{"id":533677,"date":"2026-04-16T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:19:08","slug":"coronation-street-cast-dons-purple-for-domestic-violence-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533677\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street cast dons purple for domestic violence awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Coronation Street research team worked with Galop, an LGBTQ+ anti-abuse charity, to ensure the story was told accurately and sensitively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Kernighan, Galop&#8217;s co-chief executive said storylines like this one played an important role in shining a light on LGBT+ experiences of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It can be really hard for people who&#8217;ve experienced abuse and violence to feel safe coming forward for help,&#8221; Kernighan said. &#8220;For LGBT+ people, there&#8217;s often an added fear that services won&#8217;t take their experiences seriously or that they will have to explain, defend, or justify parts of their identity or relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coronation Street research team worked with Galop, an LGBTQ+ anti-abuse charity, to ensure the story was told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}