Emmerdale star Chris Chittell has sparked outrage with comments about the soap’s controversial grooming storyline.
The actor, 70, plays Eric Pollard in the ITV soap whose underage grandson is being groomed and abused by his teacher Maya Stepney.
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But while the soap is keen to raise awareness of the harm done to boys who are abused in this way, the actor doesn’t agree.
Instead he shared a story written about the storyline and added comments calling the abuse “a young man’s dream”.
The show’s longest serving actor tweeted: “‘’”
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