Jean Wyllys

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jean Wyllys
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 10, 1974(1974-03-10)
Age	50
Birthplace	Brazil
Country	Brazil
Horoscope	Pisces

Jean Wyllys Biography

Jean Wyllys is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 10, 1974 in Brazil, Brazil. Politician, journalist, and reality television personality who is recognized for having been a housemate on the fifth season of Big Brother Brasil. As a politician he was Brazil’s second openly gay member of parliament.

Both he and Vanessa Mesquita have competed on Big Brother Brazil.

Wyllys was born in Alagoinhas, in the north-eastern state of Bahia, one of seven children. His mother was a washerwoman and his father a car painter who suffered from alcoholism. Wyllys attended a boarding school which gave him the opportunity to get a better education than the average child in his village. Wyllys later moved to Salvador and completed his degree in journalism at the Federal University of Bahia. He first rose to fame after becoming the finalist in the Brazilian reality television show, Big Brother Brasil in its fifth season in 2005. He was the first openly gay participant in the show, which caused a lot of controversy amongst fans and participants alike. Wyllys described his victory as being of “great political relevance […] I said I was a homosexual and I still won the programme in a country that is homophobic.”

In 2010 Wyllys was elected a federal MP, representing the Socialism and Freedom party, with an average of 13,000 votes. His election was only possible, considering the number of votes he had in 2010 elections, through the so-called “voto de legenda” (party vote), a constitutional mechanism that allows candidates who don’t have a large number of votes to be elected through votes of another highly voted candidate of the same party. In Wyllys’s case, the votes of another congressman of Socialism and Liberty Party, Chico Alencar, who was one of the most voted in Rio de Janeiro, helped in his election. Upon occupying a seat in the Brazilian Congress, Wyllys brought his LGBT movement activism to the scene. He started working on his political platform, which was primarily focused on the fight for LGBT rights. In so doing, he ended up confronting prominent Brazilian right-wing figures, such as pastor Silas Malafaia, a famous televangelist and national president of the Assembly of God Churches, and Jair Bolsonaro, a congressman (later elected president) who became Wyllys’s nemesis in the Brazilian Congress. Wyllys came to the point of spiting on congressman Bolsonaro during the voting of President Dilma Roussef’s impeachment. In Congress, Wyllys proposed three controversial pieces of legislation, including the regulation of prostitution, the legalization and government regulation of marijuana production, and the government financing of sex reassignment surgeries and hormonal treatment for transgender teenagers and adults.

He is the son of Inalva de Matos Santos and José Dias dos Santos.

Jean Wyllys Net Worth

Jean Wyllys is one of the richest Politician from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jean Wyllys 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied journalism at the Federal University of Bahia.

He was the subject of the 2016 documentary film Entre os Homens de Bem.

Jean Wyllys (born Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos on 10 March 1974 in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist and politician who rose to fame after winning the fifth season of Big Brother Brasil. He was also notable as being Brazil’s second openly gay member of parliament and the first congressman who was a gay-rights activist. He has been compared to Harvey Milk for his work. In 2019, citing death threats, he gave up on his Congress seat.

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Jean Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Jean Wyllys celebrates birthday on March 10 of every year.