Last week's edition of Sunday Blessings featured Bear Grylls of the Discovery Channel's
Man vs. Wild, and
I thought I'd follow up with a post devoted to another sexy host of a Discovery program, Mike Rowe of
Dirty Jobs. Ok, yes I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, but i find the guy incredibly hot. Mike's kind of got the whole daddy thing going for him, which again is not for everyone, but I can certainly appreciate an attractive man who's approaching middle-age. You have to at least give him props for being comfortable enough with his body, and it is a good body, particulary his chest, to appear shirtless in a number of episodes. The show features Mike performing various jobs, predominately ones that involve him being covered in some kind of filth, which is why it's called
Dirty Jobs, but even after seeing him covered in ash, mud, animal manure or worse, I think all he needs is a shower and then I'd still hit it. Hell, if it's just mud he's covered with, I wouldn't even wait for him to take a shower, because sometimes being dirty can be fun. Anyway, the funniest thing I ever saw on his show was an episode in which he was working at a reptile or alligator farm/zoo, and one of the zoo's workers had to jump atop an alligator so they could drag it out of the water. The worker told Mike to take his shirt off and then jump on top of him, once he's on top of the alligator. So the guy jumps on the gator, and Mike takes off his shirt and jumps onto the guy's back. At this point Mike and any viewer realized there was absolutely no reason for him to take his shirt off. It was as if this zoo worker had some repressed homoerotic crush on Mike and thought this was a way to trick Mike into getting on top of him half-naked. Although, really who could blame him. I want Mike shirtless on top of me, though pantless would be better. Praise Jesus!
This week Sunday Blessings is devoted to Dave Salmoni, an animal trainer and host of multiple Animal Planet/Discovery Channel series and specials, including Living with Tigers, Rogue Nature, Into the Lion's Den, and Predator vs. Prey. His most recent series Into the Pride had him living with a pride of lions for six months in order to.... um.... prove something? Look, I'm sure there's a good reason for him living with these big cats, but I don't exactly know what that is, since it's not really the words coming out of his mouth that draw my attention. Let's face it, the reason Salmoni has been growing in popularity is his body, which is often on full display, and adorable nature of seeing this tough guy play around with the big kitties. Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel are fully aware of the beefcake aspect and have actually been promoting the series with videos of him showering with a bucket of water. Hey, it's a smart marketing strategy. It's also nice to know Salmoni is aware and appreciative of his gay fan base, remarking in an Advocate.com interview, "I feel like my gay fans are the most appreciative. I get lots of e-mails from them, and they're not shy. A young girl may say, 'Hey, I really like you, you're kinda cute,' whereas a gay guy will be like, 'Hey, take your shirt off more and you'll get better ratings.'"Amen.
