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- JOHN SSNS' AGONY AS HIS MUM DIED JT WEEKS AFTER HE WAS OUTED AS GAY
- JOHN SSNS' AGONY AS HIS MUM DIED JT WEEKS AFTER HE WAS OUTED AS GAY
JOHN SSNS' AGONY AS HIS MUM DIED JT WEEKS AFTER HE WAS OUTED AS GAY
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Comedian John Ssns was outed as gay by a newspaper when his parents didn't know, wh his mum dyg six weeks laterVio LoadgVio UnavailableRIP ACTOR AND COMEDIAN JOHN SESSIONSTribut have been floodg for John Ssns, a edic legend bt known for Sptg Image, Have I Got News For You and Whose Le Is It Anyway?. Chattg wh The Guardian back 2017, John relled that he'd been outed as gay by a newspaper the 1990s.
John said: "My parents never knew I was gay. He add that 1994, he had been starrg a productn of My Night wh Reg, much of which is about homosexualy. "I was terviewed by the London Eveng Standard, " John ntued, "and asked very robtly: 'Are you gay?
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianIn 1994, an terview promotg his performance Kev Elyot’s Aids drama My Night Wh Reg, he was asked by an terviewer if he was gay. Photograph: Asa Pryke/BBC2In a 2017 Guardian terview, Ssns – who was gay – reunted beg outed by the prs 1994: “When I was My Night wh Reg at the Royal Court 1994, was all about homosexualy. I was terviewed by the London Eveng Standard and asked very robtly: ‘Are you gay?
JOHN SSNS' AGONY AS HIS MUM DIED JT WEEKS AFTER HE WAS OUTED AS GAY
Deprsed and tormented by guilt over his sexualy, and unable ever to adm to his parents that he was gay, Ssns suffered tastrophic stage ight that kept him out of the theatre he loved for nearly 20 was born John Gibb Marshall, January 1953, to Sttish parents Ayrshire. One night, aged 18, he got dnk a pub and staggered home to tell his mother he was gay.
' One night, aged 18, he got dnk a pub and staggered home to tell his mother he was gay. Ssns, pictured left, was outed by a journalist 1994 while promotg a play about a gay man lled My Night Wh Reg. He felt 1994, promotg a play about a gay man lled My Night Wh Reg, at the Royal Court Theatre, he told a journalist that he was gay — and then begged her not to prt bee, he told her, he hadn't told his parents.