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PATRICK WARD as Dillon Simmonds 2018-20 • Jamie Johnson • S04-05 • dir. Joe Talbot

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Britain Lavender Mafia

In the British Lavender Mafia, those in a higher tier of society will usually strong-arm, trick or coerce new and younger artists in the industry, to take over their career, bleed them dry, pimp them out, and not just for sex. Sometimes, it may be for torture. They'll use the artists for everything, from getting attention for a project, asset collecting, and often, SPYING. Sometimes, the artist is SOLD as a child, to a wealthier family, according to Freemason laws. Yes. Freemasons buy and sell their children to each other. This is usually tied to Occult activity.

Special mention goes to Dakota Johnson for agreeing to spy on an old friend for Dorman in exchange for a part in a Kenneth Branagh film.

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EXCLUSIVE: Clan Fraser continues to grow in numbers as Tony Curran (Defiance, Red Road) has joined the Starz prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood as Lord Lovat, Jamie Fraser’s grandfather, in a series regular role.

Production recently kicked off on the new series, a prequel of the Starz hit period drama Outlander, in Scotland. The original series stars Caitríona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as her husband, Jamie Fraser. The franchise is inspired by the work of Diana Gabaldon, who serves as a consulting producer on both shows.

Blood of My Blood will explore the lives and relationships of Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Claire’s parents, Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine). The 10-episode series will center on the two parallel love stories set in two different time periods, with Jamie’s parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire’s parents in WWI England.

Matthew B Roberts will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series. Ronald D. Moore and Maril Davis, who developed Outlander for television, under their production banner Tall Ship Productions will also executive produce the series alongside Roberts and Story Mining & Supply Company. Outlander: Blood of My Blood is produced by Sony Pictures Television and will be available across all Starz platforms in the U.S. and Canada.

This is Curran’s second series for Starz currently on the slate. In addition to the Outlander prequel, he is set to star as King James I in Mary & George, opposite Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine portraying the titular mother and son who are scheming social climbers. The seven-part limited series, premiering on April 5, is inspired by the scandalous true story of a treacherous Mary and George Villiers who schemed, seduced and killed to conquer the Court of England and the bed of King James I.

Curran trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama who rose to fame in the TV series, This Life. He has worked extensively across TV, film and theatre both in the UK and US.

Recently he starred alongside Martin Compston and Ashley Jenson in the onscreen adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s acclaimed novel Mayflies* for which he was nominated for Best TV Actor at the Scottish BAFTA Awards and won Best Male Actor at the Scottish Television Awards.

Earlier in 2023 Curran also appeared in the second season of Your Honor with Bryan Cranston alongside the 10-part investigative drama series The Calling written by David E Kelly and directed by Barry Levinson.

Additional credits include Outlaw King alongside Chris Pine, Florence Pugh and Aaron Taylor Johnson, the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan and the film version of the Emmy award-winning drama Deadwood, among many others.

He is repped by Innovative Artists and Link Entertainment in the U.S. and Scott Marshall Partners in the U.K. as well as Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver and Thompson.

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*Mayflies is a two-part BBC television drama starring Martin Compston and Tony Curran, adapted by Andrea Gibb from Andrew O'Hagan's 2020 novel of the same name, and directed by Peter Mackie Burns.

Mayflies is an affecting story of a friendship tested by end-of-life issues, with some fantastic performances from Compston, Curran and Jensen.

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british moots/moots with access to bbc i player can you please just let me know because i need everyone to watch jamie johnson

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May 25, 2000

very sorry for the late response, this ask got buried way down in my inbox. i also unfortunately couldn't find anything for this date either. this is typically the case with the post 99 dates, since by this point the spice girls started their solo careers and were no longer working daily (for the most part). i've included may 24th 2000 instead:

may 24, 2000: melanie c's website updates

Melanie is included in the line up at a special hour long Top of the Pops at this years BBC Music Live event at Sheffield Arena on 29th May. Jamie Theakston hosts some of the biggest and best musical acts from around the world celebrating the records and artists of the eyar so far. All Saints, S Club 7, Ronan Keating, Gabrielle, Moloko, Craig David, Artful dodger, Fragma, Andreas Johnson and Chicane with Bryan Adams have also confirmed their involvement. Tickets are unfortunately sold out but you can still listen in by tuning to Radio 1 for a live broadcast from 16:30.

may 24, 2000: geri and george michael attend a charity dinner held in honor of elizabeth taylor at london's dorchester hotel.

