To be heartbroken about Douglas Henshall not being a lovely guy I thought he was.

[HairyNipple]

Just that really.
Love him in Shetland. Followed him on Twitter and found out he is not a nice guy at all. Quite shocking tweets to be honest - and he's been like that for years!
I know about actors being different people to their characters, but somehow I imagined him being more like Jimmy Perez and less like a prick he seems to be. I am genuinely upset.

I live in the west of Scotland and this is fairly standard chat. People use cunt as a term of endearment and if you listen to Scottish comedians, you'll hear it a lot. Never had much of an opinion on him (despite my disappointment of him looking nothing like the Jimmy Perez I'd pictured when reading the Shetland books) but this really isn't something to get worked up about, he was never claiming to be a saint.

I think he's just fine BTW. Just very straight speaking.

I don't think you can cherry pick random tweets he's made and decide that's his entire personality.

I just had a look through his twitter feed for the past few months and genuinely, unless you are a diehard Tory I struggle to see anything anyone would be offended by. And the anti-Tory stuff is generally policy criticisms not personal. Likewise, he is pro indy but I haven't seen anything particularly vitriolic towards unionists on his feed.

Some of the loveliest, most helpful and interesting people I know would have no problem saying similar. I don’t understand why it has upset you? He clearly has a ‘taking the p*ss’ attitude most of the time.

Incidentally two of the worst people I have met in my 35 years, happen to come across as the most helpful, kindest and complimentary of people when in actual fact, they were putting on a show.

I would trust a person far more that could be ‘inappropriate’ out loud in front of the world, over somebody who is just pretending to be nice behind a facade of jealousy, manipulation and self serving behaviour.

He should have known better before posting it. Sectarianism remains a huge problem here.

I watch Shetland, but to be honest he looks bored rigid at being there. Add that to Tosh's constant face pulling and Sandy's accent and I'm surprised I'm still watching it at all.

WTAF does this even mean? What a stupid comment. Nice to see the sectarianism alive and well on this thread.

Yes. My DH's father was Irish and DH and his sister were sent to Catholic Sunday school. They went to the local non Catholic primary. He was terribly bullied. Separate schools exist in Scotland to this day and expect sectarianism is just as bad now as it ever was.

I know. It’s all a bit of a nonsense really.

I know. I thought it was going to be a death announcement too.

Apparently HS didn't spit, so that might cheer you up op.

You do need better news sources though.

He's Scottish...we swear a lot😅

I mean, the sectarianism isn't great, but the sweariness and anti-Tory sentiments are quite relatable!

You don't know much about the vitriol spouted by separatist and Unionist factions on Twitter then

Not sure why he's apologised. Opinions expressed are held by many. Also have no idea who he is 😂

Really? I'm not from Glasgow but I live here and would say that it is true. You may not like it, but it's definitely commonly used in this context. I'd never heard 'everycunt' used in place of 'everyone' until I moved here. Of course it's still strong salty language but I don't think it's widely seen in Glasgow to be as offensive as it might be elsewhere.

Just my outsider's perspective.

Sectarianism is as bad as ever, I can't abide it at all. I saw a lot of it back in June because Harry Styles played at Ibrox.
I can't get my head round it being that petty, but with really an incredibly vile undercurrent.
A lot goes over my head as I'm not into football at all and neither is Dd, anyone who carries it on is pretty low.

This.

He was described much in terms of his spanish heritage, so he should be dark haired/dark eyed. But then Duncan is too nice and Sandy too old. I can live with it.

Me too!

Yes mayeb a little pearl-clutchy, I think cunts and pricks are fine.

I am sure Perez has heard worse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Henshall
He grew up in Barrhead. I think he's playing the hard man

Some saying it’s commonly used and some saying it’s not… I think it comes down the type of background you come from… it was commonly used in the Council estate I grew up on and a lot of my pals from other parts of central scotland use it still.

They should have cast Michael Portillo, half Spanish, half Scottish.

Wooden though.

Well if ever a thread title didn't match the contents....I was expecting a dramatic reveal of some heinous offence on the scale of kicking kittens.

I only saw half the title and like others, thought he'd died.

in his lemon trousers and red blazer, striding around Shetland.

Speak for yourself. We don’t all live in the gutter here thanks!