Ryan Phillippe says his parents were ready to disown him for playg One Life to Live teen Billy Douglas, the genre's first openly gay character.
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- TUC WATKS, ONE LIFE TO LIVE STAR, COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE’S A SGLE DAD TO TWS
- AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
- ONE LIFE TO LIVE'S RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS "SHUNNED" HIM OVER HIS GAY SOAP ROLE
- RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
TUC WATKS, ONE LIFE TO LIVE STAR, COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE’S A SGLE DAD TO TWS
* gay one life to live *
As San Delfo's neighbor Bob Hunter, Watks played one-half of a gay uple (wh Kev Rahm) who wanted to adopt a baby. Speakg wh Marie Osmond a new terview airg Monday, April 29, on Osmond's Hallmark Channel talk show Marie, Watks reveals publicly for the first time that he's gay.
"And when I was young, I knew three thgs: I knew I was gay, I knew one day I was gonna be a dad, and I knew that Gene Wilr's Willy Wonka and the Cholate Factory was gog to be the bt movie of all time.
AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
In March of 2009, Patricia Mceri was fired om One Life to Live over a dispute wh the producers over a scene which her character — a rosary-prayg Catholic — would give full-throated endorsement to the gay liftyle. (Note: an earlier post of this paragraph ed the term “gay marriage” stead of “gay liftyle” but when I went back and read the terview I realized the word marriage wasn’t actually ed. Then they troduced a gay storyle 2009.
PM: Yeah, and wasn’t so much that they troduced a gay storyle.
ONE LIFE TO LIVE'S RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS "SHUNNED" HIM OVER HIS GAY SOAP ROLE
I gus they wanted to promote a…gay storyle and they cid to e my character a way that was a total 180 gree parture om what her strength and inty was. I got the script of out of the blue that said I was gog to make a joke — My character didn’t know was a joke at the time — (and) say “Oh, I see this book you have (about) how to tell your parents you’re gay.
RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
Now, you’re gay. ” And she’s tryg to nvce him that he is gay and she lov him and that God created him that way. ” But to…try to nvce him that he was gay and that God created him that way.