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Jamie Oliver a renouvelé la pression sur le gouvernement pour qu'il élargisse les repas scolaires gratuits, George Osborne suggérant que l'élargissement du programme pourrait être la bonne voie à suivre et Tony Blair affirmant que l'argent pourrait être trouvé si les politiciens voulaient le faire.Le chef de la télévision a souligné le problème alors qu'il était le rédacteur invité de l'émission Today de BBC Radio 4 mardi dans le cadre de sa campagne à long terme sur les repas scolaires gratuits.S'exprimant au programme, Osborne, un ancien chancelier conservateur, a critiqué la "danse conservatrice" actuelle sur la question.Tout en s'arrêtant avant de soutenir la campagne d'Oliver, il a déclaré: "L'objectif global, qui est d'avoir des enfants mieux nourris et en meilleure santé, est un bon objectif que je soutiens certainement et cela pourrait bien être, dans mon esprit - je ne suis pas actif en politique aujourd'hui. – que fournir de meilleurs repas scolaires gratuits à un groupe beaucoup plus large de la population est la bonne voie à suivre.«Cela signifierait tellement»: les parents sur la nécessité d'étendre les repas scolaires gratuitsLire la suiteSe référant à la campagne réussie du footballeur Marcus Rashford pour obtenir des repas scolaires gratuits étendus aux vacances pendant la pandémie de Covid, Osborne a ajouté: «Certes, je pense que le genre actuel de danse conservatrice du genre, non, non, non, puis le footballeur saute et dit oui, et ils vont bien, n'est pas bon politiquement pour mon parti.Il a également suggéré que le gouvernement devait faire plus pour lutter contre l'obésité avec une augmentation des taxes sur le sucre. Interrogé sur l'approche qu'il adopterait maintenant s'il était toujours au gouvernement, il a répondu: «J'étendrais la taxe sur le sucre aux produits non sucrés. Et j'irais en fait avec cette interdiction de la publicité parce que je pense que c'est bien connu depuis de nombreuses années et je pense que ce serait une bonne chose.À l'heure actuelle, les ménages aux revenus les plus bas bénéficient de repas scolaires gratuits. Les enfants de parents bénéficiant d'un crédit universel et ayant un revenu annuel ne dépassant pas 7 400 £, ou bénéficiant d'une autre prestation telle que l'allocation de demandeur d'emploi, ont droit à des repas scolaires gratuits.Il y a aussi toujours une polémique sur les repas scolaires gratuits pendant les vacances. En 2020, Rashford a appelé le gouvernement à prolonger ses bons de repas scolaires gratuits de 15 £ – initialement mis en place pour nourrir les enfants pendant la période scolaire lorsque les écoles étaient fermées par la pandémie – jusqu'aux vacances. Johnson et son chancelier de l'époque, Rishi Sunak, se sont enfoncés et ont refusé, pour être contraints à chaque fois à un demi-tour humiliant, après des vagues de critiques. Cependant, depuis lors, les conseils de toute l'Angleterre ont discrètement supprimé les programmes de bons alimentaires pour les vacances.Blair, l'ancien Premier ministre travailliste, a déclaré qu'il était possible de trouver de l'argent pour des repas scolaires gratuits et que les gens accepteraient que l'investissement dans l'avenir des enfants soit essentiel.Il a dit que c'était important « particulièrement aujourd'hui, alors que les pressions sur les familles sont énormes et qu'il y a des niveaux de pauvreté que nous n'avons vraiment pas vus dans le pays depuis longtemps."Pour les sommes d'argent que vous allez dépenser pour ces premières années, si vous avez vraiment la volonté de le faire, je vous promets d'avoir été au gouvernement, vous pourriez trouver l'argent nécessaire pour le faire", a ajouté Blair.Il a exhorté Oliver à "faire comme vous l'avez fait auparavant, c'est-à-dire s'asseoir avec les dirigeants politiques des deux partis politiques et les amener à prendre des engagements".Le gouvernement n'a pas proposé de ministre pour le programme, mais il a été approché pour commentaires.Le ministère de l'Éducation

