Mark Fowler and AIDS in EastEndersīarring a brief storyline in Hollyoaks, the last time the subject of HIV or AIDS was tackled in soap was in the nineties, when Mark Fowler contracted HIV from his former girlfriend Gill. Here are the other soap taboo-breaking moments which have raised awareness, confronted stigma and prejudice head on… and had Ofcom threatening to have their phone number changed. From sexual violence to suicide to… well every storyline that ever happened on Brookside Close really, it’s not the first time soap’s taken a topic that’s rarely discussed and given it a big, important primetime forum. ![]() “But that is the kind of ignorance we want to blast a bit.”īlasting ignorance on subjects that society at the time finds uncomfortable is something that has a long soap heritage. “I’ve not seen any comments on social media – I’m not on it,” says Charlie Hardwick, who plays Val. ![]() ![]() It was the week that Emmerdale shone an important soap light on the rise of HIV in older women, with their storyline about Val Pollard, who was diagnosed with the virus after a fling in Portugal.
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