One of my favorite "Coronation Street" actors since getting hooked on the show last month has been Bruno Langley. Langley plays bad boy attorney Todd Grimshaw, who's apparently the soap's first gay character (written about recently in this post). As I was first getting into the program, Langly was running into real life legal problems.
He was at a Manchester music venue last month and got really drunk. He then groped four different women, though he only got charged with sexually assaulting two of the women. He approached one woman (who was out with her husband) and grabbed her forcibly by the vagina. He then grabbed another woman by the breasts and buttocks. They pressed charges and he was arrested.
On Tuesday, 11/28/17, Langley pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault in order to avoid jail time. He has been sentenced to 12 months of community service, including 40 days of rehabilitative activity. She will be placed under an electronically-monitored curfew for 12 weeks and must register as a sex offer for five years. He also must pay 250 pounds in compensation to both of his victims.
Langley has also been fired from Coronation Street.
His attorney isn't doing Langley any favors right now following tabloid reports that stress of playing Coronation Street's first gay character contributed to his sexual assaults:
He was at a Manchester music venue last month and got really drunk. He then groped four different women, though he only got charged with sexually assaulting two of the women. He approached one woman (who was out with her husband) and grabbed her forcibly by the vagina. He then grabbed another woman by the breasts and buttocks. They pressed charges and he was arrested.
On Tuesday, 11/28/17, Langley pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault in order to avoid jail time. He has been sentenced to 12 months of community service, including 40 days of rehabilitative activity. She will be placed under an electronically-monitored curfew for 12 weeks and must register as a sex offer for five years. He also must pay 250 pounds in compensation to both of his victims.
Langley has also been fired from Coronation Street.
His attorney isn't doing Langley any favors right now following tabloid reports that stress of playing Coronation Street's first gay character contributed to his sexual assaults:
Ex-Coronation Street star Bruno Langley has blamed the stress of playing the soap's first gay character for the sex attacks he committed on a drunken night out. The actor molested four women at a Manchester music venue last month, but was only charged with sexually assaulting two of them. Langley - who played gay character Todd Grimshaw in the soap - wept in the dock yesterday as he avoided jail after admitting both offences.
His lawyer told the hearing: 'Something happened that night, most possibly in relation to the character he was playing.' It is understood his comments refer to the stress Langley felt being a straight man playing a gay character.Of course, this story is beginning to circulate across gay media. Which means, that people who've never heard of Langley, Coronation Street, or his character are now learning of the actor -- and not for good reasons!