EastEnders newcomer Jonny has revealed that his character Paul Coker’s onscreen fling with Ben Mitchell hasn’t proven popular with everyone.
Speaking to the magazine Gay Times, the 22-year-old – whose recent funeral parlour sex scene on the soap spawned 48 complaints – admitted that he’s received homophobic abuse online on account of the character’s storyline.
“It was all very positive, I thought, but it wasn’t until I got curious and started nosing around that I found the negative ones,’ he said.
‘People would have been fine if it was a guy and a girl kissing. We need to move on from discrimination against gay men.’
He added: ‘No matter what the storyline is,… Read the full story