{"id":165,"date":"2026-09-10T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/?p=165"},"modified":"2026-09-10T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:36:04","slug":"agt-judges-give-worlds-gayest-boyband-the-other-direction-standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"AGT judges give \u2018world\u2019s gayest boyband\u2019 The Other Direction standing ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Village People: there\u2019s another act vying for the title of \u201cworld\u2019s gayest boyband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re called \u2013 somewhat brilliantly \u2013 The Other Direction.<\/p>\n<p>Comprised of\u00a0Alex the Jock, Norm the Cowboy, Jason the Party Boy, Greg the Mama Bear and Devin the Fashionista (that\u2019s how they introduced themselves, FYI), the band appeared on this week\u2019s episode of long-running talent show America\u2019s Got Talent.<\/p>\n<p>Where, against the odds, they brought the house down.<\/p>\n<div id=\"at-ad-303168-article-content-2-container\" class=\"at-advert at-advert--leaderboard at-advert--desktop\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe made a pact that when we were 21 we would come together\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually met at middle school at show choir camp and we all came out to each other while we were there,\u201d Jason told the judges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2oE3FoWmmw4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made a pact that when we were 21 we would come together and form the world\u2019s gayest boyband.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"at-ad-303168-article-content-3-container\" class=\"at-advert at-advert--leaderboard at-advert--desktop\"><\/div>\n<p>Judges Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara and Heidi Klum seemed taken with the boys, with Simon Cowell even offering a rare note of encouragement before their audition: \u201cI hope this goes really, really well \u2013 good luck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five-piece then performed their original song \u2018Girl, You\u2019re the Best.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Village People: there\u2019s another act vying for the title of \u201cworld\u2019s gayest boyband.\u201d And they\u2019re called \u2013 somewhat brilliantly \u2013 The Other Direction. Comprised of\u00a0Alex the Jock, Norm &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wukwai.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}