ian1964 10,720 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 FURIOUS Rangers fans have forced soap bosses to drop anti-Gers jibes. They flooded ITV switchboards after Coronation Street's Tony Gordon, played by Gray O'Brien, had a go at the Ibrox team. Now the producers of the long-running soap have dropped plans for Celtic-supporting Tony to return to the attack in next Wednesday's episode. Last week, "dozens" of Gers fans rang in with complaints after Tony told fiancee Carla: "I could no more be interested in Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers." Chiefs at the soap were stunned by the hail of complaints last Monday. And they have reacted by deleting a line recorded for next Wednesday's episode. Ayrshire-born actor O'Brien had been scripted to tell Tony's bestman Liam Connor that he's allergic to "warm beer, the English national anthem and Glasgow Rangers". The producers' decision to edit the show to delete the Rangers reference is highly unusual. But Corrie producers were keen to avoid antagonising fans further. Internet messageboards on both sides of the Old Firm divide went into overdrive following the scene, with Ibrox fans incandescent that their team were taking a kicking on national TV. But online Hoops fans celebrated and even composed a song about the Celtic-daft Corrie character. The controversy comes just months after scenes of Rangers fans rioting in Manchester at the UEFA Cup Final brought shame to the Glasgow club. But ITV denied the jibes in the Manchester-based soap were in any way connected to the scenes of violence on the city's streets. A spokeswoman for the channel confirmed they received "dozens" of complaints from angry fans following the scene. She said: "Both comments were in keeping with the character of Tony Gordon. But we have to bear in mind that it does seem to have caused some upset, so the decision was made to take the line out. "It doesn't compromise the drama of the episode, and if it did, then the line definitely wouldn't have been taken out. "We also felt in the absence of a character balancing things up on the other side of the Old Firm, it was a line not worth repeating." O'Brien, a Celtic fan in real life, who quit Scottish soap River City last year for Corrie, last night admitted he was surprised by the uproar. He said: "I have no input into the scripts, but I've had to explain the implications to people at Corrie. I certainly wasn't going out of my way to antagonise any Rangers supporters." http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/10/04/exclusive-coronation-st-bosses-drop-anti-rangers-jibe-from-script-86908-20771780/ 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,720 Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 OOPS !, Just noticed I put Coorie instead of Corrie !!!!!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk 158 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I was ready to boycot it as well 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Sad, sad lives these people have who complained abotu that. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS 0 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Sad, sad lives these people have who complained abotu that. I remember when we said that about the shettleston's and every little thing they complained about and guess what ? they don't need to bother now cause no fukker says anything bad about them, just nice things like how they have a wonderful support ??? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmck 117 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 they're just editing out of fear incase we riot again, it's got nothing to do with the complaints. edit or we'll riot, edit or we'll riot - oh oh, oh oh. wooo! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,552 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Bloody hell, what a load of tripe. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmidd 0 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 That's it, I'm only watching Eastenders from now on 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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