Re: Billington/Straker Gay?

Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-on-Family-Room-HD-tp1510555p1510602.html

Susan Smith wrote:
> I don't know if you've discussed this topic before on
> this forum, but it has been suggested in future
> scripts that went unshot due to the cancellation of
> the series, that Foster and Straker were at odds at
> times due to the strain of a gay relationship between
> the two.

"it has been suggested" by who? Anyone other than
yourself? There was no gay relationship between
the two characters mentioned by anyone involved
in the production, and there were no unshot scripts
due to the cancellation of the series.

> This allegedly contributed to the breakup of Straker's
> marriage and accounted for the fact that
> Foster)himself was unmarried, and in real life Michael
> Billington was gay and the cancer that killed him
> relatively young and fast was related to a deficient
> immune system caused by the AIDS retrovirus.

Again, I believe that everything you have written
is incorrect. You must have some bad sources of
information (or like to make things up).

Marc