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Rylan Clark 'ran from mum' and thought 'I'm going to perish' after huge decision
Rylan Clark admitted he 'ran' from his mum and thought he was 'going to perish' in a field after making a huge life decision. On his How To Be in Love podcast, the 36-year-old explained he never thought he would tell his mum Linda that he is gay. He admits it 'wasn't something on his radar' as a young teenager. And while Rylan's friends all knew, the star felt too nervous to address the conversation with his mother. Although one day, aged 15, Rylan says he knew it was the day that he was going to broach the conversation with Linda. READ MORE: Brooklyn Beckham reaches out to family for first time amid feud READ MORE: David Beckham in hospital as Victoria shares picture of star with four-word message He said: 'My friends knew, I'd be going out, I was 15, still at school, I was around one of my friend's houses, and my friend's mum knew, I'd sort of let her know in ways, and whatever, and my mum came to pick me up from her house, I got in the car with my mum, very normal, like I normally would, and the second I shut the door, it was like my heart went just like that, and it come over me and I was hot. 'I knew from nowhere, it was like a baseball around the head, I'm going to tell her I'm gay. It was a half-hour drive from my friend's house to where I was living with my mum and I didn't speak the whole way. 'I could feel it coming, we pulled up on the drive, she went, 'Are you getting out?' I went, 'mum', she went, 'What?' I went [stutters], and she went, 'F****** hell' and just shut the door.' Rylan says he then phoned his friend and asked if her mum would tell Linda that he was gay. He however wanted to stay on the phone to his friend to listen to the conversation. Rylan said he overheard his friend's mum saying 'no Linda, no,' which prompted him to 'run'. He explained: 'In that moment I dropped the phone because I've just heard my friend's mum go, 'No Linda no'. 'I've got out the car, it was p***** it down and I'm running. I ended up in this field that I'd never been to, in the p****** down rain, sitting there like [crying], 'I'm homeless'. After three hours, genuinely, I thought I've got to go home, I'm literally going to perish. I'm that cold.' Rylan said he returned home and discovered his mum found his phone. He immediately rang his friend again to speak to her. It was then he discovered what prompted his friend's mum to shout 'No Linda'. Rylan explained: 'My mum went, 'Don't tell me he's got a girl pregnant'. So my friend's mum went, 'No Linda, no he's gay' and my mum went, 'Oh alright'.' Rylan says his mum then asked if he wanted to discuss the conversation she'd had with his friend's mum. Only for Rylan to simply reply, 'no', to which she replied 'okay then'. Rylan and Linda are currently appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox together. The show airs from 9pm on Channel 4 tonight (June 27).
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18-06-2025
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Rylan Clark admits 'that's exactly what I need' as he teases love life update
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Rylan Clark declared 'that's exactly what I need' as he addressed his love life and relationships. Rylan, 36, has been open about his divorce from ex-husband Dan Neal in 2021. The pair had been married for six years but their relationship ended after Rylan admitted he had been unfaithful. Since then, Rylan says he has been 'on his own' and has been on 'two dates' in the past two years. The BBC Radio 2 star admits he now wants to find a man who will make him 'laugh' and won't make him cry. On his new podcast, How To Be in Love, Rylan asked psychotherapist and relationship expert Phillipa Perry what love is. Philippa, who is married to the artist Grayson Perry, replied: 'There's lots of different sorts of love. 'There's the love you have with your family, the love you have with your soldiers in arms, there's the love you have for a lover, erotic love, so I suspect you're quite interested in erotic love that then, perhaps, turns into something even deeper than that and it becomes a lifelong soulmate type of love.' (Image: BBC) Rylan responded: 'Absolutely, I think that's exactly what I need.' Rylan revealed he has had enough of dating apps and regularly finds himself falling into the trap of speaking to people and not taking it further. He added: 'Nowadays it's all digital, and I find myself falling into this trap of talking to people, never meeting them.' Phillipa reassured the star it offered 'good raw material'. Speculation in recent months has swirled that Rylan could pursue a relationship with Rob Rinder, after the pair hit it off filming their Grand Tour. The BAFTA-winning show saw the pair addressing their respective divorces as they travelled around Italy. Rylan described filming the show as 'like therapy' and admitted he 'wasn't fully over' his split when making the programme. Rylan said: 'It was the best therapy I needed, put it that way. I think the journey, and I hate that word in telly but its so true, when you watch our series, that journey from when we meet to sort of how raw especially I was at that time.' (Image: Rob Rinder X/Twitter) While he has declared his 'love' for Rob, the pair have kept their relationship platonic. During a previous episode of his podcast, he joked: 'We are like a married couple, we row all the time and don't have sex like a proper married couple. We might as well put a ring on it." Speaking to former Communards musician Richard Coles, Rylan added: 'I want to find the next love of my life. I've been married, I thought I'd found the love of my life, I hadn't." The former X Factor contestant has previously spoken of the difficulties of dating while in the public eye, revealing he feels as though Rylan is a persona. In a conversation with Stephen Fry, he said: 'One thing I'm finding really difficult when it comes down to dating is that people think I'm Rylan when, in honesty, I'm Ross." Opening up further, Ross, better known by his stage name Rylan, confessed: "I need to work out, 'Do you want to date Rylan and what Rylan can give you, or do you want to date the real me?'".
