It’s October 3 So We’re Thirsting After ‘Mean Girls’ Star Jonathan Bennett

October 3, 2023
JOSHUA ANDREW

It's October 3, which is officially Mean Girls day in some part of the world, and unofficially a day to appreciate the hot, gay star of the iconic comedy Jonathan Bennett.

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Jonathan Bennett burst onto the scene and lit up our loins as Aaron Samuels, everyone's ultimate boy-next-door crush, in Tina Fey's now-legendary 2004 film Mean Girls. There is a whole Mean Girls culture — it's spanned a Broadway musical and a remake and versions all over the world. We now have words and phrases like fetch, Plastics, burn book, and too-gay-to-function because of this genius. Want to see the Millennial brain at work? Go round for round quoting Mean Girls and see who stops first.

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Since starring in Mean Girls, Jonathan Bennett has gone onto Hallmark movies, TV's Veronica Mars, competing on Dancing with the Stars and Celebrity Big Brother, and hosting Food Network shows Cake Wars, Battle of the Decades, and Halloween Wars. The man keeps busy.

He also came out of the closet and married his hot AF partner (and reality TV vet) Jaymes Vaughn. The two have a podcast together, appeared on MTV's The Real Friends of WeHo and founded a LGBTQ+ travel company, where they cruise with fans (and fans who become friends) around the world.

To celebrate October 3, Mean Girls, and the playful star who looks sexy with his hair pushed back, here's some hot pictures of Jonathan Bennett ripped from his Instagram.