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Comedian Joel Creasey has mented on the difficulti nontg a gay footballer g out publicly

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“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…

Jack Vidgen, one of the stars on Atralia’s I’m A Celebry… Get Me Out Of Here!, has revealed that he knows 10 or 12 gay Atralian Football League players, reports.

Vidgen, who ma a name for himself on Atralia’s Got Talent, was talkg about homosexualy sport wh former AFL stars Travis Vare and Robert “Dipper” DiPerdomeni.

JOEL CREASEY OPENS UP ON GAY PLAYERS THE AFL

“I probably know about 10 or 12 footy players, I’d never say their name, that are gay but they wouldn’t e out, ” Vidgen said. Comedian Joel Creasey has mented on the difficulti nontg a gay footballer g out publicly, after revealg he had a sexual affair wh a “bloody good” current AFL player.

“He's gog to be 'the gay player', and you don't want that. You want to be intified as the bt your field, not as the bt gay player.

SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME

While valu the broar muny would suggt the first player to reveal their homosexualy will be embraced, there is no doubt a mentaly wh the system that mak a challenge. Dermott Brereton only last year ma claims gay players the AFLW were “groomg” straight young teammat, somethg Gillon McLachlan quickly refuted. "I have been to the football a few tim, ” Creasey says, “and I have been stg the stands and I've heard lots of (anti-gay slurs) ed as tnts to players and yelled out.

SAM GILBERT, gay in.

AFL’S GAY MALE PLAYERS OPT TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY PRIVATE TO AVOID BEG THE FIRST TO COME OUT

It might not be a scriptor the St Kilda fenr ever expected, but, acrdg to Jason Ball (Atralian Football's first openly gay male player), the scriptn is que, a 28-year-old centre half-back for Victorian untry club Yarra Glen, explaed how highly Gilbert is thought of by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and qutng (LGBTIQ) muny.

"He's bee a gay in a way, " Ball said of the veteran Sats fenr.

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