Has it really been a whacking 6 months since our last blog? A true offense to the John Paul legacy for sure. Sorry. Puppies, and sweet pre Valentine day kisses, and belated welcome toasts to 2010 (that's said Twenty-Ten damit!) to you all.

You might have worked out why. There is really nothing to write about. On the happy side we know that Craig is still in Dublin (thanks Frankie) with John Paul (of course). The past blog predictions were correct and the dire direction of Emmerdale's storytelling failed to light our inspirational creative fires. Even a gay chav kiss was abysmal compared to that magic Snog Fest Hollyoaks Episode.

The bad side to all that means that JPMQ has a quite limited purpose now... We sort of have a problem, the site is coming up to its annual renewal and we are at the cross roads again as to if we should pay the costs of another's years hosting...

A lot of work and creative development went into it, and we still get between 50 - 100 unique visitors most day's sprawling over the JPMQ pages so we are 67% sure we will pay for at least ONE more year in April, which takes us to April 2011 (That's said Twenty-Eleven). So if you could pleaseeeeee go through our links if you ever buy anything on Amazon... that would be really swell. We are staying firm and keeping with the John Paul squishy focus only, thank you for the suggestions to diversify and go Hollyoaks mad. We wont do that. On that note who else thinks its such a pity Hollyoaks has changed into its old self and gone rotten again? Riding the ratings and rising into the history books of soap greatness! Only to come crashing down like poor Sarah Barnes (that was upsetting), why Channel 4? Why would you allow such a thing to happen? Flash forward rips and mash up weeks, that's not edgy and down with it, its just one epic FAIL.

The solution? Switch to E4 and listen to that voiceover guy and his wonderful use of words that he shouldn't even know, let alone be uttering aloud, then watch GLEE, become a GLEEK! Not your thing? How about James and a interview on This Morning? Go here then (First time I watched the clips in the interview, not being an Emmerdale watcher remember, I actually thought it was a This Morning Spoof about the John Paul/Hannah/Craig early days!!!!!! Yeah, still totallllllly obsessed).

Love 2010's first quarter! XxX

June is here, and this blog is very late (by our normal standards anyhow).

We have no breaking news other than reporting James should be back on our screens this month, in just under two weeks actually, so keep everything pealed for "Super Sexy Sutton".

Channel 4 seem to be going through the John Paul et al youtube videos with the most hits and either instructing youtube to delete them or alter the contents. example HERE . Youtube have removed several of the timeline contributors again, HollyoaksForever and Becky2330 were used to replace a fair few of Nick's lost links, and now we are back to where we were last year. If anyone wants to help out by sending correct links to the dates in our timeline page, we'd be most grateful! You can do so by email/contact form (If you do a lot be sure to copy everything you've written so its not lost if the "submit" button fails for some reason. Some people have commented that happens on our shoutbox from time to time. We've looked into it but can't find a reason! Sorry). We must extend a big grinning hand shake to Jay Black for sending us lots of links to start the replacing!

Another fairly deadish month. unfortunately. Buttttt James' agent has released a statement suggesting "Ryan" James' newest character, will be delivered to our TV sets in June. We guess he starts film any day now so look out for the promotion shots in the soap mags.

April News Round up - Bringing you all of what happened last month

Er not much really. We had the Equality Bill being formally published which truly seemed to be the most exciting event last month, and its not even directly John Paul / James Sutton related. Cripes. Oh but look at this fun AIDS awareness video LINK. Its fun.

Yay Two Years Old! We made it! Who'd have thought so much crazy could happen in just two quick years, John Paul McQueen et al addiction, rollarcostered to unbelievable highs through insanely dangerous twists and spirals, all the while gathering formula one speed and pride coloured wagons, as more and more people seem to just leap on board the greatest stories ever told. Then the track up ahead divided and before anyone knew it we had four trains running their own separate ways, kris crossing (old skool!) over each others rails, McDean, Kieron, Spike and the train which was happy to cross between all three and enjoy everything the storylines had to offer (we were on this one!). Then to top it off, rather than coming to a gradual stop in a dull station, the entire McDean train came off the tracks and flew into the sunset sky (literally), possibly the greatest rollarcoster ride in the world, and not a Final Destination type horror in sight, that was one truly sick film.

March News Round up - Bringing you all of what happened last month

- As hoped from last month we have some James "movie" news!

Turns out it wasn't any type of film with a English language definition (James you little porker!), more like a "soap opera", yup James has a role in Emmerdale playing a character called Ryan who is the son of newcomer Faye Lamb... Is this Faye currently on screen? Goad knows, the show is pretty dire stuff, but perhaps James will force us to watch and from that we will find a burning passion for the country life! From a fan point of view, it's disappointing as Hollyoaks and Emmerdale are polar in almost every way, but this means of course that from James' point of view its probably a pretty fantastic new challenge! Good luck xXx

- We haven't done this for a while, but we have finally added a new affiliate to our collection, welcome to the now well recognised branded "fans" version of "McDean Fans", and possibily the greatest incarnation of the franchise to date. Check it out. We will write a review of the forums in a few days!

