It's Official: "Skins USA" Loses its Gay Male Character

[WillParkinson]

In June, AfterElton.com reported that based on "sides" (portions of the script of a show or movie) for the US version of Skins, it appeared the show's gay male character — Maxxie in the UK series — had been replaced with a lesbian character.

Original sides for the show had indicated Skins USA would feature an American version of Maxxie, named Teo, but subsequent sides replaced Teo with a female character named Tea.

On Friday, MTV provided TV critics at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour with a screener showing the first fifteen minutes of the U.S. Skins pilot and indeed, Teo is gone, replaced by Tea who is a cheerleader. (In the UK version, Maxxie had been a dancer.)

Otherwise, based on those first fifteen minutes, very little else has changed and the U.S. version looks to be a very faithful adaptation of the UK series with the the portions provided to critics being an almost exact replication of the first episode of the UK version.

http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2010/07/official-skins-loses-gay-character

[msongs]

1. gay = dancer? well there's another stereotype, good riddance to that then nt