Almost Famous: Justin Gaston

post from Planet Homo on 05 March 2009 02:07:00 AM. © Planet Homo

From stylist.com/blog comes this tantalizing piece about Justin Gaston, Miley Cyrus's boyfriend who is making quite an appearance on EY! magazine. Ben Widdicombe files this report: Celebrity magazines have been reporting that Justin Gaston, MileyCyrus's 20-year-old model boyfriend, has moved into the Cyrus familyhome so that dad Billy Ray can "keep an eye on him." But it seems theyoung fella has been slipping out of the compound.

Away from the Disney-sanitized environment that attends a hitcommodity like "Hannah Montana," young Mr. Gaston is getting quite thereputation for racy photo spreads. First came a series in the Spring2009 issue of V Man, an edgy men's fashion magazine which posed himawkwardly straddling a tennis net and grabbing his crotch.

Now he is on the cover of the even more avant garde Electric Youth!magazine, a frankly homoerotic remix of the teen-mag Tiger Beat genrededicated to up-and-coming male models. (Although the new issue doesalso feature a handful of young female models, including DakotaJohnson, the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.)

Electric Youth! (or EY!), named after the Debbie Gibson hit, is thebrainchild of a Madrid-based creative director named Luis Venegas. Eachmodel is interviewed in the style of a teen idol and the text, incontrast to the revealing photos, is positively restrained. Gaston isonly referred to as Miley's "best friend," for example, and theaspiring musician is allowed a generous plug for his MySpace demo page.Dakota Johnson's famous parents aren't even mentioned.

EY! does not have a web site and you won't find the ad-free mag onnews stands. Although it nominally has a US cover price of $18, inreality it is stocked by only a few trendy European boutiques ordistributed privately among the fashion media. To purchase head here.

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