The third season of the gay reality dating series For the Love of DILFS begins with host Stormy Daniels arriving in style in a plunging silver dress and a hot car of her choosing. Once on the grounds of the mansion where drama, sexy romance, and big laughs courtesy of Daniels will unfold, she addresses what she calls “the orange elephant” in the room, announcing she’s back because “the conservatives haven’t found a way to stop me yet.”
The OUTtv series pairs younger “himbos” with “daddies” hoping to find true romance or something like it along the way. Of course, jealousy, stepping out, and swapping partners make for great TV. But the series that Daniels says she’s proud of in part for the way it models sexy consent for viewers is more than passive entertainment. Celebrating queer love and having queer sex is a part of resistance and revolution, and Daniels says it’s critical now more than ever to support queer entertainment and art.
Of course, Daniels made headlines and became a folk hero this spring when she testified in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, where he was accused of falsifying business documents and illegally paying hush money to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. During the trial, she detailed a sexual encounter with him in 2006. For her steady outspokenness regarding Trump, Daniels has become a MAGA target. Still, she leans into the joy of hosting For the Love of DILFS and representing her queer community.
“For the queer community, [For the Love of DILFS] is a very impactful, important show. It's the first of its kind. I never expected this role to be so important to myself,” Daniels tells PRIDE.
“We wrapped season 3, fingers crossed for season 4. And this is a show that, keep in mind, I kind of said no to at season 1. I was like, I don't want to do reality TV. I don't want to be accused of exploiting the gay community, all this stuff,” she adds. “And then I really got to know them and see, it's not scripted, it's not contrived. We do have these really heartfelt talks about consent, about bodily autonomy, about gender and coming out and mental health and all of these things that are so, so important.”
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Press for For the Love of DILFS season 3 kicked off just days following Trump’s 2024 election win. Though the series is about love and romance, the politics of queer identity were on Daniels’s mind while praising and promoting the series.
“I’m very proud of it, and I hope that I could continue to do it. Hopefully, I don't get deported and I don’t have to do it via satellite from my secret layer hiding from the orange elephant. Yeah, I said it,” she says, referring to the man against whom she testified in May.
Though Daniels peppers discussion of the impending Trump administration with some disarming humor, she acknowledges the gravity of his targeted attacks on trans people, LGBTQ+ history and art, and the promises of Project 2025.
“I’ll be very frank with you, and it's a very scary time. … We are now faced with the next four years where this show [For the Love of DILFS] may not be able to be a reality and maybe not aired in this country. I'm not sure what that looks like, but we do know that there was a lot of antigay, and anti-queer, anti-trans rhetoric in who is about to be our president's speeches. And that concerns me,” Daniels says.
“My heart goes out to you [queer journalists]. I’m concerned about you because not only are you covering queer things and this and that … but he openly said he put a target on all the journalists' backs,” Daniels says, speaking directly to PRIDEand the reporters for its sibling publications, Out and The Advocate.
“I’m just as afraid for all of my queer friends and my queer community and my journalist friends as I am for myself and my family. So I hope for safety, and I hope that this, I hope that this doesn't go the way that it may go,” she adds.
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Daniels has weathered barbs and attacks from conservatives and Trump himself since before news of the hush money scandal came to light.
The controversy surfaced in January 2018, when the Wall Street Journal reported on the $130,000 payment.
In “Stormy,” a documentary that was released on Peacock in March, Daniels said that she agreed to accept the payment to protect her husband and daughter and so “that there would be a paper trail and money trail linking me to Donald Trump so that he could not have me killed.”
Now that Trump will be in the White House again, Daniels is contending with various realities surrounding the election and the people who voted him to put the felon and accused sexual predator in the position of power where he can exact revenge on his enemies and harm vulnerable communities.
"The reality is here, and I really don't know how I feel in this moment because the wound is so fresh. I thought we had it [a Kamala Harris win]. I have to come to accept the fact that people that I know personally who watched what I went through personally, don't care," Daniels says.
"We watched police officers vote for a criminal who shouldn't have even been allowed to run. We watched dads vote for someone who they wouldn't probably leave alone in the room with their little girl. We watched gay people vote for someone who would take away their partner's rights," Daniels adds. "Am I saying that the other candidate was the best thing in the world? No, but at least not outwardly channeling Hitler. I mean, it should have been politics 101 that if you're going to run for office, maybe don't compare yourself to Hitler or to Hannibal Lecter. And yet, here we are."
There’s plenty of humor and mayhem in For the Love of DILFS, with Daniels serving as a camp icon to the men who inhabit the DILF mansion. From Daddy TV producer Artie Davis, the series is not outwardly political, but as Daniels points out, supporting queer content or content for marginalized people under the new Trump regime could become an act of resistance.
“I want everybody to watch the show, even if it’s not particularly your cup of tea. First of all, what’s wrong with you? Because it’s amazing and I’m hilarious,” Daniels says.
“In case they try to shut it down and I'm not talking about just For the Love of DILFS. I'm talking about queer programming as a whole, not just my show,” Daniels pleads. “For my straight friends, my straight fans, people who follow me for my adult [film] career, do me a favor, watch these shows, speak out about how important they are. Whether they resonate with you on a personal level or not is fine.”
“Showing the world that these people on these shows who produce these shows are important as well, helps us with our livelihood and helps get the voices heard,” she says.
Watch the For the Love of DILFS season 3 trailer below. And watch the series beginning Nov. 26 on OUTtv. And to see our interview with Stormy Daniels, scroll back up to the top of the page!
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