Charlie Condou 'thrilled with Corrie return'
Sunday, June 19 2011.
By Tom Eames, Entertainment Reporter
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Charlie Condou has revealed that he is delighted to have returned to Coronation Street, especially as part of a plot that mirrors his real life.
Condou returned to the soap as Marcus Dent. The character has spent three years away but is now helping on-off boyfriend Sean Tully to look after his son Dylan, whom he fathered with Violet Wilson (Jenny Platt).
The actor himself is bringing up daughter Georgia Mae with his boyfriend of four years Cameron Laux, along with the child's mother and long-time friend Catherine Kanter.
On returning to the soap, Condou told the Sunday Mirror: "I think it's a great storyline. Obviously I would because of my personal situation, but I also think it's really relevant.
"I feel like I'm on-trend all of a sudden! Elton and David have done it, and Rufus Wainwright and Ricky Martin. It's very fashionable to be a gay dad.
"It's a great thing to have on TV, especially with a soap like Coronation Street which reaches so many people."
He added that storylines such as Dent and Tully's will help make similar situations easier to understand for members of the public.
"It's a unique situation Sean and Marcus are in, and I'm in with Cameron. Because of that some viewers might be shocked.
"But I think controversial storylines like this are important because, without realising it, people become used to it and it becomes normal, for want of a better word."
Speaking about the decision to father a child, he said: "I was in a lucky place in that my relationship was very stable, I had a nice house and financially we were okay. It felt like a good time to do it.
"It took a bit of time for Cameron to get his head around it but he knew how much I wanted to do it and he's a great dad."
Condou recently said that his storyline gave out a positive image for gay parenting.
Above: Charlie Condou arriving at Coronation Street Set in Manchester, England 15.06.11.
Above: Sue Cleaver and Charlie Condou leave the Coronation Street Set in Manchester, England 12.05.11.
Fiction mirrors life for Charlie Condou
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Sunday, 19 June 2011
There's a nice interview in the Mirror today with Charlie Condou who plays Marcus Dent on Coronation Street. Marcus has returned to our screens and I'm very chuffed that he's back. He's reunited with his ex, Sean Tully and Sean has had to take on caring for his son with Violet, Dylan while Violet recovers from a car accident injury.
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Sunday, 19 June 2011
There's a nice interview in the Mirror today with Charlie Condou who plays Marcus Dent on Coronation Street. Marcus has returned to our screens and I'm very chuffed that he's back. He's reunited with his ex, Sean Tully and Sean has had to take on caring for his son with Violet, Dylan while Violet recovers from a car accident injury.
Marcus is fully supportive of Sean and is more than willing to help and his portrayer, Charlie, can relate. Off the screen, Charlie is in a very similar situation, co-parenting a toddler with his long time partner Cameron Laux. Charlie and a very good friend decided to have a baby via IVF and he and Cameron do their part in bringing their little girl up. In the interview, he relates that same sex parenting is getting more and more comming, and the high profiles of some celebrity gay parents is really bringing the issue to the forefront.
He says “It’s a great thing to have on TV, especially with a soap like Coronation Street which reaches so many people.” and finishes with “It’s the best thing I ever did. I don’t think you ever know love like it until you have children.”
It looks like Sean will have Dylan on board for a few months, so we should be seeing all the ups and downs of the couple suddenly taking on parenthood. I reckon they should rent that flat that Jason and Tina still own that seems to have been forgotten since the Kabin was rebuilt around it.
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Coronation Street - Marcus Dent (Charlie Condou）
Shameless - Mickey (Ciaran Griffiths)
Skins - Maxxie (Mitch Hewer)
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DYING FOR IT
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Moira Buffini's new play Dying for It, freely adapted from Erdman's The Suicide, opened on March 15th after beginning previews at London's Almeida Theatre on March 8th 2007. The show plays a limited engagement through April 28th 2007.
"When his last hope for self-respect disappears, Semyon decides to take his own life. But word gets out and he finds himself inundated with sympathetic visitors - begging him to die on their behalf. Suddenly, he's an important man, and on the night of his proposed suicide, events spiral to a gloriously funny climax," state press materials on the play, which is directed by Anna Mackmin.
Dying for It stars Tom Brooke, Susan Brown, Dominic Charles-Rouse, Gil Cohen-Alloro, Charlie Condou, Michelle Dockery, Barnaby Kay, Paul Rider, Tony Rohr, Sophie Stanton, Ronan Vibert, and Liz White.
http://broadwayworld.com/
Monday, March 12, 2007
Moira Buffini's new play Dying for It, freely adapted from Erdman's The Suicide, opened on March 15th after beginning previews at London's Almeida Theatre on March 8th 2007. The show plays a limited engagement through April 28th 2007.
"When his last hope for self-respect disappears, Semyon decides to take his own life. But word gets out and he finds himself inundated with sympathetic visitors - begging him to die on their behalf. Suddenly, he's an important man, and on the night of his proposed suicide, events spiral to a gloriously funny climax," state press materials on the play, which is directed by Anna Mackmin.
Dying for It stars Tom Brooke, Susan Brown, Dominic Charles-Rouse, Gil Cohen-Alloro, Charlie Condou, Michelle Dockery, Barnaby Kay, Paul Rider, Tony Rohr, Sophie Stanton, Ronan Vibert, and Liz White.
Above: Charlie Condou & Orlando Seale at the press night for Dying For It 2007
Above: Moira Buffini (writer) and Charlie Condou (Viktor) attend the after party on press night for Dying For It at the Almeida Theatre, London, England on 15th March, 2007
Above: Charlie Condou & Neve Campbell attend the after party on press night for Dying For It at the Almeida Theatre, London, England on 15th March, 2007
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