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Tevor Donovan’s “90210” character, Teddy, to have gay storyline

”It was cool when they came to me with it, I was honored, flattered that they thought I could take on something like this and handle it in the way it’s being written and what we shot so far is done very, very smart, very intelligent.”

Trevor Donovan, 31, an actor on the TV show “90210” who also appeared on “Days of Our Lives,” as quotd by Just Jared. It has been announced that his “90210” character, Teddy Montgomery, will have a gay story line in the new season. (Just Jared)

”I think he was surprised and maybe a bit taken aback initially. But as we discussed it with him and told him the kind of stories we wanted to tell, he got excited. I think he recognized that it was a good opportunity as an actor and he was excited by the idea of telling the story of a character’s journey that would mean a lot to gay teenagers and other teenagers who are learning to be honest about who they are and what they feel.”

Rebecca Sinclair, executive producer of ”90210″ telling Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming storyline of Teddy Montgomery, a character played by Trevor Donovan. Sinclair says that there was no initial plan to have Teddy come out as gay. (Entertianment Weekly)

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