X-Factor teen winner says he’s gay
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X-Factor winner Joe McElderry
has revealed he is gay and insisted,
“I am feeling good about it”,
THE BELEFAST TELEGRAPH
reports July 31st, 2010.
The singer‘s disclosure to two
tabloid newspapers came after
hackers broke into his account on
the social networking site Twitter
and “outed” him.
McElderry,
19,
said once he got over his anger
at the prank it made him realise
the truth about his sexuality.
Speaking to The Sun,
he said:
“I was really angry at first –
thinking,
‘How dare they hack me’?
But after a while I looked at
the message and thought,
‘Well, they’re not that far
from the truth’.
“I think the Twitter thing
was the point when I realised
I was gay.
I just looked at it and thought,
‘Should I be more bothered
about this’?
Because I wasn’t,
that’s when it clicked and
I thought maybe I was.
It was a turning point,
definitely.”
The Geordie star said he told
his mother Eileen in a phone call
last week while on a train journey
from London to Newcastle.
He told the Daily Mirror:
“She was fine,
great even.
She’d actually asked us in the past,
not because she thought I was gay
but because she’s a supportive mum.
“She’d say,
‘I don’t care if you have
a girlfriend or boyfriend’.”
McElderry, whose single
The Climb hit No1 in December
2009, revealed
that X Factor mogul Simon Cowell
phoned to offer his full support
when he heard the news.
The singer added that although
he kissed a boy last year he had
not been in a gay relationship.
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