Gays of our Lives (April 13, 2010)

We’re back with another all new edition of Gays of Our Lives and we’ve got the latest clips, spoilers and news from your favorite soaps and dramas featuring gay characters!

This week, to mark the last scheduled appearance of One Life to Live’s Scott Evans (Oliver Fish), we’ve got an interview with the actor. In GOOL THEATER, Reid faces his feelings for Luke on As the World Turns while in GOOL SCOOPS AND SPOILERS, it’s Aaron’s first kiss on Emmerdale, but will it be all he dreamed of … or lead to a nightmare? And in GOOL NEWSBEAT, was One Life to Live too gay for daytime? We’ve got a special report with the answers.

All this – and more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCOTT EVANS INTERVIEW
GOOL THEATER
SCOOPS & SPOILERS
GOOL SNEAK PEEKS
GOOL NEWSBEAT
SNAPSHOTS

INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT EVANS

Scott Evans has been one of daytime’s most talked about actors since the Kyle and Oliver romance gained prominence on One Life to Live last year. He’s still a topic for conversation, although probably not in a way the actor would like.

Unless you’ve been in an underground bunker with no Internet access you are aware that Evans, along with co-star and on screen love interest Brett Claywell (Kyle), was fired from the show with the reason given that the Kyle/Oliver romance didn’t resonate with the ‘mainstream audience’ and was in part responsible for the show’s low ratings.

At the recent Gays of Our Lives event, I had the chance to talk to Evans about being let go, the controversy surrounding the axing, how he feels about his time on the show and his plans for the future.

AfterElton.com: How are you feeling about everything that happened?
Scott Evans: Sad. That's the best way to describe it. I mean I could have been mad and angry, but you know what? You can't be mad. If a storyline gets written off or something changes and you lose a job, that's the way the cookie crumbles. Everybody loses jobs, and that's fine. I'm more sad about the fact that gay people need to be seen on TV in order to find acceptance — not so much tolerance, but acceptance — and for us to be written off is sad.

OLTL gave us daytime’s first love scene between two men …

AE: Do you buy the reasons?
SE: I don't know the reasons. The reason they say was that the focus groups and the backlash, and Nick Rodriguez [ex-Nick Chavez] came forward and said all our coworkers were saying stuff. So I don't know. If that's what they need to resort to in order to make it okay, then fine. It just sucks. It really, really sucks.

AE: Were you surprised when if happened? How did you find out?
SE: I was surprised, but only because I had done a couple of interviews the week before all this came out, and they asked what's the future, and I was like, "I don't know, but I can't wait to find out. There's the baby storyline." And then I find out online, and I was like, "What's happening?" I asked Brett what was going on, and he said, "I found out yesterday that I was being let go."

They didn't need to let me know I was being let go because I'm not a contract. They didn't need to tell me. As a recurring character all they need to do is stop calling me.