We are not becoming a book review site, and this is not John Paul related, but if you fancy a good, lighthearted read then try Boy meets Boy, by David Levithan. The way its written is so unique and the two of us who have read it, can't compare it to anything else! "There isn't really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They all got mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best... And whether your heart is strictly ballroom or bluegrass punk, the dance floors are open to whatever you have to offer. This is my town".

April Treats for all *throws them out like a beauty from a pageant wagon*, and congrats on being with us for two stellar years!

March. Spring is in the air, new beginnings! Although everything over here is exactly the same as last month *dong*. Elsewhere JSF forums and James Sutton.Org both easily make it to their second birthday, both sporting new layouts with a lick of paint. And new sites keep popping up all over the place, as in previous incarnations a McDean Fans website was launched last month. We love it.

February News Round up - Bringing you all of what happened last month

- No Movie News Yet! James is supposed to start filming this month and everything about it is still closely guarded, we don't even know what type of film it is yet! Stay tuned perhaps we will have some gossip for our 2nd Birthday next month. *crosses fingers*

Exciting news for James Sutton Fans this month! Which is everyone reading this right? No point twittering on, lets get started!

January News Round Up - Bringing you all of what happened last month.

The Walkabout Club. Wolverhampton. 16th January 2009.

That was the place and date James himself announced he was preparing to star in a British film which starts filming this coming March.

(Picture taken by lucky sod kittomic, posted, and permission given for distribution at JSF)

- James in a movie? We have put Madam Bowlock on the case, and when news becomes available she will update her page with it. Meanwhile this is what seems to the current view;

* Filming starts in March this year.

* It's a British made film.

* We personally do not think it likely he is staring in Harry Potter, film/book 6 cast has already been set out on IMDb. No James. There are also only a very tiny number of possible new characters for the last film/book, all of which are minority parts which the writers/directors will most likely cut from the script for time. Someone has proposed a good argument that he might star as one of the three brothers from The Tale of the Three Brothers from the book "The tales of Beedle the Bard" when (if) Hermione reads the story aloud in the film it will be shown to the viewer in a visible telling. Seems very far fetched, but someone has to play the part if its filmed. The other suggestions are for James playing; A young Grindelwald, Aberforth or Albus Dumbledore.

- Virgin Media have an easy and very quick poll to vote for "Soaps' sexiest couples, your favorite soap pairings, past and present", naturally John Paul and Craig Dean are listed, and naturally they are currently riding high with almost a quarter of the votes. Push them up. Go on you know they deserve it.

- Kiwi finally came roaring up to JPMQ towers in her new pink mini cooper, stormed upstairs in a blur of girly pinkness that could have confused anyone, even someone with 20:20 vision, that she was Paris Hilton, slammed her HUGE write up for the JP story onto our desk and yanking out that awful whip, we had hidden away in a broom closet, demanding we update her parts of the site there and then. Drama Queen Much? That's what insane internet popularity does to you folks.

- JPMQ decided to have a bit of a new funk splashed over its pages and overall style for 2009, so after some passionate arguing that the proposed ideas wouldn't work and several compromises later we have adjusted parts of the site for a more modern feel. Including three new banners:

- Thank you again to axelmoto for answering our pleads and finishing off the Timeline missing links. Once again the page is complete and doing what it was designed for. For how long it stays that way is anyone's guess. If it goes pear shaped again you know what to do dear reader.

- We are annoyed about the new McDean Website copying large chunks of our timeline summaries and not giving us due credit for them. We thank all those who have emailed to point it out. We have nothing else to say about it at the current time. That said we personally really are committed to giving credit where credit is due, if you ever see anything on this site that belongs to you and we've not credited you either directly by the picture/link etc or on the "about us" page, you may slash us with the black whip (the pink one may only be handled by Queen Kiwi). Failing that please just drop us a line, we love hearing from anyone who has anything to say about the site, good OR bad, and making changes to reflect what you guys want.

Don't have a fluxed February (Yes, Urban Dictionary browsing is back in town), enjoy it all, including the dreaded "all alone and single on Valentines day" situation if it effects you. If not have a romantic slush filled day!

How were your new years eve celebrations? Did you toast the end to a good year and welcome in the new one with hopes of doing it all over again only better? Hopefully so. If not, fresh starts and all, 2009 here we come!

Decembers News Round Up - Bringing you all of what happened last month.

