Roseanne Barr
Has a Comment on Marriage and Stuff
Confidential_CC:
@TheRealRoseanne WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT @ CHARLIE CONDOU'S BLOG http://charlie-corrie-condou.blogspot.com/
TheRealRoseanne:
@Confidential_CC marriage fucking blows dead bears dudes- wtf?
Confidential_CC:
@TheRealRoseanne well it's all a matter of perspective x
TheRealRoseanne:
@Confidential_CC I know and I am so bitter - congrats - only gays like
marriage now
Confidential_CC:
@TheRealRoseanne I have been married to my wife for 34 years and have 2
thirty-something kids I love being married but hey I live in Oz!!!
TheRealRoseanne: @Confidential_CC
Jesus - I guess I just don’t understand twitter
- sorry!!
Confidential_CC:
@TheRealRoseanne ah, it's OK the world is still coming to terms with
Twitter...I believe I am an addict! Maybe you will be soon too!
danpkelly:
@TheRealRoseanne @Confidential_CC LOL! This gay will never marry. 18
years together and I won't soil that with legal interference.
Confidential_CC:
@danpkelly @TheRealRoseanne even tho it's just a license to co-own
things it gives me a sense of security when times are tough emotionally x
TheRealRoseanne:
@Confidential_CC @danpkelly I think it's great that u are happy and
have a nice family!
Confidential_CC:
@TheRealRoseanne @danpkelly thanks Roseanne much appreciated.
Marriage is not for everyone but I am very blessed. Am now a granddad as well.
OUR FIRST WEDDING ON THE BLOG
soxysmurfy: @RapidAssistant thankyou for agree-ing to Marry me ;o))xxxx
MarkMMerrett: @soxysmurfy @rapidassistant CONGRATZ when is the big day?
soxysmurfy: @MarkMMerrett lol calm down dear calm down dear its taken 5 yrs to get to this lol :)
TMarkstahler: @soxysmurfy @rapidassistant Brilliant!!! Congratulations!!! :-)x
soxysmurfy: @TMarkstahler Fankoo ;o))xx
Tom_In_Oz_: @soxysmurfy @RapidAssistant - NO - he is your intended - but I can marry you because I am a Justice of the Peace *just saying* CONGRATZ !!!
soxysmurfy: @Tom_In_Oz_ @RapidAssistant if ur payin we are cumon lol
Tom_In_Oz_: We are gathered here today to join @soxysmurfy and @RapidAssistant in mattress-moaning - I now pronounce you man and chattel x ENJOY !!!
soxysmurfy: @Tom_In_Oz_ funny bugger lol but fankoo :o))xx
TMarkstahler: @Tom_In_Oz_ @soxysmurfy @rapidassistant Maybe you should rather stick to funerals, Tommy!!! ;-)
soxysmurfy: @TMarkstahler @Tom_In_Oz_@rapidassistant lol
Tom_In_Oz_: @TMarkstahler @soxysmurfy @rapidassistant yes for funerals my fees are LOWER X
MAN BITES DOG
officialolivier:
So I'm sat in on my own skinning the carcass of yday's feast, my new slippers
on, feet up, stroking my dog. #somebodyshootme #ijustneedapipe
Charliecondou:
@officialolivier how's your dog doing dude? @ryanjamesthomas said he'd been
poorly
officialolivier:
@Charliecondou @ryanjamesthomas Yeh he's fine. He bit me yesterday. So he's
back 2 normal. #velociraptor xx
Charliecondou:
@officialolivier the dog or Ryan?
officialolivier:
@Charliecondou I will never use the word normal with @ryanjamesthomas hehehe xx
charliejac19:
@Charliecondou just to say hello , just passed you on M3. Hope you enjoy
your coffee and have a safe journey
Charliecondou:
@charliejac19 haha did you catch me singing loudly in the car?
Charliecondou:
Playing scrabble with Mother-in-law. She just asked if "Mott" is a
word. I decided not to explain @celebjuice
PaulPopplewell:
@Charliecondou @celebjuice "Mott"
Noun 1: United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)....
Or
2: a big hairy minge
JO_Salmon:
@Charliecondou @celebjuice my mum wants to know what bang tidy means!! Anyone
care to explain??
jean_knowles:
@Charliecondou @celebjuice "Mott" used to mean a copse of trees. Imagine that.
NoNoNannette30:
@Confidential_CC Oh the things I learn & see when I read your blogs.
Will never be able to look at Motts apple juice the same way again o_0
ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY
ryanjamesthomas:
RT @immy_share: @ryanjamesthomas what is your brothers twitter
name? He's gorgeous I saw him on the cube xxxxxx @scottspecial x
Charliecondou:
@ryanjamesthomas @immy_share @scottspecial that ain't your bro Ryno
ryanjamesthomas:
@Charliecondou @immy_share sorry @scottyspecial x
MissCharleyWebb:
@Charliecondou I told @msm4rsh what you said. Her reply....just because you
think you're in LittleMix, ha! X
Charliecondou:
@MissCharleyWebb @msm4rsh yeah well she'll eat her words when we are the
biggest girl-group since bananarama!
MissCharleyWebb:
@Charliecondou @msm4rsh they were my exact words! X
Emily_Edwards_:
@Charliecondou I saw you in winchester today :) hope you had a good christmas x
Charliecondou:
@Emily_Edwards_ I did thanks x
Charliecondou:
Only 363 shopping days til Christmas!
