Daniel Brocklebank slams Twitter homophobes - and rightly so

Daniel Brocklebank, who plays Billy the vicar Mayhew in Coronation Street, has taken to twitter today to hit back at homophobic rants.  The rants came after Billy and Todd were shown on the hotel bed last night in Coronation Street.

Have a look at Daniel's twitter timeline - he's great.

After the last time Billy and Todd kissed in Eileen's kitchen, 67 people complained to Ofcom.  Ofcom's ruling is that "Our rules do not discriminate between scenes involving opposite sex and same sex couples."  

Also after that kiss, as Editor of the Coronation Street Blog, I received a rather nasty rash of homophobic emails too. Fans contacted me via corrie.net, wrongly assuming that a fan site with the words 'FAN SITE' on it was the official ITV Corrie site, and they wanted to complain about living in the year 2016.

Good on Daniel, I say. And good on Corrie too.

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