Warning: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED EPISODE 3 OF TED LASSO SEASON 3.
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This was a huge episode for one particular player on AFC Richmond: Colin Hughes, portrayed by actor Billy Harris.
Although he was often in the background as a tertiary character during the previous two seasons, the latest episode of Ted Lasso brings him to center stage in his reveal as the show’s first LGBTQ+ character. It was a strong decision to give Colin the justice that he deserves.
Ted Lasso co-creator Brendan Hunt spoke about including queer representation on the show (via Radio Times):
“It was just a matter of when we were going to finally get to that. It’s still a taboo in football, but there are more active players who are coming out … It’s just part of what’s happening in football. We may be a fake football club, but we’re trying to show a little bit of football reality here.”
According to Hunt, the showrunners have known for “a while” that Welsh wing Colin Hughes is gay.
Some careful viewers may have noticed that in the third episode of Season 2, Hughes mentions that Keeley’s dating app Bantr is spelled like the gay dating app Grindr.
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