EastEnrs actor John Partridge has cricised the gay Coronatn Street character Sean Tully as a "stereotype".
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- DO SEAN FALLY TELL HIS PARENTS THAT HE’S GAY FIREFLY LANE SEASON 2 PART 1?
- EASTENRS STAR SAYS SEAN TULLY'S A GAY STEREOTYPE
- CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY
- 'CORONATN STREET' ACTOR ANTONY COTTON: 'I GET ABE FROM GAY VIEWERS OVER SEAN TULLY PORTRAYAL'
- JOHN PARTRIDGE SAYS GAY CORRIE CHARACTER IS A ‘STEREOTYPE’
DO SEAN FALLY TELL HIS PARENTS THAT HE’S GAY FIREFLY LANE SEASON 2 PART 1?
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Sean believ his mother knew he was gay but never wanted to accept or adm . )In spe of the tepid rponse om his parents (who are later awkwardly supportive of their son and his new boyiend), Tully and Kate take him out to a gay bar and allow him to relish his eedom and liberatn. EastEnrs star says Sean Tully's a gay stereotype.
EASTENRS STAR SAYS SEAN TULLY'S A GAY STEREOTYPE
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John told Attu magaze: "What I didn't want as a stereotype was what I ll a tea-time gay - the Sean Tully type of character is the reason my character is here.
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CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY
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"It may not be your taste, but if that character hadn't happened and been so succsful, I don't thk the BBC would have gone, 'Right, we need a gay character.
'CORONATN STREET' ACTOR ANTONY COTTON: 'I GET ABE FROM GAY VIEWERS OVER SEAN TULLY PORTRAYAL'
'" However, the 38-year-old admted that his vt-wearg character might be seen as a gay stereotype too. I'm gay.
For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsAntony Cotton told a nference at Manchter Pri’s ge ftival of the extent of abe he received, particularly om young, gay men, for his portrayal of mp soap character Sean Tully Coronatn Street.
JOHN PARTRIDGE SAYS GAY CORRIE CHARACTER IS A ‘STEREOTYPE’
"I get a lot of stick om people who say, and the are people who are 21 years old, 'You've put the gay e back 21 years, '" he said. "So for every one of those people who say to me that Sean's a stereotype, and that he don't have a polil storyle, actually the fact he's never had to expla himself mak him the most polil gay character soap. The A-list opposg Rsia's anti-gay lawsShow all 15Cotton was joed for the panel discsn on ‘Comg Out, om Script to Screen’ by Tony Warren, the creator of the soap, script wrers Damon Rochefort, Debbie Oat and Jonathan Harvey, and -star Brooke Vcent.