The Gay UK Issue 3 Marriage | Page 99

‘Putin You’re A Prick…’ Is the last tweet that Adam had posted before I picked up the phone to the I Breathe Again singer and former Coronation Street actor. Something tells me that he’s back and ready for a fight... So... That tweet! Tell us your thoughts... I’m quite into current affairs and politics, and I think the whole thing is a complete joke. He’s like some big Panto baddie, some horrible nasty from a Disney film. He’s there trying to show his own strength to his own people and there’s no justification for it whatsoever. The guy’s a twat. For someone to come out so blatantly homophobic, but at the same time posing for the gayest photo shoot, riding on a horse, is absurd. I think it’s bad form, I really do. Is sexuality a big deal? I genuinely find it incomprehensible that in this day and age someone’s sexuality is still a definition about the person they are. You don’t say, ‘so and so is a nice person but they are Adam second from the left with Dane, Kenzie, Kavana and black…’ Gareth in 5th Story for ITV’s The Big Reunion It’s always amazed me, because I was raised by my Mum to be like ‘if somebody’s black and a lovely person – they’re just lovely if somebody is black and they’re an arse – they’re an arsehole!’ If somebody’s gay and they’re a lovely person… it was never about the colour, the creed, the sexuality or anything like that… So it amazed me when I was doing pop first time round, everyone was asking ‘is he gay, is he gay? Well I’m not, but I’m not going to make a big deal about it. It should be an issue. Did you get a lot of sexuality questioning? When I first started I didn’t. I was seen as a bit of a Lothario because they kept getting pictures of me with girls all the time. I kind of found all that attention a bit freaky. So I became a bit of a hermit. Because the press didn’t have anything to print about me, 99