Rick Warren Self-Promotes At The Expense Of Easter And The Jonas Brothers, Brett Claywell Blasts ABC And One Live To Live For Dropping Gay Storyline, Liam Hemsworth Wonderland, Chad White, Francisco Lachowski, Let’s Get Oral

Saddleback Church faux-pastor Rick Warren held Easter Sunday service at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California for some 30,000, the service featuring some awkward sport analogies and a surprise performance by the Jonas Brothers. Warren, a proponent of Proposition 8, and one of the architects behind the building of anti-gay hate and hysteria in Africa, a principle inspiration behind the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, celebrated the Saddleback Church’s 30th anniversary with what has been criticized by other spiritual leaders as a garish exercise in self-promotion, marketing masquerading as religion. “Life is like baseball,” Warren said, “we all get a few errors, we get some hits and definitely a lot of strikeouts,” not mentioning the use of performance enhancing drugs throughout one’s life. The Jonas Brothers performed three songs at the end of the service, before Warren reappeared to close “the service bare-footed and in surf shorts welcoming guests to be baptized in one of the three temporary pools outside the stadium.”

Brent Claywell talks about the decision by producers and ABC to eliminate his and Scott Evan’s gay storyline on One Life To Live –the couple, known affectionately as Kish, will be last seen on episode to air April 12th with Claywell’s last scene set for April 16th – the network insisting that the low ratings for the show, in particular for the gay couple’s storyline, was the motivation to let the two actors go. The network and producers, in fact, have hinted that the sex scene between the two was the beginning of the end. Claywell disagrees, and remains definite and justly proud of the work he and Evans did creating a memorable gay couple amid a landscape where few exist, and argues that the sex scene was integral to the natural development of Kyle Lewis and Oliver Fish. “I think the storyline would have been incomplete with the sex scene,” says Claywell. “Daytime, for 42 years or however long it’s been on television – that is what daytime does. They tell love stories over and over and over to people across the country. Year in and year out, day in and day out, they’re telling stories of love and they’re telling true stories of relationships. We would not have been truthful if we held back that scene. I will never, ever regret (it). I’m very proud and I stand by all the work we did.”

Liam Hemsworth is one of the New Faces featured in the newest edition of Wonderland magazine.

Chad White photographed by Hung N’Guyen.

Francisco Lachowski is featured in an editorial for Brazil’s 2nd Floor fall and winter 2010/11 fashion campaign, the dreamy Francisco mostly shirtless, naturally.

An editorial titled Let’s Get Oral, which is pretty much self-explanatory.