a précédemment déclaré: «Nous avons élargi l'accès aux repas scolaires gratuits plus que tout autre gouvernement au cours des dernières décennies, qui touchent actuellement 1,9 million d'enfants. Nous investissons également jusqu'à 24 millions de livres sterling dans notre programme national de petit-déjeuner scolaire, qui fournit des petits-déjeuners gratuits aux enfants des écoles des zones défavorisées.

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Jamie, Laura, Mike & Beth in their Hogwarts houses

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wee lad is an agent of chaos im crying 😂😂

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Wigging Out.

Choreographer and director Jonathan Butterell tells Gemma Gracewood about stepping behind the camera for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, his love for Sheffield, and making sure queer history is kept alive. Richard E. Grant weighs in on tolerance and Thatcher.

Of 2021’s many conundrums, one for musical lovers is why the narratively problematic Dear Evan Hansen gets a TIFF premiere and theatrical release this month, while the joyously awaited Everybody’s Talking About Jamie went straight to Amazon Prime.

And yet, as the show’s lyrics go, life keeps you guessing, along came a blessing. There’s something about the film streaming onto young people’s home screens, with its moments of fourth-wall breaking where Jamie speaks straight to the viewer, that feels so important, given the content: a gay teen whose drag-queen destiny sits at odds with the less ambitious expectations of his working-class town.

Director and choreographer Jonathan Butterell, who also helmed the stage production (itself inspired by Jenny Popplewell’s 2011 BBC documentary, Jamie: Drag Queen at 16) agrees that the worldwide Amazon release is a very good silver lining. “I made the film for the cinema but, in 250 territories across the world, this is going to have a reach that—don’t get me wrong, cinema, cinema, cinema, collective experience, collective experience, collective experience—but it will get to people that it might not have got to before.

Jonathan Butterell on set with star Max Harwood, as Jamie.

“It feels as niche a story as you could possibly be. But also for me, I wanted it to feel like a universal story, that it didn’t matter where on any spectrum you found yourself, you could understand a young person wanting to take their place in the world freely, openly and safely.”

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, with screenplay and lyrics by Tom MacRae and songs by Dan Gillespie Sells, sits neatly among a series of very specific feel-good British films about the working class experience, such as Billy Elliot, Kinky Boots and Pride. The film adds some historical weight to the story with a new song, ‘This Was Me’, which allows Jamie’s mentor, Hugo (played by Richard E. Grant), to take us into England’s recent past—the dark days of the discriminatory Section 28 laws, at a time when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was still ravaging the community.

Hugo’s drag persona Loco Chanelle (played in the flashback by the stage musical’s original Jamie—John McCrea from Cruella and God’s Own Country), sports a wig that looks suspiciously like the Iron Lady’s unmistakable head of hair. Grant confirms that was Hugo’s intention. “His heyday was in the 1980s, so as a ‘fuck you’ to Mrs Thatcher, what better than to be dressed up like that, at six-foot-eight, with a wig that could bring down the Taj Mahal!”

Richard E. Grant as Hugo, getting to work on Jamie’s contours.

In light of the current pandemic, and the fact that the 1967 legalization of homosexuality in Britain is only “an historical blink away”, Grant’s hope is for more tolerance in the world. “Maybe Covid gives people some sense of what that was like, but with Covid there’s not the prejudice against you, whereas AIDS, for the most part in my understanding, was [seen as] a ‘gay disease’, and there were many people across the globe who thought that this was, you know, whatever god they believe in, was their way of punishing something that they thought was unacceptable.

“The message of this movie is of inclusivity, diversity, and more than ever, tolerance. My god, we could do with a dose of that right now.”

