'Days of Our Liv': Is Will Horton Actor Chandler Massey Gay Real Life?

Contents:

• HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
• ‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’: IS CHANDLER MASSEY GAY REAL LIFE – MARRIED OR SGLE?
• WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.
• TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
• ‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’: IS WILL HORTON ACTOR CHANDLER MASSEY GAY REAL LIFE?
• WAS CHANDLER BG ORIGALLY GAY ON FRIENDS? EVEN LISA KUDROW THOUGHT SO
• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
• GAY TV HISTORY: THE STRAIGHTENG OF CHANDLER BG
• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA

HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY

Seattle-based journalist Matt Bme, however, believ the show uld have end very differently if the creative team’s origal plans for Chandler, played by Matthew Perry, had been a new vio report, Bme ― who is the thor of the 2015 book “Defg Marriage” and the host of “Culture Cise, ” an acclaimed YouTube seri ― lv to thly sourced but persistent reports that the creators of “Friends” had tend for Chandler to be a gay man, but changed him to a straight character after Perry was st. He also breaks down a number of gay jok ― many of them crgeworthy by morn standards ― prented the show at the character’s expense as evince of a funct plot le. “No, Chandler isn’t gay, ” he said at the time.

‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’: IS CHANDLER MASSEY GAY REAL LIFE – MARRIED OR SGLE?

“Nor will he be gay. And Perry’s -star Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, gave crence to that theory a 2014 terview wh the Televisn Amy suggtg that she, too, believed the character was gay at that Chandler posss what he believ is “a gay sensibily, but no gay storyl, ” Bme told HuffPost, “If they had ma fully gay ― wrten gay, played gay ― would that have been a good thg or a bad thg?

”“On one hand, would have been amazg to see a gay ma character on one of the most popular shows TV history, ” he ntued. They’d often repeat the same simple joke, that would be funny if a person was gay....

WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.

[The show] seemed to be at s bt when tellg heterosexual stori, and I’m not sure they uld have pulled off the challenge of featurg TV’s most proment gay ma character.

But they also wonr if Chandler Massey’s gay real life given how nvcg they are on-screen. Check out what’s happeng on the NBC soap wh s of our Liv: Freddie Smh is Not Gay – What About Chandler Massey? That leav many people wonrg if the actors are gay or straight real life.

First, Freddie Smh is engaged and not gay. Is DOOL’s Chandler Massey Gay – And Who’s He Datg. As for the answer to “is Chandler Massey gay real life?

TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?

How close did the people behd the h show Friends e to makg Chandler gay?

‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’: IS WILL HORTON ACTOR CHANDLER MASSEY GAY REAL LIFE?

Chandler uld have had the most proment gay character televisn history… until the show’s creators cid to straighten him out.

It was about six twenty-somethg Gen-Xers livg, lghg, and lovg implsibly large Manhattan apartments, and was a lot ls shy than other shows of the time about dog gay episos. He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s sarstic, he’s unlucky love, he’s well drsed — and he was believed to be totally gay, both by characters on the show and by people real life.

Chandler go to his iends and asks if they ever thought he was gay, and learns that they all thought he was. And they’re not alone, bee when this episo aired, a lot of viewers thought he was gay as well. In the early velopment of Friends, creators Marta Kffman and David Crane “entertaed the possibily that Chandler uld be gay, ” acrdg to terviews published back the 1990s.

WAS CHANDLER BG ORIGALLY GAY ON FRIENDS? EVEN LISA KUDROW THOUGHT SO

If they’d gone wh a gay actor, he said, they might’ve stuck to the gay plan.

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Instead of havg the character be gay, they cid stead to have everyone jt thk he’s gay. Wrers were told to “wre gay and play straight. Viewers may have been primed to notice gay characters the mid-90s bee they were creasgly visible on the news and talk shows.

There are tons of articl om the show’s origal n perd about how gay Chandler seems — so many terviews where they have to very patiently expla, no, he’s not gay, really. The show loved droppg ltle gay hts about Chandler. In that season 1 episo, after his iends all tell him that he has a gay “qualy, ” Chandler fds his worker so he n make sure she knows he’s not gay.

GAY TV HISTORY: THE STRAIGHTENG OF CHANDLER BG

It’s another example of wrg gay, playg straight. But if Chandler had been gay — wrten gay, played gay — would the show have been funnier?

Ross terpts Chandler’s flirtg and tell him he should be gay. It’s sentially that Chandler’s gay, which was also the punchle the first scene wh his worker, and the scene wh his iends, and the other scene wh his worker. That joke — ’s jt funny for someone to be was gay — seems to be the only gay joke Friends wants to tell.

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Homosexualy n be funny! For example, Stt Thompson on Kids the Hall, and gay ic Bob Smh. But Friends even seems to go out of s way to avoid any other gay joke.

It would have been a huge tone if the creators of Friends had gone ahead and ma one of the iends gay. It was such a popular show — if uld pel lns of Amerins to change their hairstyl, image what might have done to public attus about homosexualy. Chandler Massey Gay or Straight Real Life?

A longstandg and oft-repeated urban legend is that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay  Friends until Matthew Perry was st the role. “If we had st a different actor – who was gay – there was the optn that we would have taken the character that directn. This ntributed heavily to fan speculatn that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay – a theory given crence by Phoebe Buffay actrs Lisa Kudrow, who 2014 revealed that she thought the character was gay when she first joed Friends.