Not that Fagburn is completely out-of-touch or anything, but it has only just come to my attention that in the hysterically well received period drama, Downton Abbey, there was A Gay!How exciting.
Footman Tommy was played by Rob James-Collier who used to be in Coronation Street or something.
Here he is talking about his new role and kissing a fella and that.
Seeing as the series was set in Edwardian England Fagburn hopes his character did the decent thing and shot himself.
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Oh noes!
ReplyDeleteThat actor was in Corrie when I still watched it regularly and I thought he was gorgeous! He was the one who owned the knicker factory with his brother and was in love with his sister-in-law, but his brother tried to kill him I think and he ended up having a baby with the sister of the girl whose father was trying to sleep with the woman whose aunt worked at the knicker factory.
I started watching Downton Abbey, only because Maggie Smith is in it and she's amazing and everything; but the first episode was so interminably dull that I haven't bothered since.
Now I find out that not only was he in it but he played a gay character.
To cut a long story short, I saw this only yesterday in my local Tesco and will be picking it up post-haste.
Thanks, Fagburn!!!
Have to say I'm rather surprised to see the writer Julian Fellowes is married...
ReplyDeleteMe too. He's a moose!!!
ReplyDeleteIn the Downton Abbey parody (Downturn Abbey) on the cover of the latest Private Eye, Simon Hughes must be "Tommy".
Subtle!