Reality TV is tailor-made for the gays, and it’s even better when eye candy comes on screen.

Enter Tucker Des Lauriers, a contestant on the new season of reality competition Big Brother, which premiered this week on July 17. Des Lauriers is a marketing and sales executive based in Brooklyn, but fans were more interested in his other line of work: modeling. Des Lauriers’ social media is chock-full of glamor shots, which fans were happy to ogle when they weren’t watching the show itself.

Naturally, Des Lauriers got lots of attention for his looks, from fancams to praise for his pictures.

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Fans also latched onto a clip from a pre-season video, where Des Laurier brought up one of his goals for the season. He said he hopes to break the series’ unofficial curse of losing if you’re the first to enter the house, using the phrase “break that whole stigma.” The internet, of course, cut off the clip before the word “stigma,” just leaving Des Lauriers saying “break that whole” — take or leave the W.

Dedicated fans also discovered a month-old interview with Des Lauriers, where he was asked if, as a model, he gets more attention from straight women or from gay men.

“Definitely gay men, for sure,” he quickly replied. “And I just think that they’re naturally more aggressive too, so. Yeah. Definitely a lot more aggressive.”

As far as his actual time in the Big Brother house, some folks are hoping for a showmance between him and another player, Matt Hardeman, for no apparent reason other than them both being attractive young men. Big Brother has never had a genuine gay showmance (and let’s be real — these two won’t be the ones to give it to us), but it never hurts to dream. In his intro video for Big Brother, Des Lauriers called himself “handsome, single, and ready to mingle.”

Others hoped that Des Lauriers would (platonically) link up with fellow player T’Kor Clottey. Des Lauriers has a gay dad, while Clottey has gay moms — talk about a power couple.

Want to catch Des Lauriers in action? Big Brother airs Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+.

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