American actor J August Richards, best known for his role as a vampire slayer in Angel, has come out as gay. The 46-year-old is currently playing a gay doctor on NBC’s new show Council of Dads.
His character, Dr Oliver Post, is a dad who is a father figure to the children of a friend who has died from cancer. He said: ‘One of the things that I find so fascinating about Oliver is that we have never had anybody like him on network television. ‘He’s a black, gay professional, married to another man