“In fact, I spent a big part of my career trying to erase it from the internet while I was still in the closet. “I’ve never posted this picture before,” he wrote. Last year, Haynes posted the XY with a heartfelt message about staying true to oneself. According to Haynes, he and his team spent years sending out cease-and-desist letters to everyone who posted his XY shoot. “Jeff was the creator of ‘Teen Wolf,’ and he had indeed fought for me I was grateful to him, and eager not to f–k up the opportunity,” Haynes wrote in his memoir, which was released Tuesday. MTV did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.Īccording to the actor, he had done the photoshoot with his then-boyfriend Jay and spent “years sending cease-and-desist letters to everyone who posted my XY shoot.” Thank God Jeff fought for you to get that role,” Haynes said his manager told him. “The head of MTV almost didn’t hire you because of that XY photo shoot we’ve been working our asses off to extinguish.
Haynes recalled one instance after auditioning for the show - which ran from 2011 to 2017 - of his manager telling him that showrunner Jeff Davis had to fight for him to be on the show. “It didn’t matter who was on my team, the message I got was always the same: ‘You will not work if you are yourself,’” wrote Haynes. Haynes - who is openly gay - wrote in his newly released memoir, “Miss Memory Lane,” that he was told to conceal his sexuality as it would hinder his ability to get acting jobs. The 33-year-old revealed that he almost was not cast in the MTV adaptation because a network executive did not like that he had participated in a photoshoot for gay magazine, XY. Colton Haynes almost lost out on his “Teen Wolf” role.