- Last month was the first and only month in the last few years where we have not had John Paul or Craig Dean brightening up our TV or computer screens *shock horror gasp* still we did get to watch James on Casualty (here for the youtube links), hence pictures of dear sleepy Eli in this months blog (thanks to Jan!).

- Stunning, Exciting, Xerothermic and Yummy plus all the other flattering descriptive terms of James (OK that last one back there was a bit of a stretch at best, but look what the letters spell, something most will agree with) from his deep loving fans were not quite enough to get him to the top of the DS Fitty Fitster polls. Ah well, less of him to share around with the rest of the world, Right?

- As talked about in the shoutbox above, James now has a french bulldog called Willis! Isn't that sweet? We have no clue why, but it is.

- Again from the shoutbox, we let you all know last month we were planning on changing the old dead Nick links charting large chunks of John Paul's story to newer active ones. Well we did pretty well considering, and a huge thank you must be showered down on Becky2330, HollyoaksForever, Axelemoto (Loiseaurougetube), CrumpetsandJam and SuttonAddicts who's own hard work allowed us to turn the timeline page back into what it was destined for.

- With the same "update" and"change" attitude in mind, the site is pretty large now and we do miss bits of it from time to time, if you ever spot anything that is wrong, out of date or you feel needs a radical change. Tell us. We wont be mad/angry/upset/put out/annoyed if you do. McQueen Promise.

- Finally, for any McDean fans, be sure to check out this new forthcoming website. We have yet to see what's inside but it looks like its shaping up to be something a bit special. Show it love, like you have JPMQ.

We wish you an ass (or arse) kicking, fantastic, progressive and fulfilling 2009! And it's because of things like this (AfterElton Write up for John Paul, from September 2008) and this (a storyline from Greys Anatomy) and even this, (recollections of some of the cast from the US Queer as Folk, 35 seconds in, hankies ready) why we aren't going anywhere. John Paul McQueen will always be an inspirational silver anchor, and from it springs golden chains and chains of people who feel the same way you do, fighting to wrap around hearts filled with hatred, bigotry and intolerance and bind them forever. You're never be alone if you don't want to be. Never Forget to live your life in 2009

Craig was back in town last month, along with OK-perhaps-he-is-pretty-dishy-after-all Niall. We learnt that John Paul is still not over his ordeal with Kieron and Tina dying at the hands of his evil half brother Niall, and he and Craig are having fights because JP wont properly talk about it. On the plus he is becoming quite the powerful DJ with his very own nights. After Shirt Lofters was there any doubt he would go on to do epic musical things? Ah yes, unfortunately for the other person from "the greatest love story ever told" Craig gets to be tied up all night and a pretty brutal face beating to boot. The villain of the story finally leaps off a cliff and does a star jump spasm halfway down. Then its all over.

November News Round Up - Bringing you all of what happened last month.

- Channel 4 are showing "Hollyoaks Later" this week (week starting December 1st) at 10pm each day. A chance to catch it all over again.

- Spike (Tom Vaughan) was back. Without James and Guy it was always going to be strange, but Spike was his normal charming self, writing (maybe part time) for a newspaper section called "Out and About" and making the whole storyline "gay". It worked out pretty well. Spike should come back again soon! Darn tooting! We've linked to his YouTube uploads for these episodes on his part of the "JPDb People" section (link above).

- James turned on the Christmas lights in Stone Staffordshire, and donated his appearance fee to charity. What a nice chappie.

- James also has his own YouTube account now. Uploading videos of him and ex co stars singing various songs. (Links added to James' Media page, for future use)

- AfterElton are a rapidly growing and increasing well known website focusing on all things gay in the media industry. For anyone not living in a gay capital and instead is exposed to straightness as the norm it's difficult to get the message out there (Gay people exist in a fairly large number and guess what? They want to see themselves on TV too), so a site which celebrates those actors and actresses who depict "our" lives or support of it, is well worth looking at. In the meantime to push you over today, there is a poll which needs our John Paul/Craig/Hollyoaks fan support!

- Digital Spy also have their annual Fitty Fitster poll. (you only get to vote once!)

The Non Flippant News

- Today is worlds AIDS day. Perhaps its fair to say its this disease which has made stories like John Paul and Craig so special, but its a poor consolation when 2008 has shown prejudice and bigotry still run through the world like diseased ridden veins.

- It's a year ago on the 29th, that TPenguin (Kevin McNeill) sadly died.

Although ending on a semi-sober note, we do wish you all a fantastic festive holiday, and will see you early next year to carry on the spirit of JPMQ (plus Company) and the "good fight"!

