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• EXCLIVE! RONAN PARKE: ‘I’VE ALWAYS INTIFIED AS GAY – AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO SAY ’
• SGER RONAN PARKE SAYS HE’S ALWAYS INTIFIED AS BEG GAY
• RONAN PARKE REVEALS HE'S GAY
• SIMON COWELL NI CLAIMS THAT BRA’S GOT TALENT STAR WAS MA TO ‘ACT MORE GAY’

EXCLIVE! RONAN PARKE: ‘I’VE ALWAYS INTIFIED AS GAY – AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO SAY ’

Such a rapid rise the then still-emergg age of social media me at a st, however: abive onle ments, often homophobic tone, me their hundreds, as a pre-teen Ronan was nonted wh an ugly prejudice his supportive parents had prevly helped shield him om.

So was ‘gay’ a label you already intified wh when you were young? ’ All dramatic [lghs] And they jt went ‘Yeah, yeah, we know, you’re gay’, and they jt got the remote and unmuted the TV!

But I’ve always intified as a gay man and I’ve always been very proud to say . I thk for a lot of people, if they’re lled gay om a young age n sometim make harr to discs their sexualy, bee they almost don’t want to prove those bulli ‘right’. I didn’t know any other gay people where I was om.

SGER RONAN PARKE SAYS HE’S ALWAYS INTIFIED AS BEG GAY

So much has changed for LGBT artists sce 2011 when you were on BGT – has the succs of other gay artists like Sam Smh or Olly Alexanr helped spire you to be open? I gus I was spired by that, beg a young gay guy who se another gay man or gay women step up and be so open about .

I’ve got lots of young people who support me, and I hope that if there’s a young gay guy or girl out there who feels like they’re not good enough bee of their sexualy or are stgglg to e out or talk about , to know that you should never feel ashamed of .

RONAN PARKE REVEALS HE'S GAY

Is Ronan Parke gay? Ronan has spoken openly about beg gay, tellg Attu: "I remember tryg to e out to my parents: I was young - I n’t remember how old I was, around 7 or 8 - and I went downstairs to the lounge and stood ont of the TV and got the remote and went ‘Mummy, daddy, I have somethg to tell you! ’"And they jt went ‘Yeah, yeah, we know, you’re gay’, and they jt got the remote and unmuted the TV!

SIMON COWELL NI CLAIMS THAT BRA’S GOT TALENT STAR WAS MA TO ‘ACT MORE GAY’

Sger Ronan Parke has publicly spoken about his sexualy sayg he’s always intified as beg gay.

“I’ve always intified as gay – and I’ve always been proud to say ” Parke told Brish magaze Attu. Parke said he was now livg life to the full as a young gay man London, and he hoped that by acknowledgg his sexualy would help other young people who were stgglg.

The teenager said he was enuraged to hi his homosexualy om the public eye while he was on BGT due to him havg a large number of female fans.