'Ted Lasso' Praised For "Rehg" Gay Footballer Storyle

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Ted Lasso has received praise om The Football Bs Podst for how the seri handled this storyle volvg two gay characters.

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“TED LASSO” JT REVEALED THAT THIS CHARACTER IS GAY AND CLOSETED

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Ted Lasso watchers have speculated that AFC Richmond player Col Hugh (Billy Harris) is gay sce early season two, and those spicns were nfirmed season three’s third episo. Trent then shar wh Col that he’s gay as well, openg the door for Col to — perhaps — tell his teammat and ach.

It seems like sports, particularly men’s sports, is among the fields that has been slowt to adapt and accept gay people. There’s a le episo three where Isaac [Kola Bokni] says “That’s a b gay” a risive way.

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'TED LASSO' PRAISED FOR "REHG" GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE

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This episo troduc a strong new plot pot: Welsh-born AFC Richmond wg Col Hugh is gay.

"Ted Lasso, an Apple TV+ show centerg around the tular character (Jason Suikis), an Amerin llege football ach who is hired to ach an English Premier League soccer team, AFC Richmond, even though he has no experience, has jt troduced s first gay until now, this progrsive seri has yet to feature an out character. Their openns has also been met wh overwhelmg support and celebratn, for the most UK not that there are around 550 active players the Premier League, which mak statistilly likely that at least one player is gay. Although England as a whole has changed support of gay rights, the Ted Lasso storyle uld be settg up an openly gay footballer the fictnal Premier League to hopefully fluence the real episos of Ted Lasso stream on Apple TV+ every Lasso — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV+All roads have led to this.

“SO PROUD OF THIS SHOW”: TED LASSO FANS REACT TO PROGRS OF GAY STORYLE

The other shoe seemed about to drop last week's Amsterdam-set episo when Trent followed Col to a gay bar, promptg the athlete to swiftly ex wh the wrer on his heels. Three episos to s third — and possibly fal — season, the sports edy TV seri Ted Lasso jt revealed that one of s regular characters is gay and closeted. “We’ve known for a while that Col was gay, ” Hunt told the U.

Hunt said that he and the show’s wrers always tend to troduce a gay character on the show’s fictnal team, but opted to have an existg character e out rather than stg someone new.

THE GAYT THGS THAT HAPPENED “TED LASSO”

They even toyed wh the ia of revealg that Col was gay and closeted Season 2, but stead merely seed the ia wh a le which the character mentns Grdr. After two and half seasons, 11 Emmy Awards, and a recent vis to the Whe Hoe, Ted Lasso has fally acknowledged s LGBTQ+ characters: Col Hugh (Billy Harris) and Trent Crimm (Jam Lance) are gay, and Keeley Jon (Juno Temple) is officially a bisexual took Ted Lasso a few seasons for s characters to bee explicly gay, was worth the wa. ” In episo six, Col ventur to a gay club Amsterdam by himself and ns to sports journalist Trent Crimm, who adms he recently me out to his wife and dghter.

"We've known for a while that Col was gay, " -creator Brendan Hunt said recently. When nsirg whether or not to st someone new to portray a gay football player, Hunt shared that the wrers thought: “It'll be better if that person's already on the team and we're not acknowledgg and they're hidg so well. Ted Lasso has received yet more praise, this time for the sensive and touchg nature of the storyle volvg a closeted gay player and the story of his g out to his teammat.

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