Seven months after getting engaged, Joel Kim Booster may be very a lot in a romantic temper ― however, as seen in a brand new interview, he hasn’t misplaced his irreverent humorousness since discovering love.
HuffPost caught a sneak peek at Booster’s look on Thursday’s episode of Grindr’s “Who’s the A**hole? with Katya” podcast. In it, the “Fire Island” actor and comic says he knew that he and fiancé John-Michael Sudsina would ultimately marry simply two days after they met.
“You know when you know. It is not something that will grow,” he defined. “It is not something that you can force to happen. No matter how much you like the person, if you don’t have that feeling immediately, it’s not going to come by date three. That is my belief.”
He went on to notice: “I had never felt that way about anybody else in my entire life. At least for me, I was not someone who was going to wait around and waste time trying to fall in love with someone.”
Watch Booster talk about his relationship with Sudsina beneath.
Booster and Sudsina, a online game producer, obtained engaged in August of final yr whereas on trip in Jeju Island, South Korea. “No matter where I am, he’s my home,” Booster wrote on Instagram alongside a carousel of photographs which included a snapshot of him on one knee earlier than a jubilant-looking Sudsina.
In his chat with Katya, a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” veteran, Booster confirmed Sudsina met his courting “criteria” early on.
“I needed him to be curious, like somebody who would continue to want to experience things and grow with me,” he stated.
These accustomed to Booster’s cheeky model of comedy gained’t be disenchanted by his “Who’s the A**hole?” interview. Elsewhere within the chat, he and Katya dish on the sudden downfalls of intercourse within the bathe.
“One of the greatest lies ― water’s not lube,” he quipped. “In fact, it does not help you in there … I also don’t enjoy it in a hot tub or a pool.”
Watch Joel Kim Booster’s feedback on bathe intercourse beneath.
Now in its third season, “Who’s the A**hole? with Katya” presents listeners an “unfiltered and judgment-free space to explore the messy gray areas of hook-ups, relationships, and everything in between … the cheeks,” in response to Grindr’s Director of Client Content material, Benjamin Cooper.
The podcast’s current friends embrace “Hacks” actor and comic Meg Stalter, Olympian Gus Kenworthy and intercourse and relationship guru Zachary Zane.
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Katya, who has cited the late Dr. Ruth Westheimer as one of many inspirations for the podcast, stated the main target is on having “open conversations with about the realities of queer dating and relationships.”
“Everyone can be an asshole when it comes to dating, but nobody wants to admit it. That’s where I come in — to get the dirt on everyone!” the performer advised HuffPost. “My job is to make sure everyone feels comfortable enough to have these conversations and make these topics less taboo ― I mean, everyone fucks and everyone can be an asshole. Just look at me.”
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