Boys of Summer: Choreographer Glenn Douglas Packard

Nothing makes us cringe more than the words “gay best friend” as it pertains to TV—especially when said gay is the BFF on a reality show—but something about Glenn Douglas Packard is different.

First off, there’s no big coming out episode—he’s already out. Secondly, the whole catty, sex-obsessed corner reality show producers like to paint their gay characters into doesn’t fly with Glenn—happily coupled for three years, he’s the wiser, self-confident ying to Brooke Hogan’s yang on her new fish out of water series Brooke Knows Best.

A friend of the Hogans and Brooke’s choreographer for years, Packard’s come a long way from his days growing up on the farm in Michigan. Dreams of becoming a professional/choreographer seemed out of reach, and then almost ended forever when a tractor accident and subsequent infection that spread across his right leg left him hospitalized for a year. The 19-year-old vowed if he ever recovered he’d follow his dreams and enroll in dance school.

Pink, Whitney Houston and Destiny’s Child are among the A-list stars who can be thankful Packard recovered. The in-demand choreographer has worked with the music industry’s elite, and now, after a few years spent pondering his next move, reality TV fans can see what the dance industry’s been buzzing about for years.

On Being Openly Gay on a Reality Show: “I did have concerns when I first went into it; I figured they probably wouldn’t find me to be the gay man they wanted to have on the show. I like to call myself a traditionalist gay man. I’m very relationship oriented. You’ll always seem me trying to help [Brooke] find a guy… But it was really something I had to think about because I was always a family secret. Me coming from a small town in Michigan, my mother and father chose for me to keep it secret. But then I got this show, and I had to tell them, ‘My life’s gonna be recorded on TV.’”

  

 

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