H renovatn show The Block is famoly lackg diversy among s nttants – wh each year’s crop seemgly wher, more uniformly middle class, and more generilly attractive than the last. But this year Ne executiv have gracly allowed a gay uple, Mch and Mark, on the show – and they’re jt the kd that old school TV producers love; stereotypil, outrageo and edic.
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- THE BLOCK’S DARREN PALMER FENDS STG OF ‘EDY GAY UPLE’
- THE BLOCK'S MCH AND MARK ON G TO TERMS WH BEG GAY
THE BLOCK’S DARREN PALMER FENDS STG OF ‘EDY GAY UPLE’
But this year Ne executiv have allowed a gay uple, Mch and Mark, on the show – and they’re jt the kd that old school TV producers love; outrageo and edic. ‘Image a day when gay upl aren’t st on Atralian realy TV shows as rtoonish edy figur or bchy antagonists, ’ tweeted an annoyed Matt, ially whout namg the show, amid a strg of scen that some perceived as playg on stereotyp. Judge Darren, who is gay, rpond that he feels the show has a good rerd wh the portrayal of gay people.
Nomatg himself and fellow judge Neale Whaker as balance to Mch and Mark, Darren claims the show is great for the gay muny. ‘Wh 2/3rds of the judg beg gay & a large amount of people behd the scen the block do a lot for our muny. The days of gay people beg given space only if they perform as the clown or the bch are over.
THE BLOCK'S MCH AND MARK ON G TO TERMS WH BEG GAY
Matt clapped back at the judge for his 'misreprentatn' of his views, notg he was fely not cricisg Mch and Mark, but was rather highlightg how Asie realy TV seems to disproportnately st gay male nttants to play certa pre-termed characters. ‘I’m cricisg the stg procs that nsistently shoehorns gay men to those limed rol. Fatigue has set around the seri recent tim, wh last year's The Blocktagon pullg the lowt ratgs for a fale sce season three show ma history 2004 when featured gay uple Gav Atks and Warren Son on s but season – makg them the first same-sex uple on Atralian realy latt 'Blockheads', uple (L) Julia and Sasha, iends Andy and Ben, high school sweethearts Karlie and William, married uple Kim and Chris and married uple Dan and Carleen (R) NeSeason one was also the hight-ratg the show's 12-year history, pullg a whoppg 3.
But their happs has been a long time didn't e out as gay until his mid-thirti, by which pot he'd married and had three children.
He says beg gay "wasn't an optn" for him growg up. "I thought beg gay was wrong, " Mch, 56, tells TV went on to get married at age 22. '"But my wife knew somethg was wrong and [him beg gay] fally me out.