YOU'RE ALRIGHT JACK

Fair play to John Barrowman, who has single-handedly made Captain Jack the gayest Doctor Who character since Davros (that make-up, the metal skirt and the single forehead-mounted eye are SO out there!), and has now bemoaned the behaviour of gay actors who refuse to come out of the closet for fear that it may affect their careers.

John feels it hasn't affected his own. After all, there was that blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the film of 'The Producers', his stage work and his 'Torchwood' nonsense (though his sexuality certainly didn't help when he was up for the male lead in 'Will and Grace' and lost out to a heterosexual actor). He told The Stage...

"If it has been a problem, no one ever told me so. I know people who lie about being gay because they think it will affect their work chances. That is just sad."

Quite right as well. Naturally, whiny Rupert Everett was whining in his autobiography about not getting certain star roles because of his sexuality, but it's far more likely he wasn't considered because he's a wooden old idiot who even managed to lose out to Hugh Grant for a part in 'About A Boy', the equivalent of being out-acted by a pine cupboard.