Read on for our Q&A with Jonathan Butterell about the filmic influences behind Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

Hugo in a reverie, surrounded by his drag menagerie.

Can we talk about the new song, ‘This Was Me’, and the way you directed it in the film? It’s a show-stopper, with Richard E. Grant singing in that beautiful high register, and then moving into Holly Johnson’s singing, as you go back in time to show that deeply devastating and important history. Jonathan Butterell: It felt inevitable, the shift, and necessary. Myself, Dan Gillespie Sells, the composer, and Tom MacRae, the screenwriter, we created this piece together, the three of us, and it’s a film by the three of us. We lived through that time, we went on those marches. Actually, in one of those marches [shown in flashback], Dan’s mum—actual mum—is in a wheelchair, by a young boy who was holding a plaque saying “my mum’s a lesbian and I love her”.

That is Dan with his mum back in the day, and it all speaks to our stories and it moves me, I can see it’s moving you. It moves me because I lived through that time, and it was a complex time for a young person. It was a time that you felt you had to be empowered in order to fight, and you felt very vulnerable because of the need to fight. And because of that disease, because HIV was prevalent and we lost people—we lost close people—it was a difficult time. I wanted to make sure that that story kept being told and was passed on to the next generation.

It’s so important isn’t it, to walk into the future facing backwards? It still exists, that need to fight still exists. The conversation, yes, has moved on, has changed, but not for all people and not in all communities.

What would be your go-to movie musical song at a karaoke night? My goodness. There’d be so many.

I mean, is it going to be a Cabaret, a Chicago showstopper, or something more Mary Poppins, something from Rent? I think what I would go to, which is what I remember as a little boy, is Curly singing ‘Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’. It’s such a kind of perfect, beautiful, simple song. That, and ‘The Lonely Goatherd’, because I just want to yodel. It would be epic. Trust me.

What is the best film featuring posing and why is it Paris Is Burning? It’s always Paris Is Burning. Back in the day, I was obsessed with Paris Is Burning, I was obsessed with that world. In fact, at one moment I even met [director] Jennie Livingston in trying to make a theater piece inspired by that. I lived in New York for eleven years and I met Willi Ninja. I just adored everything about him, and he would tell me stories. And again, it was so removed from the boy from Sheffield, I mean so far. That New York ballroom scene was so removed from my world, but I got it. Those two boys at the top of the film, I just wanted to be one of those boys who just hung out outside the club.

Harwood and Butterell on set, with Lauren Patel (right) as Jamie’s bestie Pritti Pasha.

What films did you and Tom and Dan look at to get a feeling for how to present the musical numbers? Actually, a lot of pop videos, from present day to past. There’s an homage, in the black-and-white sequences, to a little ‘Vogue’ Madonna moment. Pop is very central to me in this story because pop is what a working-class kid from a working-class community will be listening to. That’s in his phone, that’s in his ears. Not that many young people listen to much radio at this moment in time, but that’s what will be on Margaret’s radio, that’s what’s coming into the kitchen. And that was central to the storytelling for me.

Bob Fosse also really influenced me, and particularly All That Jazz and where his flights of imagination take him. I felt that was so appropriate for Jamie, and again in a very, very different way, but I could see how Jamie’s imagination could spark something so fantastical that would lead him to dance, lead him to walk on the most amazing catwalk, lead into being in the most fabulous, fabulous nightclub with the most amazing creatures you’ve ever met in your life.

For me personally, the film that most inspired me was Ken Loach’s Kes, because that is my community. Both the world in which Jamie exists—Parsons Cross council estate, is my world, is my community—and the world of that young boy, finding his place in the world with his kestrel friend, I remember identifying with that boy so clearly. He was very different from me, very different. But I got him, and I felt like Ken Loach got me through him.

