The dust may have settled a little bit since Russell T Davies’ Tip Toe first aired on our screens, but there’s still many of us coming to terms with THAT harrowing last episode.
Amongst the stellar performances from the last, like Alan Cumming, David Morrissey, and Iz Hesketh, the series marked the debut TV role for trans actress Shakeel Kimotho who played Spit + Polish bar worker Hanna Ayomide.
For a younger Shakeel, who grew up in Bradford, she recently spoke about how it would have been so important to see someone like Hanna on her screen. Beyond the character herself, the series' commitment to showcasing queer, working-class and northern voices offered the kind of representation she rarely encountered growing up.
"I think it’s very rare that you get queer stories told so authentically,” she recently told the M.E.N. “and the intersectionality of that with working class people, a working class community, with a northern community too.
