A lover to be revealed Tuesday on "Passions"

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PassoinsCharles2.jpgRegular Out In Hollywood reader James F. Mills tips me off that on Tuesday's installment of the NBC soap "Passions," viewers will learn the identity of Chad Harris' secret lover! Here's the best part: it's a character already on the show. I don't watch "Passions" but those of you who do, how 'bout some guesses?
Chad (portrayed by dreamy Charles Divins), is the illegitimate heir to the soap’s rich family who just married his long-time sweetheart Whitney Russell. It was revealed earlier this month that Chad is having an affair with a man.
“Chad’s coming to grips with this side of him, the sexual need of his and what that means to him and what that means with his relationship with Whitney,” Divins tgells Mills in an interview for NotesFromHollywood.com. "Obviously he’s going through the different stages of denial. That’s what you’ll see as far as the story goes...The underlying drama of what’s going on is Chad’s denial and coping with it. We’re really trying to make sure that’s a really strong undercurrent to the main story.”
Even though Chad has been sneaking off to the no-tell motel for months, Divins says he only learned that Chad was on the down low four days before shooting the scenes revealing his paramour to be a man. “We get the script four days in advance of the shooting. I opened the script and read it and realized I was going to be on the down low.”
 The 31-year-old Dallas native is straight off-screen and sought advice from gay friends for this storyline.
 “I didn’t have a whole lot of time to go out and hang out and prepare. I made some phone calls to my gay friends and just kind of talked about it. How do you approach a character like this and as a straight guy how do I play a convincing gay character? And in the context of it being on "Passions," how do you make sure it being represented correctly and honestly? I’ve seen the Oprah episode with the down low. Especially in black culture, it’s something that’s known that happens. What it is is a comment on what happens in society.”
 

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