Ken Loach made a few films set in Sheffield, didn’t he? But also, Sheffield is a setting and an influence on The Full Monty, The History Boys, Funny Cow and that brilliant Pulp documentary. So Jamie feels like a natural successor. It absolutely does. Sheffield’s where I grew up, it’s my hometown. Although I moved away from it, I always return. To have a chance to celebrate my community, and particularly that community in Parsons Cross council estate. If you’re in Sheffield and you’re in a taxi and you said, “Take me to Parsons Cross,” they’d say, “Well, I’ll drop you there, but I’m not staying.” Because again there’s a blinkered view of that community. And I know that community to be proud, glorious and beautiful.

And yes, that community, particularly through the ’80s, really suffered because some of that community would serve the steelworks and had three generations of unemployment, so they became disenfranchised because of that. But the community I grew up in, my Auntie Joan, who lived on that road, literally on that road, was a proud, working class, glorious woman who served chips at school.

Aside from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, what would be the most important queer British cinematic story to you? (And how do you choose between My Beautiful Laundrette and God’s Own Country?!) You can’t. My Beautiful Laundrette influenced me so much because, one, Daniel Day Lewis was extraordinary in that film, and two, because of the cross-cultural aspect of it. I went, “I know this world”, because again I grew up in that world. And it affirmed something in me, which is the power and the radicalness of who I could be and what I could be.

With God’s Own Country, when I saw that film—and that was Francis’ first film, which I thought was extraordinary for a first-time filmmaker—I knew he knew that world from the inside, from the absolute inside. And I know what that rural community was like. I read that script, because we share agents, and I was blown away by it—again, because of the two cultures coming together.

Jamie Campbell, the film’s real-life inspiration, with screen-Jamie Max Harwood.

Richard E. Grant’s character, Hugo, is such a pivotal mentor for Jamie. What did you need to hear from a mentor when you were sixteen? Don’t let yourself hold yourself back, because I think it was me who put some limitations on myself. And of course I came from a working-class community. I was a queer kid in a tough British comprehensive school. And did I experience tough times? Yes I did. And did I deal with those tough times? Yes I did. But the song that speaks to me mostly in this is ‘Wall in my Head’, in which Jamie takes some responsibility for the continuation of those thoughts, continuations of the sorts of shame, and that’s a sophisticated thing for a sixteen-year-old boy to tackle.

I also was lucky enough to have a mother like Margaret—and a dad like Margaret as well, just to be clear! And I remember my mum, at seventeen when I left home, just leaving a little note on my bed. It was quite a long letter. She said, Jonathan, you’ve probably chosen to walk a rocky path, but don’t stray from it, don’t steer away from it. That’s the path you've chosen, there may be rock-throwers along the way, but you’ll find your way through it. That stayed with me and I think that’s what resonates with me. And when I saw that documentary, Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, I felt that that sparked the need for me to tell that story.

Sarah Lancashire as Jamie’s mum, Margaret New.

We need more mums and dads like Margaret, don’t we? We do, we do. And the wonderful thing is, Margaret Campbell will say it and I think Margaret New in the film will say it: she’s not a Saint, she’s an ordinary mum. And she has to play catch up and she doesn’t understand in many ways, and she gets things wrong and she overprotects. But she comes from one place and that is a mum’s love of her child and wanting them to take their place safely in the world and to be fully and totally themselves.

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‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.

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Watch ‘Jamie Johnson'

Did you enjoy Andi Mack? There may be a show that resembles Andi Mack a lot in a way, and that you could enjoy. It’s called ‘Jamie Johnson’ and you could say that it’s Andi Mack if Jonah Beck was the titular character and the show had no storyline restrictions... which doesn’t sound very groundbreaking but hear me out.

From the get go, at the heart of the show are three friends: Jamie (which is basically Jonah Beck, he’s very bland and he thinks liking football is personality trait just like Jonah with frisbee BUT there’s also a hint of Andi when it comes to storylines with his family and rather shocking revelations surrounding his family), Boggy (which is basically a hybrid between Gus and Cyrus but without the gay factor),

and last but not least, Jack (which we could easily compare to Buffy – athletic girl who wants to join the boys football team and doesn’t care what others think about that because she’s basically better than everyone there, her journey’s amazing and there are also some similarities with her creating a new team along the way and her mom always being away, just like with Buffy)

Every group of protagonists needs an antagonist – that would be Dillon, who we could definitely compare to TJ – at first comes off very mean, does questionable stuff and has that one thing that makes him open up a bit (with TJ it’s dyscalculia and with Dillon it’s [I won’t spoil]) BUT Dillon’s characterization goes way deeper than that with his dad being a whole bully, Dillon’s one of the best developed characters on the show so far and they really did well with his character as the seasons went by... there’s also this other thing that connects him with TJ, which I will get to in a few.

