Contents:
- CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU
- CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY
- CORONATN STREET'S ROB MALLARD REVEALS HE'S GAY AND WHY HE DON'T WANT TO HI WHO HE REALLY IS
- CORONATN STREET'S DANIEL BROCKLEBANK REVEALS G OUT AS GAY AT 18 HRED HIS HOLLYWOOD REER
CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU
Todd Grimshaw was a nfed teen when he filmed Coronatn Street’s first ever gay kiss. Todd beme the show’s first regular gay character and his g out storyle was creded wh brgg the show to the 21st century.
Had they got married however, would have end disaster bee Ted was gay. Marc was gay then straight then gay aga (Cred: YouTube/ITV).
CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY
Marc then started a relatnship wh Maria Connor, but Todd Grimshaw was termed to prove Marc was still gay and sced him. Former Coronatn Street actor Charlie Condou has weled the number of gay characters on the actor, 44, ma a dramatic ex om the show when his midwife character Marc Dent fell love wh Todd Grimshaw, played by Bno Langley, three years ago. Charlie Condou (Ian Wt/PA)Asked by Good Morng Bra -host Piers Man about havg five gay characters on the show, Charlie said: “A few years ago even, there would have only been your token gay character, jt like there was probably your token black character and I thk we have moved on om that.
CORONATN STREET'S ROB MALLARD REVEALS HE'S GAY AND WHY HE DON'T WANT TO HI WHO HE REALLY IS
“There have always been gay parents, but people tend to be more open about the days. 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. "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.
CORONATN STREET'S DANIEL BROCKLEBANK REVEALS G OUT AS GAY AT 18 HRED HIS HOLLYWOOD REER
"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.
"When was announced I was gog to Corrie an onle petn was set up to have me sacked bee people said I was gog to put the gay e back 25 years. "Warren, who is openly gay, also discsed the homophobia he faced when he first entered the entertament dtry as a scriptwrer for Granada. Earlier this year, Rob Mallard publicly opened up about his sexualy for the first time by strsg that he never planned to "keep quiet that [he's] gay""The only ncern I had at first was if I'm wh a female character, will an dience who knows I'm gay real life believe ?