In January 2015, Jordan guest-starred in the British sitcom Benidorm for two episodes, as the character Buck A. He was the second person to leave the Big Brother house (August 29, 2014). On August 18, 2014, Jordan became a housemate in the 14th edition of the British reality game show Celebrity Big Brother. Jordan starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the world's first interactive, gay-themed comedy show.
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His Emmy Award earned him an invitation to present the awards for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series at the 2006 Emmy Awards with Cloris Leachman a week later. On the television series Will & Grace, Jordan played Beverly Leslie, Karen's pretentious, sexually-ambiguous rival, for which he received an Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006. In 2007, he guest-starred on the comedy drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs, and starred as Jesse Joe in the short-lived CW television program Hidden Palms.
In 1990, Jordan portrayed the ski patrol director in Ski Patrol. His television career includes guest appearances on Murphy Brown, Will & Grace, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Caroline in the City, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Reba, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Nash Bridges, American Horror Story, and Hearts Afire. Jordan is recognized for his diminutive size and Southern drawl. ( June 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. This section may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Įarly in the AIDS crisis, Jordan became involved in AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) as a buddy and as a food delivery-person for Project Angel Food. In the same appearance, Jordan said that before he gave up drinking, he once shared a cell with Robert Downey Jr., and when they both appeared later on Ally McBeal, Downey couldn't quite place where they had met before. In 2010, Jordan told talk show host Wendy Williams that he had been sober for thirteen years.
When Jordan was 27 years old, he began to journal daily, which helped him recover from drug and alcohol abuse. Jordan moved to Los Angeles in 1982, where he became involved with drugs and alcohol and was arrested several times. Jordan, was a major in the United States Army Reserve and died, along with two others, in the crash of a civilian Beechcraft Debonair airplane at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, on March 31, 1967, when Jordan was eleven years old. Every time the preacher would say, 'Come forward, sinners!' I'd say 'Oooh, I was out in the woods with that boy, I better go forward.'" ĭuring an appearance on Today, Jordan said his mother, Peggy Ann, was supportive and accepting, despite never truly understanding him. In a 2014 interview, Jordan said that he had a difficult time growing up Southern Baptist. Leslie Alan Jordan was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he graduated from Brainerd High School.