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- GAY P-UP BEN COHEN FANCIED ROB WDSOR AS HIS STRICTLY COME DANCG PARTNER
- STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
- BEN COHEN, RUGBY STAR AND GAY RIGHTS ADVOTE, WANTED A MALE 'STRICTLY COME DANCG' PARTNER
GAY P-UP BEN COHEN FANCIED ROB WDSOR AS HIS STRICTLY COME DANCG PARTNER
Former Emmerdale actrs Lisa Riley, Rob’s celebry partner on last year’s Strictly, was wh them when he popped the qutnPlot: Rob Wdsor wh Lisa RileyStrictly Come Dancg is to have s first gay weddg – and host Bce Forsyth is set to give a speech. Strictly has featured a female same-sex uple before, boxer Nila Adams and Katya Jon, who peted durg the 18th season 2020, but Whae and Rabe (who both intify as gay) will be the show's first gay male pair. "Bee I'm dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate.
STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
” Proud of beg a gay p-up, he add: “I like to break down stereotyp. “He’s amazg, the thgs he has done for the gay muny.
He and regular weekly partner and Great Brish Bake Off alum John Whae gave the gay pirate fantasy of our dreams when the two performed the paso doble while payg homage to the Pirat of the Caribbean film anchise.
BEN COHEN, RUGBY STAR AND GAY RIGHTS ADVOTE, WANTED A MALE 'STRICTLY COME DANCG' PARTNER
Homophobia is a ser and ntug problem, but was difficult this week not to enjoy aspects of the hoo-ha over Strictly Come Dancg. In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly. Nohels, there was somethg vaguely fortg about the fact that, particularly the ntext of the recent LGBT teachg row, mastream culture at least, plats of this kd about gay reprentatn seem outdated to the pot of schools, of urse, the battle rag on.