We could say that these characters are the core four of the show since Season 1 but as the seasons go by they add up more and more interesting characters... with Season 3 and onward, they also write in character-centric episodes, which gives more development to characters that are not these four – for example Zoe who has to take care of her mom with MS; Ruby and Alba who are looked after by two foster moms which results into a whole storyline about homophobia (and surprisingly very honest and rough depiction of it), Wozza with ADHD, etc.

As the show progresses, the mood of the show gets rather serious, every character gets their own space and storyline, and the budget for the show gets better and better – in Season 4, the show’s football team competes in a world tournament in Sweden forreal and the scenes were filmed during the real event – them casting actual football players makes this whole experience a lot more authentic. Don’t even let me start on them showing one of the main characters getting hit by a car just like that... TRUST, this show is wild.

The show’s not only putting championing women’s football and gender equality at the front, but also in Season 5 mental health issues will be explored (possibly with Boggy) AND they’re taking Dillon on a journey to coming out as gay this season, which was heavily hinted at in Season 4.... I mean

The gay storyline starts next week (June 4, S05E05) with Elliott coming in the picture (he’s being looked after by Ruby and Alba's moms as a foster kid on an emergency placement and in the trailer it’s revealed he’s gay).

Them creating a show which seems to be targeted at young guys and then putting in all the issues and storylines in to raise awareness is, at least in my humble opinion, a smart way to teach a certain group of people a lesson they wouldn’t want to hear otherwise... it’s a really chill show, easy to binge, AMAZING loving coaches (one of them on the pic below) throughout the seasons, the show has a lot of great moments. It may surprise you how far they go with some storylines for a show of this nature. The storylines are very consistent and if they start something, they pull it off all the way (unlike Andi Mack because of Disney restrictions). If you wanna watch, BBC has all the seasons on their site, come on.

[jamiejohnsontalk]

Hey, last night I watched the series 6 preview on bbc iPlayer, I just wanted to know what you think about it seeming so… idk like angsty? I’m pretty scared about what they’re gonna do with the show tbh but I’m hoping it’ll be all good.

Mild clip spoilers ahead

Jamie Johnson has been angsty from the beginning tbf. But the new coach, from the clips, I think should be interesting. I honestly don't know how much training pro footballers do, but hopefully she'll learn that pushing the players too hard will only mess them up sooner rather than later.

Edit: I just realised you meant the preview and not the clip. Yeah, the preview was super angsty, they went full DCEU with it. Thankfully, it seems like that wasn’t representative of the season as a whole.

[midnightanddiamonds]

I just want to take a moment to acknowledge how groundbreakingly important Dillon coming out would be for the CBBC channel - and British-made children's television as a whole - especially if it happens in a particular way.

I grew up watching this channel religiously and as someone who has identified as bisexual since I was 14 years old, it's safe to say I've spent more than a quarter of my life following CBBC and it's discussions surrounding/representations of the LGBT+ community. In fact, it's just over a year since I submitted my final university dissertation on this exact topic, so this is something that means an incredible amount to me.

To the best of my knowledge, there have only been around 15 non-straight characters on CBBC drama shows. Ever. That's including both the 18 years the channel has existed as it's own entity, and it's previous incarnation as part of BBC One's children's programming sector. Half of those characters are adults, the parent/carer characters. The majority of the other half have their sexualities treated incredibly ambiguously within the show, even if it's clear they aren't straight/it has been confirmed by writers etc.

