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<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Roles reversed in politically-correct remake of Love Thy Neighbour</span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Love Thy Neighbour, the controversial Seventies sitcom about racially feuding neighbours, is back but this time with a politically correct makeover. </span></span>
In a reversal of the original format, it features a professional black couple who are horrified when a boorish, white working-class family move in next door.
Derek Laud, the gay former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, will play Sebastian, a black barrister.
He said: "Sebastian and his wife Andrea [played by Naomi Mayo], an architect, are expecting a middle-class black couple to move in next door, so when this white working-class builder type turns up, they assume he is the removal man.
"He is called Simon and his wife, who works in a laundrette, is Edna. They have recently won the Lottery and are absolutely dreadful.
"She comes out of the house in slippers and a nightdress, showing her cleavage all the time and smoking cigarettes. He wears gold chains and trainers and is revolting."
But Mr Laud, a former political lobbyist and Tory speechwriter, denied the new show could be interpreted as racist.
He said: "Not at all. It's quite provocative but a positive representation of black people in modern Britain.
"Wherever I go in Britain I find people asking, 'When are black people going to be portrayed on TV in a more positive way?'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-Neighbour.html
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Love Thy Neighbour, the controversial Seventies sitcom about racially feuding neighbours, is back but this time with a politically correct makeover. </span></span>
In a reversal of the original format, it features a professional black couple who are horrified when a boorish, white working-class family move in next door.
Derek Laud, the gay former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, will play Sebastian, a black barrister.
He said: "Sebastian and his wife Andrea [played by Naomi Mayo], an architect, are expecting a middle-class black couple to move in next door, so when this white working-class builder type turns up, they assume he is the removal man.
"He is called Simon and his wife, who works in a laundrette, is Edna. They have recently won the Lottery and are absolutely dreadful.
"She comes out of the house in slippers and a nightdress, showing her cleavage all the time and smoking cigarettes. He wears gold chains and trainers and is revolting."
But Mr Laud, a former political lobbyist and Tory speechwriter, denied the new show could be interpreted as racist.
He said: "Not at all. It's quite provocative but a positive representation of black people in modern Britain.
"Wherever I go in Britain I find people asking, 'When are black people going to be portrayed on TV in a more positive way?'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-Neighbour.html
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