OHMYGOSSIP — ITV has added pre-warnings to vintage ‘Coronation Street’ episodes featuring character Hayley Cropper.
The broadcaster received praise for featuring a message that warned viewers they may find some “comments and opinions of the time” offensive in episodes featuring transgender character Hayley, who was played by Julie Hesmondhalgh.
It read: “Today’s classic Corrie includes transgender comments and opinions of the time that viewers may now find offensive.”
‘Hollyoaks’ actress Annie Wallace – who was the first transgender person to play a transgender character on a British soap – thanked ITV3 for featuring the warning.
She wrote:”Thank you, @ITV , for preceding some of the current #ClassicCorrie episodes featuring Roy and Hayley with this alert. #timeschange #itv3 @itvcorrie. (sic)”
Britain’s leading LGBTIQ+ charity, Stonewall also backed the pre-show warnings, with Sasha Misra, Stonewall’s associate director of Communications and Campaigns, telling The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: “We know that past media depictions of lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people can sometimes be outdated and hurtful.
“It’s important that people are provided with appropriate context when presented with potentially offensive representations of LGBTQ+ people.”
Julie – who played Hayley from 1998 and left in 2014 when her alter ego took her own life after being diagnosed with terminal cancer – previously admitted she wouldn’t accept the role of Hayley today as she believes her portrayal of a transgender character would look outdated.
She said: “I would hope that it wouldn’t be offered to me as a cis woman.
“I definitely wouldn’t take it. I left Corrie because it was time for me to go personally, but it was also time for Hayley – a trans woman played by a cis woman – to go, too.
“I was about to become an absolute anachronism, because there were then trans actors to play those parts, and even more now.”
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