'Ted Lasso' Introduc Show's First Gay Character

Contents:

• “SO PROUD OF THIS SHOW”: TED LASSO FANS REACT TO PROGRS OF GAY STORYLE
• TED LASSO SEASON 3'S GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE HAS ARRIVED AT JT THE RIGHT TIME
• “TED LASSO” JT REVEALED THAT THIS CHARACTER IS GAY AND CLOSETED
• TED LASSO FALLY GOT GAY IN SEASON 3 & FANS ARE THRILLED
• HOW THIS BETIFUL TED LASSO SCENE PTURED THE 'ACHE' OF BEG A GAY MAN PROFSNAL SPORTS
• THE LATT EPISO OF ‘TED LASSO’ IS GAY, GAY, GAY AND MORE GAY
• IS JAM LANCE’S TRENT CRIMM GAY TED LASSO?

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

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.

TED LASSO SEASON 3'S GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE HAS ARRIVED AT JT THE RIGHT TIME

It seems like sports, particularly men’s sports, is among the fields that has been slowt to adapt and accept gay people.

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

This season, queerns was fally troduced to the seri when they nfirmed that Billy Harris’ fan-favoure Richmond FC player is gay and the closet; reflectg the harsh realy of homosexualy profsnal football and s lack of openly out athlet the procs.

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“Ted takg the perfect approach by lettg Col know DOES matter that he’s gay, bee ’s a part of who he is, ” said one viewer. In an terview wh GAY TIMES ahead of Ted Lasso’s sixth episo, which saw Col nfi Trent Crimm (Jam Lance) about his sexualy, Harris said would’ve been “ridiculo” for the show to not tackle this storyle. Obvly I’m not a gay footballer but as a queer person I appreciate tonight’s episo of Ted Lasso.

TED LASSO FALLY GOT GAY IN SEASON 3 & FANS ARE THRILLED

Puttg asi the big scen;Isaac askg all those qutns after his iend out & Col’s bt scenar beg everyone is gay. Ted takg the perfect approach by lettg Col know DOES matter that he’s gay, bee ’s a part of who he is. In the last eighteen months, at least three active footballers have e out as gay across the world: first Jake Cavallo Atralia, followed by Blackpool youth player Jake Daniels here England and, most recently, Czech ternatnal Jakub Jankto over Prague.

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HOW THIS BETIFUL TED LASSO SCENE PTURED THE 'ACHE' OF BEG A GAY MAN PROFSNAL SPORTS

And what a thg that would be: an openly gay footballer the sypy fictn of Ted Lasso's Premier League before, y'know, the real-life one. Disregard as the product of imagative wokery all you like, but Ted Lasso season 3 is makg up for s historil lack of gay rep wh an arc that uld go some way further turng the real-world dial.

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.

THE LATT EPISO OF ‘TED LASSO’ IS GAY, GAY, GAY AND MORE GAY

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. 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.

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IS JAM LANCE’S TRENT CRIMM GAY TED LASSO?

Col, feigng a stomach ache, sneaks away om the team to head to a gay bar.

”The reason, of urse — and I know I’ve been wrg “of urse” a lot, but ’s that kd of episo — is that Trent himself is gay and out to both his wife and dghter.