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Contents:
- BAKE OFF EXTRA'S TOM ALLEN: 'I WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR – BUT TURNED OUT I WAS JT GAY'
- THE TOP 5 GAY COMEDIANS YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTN TO
- TOM ALLEN: ‘WHY DO I TALK ABOUT BEG GAY ALL THE TIME? BEE I WASN’T ALLOWED FOR HALF OF MY LIFE!’
BAKE OFF EXTRA'S TOM ALLEN: 'I WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR – BUT TURNED OUT I WAS JT GAY'
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“I often lay the sense that I was an outsir at the feet of beg gay, ” he says.
THE TOP 5 GAY COMEDIANS YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTN TO
Photograph: Wenn Rights/AlamyTake the scene where he is beaten up at school by a fellow pupil, only to blame himself afterwards for failg to nceal those tell-tale signs of gayns that flamed his attacker.
TOM ALLEN: ‘WHY DO I TALK ABOUT BEG GAY ALL THE TIME? BEE I WASN’T ALLOWED FOR HALF OF MY LIFE!’
”He also walked off stage durg his early standup years rponse to homophobic abe om a heckler.
Lookg back on his teens, he says: “I wanted to be an actor but turned out I was jt gay. The days he tackl his sexualy on stage wh a claratn (“Y, I’m gay”) followed by a “Who knew?
"When I was younger I thought I was straight, bee I was more attracted to women, and I didn't know there were more optns bis gay and straight.