Hey guys, it's a blog full of fun stuff and coolness today ... Apart from the downpour of rain and resultant frizzy hair debacle. I look a right state, I don't want to talk about it! :-)

On to the good stuff ... The red paint shoot with Erik Demko has proved very popular with you guys (And rightly so, he looks great!). So, as promised, here's an exclusive behind the scenes look at that photoshoot - check it out, we had a lot of fun.

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In other news, The European Gay Porn Awards are edging closer and I was very excited to recieve my ticket yesterday. Matt, Rico, Dani L and myself will be heading over to Berlin on Saturday 17th May to represent. Between sips of champagne, I’ll be taking some behind the scenes photos of the evening and posting them right here.

Thanks again to everyone who voted for us - Keep your fingers crossed.

It will be an emotional night for me as it is my last adventure with Menatplay - I’m leaving to be a full time journalist at the end of May. But you’re gonna get a few more blogs out of me yet.

Finally – we’ve run out of ties!!! So if you buy a book from the Menatplay store now please be aware that the limited tie and autograph offer is now o-v-a-h … over. But still buy the book, cos its good, innit!
And keep voting for the member fantasy that you want made into an official MAP movie on the forum (Discussion section)

TTFN

Leeroy xx

Hey guys

Just a quick one from me today. It's my 13th blog - unlucky for some, but not for one Menatplay member. Congratulations to Leigh who's STAG NIGHT idea will become a future Menatplay movie. It was neck and neck on the forum, but the extra e-mail votes clinched it for him. Well done and we look forward to making it shortly.

The other Top 5 ideas were great though too, so they could become reality one day!

That's all from me today, will be back with the usual exclusives soon. I figure we get 4 days of sunshine in the UK so I'm going out to enjoy the rest of today while I still can.

Laterz

Leeroy x

Hey guys - it's a quickie but a goodie.

For today's blog I thought I’d give you a sneak preview of our next DVD. Yes, Executive Pleasures 3 is currently in postproduction and I will have a release date for you soon. In the mean time, here’s the snazzy lime green cover that will look perfect on the shelf next to your 1st and 2nd DVD’s.

This is going to be a jam packed DVD with no less than 12 of your favortie menatplay models making star appearences and some top notch extras. More news as and when it comes.

Laterz

Leeroy x

Hey guys, how is everyone doing?

You may remember me mentioning the European Gay Porn Awards back in Blog 12. Well the ceremony is this weekend (It’s come by so quickly!) and the buzz has begun to get very loud (Mainly from me talking noisily on my mobile going “YEAH, I’M GOING TO BERLIN!”). Out of the short-listed categories we’re very proud to have SIX nominations:

Best Stud Film
Best Hunk Film
Best Bottom (Carl Wylde)
Best Top (Julian Vincenzo)
The Maleflixx Gold Award for Top European Studio
Best Overall Film

The European Gay Porn Awards Newsletter (Who knew there was such a thing) quotes:

“Bearing in mind that they’re a relatively small studio, MenAtPlay have done incredibly well to have achieved nominations from Executive Pleasures 1 in both these categories”

We’re the baby of all the studios nominated and are thrilled to be the only ones to have a star in both Top and Bottom category - does that make us versatile???

OK, enough horn tooting! Everyone at MenAtPlay wants to thank all of you for either voting or simply supporting our website these last few years, for without you we would be nothing.

Now lets get back to giving you guys a horn of a different kind …

To celebrate a nominee, here’s some behind the scenes shots of the lovely Carl from various shoots. He's definately one of my Menatplay favorites and a lot of yours too - The boy likes to giggle! Best of luck to him and of course to Julian this weekend.

Laterz
Leeroy

Well guys, we're fresh back from a great weekend in the beautiful city of Berlin where we attended the European Gay Porn Awards. And what a night it was! Not only were we fortunate enough to walk away with two awards for "Best Stud Film" and "Best Top" (Julian Vincenzo), but it was also a chance for us to catch up with a few familiar faces and celebrate our win with the whole MAP team.

So a HUGE thank you to all of you who voted for EP1, and made this possible. We are very lucky to have such great support from our members!

xxx Matt & Rico

So as you’ve probably heard now – we won two EGPA’s! Here’s some footage of the awards show and after party. Come marvel at Matt looking gorgeous in his suit as he accepted the awards (He’s actually very sweet and shy but did great up there), check out a couple of MAP favourites we ran into and laugh at me staggering round Berlin like Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous.

Here’s a little diary entry of the entire evening … Take care guys
Leeroy xx

So when I was told I was going to Berlin with our boys, I was very excited. Not only had I never been to Berlin before, but this was also my first awards ceremony that celebrated porn … it was just like the Oscars but with slightly more cum shots and slightly less old queens.

When driving up to the awards, I was worried it was being held in some sort of tiny church hall (Pineapple on a stick anyone?). But the outside view was deceiving and once in the ceremony room the glamour materialized. Pumping music, flashing lights and lazers, euro drag queens, endlessly flowing alcohol and most importantly a room full of gorgeous gay porn stars dressed to the nines.
We also got to chat to some stalwart menatplay models Francesco D’macho and Milan who were looking HOT and were soaking up the complimentary alcohol and working the room.

The awards kicked off with London based drag queen Johnny Woo providing a wonderfully dry but energetic opener, with a look that was part Rocky Horror part walking sex toy. The first award was also a win for us - Best Stud film – which was a really pleasant surprise. Then it was my turn to stagger on to the stage and accept an award for Julian who won best top for his performance in Executive Pleasures 1. Best three hours work he ever did! It was also interesting to see all of the behind the scenes people and producers from all over the world who made all of this pornography happen.

With 25 categories, the awards were doled out at an impressive pace. The fact that they showed clips of each film nominated created some of the more bizarre moments of the evening – clapping politely to someone being spanked and someone cumming was another new experience in quite an eye opening event.
After a short taxi ride – and a conversation with a sweet but clueless taxi driver who commented that we’d just attended a ‘small film awards’ it was off to the after-party where the free booze was taking hold nicely and gorgeous models were grinding away to some German house music … and pouting for pictures as if they were in a Keira Knightly lookalike competition.

All in all, a wonderfully vibrant and colourful evening – the awards are still very much in their infancy but are starting to attract enough attention that I’m sure the third one next year will be even bigger. So the last thing to do is to raise a glass to all the winners … and roll on 2009!

Hey everyone,

You may remember I announced a few weeks ago that I would be leaving Menatplay. Well tomorrow is my last day and it’s with great sadness that I write this – my final blog.

I will really miss sharing the news, pictures and movies with you, but mostly I will miss the community spirit of the members on the forums. I think this is one of the few adult sites out there with heart and some very loyal followers … make sure we don’t lose that!

The blog will continue without me in some VERY capable hands – but my scooping days are done so you’ll just have to wait until next week for that one.

I have had a fantastic 9 months at Menatplay and must finish off with a huge thank you to Matt and Rico for giving me such a wonderful opportunity and generally putting up with me. I’m pretty sure the only thing that will be missing from the studio is sarcasm LOL.

Take care guys and stay sharp.

Leeroy x x x x x x x