Articles about Channel 4

17 May 2013
Channel 4 Big Breakfast creator Charlie Parsons acquires global dating site Gaydar 3 PinkNews.co.uk can exclusively reveal British TV producer Charlie Parsons, who created Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast and The Word, has added global dating site Gaydar.co.uk to his business portfolio.
3 May 2013
Hollyoaks actor Kieron Richardson: ‘I’m shocked to be up for sexiest male in the soap awards and I want to win it for gay people’ 5 Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson says he’s “shocked” to have made the sexiest male category in this year’s British Soap Awards.
24 April 2013
Culture Editor Matthew Cain to leave Channel 4 News 6 Gay journalist and broadcaster Matthew Cain has announced that he’s leaving Channel 4 News as the programme's culture editor in order to write fiction.
20 February 2013
Hollyoaks actor PJ Brennan reveals he gets taunts from gay people as well as straight 19 Soap star PJ Brennan claims he has been called homophobic names in real life - but the abuse also extends to name-calling from some gay men on Twitter.
21 January 2013
Outrage as Rylan Clark secretly left Big Brother house for X Factor rehearsals 6 Rylan Clark, has been secretly leaving the Celebrity Big Brother House to rehearse for an X-Factor tour, a former fellow housemate has claimed.
3 January 2013
Dr Christian Jessen reveals torment of online bullying and false sex claims 8 Doctor Christian Jessen, the gay presenter of Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies series, has spoken of his anger at Twitter trolls who are trying to damage his reputation.
24 December 2012
Anti-gay Tory MP calls Embarrassing Bodies ‘crap chav TV’ 28 Conservative MP Stewart Jackson, who recently described equal marriage as a "constitutional outrage" also has a low opinion of Channel 4’s medical programme Embarrassing Bodies.
12 December 2012
Eastenders character, Nick Cotton, was supposed to have gay relationship in the 1980s 5 Nick Cotton, a long-time character from the popular soap, Eastenders, was meant to have a gay relationship in the 1980s, until the actor playing him protested, and the character was written out.
22 November 2012
London university to host anti-gay extremist Islamic preacher 87 Brunel University in Uxbridge, west London, has been criticised for allowing a cleric who supports the killing of gay people to attend a student event.
6 November 2012
Channel 4 backpedals after censoring ‘gay’ from Simpsons’ episode 10 Channel 4 says it was wrong to edit out the word "gay" from an episode of The Simpsons, which was shown by the UK broadcaster last weekend.
17 October 2012
PinkNews founder takes part in ground breaking Channel 4 show 24 The founder of PinkNews.co.uk, Benjamin Cohen, has been a guest on this week’s hit Channel 4 show, Jews at Ten, alongside various other straight Jewish celebrities.
12 October 2012
Gay Hollyoaks character to return to soap 9 Actor James Sutton, best known for playing John Paul McQueen in Channel 4’s long-running soap Hollyoaks, is to reprise his role after a four-year absence from the show.
23 April 2012
Video: Ofcom rejects complaints from bystander in My Transsexual Summer 17 Ofcom has rejected a complaint from a man who claimed the way his appearance in My Transsexual Summer was edited made him look 'disgusted' by the participants.
15 March 2012
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings ‘outs gay teen’ 150 A teenager has accused Channel 4 of outing him to after his parents recognised him kissing another man on its hit show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
24 June 2011
Graham Norton and Alan Carr win new £4m chatshow deals 38 Graham Norton and Alan Carr have both won new £4 million deals to continue their chatshows.

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