Video: 'The Instinct' cover shoot...
The April issue of Instinct mag features 27-year-old Seattle native Jesse Brune, the chef extraordinaire from Bravo's "Work Out."
In the cover piece, Jesse shares a coming out episode that happened when he was 15: "I had a total fascination with New Kids On The Block. Mariah Carey too. It was all right there in [my] journal."
His sneaky kid sister read the journal and figured things out: "I so knew then," Bethany Brune says. "When I read NKOTB and Mariah Carey? C'mon! Plus, kids would say little things about Jesse being gay at school. I totally beat up all the boys!"
Jesse also talks about shedding weight he gained after enrolling in the Le Cordon Bleu program at the California School Of Culinary Arts: "With all of the cooking culinary school requires, I started noticing all my friends -- myself included -- gaining, like 50 pounds. Not cute!"
Here is some video from his photo shoot:
Greg Hernandez has covered the entertainment industry for the Daily
News since 2001. He's considered a bit odd by some for his obsession
with box office numbers, has been known to camp out near the kitchen
at premieres for first crack at the hors d'oeurves, and Greg's never
seen a red carpet he didn't want to stroll down.