Sonny Kendall: Obviously gay, too young for n*de photos, so his EastEnder teen had better pay off. With Boreanaz and twink c*cks

 

Link to the n*de dudes 

 Sonny Kendall (the short one) appeared on the teen idol website flexing and hugging guys.  These two are nearly holding hands.

As of this writing, he is 16 years old, so I won't be looking for n*de photos (beefcake is ok).   

I've checked his social media, and there's no question that he's gay. 

Left: Sonny's date starts hugging before they even get a chance to order.  

So this profile will just answer Question #1: Any gay roles?

Sonny was born in East London in 2010.  He was attending the Rhodes Theatre School in Romford in 2021, when he was cast in the soap EastEnders.

Whoops, it looks like the EastEnders gig is Sonny's only on-screen role.  But it has gotten him nominations for Best Young Performer at the British Soap Awards in 2022 and 2025,  Rising Star at the National Television Awards (2023), and Favourite Young Actor at the TV Times Awards.  So let's check it out.

The East End, north of the Thames and east of the Tower, is known for its Cockney rhyming slang, poverty, crime, and industrial blight.  This is where Jack the Ripper found  his victims, and Oscar Wilde found his rentboys.  

In the 1990s, my boyfriend Lane and I went to the World Congress of LGBT Jews, held in a hotel on the Isle of Dogs, East London.  It was dreadful. 

The soap opera EastEnders, on since 1985, features the  impoverished, the down-and-out, and the criminal .  We don't see British versions of the Lords of One Life to Live or the Quartermaines of General Hospital.  At least, not many of them.

It is known for "difficult," controversial plot arcs, involving murder, r*pe, drug addiction, and human trafficking.  And LGBT people.  The first gay male kiss on British tv, between boyfriends Colin and Guido (Michael Cashman, Nicholas Donovan), in 1987.   It didn't happen on American tv until 2003.

On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: When you search for n*de photos of Nicholas Donovan, this one appears.  I think it's David Boreanaz.

Sonny's character, Tommy Moon, is the son of Kat and Alfie Moon (Shane Ritchie), who have a tumultuous relationship, with various infidelities, a brain tumor, prostate cancer. an injury in a fire, and having twin sons named Bert and Ernie.   Oh, and Tommy turns out to be the biological son of Alfie's cousin, the villainous Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Tommy is born in 2010, and starts out life in a controversial plotline about being switched with a deceased baby.  It takes a few plot twists for Alfie and Kat to realize that their kid is actually alive, and get him back.  He lives through more murders, diseases, and infidelities until 2014 , when the parents win the lottery and get the heck out of the East End.

Mom Kat returns in 2016, followed by an estranged Alfie and the kids, with Tommy played by Shay Crotti.  His next plotline involves being diagnosed with dyslexia, being bullied at school, and hating his life, in spite of the attempts of Mum's new boyfriend Kush (Davood Ghadami, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) to be a positive role model. They all leave town again in 2020.

More after the break.  

Sonny takes over as Tommy in 2021, when he returns to the East End with his Mum and brothers (can't stay away, can they?).  He joins the Epsley Town Football Team, but is dropped after he breaks his leg escaping from a house fire.  This causes a major depression, plus more bullying.  

He can't talk to his parents about it, but crime kingpin Phil (Steve McFadden), who Mom is dating, suggests that he defend himself. So he hides a knife in his backpack to scare the bullies with.  But when they accost him in the park, he hits the bully Sid (Buddy Skelton) with his backpack, accidentally stabbing him.

This leads to a pattern of violent activity.

He punches his Dad in the stomach.

He injures his friend Davinder (Juhaim Rasul Choudhury), which ends the friendship.

Dad  suggests boxing as a positive use of his aggressive energy, but when he loses at the Teen Boxing Competition, Tommy becomes even angrier.

He beats up his cousin Freddie.

He punches his Mom Kat, accuses her of child abuse, and threatens to kill her. 

He is sent to foster care with Zach Hudson (James Farrar), and returns several months later, promising to do better.  

In 2025 Tommy becomes infatuated with the new kid Joel Marshall (Max Murray).  He ignores and then imitates Joel's swaggering machismo and his s*xist, homophobic rhetoric, and follows him into an online incel community.   

Joel engages in increasingly violent and abusive behavior, toward girls and toward Tommy, who is horrified but can't bring himself to walk away. 

The last straw comes when Joel r*pes and assaults his father's girlfriend, and warns Tommy to not say anything.  It's too much even for a teenager in love, so he calls the police. 

The relationship is clearly romantic, at least from Tommy's point of view, with fan speculation augmented by the boys' off-screen friendship.  But it stays subtext: no one in universe suggests that they are boyfriends.   

In January 2026, Joel is convicted of causing grievous bodily harm, voyeurism, and producing images of children, and sent to juvenile detention. But Max Murray and Sonny Kendall returned to host the documentary EastEnders Investigates the Manosphere. 

Tommy never expresses any interest in girls, and his relationships with Joel and Davender have fans fairly certain that he is gay, and will be coming out and looking for a new guy.  Maybe bi ex-con Oscar Branning (Pierre Counihan-Moullier), who works at the fruit and veg stand.

We can only hope.

Left: Sonny's crew.  I posted a random twink on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

See also: Stranded on the Isle of Dogs, and Other Hassles, Horrors, and Hookups of My First Visit to England

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