Already Jamie Johnson has broken new ground with Elliot, a teenage boy who is explicitly gay - with the actual word itself being used to describe him - and who has openly been in a relationship with someone of the same sex. This has NEVER happened on the CBBC channel. The child/teenage characters never get to be the ones who are explicitly gay and in non-straight relationships, and certainly not so blatantly.

Which brings me to Dillon. If he comes out tonight and, through his coming out he initiates a relationship with Elliot, this would be yet another moment of Jamie Johnson doing something for LGB+ rep that no other show has done before on CBBC. A major established character in a long-running show, coming out and using the actual word 'gay' to describe himself, is something that has never happened before. On one occasion the channel came close, with Benny coming out in Wizards Vs Aliens, but he was never allowed to use the actual word ‘gay’. Then there's the potential relationship. If Dillon and Elliot share a kiss at any point in the series, it will be the very first same-sex kiss on CBBC in the channel's entire history. This could very well be a watershed moment for LGB+ rep on CBBC, and in children's television as a whole. It’s a moment that would forever be cemented in UK TV history.

I have waited so long for this to happen, I really hope in just under half an hour's time that wait will finally be over.

[multimetaverse]

Jamie Johnson 5x08 Review

Tonight was one of the best, if not the best, Jamie Johnson eps so far. Dillon faced some of his toughest obstacles yet in his coming out journey and we got some sweet Delliot moments. Let’s dig in!

This British kids soccer show continues to make history. We saw some very nuanced and mature discussions between Dillon and Elliot about being gay and coming out; how often on tv do two gay kids actually discuss their sexualities?  Elliot gave Dillon some great advice and perhaps more importantly told Dillon that he was in fact brave and a winner on and off the pitch

You’d have to be daft to deny that Dillon and Elliot have crushes on each other after this ep. Seeing both Dillon and Elliot trying their best to look nice before meeting up with each other was cute and their handhold at the pitch was very sweet. Lots of soft smiles and longing glances and we even got a hug before Elliot left

Laquarn has confirmed that he’s not in any more S5 eps and doesn’t know if he’s back for the yet to be filmed S6. I can only hope he’ll come back. It would be a waste of great chemistry and an engaging character if Elliot was just meant to help Dillon with his sexuality before passing the torch to Ruby. He clearly left the door open for a future reunion when he told Dillon to call him when he was ready. Patrick confirmed in an interview today that he’ll be back for S6 and presumably Dillon will be playing for Foxborough or some other pro team. Being in a relationship would certainly be a good spur for Dillon to come out more publicly. And Elliot’s love of astronomy is a perfect set up for a date under the staahs

It’s true that the show has not really focused on ships in a big way; the most we’ve gotten was Boggy and Nancy and the low key Jack, Jamie, and Michelle triangle. But at the same time if Dillon can take Indira out and kiss Sienna then he should be able to date a boy he likes. It would be tragic if the closest Dillon gets to having a boyfriend or kissing a boy is Liam outing Dillon and claiming that Elliot was Dillon’s boyfriend and that he thought they were gonna kiss

And it’s a bit shady that Eric of all people is suddenly getting a female love interest out of nowhere. I just hope when the show eventually ends that it doesn’t turn out to be another Andi Mack where Cyrus was able to kiss a girl twice and go on dates with a girl and use the word girlfriend when none of that happened with a boy

Jamie Johnson really covered a lot tonight with Dillon. We had a very helpful run down of Dillon’s past with girls and the show carefully explains that Dillon never liked Sienna like that, he never wanted to kiss her, he never had a crush on anyone else like she thought, and he never liked Ruby as more than a friend (at least Duby shippers still have Alba and Liam for an Osborne-Simmonds ship). It wasn’t subtle but I think it was necessary to really drive home that Dillon is really gay and there’s no going back. And we got confirmation that Elliot was Dillon’s first crush, he’s obviously never beaten anyone up on this show and the way he phrases it makes clear that he’s never really thought about liking boys that way until very recently

