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Contents:
- EXCLIVE: FORMER ‘BLUE PETER’ PRENTER STUART MIL ‘REGRETS NOT BEG A ROLE MOL FOR GAY YOUNGSTERS’
- FORMER BLUE PETER PRENTER MARRI GAY PARTNER
EXCLIVE: FORMER ‘BLUE PETER’ PRENTER STUART MIL ‘REGRETS NOT BEG A ROLE MOL FOR GAY YOUNGSTERS’
I was ightened of the reactn I may get both the prs and om the parents of children who watched the show if I me out as a gay man. The irony is I uld've been a role mol to all those gay youngsters. "Elsewhere the article, Mil add that he's workg wh a chary lled Diversy Role Mols, which works to try and prevent homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullyg UK schools.
The TV and rad host, 49, appeared on the inic children’s seri om 1994-1999 alongsi the lik of Konnie Huq, Katy Hill and Richard Ban, but says that the psychologil srs of beg bullied over his sexualy as a child left him unable to embrace beg gay public when he got his big break aged 25. Mil, who has onted rad shows for Gayd and Heart and found men’s anti-ageg advice se sce leavg Blue Peter, revealed he now regrets not providg gay youngsters wh a role mol as he livered a speech to a group of young stunts on behalf of LGBT schools chary Diversy Role Mols on Thursday afternoon (Febary 22). Diversy Role Mols is a non-prof anisatn which offers workshops which te schoolchildren about LGBT issu an attempt to prevent homophobic and transphobic bullyg.
Mil tells Attu of his cisn to work wh the chary: “When I first disvered the work that Diversy Role Mols did seekg to prevent homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullyg UK schools, I wished they’d been around when I was at school. Gay.
FORMER BLUE PETER PRENTER MARRI GAY PARTNER
“I uld’ve been a role mol to all those gay youngsters but stead I was too sred and hid and now really regret .
“Then a few weeks ago I heard a iend of me’s son refer to his mate as ‘a b gay’. Here’s my msage: It might seem ok to you to ll someone nam like gay but [to] that iend of yours, that word partly f who they are. “I wasn’t a role mol to gay youngsters while I was on Blue Peter bee those people at school who bullied me ma me sred.
“I’ve known that I was gay sce my late teens, but I was advised early the Eighti, by a seasoned ex-prenter, that was bt to keep quiet. Stuart Mil, Gaydar rad DJ and neti Blue Peter prenter, is an out gay man who this year took his one-man drag show, Pk Peter, to the Edburgh Frge Ftival. ‘Why ’s not too late for gay men to get body nfint at 50’.