Actor John Barrowman is such a stalwart of British telly it's hard to imagine him anywhere else. But before breaking through to the UK with his Doctor Who role, the 1990s saw John trying the crack the US TV scene.
Now he's claimed that he was sacked from his first big role, Central Park West on US network CBS, after producers called him in and asked him to hide his sexuality.
John, who is gay, was with now-husband Scott at the time, and says he refused to stop being seen with his lover and talking about their relationship.
This, John claims, resulted in the team writing him out of the show. He writes in The Daily Mail : "In 1995, I got one of my first big telly jobs, on a US series called Central Park West. "Up until then I hadn't