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CORONATION Street's Rob Mallard has e out as gay. The actor - who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel Osbourne the ITV soap - has spoken publicly about beg a gay actor the untry's number one soap and his cisn to not hi who he is.

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CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU

Coronatn Street is gearg up for 's first gay marriage storyle, wh weddg bells store for Weatherfield uple Pl Foreman and Billy Mayhew. * gay actors coronation street *

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.

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Marc was gay then straight then gay aga (Cred: YouTube/ITV).

Marc then started a relatnship wh Maria Connor, but Todd Grimshaw was termed to prove Marc was still gay and sced him.

Coronatn Street is gearg up for s first gay marriage storyle, wh weddg bells store for Weatherfield uple Pl Foreman and Billy week, viewers are set to see the two s down for a ser nversatn, where the two discs their future as Pl's Motor Nrone Disease (MND) ntu to uple's chat about after Pl's nversatn wh fellow MND patient Shelly at the support group, who enurag Pl to take ntrol and do somethg he has always wanted to believ Pl is gog to propose to him and pulls out all the stops, but turns out Pl has somethg big to ask of Billy before he asks him to bee his hband. "It's not the first time a gay weddg day on the bbl has occurred, but 's hopefully the first that succsfully go ahead. ITVRelated: Coronatn Street's Pla Wilx wds up fans over Elae and Stephen storyActor Daniel Brocklebank adms he feels "slightly honoured" to help brg the first Corrie gay weddg to screens.

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"I mean, obvly there's been long nng gay characters the show, prr to Billy wh Todd and Sean and also Sophie. 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.

“There have always been gay parents, but people tend to be more open about the days. We’re celebratg Pri Month, a time for tg on Pri history and celebratg our gay muny.

EastEnrs character Callum me out as gay 2019 (Cred: BBC). Later he admted to her that he was gay and began a relatnship wh Ben. She soon began to realise she was gay and had feelgs for her bt iend Sian Powers.

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Later Paddy disvered Aaron vised a gay bar and when he asked him about his sexualy, Aaron attacked him. In urt Aaron admted he was gay. He first appeared 2008 and at the time actor, John Partridge, told Daily Star: “It’s about time EastEnrs had a gay character the show.

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Christian, like me, is an openly proud gay man and he is certaly gog to ffle a few feathers when he arriv.

On the day of Syed and Amira’s weddg, which was a huge episo, Syed admted to Christian that he is gay. He later gave advice to Ben Mchell when he nfid him that he is gay.

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Sean is openly gay (Cred: ITV).

Antony, like his character Sean, is openly gay and when Sean first appeared he was out and proud.

The character Ben is gay (Cred: BBC). In 2011, Ben me out as gay, however at first Phil didn’t accept this. However when the two men went on a night out, they were both btally beaten up a homophobic attack.

CORONATN STREET CHARACTER OUT AS GAY STORYLE EXPLORG HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALLNEWER MICHAEL BAILEY IS KEEPG HIS SEXUALY A SECRET FOR FEAR OF HARMG HIS REERMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYKATIE FZPATRICKSHOWBIZ AND TV WRER07:00, 10 SEP 2019BOOKMARKJAM BAILEY (NATHAN GRAHAM) (IMAGE: JOSEPH SNLON/ITV/CORONATN STREET)FOR THE LATT WEATHERFIELD NEWS AND SPOILERS - SIGN UP HEREMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 FOR THE LATT WEATHERFIELD NEWS AND SPOILERS - SIGN UP HEREINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Vansa is played by actrs Michelle Hardwick, who is openly gay. 'I stopped beg screen-tted for the heterosexual male leads': Coronatn Street's Daniel Brocklebank reveals g out as gay at 18 hred his Hollywood reerThe actor, 41, starred alongsi Gwyh Paltrow Shakpeare Love and me out after the film's release when he was 18 Daniel admted he was told by his managers Los Angel that gog public about his sexualy would harm his reer and he believ did He said: 'I pretend for a livg, I didn’t want to pretend my private life.

When you spend your life on screen, ’s important to hold on to the bs that are real'The actor said one of the reasons he me out was bee of the lack of gay role mols the public eye when he was growg up the 80s Published: 00:49 BST, 22 July 2021 | Updated: 00:50 BST, 22 July 2021. Daniel Brocklebank has revealed g out as gay 1998 hred his Hollywood reer.

Candid: Daniel Brocklebank has revealed g out as gay 1998 hred his Hollywood reer (pictured 2019) He said: 'I stopped beg screen-tted for the heterosexual male leads and I was eher the gay bt iend or the character parts. ' Role: The actor, 41, starred alongsi Gwyh Paltrow Shakpeare Love and me out after the film's release when he was 18 (pictured the film)The actor said one of the reasons he me out was bee of the lack of gay role mols the public eye when he was growg up the out the 1990s, Daniel said he lik to thk he played a small part helpg societal attus to change and bee more acceptg over the years.

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Career: The Coronatn Street star said his personal life should have no bearg on the parts he plays (pictured Coronatn Street 2019)The star said there were tim when he took work as a waer or barman between actg jobs but he never regretted his cisn to e now stars as gay vir Billy Mayhew on Coronatn Street and said s the first time his life he is not chasg the next actor received homophobic abe on Twter when he first joed the show 2014 as well as backlash om Christian groups. RevealedThe actor, who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel, said he had no qualms about g out publiclyPublished: 18:26, 31 Jan 2017Updated: 17:36, 1 Feb 2017CORONATION Street's Rob Mallard has e out as gay. The actor - who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel Osbourne the ITV soap - has spoken publicly about beg a gay actor the untry's number one soap and his cisn to not hi who he is.

"I never planned to keep quiet that I was gay, " he told GT magaze. "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 ?

Pl is gay man, whereas Peter is straight.

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