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06.02.2022 - 19:35 / ok.co.uk
Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace has opened up about the struggles many of the LGBTQ+ community faced while the country was in lockdown. Annie shot to fame in 2015 when she joined the cast of Hollyoaks as Sally St.
Claire — a character she’s played ever since.The 56 year old made history by doing so as she became the first transgender person to portray a regular transgender character in British soap opera. While the pandemic has been a difficult time for everyone, Annie opened up some of the hardships that young trans people in particular faced.
Speaking to OK! Online, Annie said: "The LGBTQ+ community were horribly isolated during the lockdown of 2020, and also into 2021." “Some young people had to live with disapproving parents, whereas they’d feel safer at college, but they had to go home. So this affected a lot of people’s mental health.” She continued: “Going forward into adult situations, people who would be out in the community making friends and going to the pub with like minded people, that didn’t happen for so long.
I worry that people have gone back a bit, and that people have become a little bit more lonely, and I think we need to challenge that.” Speaking of challenges, Annie recently had a heated discussion with former Hollyoaks co-star Joe McGann over Twitter after he shared a post from a group that believes that people should only use toilets associated with their birth sex — something which the actress called him out on. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.
You can sign up at the top of the page. Discussing their dispute, she told us: “All I was trying to say was, is that really a fair point of view in 21st century Britain? “Joe was a
.HBO‘s new LA Lakers drama.The actor is set to portray former Lakers owner Jerry Buss in the forthcoming basketball drama Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty, which is due out next month.Reilly was the third choice for the role in the Adam McKay drama after Will Ferrell and Michael Shannon dropped out.“I’d been sitting at my kitchen table, thinking, ‘Man, I’m dead in the water, all this work, 80 movies, and I got nothing going on,’ when I got the text from Adam,” Reilly told The Hollywood Reporter.He landed the part after Ferrell fell out with his longstanding collaborator McKay over the role.“It ended not well,” McKay said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair after Ferrell, a die hard fan of the team, had his heart set on playing Buss.McKay thought that Ferrell’s Step Brothers co-star Reilly would be better suited for the role.“Ferrell just doesn’t look like Jerry Buss, and he’s not that vibe of a Jerry Buss,” added McKay. “And there were some people involved who were like, ‘We love Ferrell, he’s a genius, but we can’t see him doing it.’ It was a bit of a hard discussion.” To make things worse, McKay didn’t personally notify Ferrell of the choice.
.Fatima continued, “And, of course, it should go without saying that he wants to come back: to see family and friends and to continue to support the charities that are so close to his heart. Most of all, this is, and always will be, his home."Prince Harry, , and their son first lost their taxpayer-funded police protection when they stepped away from being working royals in 2020 and have spoken about the need for security on multiple occasions.
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