stephadoo:

_{“Tommy [Luke Smith] refers to his friend Sanjay. Now had we continued, Sanjay would have been Luke’s boyfriend. Because children’s BBC [CBBC] wanted to have - I’ve never said this in any interview anywhere - wanted us to have a gay character on children’s BBC. Just a normal gay character. And so they said to us, ‘Can you do that with [The] Sarah Jane [Adventures] and, I don’t even think some of the writers on the show know this, because obviously we got taken off air sadly. Tommy [Knight, who played Luke Smith] wanted to come back into the show and we were going to approach him and say, ‘Do you mind if he’s gay and has a boyfriend?’ So that was the plan, because of Steven Andrew [then Head of Drama and Acquisitions for CBBC] wanted it but it never came to pass. Isn’t that sad? It’s a shame.” (x)}

_{- Russel T. Davies}