Callum Scott Howells plays Colin in Channel 4 s new Eighties-set drama
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TV stardom usually takes baby steps, but 21-year-old Callum Scott Howells, from the former coal-mining village of Tonyrefail in the Rhondda Valley, has just leapfrogged over any need to show up with, say, a minor concussion on Casualty. He’s done so by landing the most talked-about role in the most talked-about TV show of the year so far – Russell T Davies’s gut-wrenching Channel 4 drama about the Aids crisis in the 1980s, It’s a Sin.
Hearts have gone out to Howells’s character Colin, the Savile Row tailor’s apprentice from the South Wales valleys, who’s loosely based on a boyfriend Davies had in his London salad days.