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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.

” 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.

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”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?

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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.

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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.

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I did always have a lot of very close iends who were very important to me, gay and straight.

' 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. Wilson has been a mpaigner for gay rights for many years and me out officially as gay a Daily Mail terview March 2013.

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