Will Young reflects on having to hide sexuality during Pop Idol

Will Young reflects on having to hide sexuality during Pop IdolBBC

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00:00You were on Pop Idol, and you were told don't be gay, let's not be gay today.

00:08Yeah.

00:09What happened there?

00:10Someone reminded me of that actually, but this is really funny, and I'd forgotten about

00:15this.

00:16So they said don't, and I was, I call it my like quivery lip when I get cross, so I got

00:21quivery lip, and I said I didn't come out and go through all those years of being terrified

00:26of it.

00:27To be kicked back in the fucking closet.

00:28I'm not going to, you know, so basically told them, and then we had a press conference,

00:35it was week five, and they were like the Pop Idols have a press conference, and someone

00:40said who would you go, who would you like to go for a date with, and I thought how am

00:45I going to get around this.

00:48So I said I'd go for tea with the Queen, which was kind of genius, because all the journalists

00:53Also the gayest answers ever.

00:54The gayest answer ever, but also I was sort of playing, you know, and I was posh, and

01:00I was like, you know, so I said oh I just want to go for tea with the Queen, but I knew

01:03all the journalists knew I was gay, everyone in the room knew I was gay, and I thought

01:08so I'll just say this, but yeah no I was told not to say anything.