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- NICK COTTON'S EX OM EASTENRS ME AFTER JOHN ALTMAN, 67, REFED TO ACCEPT GAY STORYLE
- FORMER ‘EASTENRS’ STAR JOHN ALTMAN REVEALS HE LEFT SOAP OVER NICK COTTON GAY STORYLE
- 'EASTENRS' DROPPED NICK COTTON GAY RELATNSHIP PLOT
- 'EASTENRS' ACTOR JOHN ALTMAN QU SOAP WHEN PRODUCER 'TRIED TO MAKE NICK COTTON GAY'
NICK COTTON'S EX OM EASTENRS ME AFTER JOHN ALTMAN, 67, REFED TO ACCEPT GAY STORYLE
Nick Cotton was wrten out of EastEnrs after actor John Altman, 67, refed to accept a gay storyle for the character Published: 16:54 BST, 28 October 2019 | Updated: 17:16 BST, 28 October 2019.
But Nick Cotton's origal ex om EastEnrs 1991 was down to actor John Altman refg to accept a gay storyle for the character. Wrten out: Nick Cotton's origal ex om EastEnrs was down to actor John Altman, 67, refg to accept a gay relatnship for the characterSpeakg to BANG Showbiz, he explaed: 'They tried to make Nick Cotton gay, was years ago now.
'Anyway, they sudnly cid that he weren't gay, they were gonna make him gay, and I didn't thk that was a good ia as would've changed Nick's character pletely, really.
FORMER ‘EASTENRS’ STAR JOHN ALTMAN REVEALS HE LEFT SOAP OVER NICK COTTON GAY STORYLE
If I'd have gone playg a gay character, fe.
“They tried to make Nick Cotton gay, was years ago now.
'EASTENRS' DROPPED NICK COTTON GAY RELATNSHIP PLOT
“Anyway, they sudnly cid that he weren’t gay, they were gonna make him gay, and I didn’t thk that was a good ia as would’ve changed Nick’s character pletely, really. If I’d have gone playg a gay character, fe.
"It also had the first gay uple, played by Gary Hail and Michael Cashman. Former EastEnrs star John Altman has revealed he qu the BBC soap over a gay storyle for his character Nick Cotton.
Altman exclively told BANG Showbiz (via Female First): “They tried to make Nick Cotton gay, was years ago now. Altman add that he didn’t thk the public “would’ve wanted” the storyle, which, based on the fact Tom Watt parted the show 1989, would have been planned the late ’80s, around the time EastEnrs ma history wh Brish soap’s first on-screen gay kiss between Col Rsell (Michael Cashman) and Barry Clark (Gary Hail) (a time when LGBTQ reprentatn on screen was almost non-existent).
'EASTENRS' ACTOR JOHN ALTMAN QU SOAP WHEN PRODUCER 'TRIED TO MAKE NICK COTTON GAY'
“If I’d have gone playg a gay character, fe”, Altman said.
2019 also saw the openg of Abert Square’s first gay bar thanks to the inic Kathy Beale (Gillian Tayleforth), and Walford’s first Pri para, which aired to ci wh Pri London earlier this summer. Gay.
EastEnrs legend John Altman has revealed that his character Nick Cotton was on the verge of havg a gay relatnship the Albert Square soap's -founr Julia Smh wrote Altman out after he disagreed wh a storyle which would have seen a romance for Nick and Lofty told The Guardian: "Julia wrote me out for about a year when I protted that Nick wasn't the kd of man who would start a gay relatnship wh Lofty, another straight character. "They tried to make Nick Cotton gay, was years ago now.