The 40-year-old former real estate mogul has been living his best life in Bali after exiting the South Carolina-based reality show following last year’s Season 10, retiring, and selling off all his assets.
That said, it appears he’s developed a bit of a reputation amongst the locals, and he shared a recent video on Instagram to clear the air.
In the clip, captioned “Day 50 – taking strays from the gays here on day 50 in Bali,” JT explained that he was on a breakfast date with his Romanian friend, Bianca Petrache, when she hit him with a “surprise bomb.”
Apparently, Petrache asked him if he was “gay or bisexual,” to which JT was immediately thrown.
As she explained, two days before, another man had walked up to her and “said that he f*cked” JT.
Of course, JT quickly told her that he identifies as heterosexual and does not like men, but Petrache was seemingly not convinced.
Petrache hit him with, “I don’t know,” to JT’s amusement, and he added, “OK, well, we got a lot of day ahead of us, so we’re going to keep working through this one.”
In the title for the video, JT surmised that he was being “gaslit that I’m gay,” although his followers were a bit more skeptical.
“Huge red flag! Run,” one user wrote, while another added: “I’ll ruin the ending: this won’t end well.” Oop.
Although JT might not be gay (and really wants his 149,000 followers to know that), the expat is an outspoken liberal.
As he’s thoroughly documented on his Instagram account, the biggest reason for his Indonesian relocation was that “his country is imploding.”
“There’s a bunch of issues [in the United States, like] cost of living, et cetera,” he explained to his followers. “But there’s one real hot button issue that I’m pretty sure I’m not wrong about, because I agree with the Pope who’s saying that all humans, including immigrants, should be treated like humans.”
JT went on to discuss videos of “illegal immigrants getting tackled to the ground and zip-tied” in the United States, and stated that the country is “not treating people like humans anymore.”
“We’re treating certain people inside of our borders like animals,” he added. “It’s absolutely diabolical, I don’t stand for it. So, I’m at the Indian Ocean, I’m in Bali.”
Of course, JT’s decision to leave South Carolina was likely made easier by his tumultuous experience on reality TV.
During the tenth season, he feuded with nearly every star of the show and was accused of being racist towards fellow cast member and brief love interest, Venita Aspen. In fact, basically everyone on Southern Charm called him a “f*ck boy,” leading to his dramatic departure from the series.
“I no longer wish to participate in any ways moving forward with the TV show,” he wrote in a statement. “I will leave it at that for now … while I work on next steps to recover both physically and mentally from what’s been an extremely challenging and exhausting year.”
Yikes!
So, with that in mind, it sounds like sexuality rumors are probably the least of JT’s worries. And at least we’ve gotten tons of shirtless videos out of the entire ordeal!