Charliecondou:
@danwootton I just saw you on telly. I had no idea you were a kiwi. I
always imagined you from the home counties
Tom_In_Oz_:
@Charliecondou @danwootton we have so many NZ-ers in Oz we are
thinking of buying it and renaming it Bondi East.
Review of the Year:
Coronation Street 2011
22 Dec 2011
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by
Tim Bennett-Goodman
http://www.polarimagazine.com/
”Sean
Tully and Marcus Dent are played by gay actors, Antony Cotton and Charlie Condou so, however annoying
Sean’s stereotypical ‘mincing queen’ character and however unlikely his
relationship with the steady Marcus, there is at least a readiness on the
part of the show’s makers to cast gay actors in leading gay roles”
Isn’t
it typical? You wait for ages for a gay character in a soap opera and a
positive posse comes along all at once!
To
be fair to dear old Corrie, the show has for some long time featured gay
knicker-stitcher, part-time barman and surrogate dad, Sean Tully – possibly the
most outrageously camp character on the telly since Mr Humphries in Are
You Being Served?, and certainly the most irritating. It also embarked on a
lesbian storyline between sixteen year-olds, Sophie Webster and Sian Powers,
although that ended in a fall – literally, off a church roof – but I digress.
On
Easter Sunday, Sean headed for London (“That London” as he refers to it,
presumably to avoid any confusion in viewers’ minds between the capital city of
the UK and London, Minnesota, USA?). He was on a mission to be reunited with
his son, Dylan, whom he had sired some years ago in an impromptu turkey-baster
moment with his barmaid colleague, Violet Wilson, which was bound to end in
tears. And it did when Violet promptly decamped (I use the word advisedly) to
avoid any further contact with the twitteringly obsessive biological father –
and who could blame her?
Anyway,
who should he find waiting for him when he pitches up on Violet’s doorstep in
Clapham, hotfoot from Victoria Coach Station clutching a giant teddy bear for
his unsuspecting progeny, but his ex, Marcus Dent. Oo-er, missus!
Meanwhile,
back in Weatherfield, the errant Todd Grimshaw has travelled in the opposite
direction to visit his mother, Eileen, bringing in tow his posh new boyfriend,
Jools (I kid you not!) Creme. Needless to say, a cringe-making class conflict
plays itself out over the dinner (or is that lunch?) table – Eileen: “dinner’s
ready” Jools: “It’s a bit early for dinner isn’t it?” Todd: “She means lunch” –
you get the picture. Eileen has made up a bed in Sean’s room while he’s away
for the two lovers but Jools has booked them into a boutique hotel in
Manchester (ee, times have changed since I lived in Manchester!) so the offer
is politely declined (lovely manners, these Southern Posh Boys).
Of
course, no visit to The Street would be complete without the obligatory drink
in The Rovers followed by a very public row and, true to form, Todd,
embarrassed by Eileen’s nervous drunkenness, storms out, with her stinging
accusation that he is a snob ringing in his ears. Jools reads him the riot act:
“I’ve seen another side of you, Toddley” – don’t ask! – “and it’s not very
attractive”. So Toddley Todd toddles off to patch things up with his
heartbroken Mum before being driven off by Jools in his smart car to spend a
night of bliss in their Philippe Starck-inspired bed.
In
May, Ken Barlow’s gay long-lost grandson, James (played by James Roache –
keeping it in the family actually and fictionally) made a reappearance only to
turn out to be a thoroughly bad lot. After conning the gullible Sophie out of
the money she ‘borrowed’ from her dad for his bogus charity he then tries to
rob Ken and Deirdre of their life savings. Ken remonstrates with him and James
replies witheringly: “I’d rather be a crook than a doddering old hypocrite like
you,” before knocking him unconscious. Yes-s-s, at last someone’s had the
courage to say and do what the rest of the nation has been thinking of for
years!
All
good fun as far as it goes I’m sure but there is a more serious dimension to
this amiable tosh. When Corrie was created for Granada Television by Tony
Warren in 1960 it tapped into a real north-south divide inspired by the kitchen
sink dramas of the late ’50s such as John Osborne’s Look Back in
Anger and films like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
At
the time, the gritty, flat-caps-and-whippets image of life in northern
industrial towns was not very far from the truth and the dilemma faced by a new
breed of poor-but-bright university-educated grammar school boys trying to
escape their roots was reflected in Corrie by the character of Ken Barlow,
played then as now by Bill Roache..
Fifty
years on one is bound to ask how far, if at all, times have changed? Is the
scenario of Todd’s bitter-sweet return to his roots, albeit with a modern gay
twist, just a lazy cliché or does it reflect a continuing reality of the
north-south geographical and sociological divide and an enduring class-consciousness
underlying the comfortable myth of our modern classless society.
And
more particularly in the context of Polari Magazine, what does all this
say about the portrayal of contemporary queer life and relationships?
Sean
Tully and Marcus Dent are played by gay actors, Antony Cotton and Charlie
Condou so, however annoying Sean’s stereotypical ‘mincing queen’ character and
however unlikely his relationship with the steady Marcus, there is at
least a readiness on the part of the show’s makers to cast gay actors in
leading gay roles
One
thing seems certain from all this, as far as the makers of Corrie are
concerned, there really is nowt so queer as folk.
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Condou
Actor and Guardian Columnist
Actor and Guardian Columnist
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