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ITV DRAMA THE DURRELLS BLASTED FOR CHANGG GAY CHARACTER TO STRAIGHT
The TV seri, based upon a book adaptatn of the real-life fay, has apparently re-wrten historyITV changed the sexual orientatn of one characterITV boss have e unr fire after changg a character that was origally gay to straight drama The Durrells.
Wrten by the youngt child the fay, nservatnist Gerald Durrell, clearly stat that he is 'homosexual'. In 1971 novel Fillets of Plaice Sven scrib Louisa: "She's so betiful, fact, almost mak me wish I weren't a homosexual. " Viewers took to Twter to exprs their tratn over ITV's need to change the sexual orientatn of Sven wh one askg: "Why have they turned Sven straight when character the books is gay?
" Another said: "Sven's gay the book, isn't he? Sometim, is te, we are unsure who is lovg whom, and now and then there are homosexual and cross-drsg viatns, but mostly the love elements are straightforward and movg, and really do domate, as Durrell implied, the v gogs-on of the is full of surpris.