Antony Cotton is proud of Coronation Street's new gay dad storyline. In this weekend's Easter special Antony's character Sean Tully heads to London to visit his three-year-old son Dylan, and bumps into his ex Marcus Dent (Charlie Condou) which leads to them raising his child together as parents. Antony told New! magazine of the storyline: "It's two men pushing a buggy down a street - it's modern life. And if nothing else it will give people something to talk about. "If there's one conversation about a young, gay man parenting in a positive way that's got to be a good thing." And the 35-year-old gay actor - who lives in Lancashire with his partner of six years, props buyer Peter Eccleston, 32 - doesn't care about viewers who think children should be raised by a mother and father. He said: "It's a terribly old-fashioned view. Gay people are the same as anybody else. "As long as two people are happy and offer a child unconditional love, I don't see what the problem is." While Antony has no plans to become a parent himself he said he loves working with the children who play his son in Coronation Street. He said: "The identical twins who play my three-year-old son are so cute. I kept trying to get them to pick up some of my mannerisms. In one scene I did a flamboyant shrug, and the little boy did the same when it was his shot."
