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Billy Elliot role reversals. (the Buzz).


THE FILM'S DIRECTOR WAS OPENLY GAY; the young actor was only playing gay. Now, in real life, the director is married to a woman, and the boy is joining the British army The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with unification of the governments and armed forces of England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. . Teen actor Smart Wells charmed audiences worldwide when he smooched Jamie Bell in 2000's Billy Elliot, but now the actor, 19, is ditching his dramatic career altogether. "While I really enjoy acting itself," he said in a statement. "there's an awful lot of hard graft hard graft hard n by sheer hard graft → durch harte Arbeit

hard graft n by sheer hard graft → lavorando da matti 
 and boring meetings which no one sees and which I don't enjoy at all." As Wells headed to basic training, Elliot director Stephen Daldry headed to New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 to wed a woman the BBC BBC
 in full British Broadcasting Corp.

Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
 termed his "long-term partner," dancer Lucy Sexton. (They married in September but didn't inform the press until months later.) The twist is, Daldry's previous long-term partner was theater designer Ian MacNeil, with whom he appeared in Out magazine--along with Ian's dad, former PBS PBS
 in full Public Broadcasting Service

Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural,
 newsman Robert MacNeil--in 1994. Perhaps groom Daldry was on the rebound from another rejection: Shortly before his wedding, Daldry lost out on the job of director of the Royal National Theatre in London to Nicolas Hytner--who, last The Buzz checked, was still gay and not planning on enlisting.
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Title Annotation:actor Smart Wells
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Feb 5, 2002
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