My Family goes Gay!

 A character in the Popular BBC sitcom My Family is to come out as gay, a report claims.

The show’s youngest character Michael, played by 23-year-old Gabriel Thomson, makes the announcement at the beginning of the new series.

A My Family insider told the Daily Mail that Michael, one of the Harper children, decides to come out to his parents Ben and Susan, played by Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker as the show commences its tenth series.

Sources say that a gay storyline has been introduced to make the show ‘more edgy and relevant’.

“We were given a brief to turn the show into something a younger audience would relate to and watch. This is just one of the storylines we have come up with. It’s handled very sensitively.” A mole told the Daily Mail.

My Family was the most watched sitcom of 2009 averaging more than seven million viewers per episode. Its Christmas special pulled in over six million.

Thompson has acted in the series since its premier in 2000, and plays the youngest of the three Harper children.

He began his acting career aged five scoring his first major acting role as Young Pip in a BBC adaptation of Great Expectations. In 2001 he acted along side Jude Law in big budget flick Enemy at the Gates.

The young star was also rumoured to have made the final selection of actors to play Harry Potter but was pipped at the post by Daniel Radcliffe.

In 2008 Thomson was arrested and cautioned by police for possession of Class A drugs. A spokesman for the star said later: “no charges of any nature are going to be brought. The police regard this matter as now closed, and so do we”.

The tenth series of My Family will be shown later this year.

By Gary Cosby

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EastEnders Gay-Bashing storyline set to offend

The secret gay romance between EastEnder’s characters Christian Clarke and Syed Masood takes a dramatic turn next month.

Soon after the love affair becomes public Christian, played by John Partridge, will suffer an anti-gay attack by a Muslim character.

The storyline is expected to spark a barrage of complaints from Muslim groups reports The Daily Star.

An EastEnders insider revealed to the newspaper: “Amira [Syed’s wife] finally learns the truth about Syed and, as you can imagine, she’s devastated

“She can’t believe that he would betray her like that with a man. And not just any man but Christian

“Everyone knows Amira’s leaving but it’s not yet known if Syed will go with her or stay in Walford with Christian. But it seems that Christian is going to take the brunt of Syed’s problems.

“Syed and Amira’s wedding achieved one of the highest ratings of the year, so we’re expecting viewers to again be gripped when this storyline reaches its dramatic climax. There will be lots of twists and turns along the way. And sadly for poor Christian, he’ll be the one who ends up taking a battering. There will also be lots of complaints.”

The Christian and Syed gay saga has already been criticized by senior Muslims.

A spokesman from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, told The Star: “EastEnders is famous for its gritty and realistic storylines but we cannot condone such violence from a Muslim character.”

Last year Asghar Bokhari, founding member of the MPAC, told the BBC that EastEnders “really lost an opportunity to present a normal friendly Muslim character to the British public” when commenting on the Syed character.

Diedrick Santer, executive producer for EastEnders disgreed: “Sometimes there’s a danger of being too careful with black or Asian characters that we might go into territories that might offend.

“But it seems to me if we steer away from any controversy, they don’t stand a chance of being a great EastEnders family [the Masood family] – they’ll just be in their kitchen unit making curries for years and years and that’s not going to be very interesting.”

By Gary Cosby

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