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Phil Collinson has praised Coronation Street for never shying "away from gay issues".
The soap's producer told the Manchester Evening News that Corrie has a "good sort of gay sensibility" and that the ongoing Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent and Sian Powers (Sacha Parkinson) storyline will continue this.
"We're going to go a long way with this storyline," he told the paper.
"We'll look at sexuality in a much more hard-hitting way, what parents think about it, what the church thinks about it. Life is not going to be as easy as it might have been for Sophie, but it's important to look at prejudice. There are lots of parents out there who have gone through this, and they all deal with it in different ways."
Collinson also lauded the character of Sean Tully - played by Antony Cotton - and hit back at criticism of the factory worker.
"I think what the show has done with the character of Sean Tully is brilliant," he said. "I know Antony gets criticised because people think he's a stereotype of camp, but I think showing a gay man living in Coronation Street and being loved and accepted for who he is, is the most important thing you can do, rather than trying to represent big gay issues, which the show has also done."
The former Doctor Who producer, who came out in his late 20s, further revealed that he felt "incredibly lucky" to have never "experienced homophobia personally".
"I feel very fortunate that I'm in an industry that is accepting. I always say to younger gay people, 'You have got to stand up and be yourself'," he said. It wasn't until I did that the last piece of the jigsaw fell into place for me."
He added: "That's why I hope with characters like Sophie and Sian and the careful way we handle this storyline, I hope it's going to help people out there and show that it's better to be honest."
Sophie and Sian's romance is revealed to all in Coronation Street later this month when Claire blurts out their secret on Roy and Hayley's wedding day.
The dramatic moment comes after the childminder finds herself involved in a police investigation surrounding Dev and Sunita's son Aadi, who is hospitalised with a fractured skull shortly after being collected from her house.
Claire is soon forced to admit that she was only with Aadi for part of the day in question - at one point, she left him, Asha and Simon with Sophie and Sian as she was dealing with a family emergency.
Furious to see police attention switching to the girls, Sally confronts Claire and demands to know why she's accusing them.
Later, another row breaks out as Roy and Hayley's wedding guests travel to the ceremony via steam train. Tired of all the aggro, Claire snaps - explaining that she walked in on Sophie and Sian snogging when they were supposed to be minding the kids…
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LESBIAN lovers Sophie Webster and Sian Powers see their relationship go off the rails when they are outed on a steam train.
As our dramatic picture shows, neighbour Claire Peacock drops the bombshell in front of half the street that she saw them kissing.
The young lovers are mortified by their outing, which happens on the train taking them all to Roy and Hayley Cropper’s wedding.
But they’re not as upset as Sophie’s parents Sally and Kevin.
The couple can’t believe what they’re hearing and at first Sally refuses to take on board what Claire is saying.
She turns to Sophie and demands to know what the hell Claire is on about.
A Street insider said: “Sally starts a massive row with Claire over the *possibility that Aadi Alahan received some bruises while in her care.
“Claire snaps and tells Sally she should be more concerned about her own daughter before telling the packed train that she saw Sophie and Sian snogging the face off each other. Sally can’t believe what she’s hearing and tells Claire she’s deranged for making up such a lie.
“But as soon as everyone turns to Sophie and Sian for answers it’s *pretty clear from their faces that Claire is telling the truth.
“The girls have kept their romance a secret for months so to be outed like this leaves them devastated. Sophie’s big sister Rosie loves all the drama as for once she’s not involved.
“She doesn’t care that her sister’s a lesbian and even tells her parents she thinks it’s actually rather cool.
“One thing’s for sure, Claire’s bombshell wipes the smile off Sally’s face. It’s going to be one hell of a wedding after this.”
Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor has praised the soap's writers for their approach to her screen daughter Sophie's current lesbian storyline.
Speaking to New magazine, the actress explained that she is glad her character Sally Webster grows to accept Sophie's relationship with Sian Powers in scenes to be broadcast over the coming weeks.
Sophie (Brooke Vincent) and Sian (Sacha Parkinson) became an item earlier this year, kicking off their relationship by sharing a kiss after becoming increasingly close.
Discussing how Sally reacts to the secret romance, Dynevor explained: "At first, she's really shocked and says daft things like, 'I'm not having any dungarees in this house!' But then she becomes quite protective of Sophie and Sian and defends them.
"I'm so glad the writers have done it like that, because at first I wasn't sure Sally would accept it. The fact she's supportive is really good."
Corrie lesbians Sian Powers and Sophie Webster are branded shameful, unnatural and sinful by an angry church leader in a red-hot new storyline.
The ministers outburst comes hard on the heels of anti-gay tirades by Ken Barlow's homophobic son Lawrence in the ITV1 soap.
And producers predict a storm of protest when the controversial scenes are aired in November.
A Coronation Street source said: They are sure to provoke outrage.
Sian (Sacha Parkinson) and devout Sophie (Brooke Vincent) get the earful when the pastor (Chris Grahamson) first hears about their romance.
He rages: God considers women who choose unnatural relationships over natural ones to be guilty of shameful lust. God puts temptation in our way to test us.
But people like you who abandon God in deceit are sinful in his eyes. Shocked Sian hits back: I thought we were all supposed to be equal in the eyes of God.
If God truly believed what you are telling us, He obviously got it wrong.
If He were around today He would be the first to admit it.
But the ministers rant makes Sophie begin to have doubts which grow when Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire) refuses to slag off the pastor after the girls open their hearts to her.
Torn between her friendship to them and her loyalty to the church, religious Emily tells them: I'm sorry he upset you but I'm not prepared to criticise what he said.
Viewers will be left wondering if this is the beginning of the end for the Streets first ever lesbian couple.
The Corrie source said: Lawrence's anti-gay sentiments broke new ground.
But this dialogue from a respected church leader who should be more tolerant to his followers takes things to a whole different level.
Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor has said that her character will stick by her daughter Sophie.
Viewers have recently seen the ITV soap's Sally Webster deal with the shock of learning that her daughter, played by Brooke Vincent, is in a lesbian relationship. However, speaking to RTÉ Ten, Dynevor said that Sally will be a "supportive" mother and defend Sophie when she needs to.
"I think Sally was really shocked," she said. "I think what she thought was a lesbian wasn't her daughter and I love that about the story, because so many lesbians that I've talked to have said that they've had exactly the same conversation with their mother."
Dynevor continued: "But I love the fact that now she's supporting them. As soon as somebody criticises she's there!
"But she had to go through all those feelings that she's got now to get to where she is because it was just a shock for Sally because that's the last thing that she would have wanted for Sophie."
She added: "She's going to stick up for her daughter, come rain or shine."
The actress also admitted that she is enjoying Rosie's (Helen Flanagan) reaction to her sister's sexuality.
"I love the fact that Rosie just thinks it's all so cool, that her sister is a lesbian," she said.
Sacha Parkinson will reportedly sign a new deal to stay in Coronation Street until 2011.
The actress, who plays Sian Powers in the ITV1 soap, will apparently sign the new contract following the popularity of her character's lesbian storyline with Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent).
A source told the Daily Star Sunday: "Sacha has been negotiating a new deal and is due to sign as soon as the [tram] crash scenes have been sorted. She's storylined well into next year and is one of the soap's most popular young actresses.
"There will be lots of twists and turns over the next few months as their relationship continues and life throws a number of things at both of them. By bringing in a few more lesbians it's only going to further spice things up. Everyone is very excited about it all."
Parkinson first appeared on the soap in 2009.
So thats two more that dont get bumped off in the Tram Disaster
Yes, so much for keeping it all "under wraps" about who dies in the tram crash. How many is that now that we know are safe?