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EastEnders funeral gay sex scene cleared by UK TV watchdog
An EastEnders gay sex scene in a funeral home was found to not have broken any Ofcom rules, it found today (18 August).
Complaints were made to the UK television watchdog, with many calling these scene from the 17 July episode ‘disgraceful and distasteful’.
It showed Ben Mitchell, played by Harry Reid, and Paul Coker, played by Jonny Labey, having an intimate moment in a funeral home with a dead body on display in an open coffin.
Ofcom received 76 complaints about the scenes.
While some of the complaints were homophobic in nature, saying that ‘disgusting’ scenes should not be shown on ‘family TV’, others had issues with gay sex being implied to take place in a funeral home.
‘It’s not that it’s two guys having sex in a funeral home that’s distasteful,’ one said. ‘It would still have been a disgrace with two heterosexuals’.
Ofcom said it assessed the complaints but ‘concluded they didn’t raise issues warranting further investigation’.
It added: ‘We found the scenes were justified in the context of a long-running plotline and sexual contact between the characters was implied rather than overt.
‘Our rules don’t discriminate between scenes involving opposite-sex and same-sex couples.’
A BBC spokesperson added: ‘The millions of regular EastEnders fans who tune in each week know and expect dramatic storylines.
‘We are always mindful of our time slot in which we are shown and the scenes in question were implied and not explicit.’
This isn’t the first time viewers have complained over EastEnders. Last year, a gay kiss received a huge amount of backlash on social media but the complaints were largely ignored.
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Joe Morgan
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