Brett Adams

Brett Adams (born 29 December 1976) is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He gained prominence as Noddy in CBBC's Byker Grove, a character best remembered for being the first teenage gay character in a British children's drama.
After leaving Byker Grove he formed the boy band Point Break along with co-star David Oliver.
==Television==
Brett played Noddy, one of the main characters who first appeared in the 1990 series of Byker Grove and left in the 1995 series staying for 6 seasons.
The character is best remembered for being the first teenage gay character in a British children's TV show. Brett's portrayal of Noddy included a kiss scene (the first kiss shared between two men on children's TV) when Noddy kissed his friend Gary (George Trotter) at the cinema. This was the first time a same sex kiss had been shown on a children’s show in the United Kingdom.
The episode, aired in 1994, gained significant media attention, even leading The Sun newspaper to call for producer Matthew Robinson to be sacked.
Adams is noted to have received many of letters from young boys saying how much it had helped them in their own coming out journeys, In a 2017 interview with Attitude Magazine, Adams stated: "If my storyline upset 10,000 people but helped one person then I see it as a monumental success.”
Brett Adams' character Noddy's final scene in Byker Grove, when he drives away from the Grove in his boyfriend's Jeep, inspired writer Russell T Davis to pay homage by making the lead character Stuart in TV series Queer as Folk drive a black Jeep. Davis said in an interview with Attitude Magazine “One of the few fan letters I’ve ever written was to the man who’s producing Byker Grove, because in the second year they did that story,” said Davies, “Noddy got a boyfriend, and they had to write them out because they had nowhere else to go. But they drove off together in a black jeep. It was so fantastic to watch that on children’s television at ten past five in the afternoon. And you were sitting watching it thinking: ‘They have sex! Those two boys have sex! They’re not showing it, but they absolutely have sex. That’s fact.’ And the black Jeep became one of my favourite symbols of gayness.”
Adams' younger brother Grant Adams also played the character of Ed in Byker Grove.
==Music==
After leaving Byker Grove, Adams along with co-star David 'Ollie' Oliver and Declan Bennett formed the Point Break boy band.
The band released five singles, four of which made the UK top 20 ("Stand Tough" made it to number 7 in the charts), and an album, which was number one in three countries in Southeast Asia, including Japan, and made the UK top 40.
They went on to perform on Top of the Pops.
Their song Stand Tough was used in Australia as the Seven Network's theme for coverage of the AFL in 2000.
==Discography==
===Albums===
Title 	Album details	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions
Title 	Album details	UK 	FIN 	JPNOricon Singles Chart Oricon Singles Chart (Retrieved 2 November 2012)
Apocadelic	
* Released: 7 August 2000
* Label: Eternal Records
* Formats: CD	21 	35 	83
===Singles===
Year	Title 	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Album
Year	Title 	UK 	AUS 	JPN 	Album
1999	"Do We Rock?" 	29 	— 	7 	Apocadelic
2000	"Stand Tough" 	7 	49 	10 	Apocadelic
2000	"Freakytime" 	13 	— 	11 	Apocadelic
2000	"You" 	14 	— 	— 	Apocadelic
2000	"What About Us?"	24 	— 	— 	Apocadelic
Category:1976 births
Category:English singers
Category:English songwriters