Wowers how good was last months McQueen v.s Niall face off ending? Perhaps not as good as the Sunset Ending, but still most people were extremely pleased John Paul returned and was able to A) Survive Niall and not suffer a washed out killing off. B) John Paul was able to say proper goodbyes to his family, which was the only flaw in the original sunset ending. C) John Paul returned to Dublin. To Craig.

We liked it (Chapter 14), even if it was for reason number uno; John Paul looking mighty fine with his cuts and bruises and was perfectly capable, and happy, to return to Craig who would cuddle it all better.

October News Round Up - Bringing you all of what happened last month.

- Spike is back. We dirty danced and did a little singing, then whacked out some classic scenes to watch and decided our enthusiasm was totally warranted. Spike was a fantastic character and should never have been allowed to go away in the first place.

- Bryan Kirkwood is leaving Hollyoaks. We love you man! But you well and truly knew that anyway *cackles*. Bryan brought us John Paul complete with all his storylines. The fandom would never have existed without him and hopefully his predecessor can follow in his footsteps, although we think these kind of things need a gay mans touch. Everyone will have to keep watching Hollyoaks to find out!

- da33431's youtube account along with all its videos and entire John Paul history was deleted. This was not good news, nor will it be easy to recover from. Slowly, with the help of other fans emailing us, we have started to replace his links. It's no secret Nick held a huge monopoly of the uploads and although we always knew it could happen we did link to him. A LOT. So our Timeline page, which is our most frequently used page, is suffering. Our continued aim is to maintain John Paul's legacy for as long as we can, so Thank You all who have helped out so far.

Why was it deleted in the first place? Was it Lime? Was it Youtube? Was it anti gay youtubers reporting the videos? We still don't have a proper reason but one of the most commonly held beliefs is that da33431 not only uploaded JP clips and scenes but at times entire episodes which is strictly against Youtubes rules. It's would be a little navie to think that is the probable reason, because the channel had existed for years without incident. Like everything else the reasoning is just one of many conspiracy theories out there.

- Guy Burnet has a guest spot in "The Royal". Interesting, especially if you remember last month when we found out James would be staring in Casualty, also a medical based TV series. Hmmm.

It's October the 1st again! (Heroes is on tonight woo woo).

There isn't much we can say about last month (well there is, but its been said many times already and redundancy is a very bad thing in all sense of the word). It was fantastic brilliance, should cover it

So the JPMQ peeps have had to think about the long term future and this JP shrine. The good news is that we didn't really decide on anything definitely, so we aren't going to vanish into a "This page can not be found" state of being any time soon. The bad news is that despite some requests (pushy, being amongst them) we are not going to being twisting the sites focus to James Sutton. We wish him well, we love him loads but this site was always locked onto John Paul and that's how we want to keep it. We have decided to post possible monthly blogs or bi monthly depending on what happens, with current James news and any updates of the site as we have always done, we want to keep digging into the JP story and yanking bits out to put in the site (we are encyclopedic after all!). Maybe keep a static front page, headers etc. Without JP there will simply be less updates.

Therefore there wont be any huge reason to come back to the site... but we hope you do from time to time, or we close down. Moaned on many times before about the hosting costs, and although happy to pay, we only want to do so for as long as the site is used.

September and October News Round Up

* John Paul Stars in TWO episodes in October (likely) Friday 17th and Monday 20th.

* Speculation suggests he doesn't die... but there are some problems with that theory...

* James stars in a Casualty Episode in December (due to air on the 13th) he plays a character with narcolepsy.

* James is definitely NOT in the Late Night Hollyoaks Specials (but Guy/Craig is!).

* JamesSutton.org had an amazing Gift for James.

* Wikipedia has a John Paul and Craig Dean Article, that is almost complete, add to it if you can! Spread the fandom.

October is always a brilliant month! Hope your's goes well and play safe ;-)

19 days! (give or take a few hours) and John Paul officially leaves our screens, maybe with Craig, maybe not. Maybe with a happy "they can make it work!" or maybe a "perhaps one day they will meet again" finish, either way the end is coming! (Don't forget he makes a "guest" appearance in October).

Anyone spotted that the 19th of September is the closest they can get to the 20th (this year it being a Saturday)? So exactly one year later... *excitement oozes*

We could bleat on about John Paul and his legacy, but we do that often enough, and anyone who has followed this story will already know how important it's been for LGBT people and those who support their rights to exist as normal human beings, not to mention anyone who is a fan of James Sutton and Guy Burnet and has enjoyed being able to watch them shine in a truly epic story. And to all those anti gay people it's been a sharp smack on the nose to watch something they might prefer to pretend doesn't exist or coat up in slimy ignorance. Equality 1, Prejudice 0.

That's it for this blog this month, time to sit back and enjoy the last few weeks (for now anyway), and if you want to go explore John Paul's history have a look around our pages!