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<p><strong>Gareth McLean:</strong> EastEnrs is to venture to new terrory wh an ter-fah gay love story. I hope 's not jt for publicy ...</p>

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EASTENRS' MAX BOWN RELLS 'HOURS OF SNOGGG THE LD' A YEAR AFTER GAY KISS

Mlim property veloper to share kiss wh gay terer 'tradnal love affair wh a morn multicultural twist'. By <strong>Leigh Holmwood</strong> and <strong>Gareth McLean</strong> * eastenders masood gay *

He got to a relatnship wh Amira but battled wh his sexualy after startg a gay love affair wh Christian Clarke. Syed was torn between his feelgs and his fah, nfsg to mother Zaab that he is gay on the day of his weddg, which was watched by 11. Marc Elltt ma TV history by beg the first openly gay Mlim character a soap on EastEnrs.

Watch the moment Syed revealed he's gay here:. 27 of 35CREDIT: BBCPl Coker's athAfter fally fdg happs wh boyiend Ben Mchell, Pl was celly snatched away om his fay after fallg victim to a homophobic attack.

EastEnrs' Max Bown rells 'hours of snoggg the ld' a year after gay kissThe EastEnrs star, 25, joed the h soap as Ben Mchell last year and has sce been an unfettable character who sced Tony's character Callum HighwayVio LoadgVio UnavailableEastEnrs star rells 'hours of snoggg the ld' a year after gay kissMax Bown reflected on hours of snoggg Tony Clay's face off the ld a whole year after their kiss was aired. Wh the Masood gay havg already ma a name for themselv, goln child Syed me to stir thgs up.

EASTENRS: MLIM CHARACTER TO HAVE GAY LOVE AFFAIR

EastEnrs was the first place I me across the ncept of beg gay and Mlim, when I was around 14. * eastenders masood gay *

The charmg lad got to a relatnship wh Amira but he began havg a forbidn gay love affair wh Christian Clarke. On his weddg day, Syed adms to Christian that he is gay and love wh him, but feels unable to e out bee of his fay and fah. Syed fally reveals the tth to Amira kd of by accint and ultimately adms that he is gay.

Syed begs attendg therapy which he believ will cure him of his homosexualy, though prov unsuccsful.

WILL EASTENRS FANS FALL FOR WALFORD'S GAY MLIM?

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The followg day, Syed tells Christian he choos him and needs his help, and that he is both gay and Mlim. EastEnrs is to tackle one of the last taboos left soap, wh a storyle featurg a Mlim character embarkg on a gay love n reveal that the plot, which will h screens mid-June, will see Syed Masood, a Mlim property veloper wh a girliend who arrived Albert Square six weeks ago, fall for openly gay Christian Clarke. The pair will share an on-screen BBC has billed the storyle as a "tradnal love affair, albe wh a morn multicultural twist" BBC1 soap's productn team rearched the plot, which is bound to prove ntroversial wh some viewers, ntactg amics, gay Mlim support groups and members of the Mlim Council of Great the storyle, the 24-year-old Masood, played by Marc Elltt, fds his "relign and sexual feelgs nflict" character is currently datg Amira Shah as well as tryg to work his way back to his fay's good books followg his flight after losg money om the fay bs.

"Although the storyle will foc on Masood's stggle wh his sexualy, Santer said there would be a "balance of opns" cludg that of his more nservative mother Zaab as well as Clarke and his fay and BBC nsulted Dr Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, associate profsor and rear the school of soclogy and social policy at the Universy of Nottgham, who has led rearch to the area, and Adnan Ali, head of Al-Fatiha, an ternatnal anisatn for gay Mlims.

A Gallup survey earlier this month found that Brish Mlims hold more nservative opns towards homosexualy than European unterparts, wh none of the 500 people qutned believg that homosexual acts were morally plot is the latt a number of ntroversial storyl, wh the soap last year tacklg paedophilia. When Syed adms to his parents that his gay, Masood attempts to nvce Syed that he has a lovg wife, but Syed ignor this, and leav his home.

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