It s A Sin writer insists Phillip Schofield gay reference wasn t a potshot
New drama It s A Sin left fans shocked with a reference to Phillip Schofield being secretly gay in the 80s, but writer Russell T Davies insists he wasn t taking a shot at him.
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It s a coincidence : It s A Sin viewers shocked over cheeky reference to Phillip Schofield s sexuality because filming wrapped BEFORE he came out
Writer Russell T. Davies said lawyers allowed the line because Phillip is married to a woman and so the tongue in cheek line did not have to be run by him
Russell acknowledged he found it weird when the presenter actually came out in February just days after filming wrapped
It s A Sin tells the story of five friends who live in a flat together in London in 1981, but their lives are turned upside down by the AIDS crisis
It's A Sin true story, the real story of Jill Baxter. It's A Sin actress Lydia West said her character is based on a real person, who also acts in the show.
I don t want to be a secret.
Ritchie (Olly Alexander) had become one of the boys that he d been hearing about; dragged home from London by parents, the subject of whispers, never to return to their lives and loves.
But he was determined not to be forgotten and, perhaps even more importantly, for everything positive that he d experienced not to be overshadowed by his illness. Boys die in London and they say it s cancer or pneumonia and they don t say what it really is. It s a lie. I don t want that, he told his mum (Keeley Hawes), as she sat sternly across from him on the bed.