And boy did this ep ever tackle homophobia. Graham Simmonds was seriously out of order this ep. He clearly didn’t want to believe Liam but Dillon using his aftershave already primed him to believe he was trying to impress someone, he just assumed it had been a girl. He really ran through the homophobe’s greatest hits collection: blaming Ruby’s gay parents, saying being gay was a choice, saying that being gay would end Dillon’s career, and disowning and kicking Dillon out for being gay. I suspect that quite a few of the parents watching JJ with their kids hold some of the same views or act the same way and this ep really holds up a mirror and reflects how ugly that kind of behaviour is. We also see Graham praising Dillon’s accomplishments and character right before Liam outs him which just exposes his hypocrisy even more. I do give the show credit for not shying away from Graham’s awfulness, it’s not going to be a quick change for him to suddenly accept Dillon and I’m excited to see his journey to atoning for his mistakes

Thankfully Mrs. Simmonds returned from her banishment to the shadow realm to tell Dillon she loved him and to tell him to return home. Shaun Duggan said he hoped this ep would be a lifeline for kids watching who may be living in homophobic homes (he also mentioned that CBBC rules don’t allow eps to allow on cliffhangers so he has to end an ep showing that the characters are at least physically okay)

It also challenges the audience, most of whom are probably young boys and men, as to whether they will suddenly stop liking Dillon just because he’s gay. It was a real gamble on the show’s part to have their fan favourite character and the effective second lead of the show come out as gay but it has the tremendous pay off of really making the audience question their assumptions and hopefully for some of them it will change their world views

Dillon and Elliot also discussed homophobia in sports. Dillon correctly notes that there aren’t any out players in the top professional teams. Shaun Duggan mentioned in a BBC interview that they like to bring on professional soccer players when they’re having the kids going through things but this time he wasn’t able to have anyone come on to help Dillon because there are no out players. So it falls to Jamie Johnson to basically create that reality themselves by telling Dillon’s story

Patrick Ward did a phenomenal job tonight and he really is the best of the kid actors. He’s mentioned in interviews that he did a lot of research by watching shows and movies with similar gay story lines. In particular his breakdown set to Behind Blue Eyes by the Who was very well done (and once again the show has great taste in music). And of course, Shaun Duggan did an amazing job writing this ep. He’s openly gay himself and that makes all the difference in bringing an authenticity and depth to this story line. On Andi Mack of the 5 textual gay eps only one, 3x11, was written by a gay man and not surprisingly that was the best written by far of those eps

We were 19 minutes into the ep before Jamie himself briefly showed up. And he was 5th in the credits tonight with Dillon and Elliot taking the number 1 and 2 spots. Actually this whole ep had a very small cast and only a few locations, it really helped focus this ep on Dillon. Having Dillon seek out Jamie is interesting in that they’ve been foils for each from the start. But also because it sends a message to have Jamie Johnson himself praise Dillon, it’s a way for the writers to speak directly to the audience through the title character

We’ll doubtless get some more development on Dillon’s story line in the rest of the season but they’ve done historic work so far. A lot of what we’ve seen so far: the depiction of homophobia, coming out to parents, and two gay kids discussing their sexualities has yet to happen anywhere on Disney. Hell this ep alone had more uses of the word gay than Disney has yet to have

I loved how extra the black and white boxing match cold open was. Not surprising that Dillon sees Mike as the supportive (and non homophobic) father figure he wishes Graham was

This was a big step backwards for Liam’s redemption arc tonight but at least at the end he didn’t seem to buying into his dad’s bullshit about them being the only men left in the house. Liam is by no means blameless but he’s also a victim of his dad’s emotional abuse and his pitting his sons against each other. That little meet up with Eric was interesting because they’re foils for each other in some ways and I’m curious to see what lies ahead for Liam and the U13 crew and for how Liam makes this up to Dillon

Looking Ahead:

Finally we get back to the real meat and potatoes of this show; online gaming! Looks like Mike is bored of gardening at the allotment and wants Jamie to get back into real soccer. We’ll see if Jamie makes into the online tournament

Again, not really sure why Eric suddenly needs Ayesha but we’re getting some Freddie anger over Eric choosing lasses over lads

Until next week Jamie Johnsoners