Danny Dyer: And The World's Tiniest Violin Plays A Sad Song

Mirror.

Danny Dyer: Nope

Daily Star.

Nor do I.

EastEnders: Sexiest Male

Decisions, decisions...

Danny Dyer: Legend!

The Real Football Factories (2006) The first in a series of documentaries Dyer made about football hooligans in England and abroad

"Nick [Love, director of The Football Factory] resented it and asked why I was doing it. I said, 'Money. That's why I'm doing it. Do you think I give a fuck about hooligans? You think I want to run around the fucking world - Brazil, Poland - standing under archways, waiting for balaclava'd fat cunts? No, but I'm getting paid £200,000 for six weeks' work and it's bought me a house!"

"In a way it was a sell-out. I gave away 'me'. Tom Hardy isn't going to do that, Fassbender isn't going to do that."

From The Films Of Danny Dyer by Jonathan Sothcott and James Mullinge.

Fagburn loves Danny. x

Danny Dyer: 'Ow's Yer Father (Dealing With His Son's Coming Out)?

Danny Dyer has revealed how proud he is to be a part of EastEnders' gay storyline, saying it has changed people's perception of him.

The hardman actor, who joined the BBC soap at Christmas, has been involved in a plot that saw his on-screen son come out.

“It was a real positive thing,” said Danny on this weekend's Jonathan Ross Show.

Speaking about the fan mail he has received since the scenes aired, the actor admits it has touched him.

“A lot of young gay men, who hadn’t come out yet, they saw that scene and I was getting letters from these guys saying they came out the next day because of it.

"That’s a powerful thing and I was really proud to be associated with that.”

Dyer thinks that storyline has gone a long way in changing how people see him, thanks to his character Mick Carter's reaction.

He explained: “ They spun it on the head for me, because obviously my perception and what people think I’m about – that I was going to react badly - and instead I just cuddled him and said, ‘Listen, it’s fine, I love you, no problem.’”

Daily Mirror.

Fagburn loved the coming out scene.

And I have a lot of time for professional cheeky chappie Cockney geezer, Danny Dyer.

He's worked with Harold Pinter, you know?

HAVE YOU!!???

EastEnders: Feel The Love

When Mick took his teenage son Johnny in his arms last week and delivered the sweetest, sofa-side, "it's OK son, Daddy still loves you, there's nothing bad about being gay" speech, encouraging him to come out through both of their stifled tears, the hairs on the back of my neck stood upright.

The scene echoed with the underexplored truth that dads sometimes have an easier time of their children coming out than mums. It took gay right into the heart of the family, making empathetic the character you might least expect to be – the resident tough guy. Yet there are real-life precedents here, too. Joey Barton (not far from being the Danny Dyer of football) and his frequent expressions of tenderness towards the gay uncle that raised him came to mind. The scene achieved the holy grail of soap opera. It felt real.

Dyer and actor Sam Strike, playing son Johnny, delivered an exceptional, impulsive, physical reading of the ties that bond father and son, no matter what. You could feel the love in the house. EastEnders has been struggling to find its pre-drum-roll climaxes for some time now, and lost a sizeable audience chunk because of it. The Carters have set themselves up to deliver those big, unifying Eastenders moments the show needs before the credits roll.

A predictably perspicacious piece by the mighty Paul Flynn for The Guardian on how that EastEnders' "coming out scene was a touching return to form".

Sorry for obsessing over Danny Dyer's rectum (tweet) before, Fagburn forgot to say he thought this was fantastic TV.

I cried like a little gurl.

It had a slightly improbable premise - Johnny's sexuality had never been raised before? Really? - but made for great, almost Greek, drama.

And it was made all the more emotionally potent and socially significant as it aired in the wake of Tom Daley coming out.

Really - no blow.
The line; "So you're the one we should have called Nancy", destroyed me with its loving paternal embrace. 

Danny Dyer - my new/old hero - was astonishing, and Sam Strike's Johnny is supercute and laddishly cool - this is far from insignificant if you're a gay teen looking for self-validation.

Let's hope Johnny doesn't get exiled to university and sticks around the Square for more top drama, fun and homo high jinx.

EastEnders: I Don't Believe I'm 'Earing This!

Danny Dyer has already been caught causing trouble outside of Albert Square, as he retaliated on social media to viewers complaints around the latest twist in the EastEnders plot.

Friday night's episode showed Danny Dyer's character Mick Carter, listening to his son Johnny, played by Sam Strike, break the news that he is gay.

But while the storyline was largely praised by EastEnders viewers, a minority took to Twitter to complain that the plot was a 'disgrace' and 'wrong'. 

Danny, 36, retaliated to the negative feedback by tweeting his followers a graphic picture diagram suggesting exactly where insulters should place their opinions.

He captioned the shot: 'Here's a little message for some of the homophobic p****s who are tweeting me........happy new year.'

However, despite reports that BBC chiefs were upset with Danny's reaction to the insults he received, an EastEnders spokesperson denied the claims.

The spokesperson told MailOnline: 'The storyline has been largely positively received. Out of the eight million viewers that tuned into the episode, we only received two complaints.'

Mail Online.

As you can see, in true Mail-style, the headline - Danny Dyer in trouble with BBC chiefs over graphic Twitter retaliation - is not backed up by anything in the story. 

Well done!

And The Sun: Oh no they're not!

For posterior's sake Danny's "controversial" tweet appears below in full...

Here's a little message for some of the homophobic pricks who are tweeting me........happy new year. pic.twitter.com/0tiHPU2x01
— Danny Dyer (@MrDDyer) January 3, 2014

PS Congratulations to Gay Star News who are so prudish and dull and boring, that when writing about the tweet by "Cockney actor Danny Dyer", couldn't even use the popular phrase "shove it up your arse".

Or indeed, "rectum".

EastEnders: Gay Kiss Causes Twitterstorm In A Teacup!

Some people have said on Twitter they did not like seeing two fellas kissing on an EastEnders on Monday much, Pink Star News can exclusively reveal.

Even though people go on Twitter and complain about opening a can of baked beans, or sitting next to someone on the bus they thought was fugly, so this doesn't really matter and isn't newsworthy, and is just the sort of silly outrage-inventing you get in The Sun and The Daily Mail.

Danny Pennant and Johnny Carter orally kissed during the 30th December episode of the ongoing British soap drama which is set in east London, the capital of the UK.

When the two men, who are both openly gay on the popular TV show, kissed for the first time, it caused a huge outrage on social media.

Pink Star News has found two on Twitter.

"UGH! there is 2 gay guys kissing on #eastenders!!! GROSS! SICK INN MOUTH!!!" tweeted @Banterladdave.

"It is sad the two homosexuals on Eastenders have not heard the Good Word of our lord Jesus" added @SimonJumper45

About 350 million "tweets" are sent ever day, and about 5 million people usually watch EastEnders, so how important do you think this really is?

The BBC - who received a massive two complaints - told PSN that some people will complain about anything and everything, so they don't usually take much notice.

PS SPOILER ALERT!!! Johnny Carter comes out to his dad (Danny Dyer) in Friday's episode.

Update: The writers respond to the - somewhat muted - "outcry".