Ian Roberts @ Advocate

Australian proudly gay rugby star turned actor, Ian Roberts, splashes on the front cover of US gay magazine The Advocate, the 'Sex' issue.

The cover story under the headline 'Meet Ian Roberts' tells Roberts’ journey from footballer to Australia’s first, and still only, publicly gay footballer, and now to his new role of trying to break into American acting market in Hollywood.

Ian has just finished shooting his upcoming film, Kiss Me Deadly: A Jacob Keane Assignment, a thriller for Here TV starring Robert Gant and Shannen Doherty. He plays Frederick, “an intense thug,” according to the film’s director, Ron Oliver.