Contents:
- DO BELIEVE : ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE ACTOR RICHARD WILSON REVEALS HE IS GAY
- RICHARD WILSON: I WAS LIGHTED TO BE OUTED AS GAY BY A MAG
- RICHARD WILSON: ‘GAY MARRIAGE IS SPLENDID. I’M STILL LOOKG, A WAY’
- LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
DO BELIEVE : ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE ACTOR RICHARD WILSON REVEALS HE IS GAY
The actor, who played gmpy hband Victor Meldrew the BBC s, has been scribed as a nfirmed bachelor for yearsThey say I might as well face the tth: Richard Wilson aka Victor MeldrewHe’s left late, but Richard Wilson has fally clared he is gay – at the ripe old age of 76.
But he was recently placed on Time Out’s list of most fluential gay people. And he said an terview: “I don’t md people sayg I’m gay – bee I am. But I don’t live a gay relatnship.
As Victor Meldrew One Foot In The Grave, his relatnship wh long-sufferg wife Margaret was s actor Richard Wilson has now revealed his regret at not havg a lifetime partner of his screen and stage veteran, who is gay, tells BBC Rad 4's Dert Island Discs today: 'I have lived alone for a very long time, and I que like beg alone at tim. Pictured: Ante Crosbie and Richard Wilson as Margaret and Victor MeldrewWilson avoid discsg his private life until 2013, when he was 76, Time Out magaze clud him a list of fluential gay people. I did always have a lot of very close iends who were very important to me, gay and straight.
RICHARD WILSON: I WAS LIGHTED TO BE OUTED AS GAY BY A MAG
' Wilson avoid discsg his private life until 2013, when he was 76, Time Out magaze clud him a list of fluential gay peopleBut the actor said he ially turned down the role bee he thought would only appeal to olr TV viewers. 11:15, Sun, Jun 20, 2021 | UPDATED: 11:56, Sun, Jun 20, 2021 Alex Berford asks Richard Wilson about Victor Meldrew returnThe actor, who played perpetually apoplectic pensner Victor Meldrew One Foot In The Grave, says he was “outed” when Time Out clud him a list of fluential gay people 2013. Richard, 84, a lifelong support of gay rights anisatn Stonewall, told Dert Island Discs prenter Lren Laverne: “I was lighted had e out.
RICHARD WILSON: ‘GAY MARRIAGE IS SPLENDID. I’M STILL LOOKG, A WAY’
” He said beg gay the 1950s when homosexualy was illegal did e problems but explaed: “I suppose is te I did always have a lot of very close iends that were very important to me, both straight and gay.
”Richard Wilson feared how his fay would rpond to news he is gay (Image: PA)Richard, who first played Victor Meldrew aged 55, said people still shout his tchphrase “I don’t believe ” at him the s attracted 17 ln viewers but he add many thk they are the first to say to him and said: “I e to say ‘good heavens I never heard that before’ and they would say ‘really? • Dert Island Discs, Rad 4, 11am today Related articl Graham Norton asked to hold stranger's hand after beg stabbed Steph McGovern hs back at claim that gay people are ‘unhappy' Phillip Schofield reflects on g out as gay amid 'stggl' Invalid emailWe e your sign-up to provi ntent ways you've nsented to and to improve our unrstandg of you. For numero years, Victor Meldrew has been a mpaigner for gay rights and has occurred at chary events anized by gay rights mpaign group Stonewall.
In April 1996, he was elected Rector of the Universy of Glasgow for a term of three 's bgraphy, One Foot on the Stage: The Bgraphy of Richard Wilson, was wrten by Jam has worked for the gay rights mpaign group Stonewall and the Labour Party.
LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
Wilson has been a mpaigner for gay rights for many years, and he me out as gay a Daily Mail terview March 2013.
TriviaHe ially turned down his most famo role as Victor Meldrew, sce he was only 53 and the character was supposed to be over studied medical science and worked as a hospal laboratory technician at Paddgton General before applyg to RADA to tra to be an actor at the age of was the Rector of the Universy of Glasgow om 1996 to is famed for his parti, which he anis wh meticulo attentn to is a strong supporter of the gay rights group Stonewall.