EastEnders' Michelle Gayle says she heard co-star call black actors 'token'
dailystar.co.ukEastEnders s tar Michelle Gayle has revealed she suffered racist abuse on the BBC soap. The actress-turned-singer, 49, also had to deal with racial slurs working on Grange Hill as a child too.And she was told “less of the black stuff” by her management after an interview she did about being hounded by the police nearly got her banned from Top Of The Pops in 1994.Michelle, who played Hattie Tavernier in Albert Square in the early 90s, said she has “had to deal with incidents like it all my life”.The recent death of George Floyd in the US and the Black Lives Matter protests had brought it back, she added.She said: “Working on Eastenders I heard an actor say black actors were ‘tokens’ without realising I was there.“Again, I internalised it - I.
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