'm just into good characters. I just read a script for a cross-country travel movie about an interesting duo-a man on his way to being transgendered has a friendship with this woman who's escaping a marriage. I had this meeting to play the man who becomes transgendered. It's such an interesting role -- the psychology behind a person who feels trapped in a body they don't think they should've been born into. The producer said to me, "It's very brave of you to consider something like this." And I said, "Why? It's a great role." I tend to lean toward a good role despite any stigma that's possibly attached to it. I mean, fuck, it's 2008. The fact that people are still worried about stuff like that just baffles me."

Ever done drag since? "I have. I did a TV show called Opposite Sex about three guys who go to a formerly all-girls high school just recently made co-ed. At the very end of the pilot I was in full drag singing Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". It was an experience. Putting on a halter-top, a Farrah Fawcett wig, and dancing in platforms was tough. I have a lot of respect for the women -- and men -- who dress up and do that."

Was that your gayest moment ever? "Absolutely not. I've definitely had gayer moments than that!"

Former Echo Beach and Where The Heart actor Christian Cooke is January 2009 Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month. Christian is at present fighting supernatural forces of evil in ITV's Demons. Christian Cooke was born on the 15th of September, 1986. Bradford West Yorkshire, England. He was educated at St Mary's School, Menston. Christian Cooke began his acting career early with a role in Bedazzled at the Bingley Arts Centre at the age of 10. Christian Cooke's first television role was as the eponymous lead in the Granada series Wilmot at the age of 12. Christian went on to appear on stage and screen in various productions including Peter Pan at the Alhambra Theatre, Bugsy Malone at the Guisely Theatre, and bit parts in Casualty and Barking before enrolling at Stage 84, the Yorkshire school for perfoming arts and landing his first major role as Luke in the ITV / Granada drama Where the Heart Is. He graduated from Stage 84 in 2000 and won roles in The Royal and George Gently before once again taking a leading role in series two of The Chase and Echo Beach. He appeared in an episode of Robin Hood: The Angel of Death 2007 as Luke Scarlett. His latest role is that of UNIT soldier Ross Jenkins in Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky. In June 2008 he started filming the new ITV drama Demons which started on ITV on the 3rd January 2009,opposite Philip Glenister.He plays the character, Luke Van Helsing, who is the last of the Van Helsing line.

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