Not only is David a talented comedian and actor in his own right, with millions of fans, but he’s also one of the UK’s most beloved talent judges thanks to his involvement in the juggernaut ITV show Britain’s Got Talent, and it might just be because of this show that many people search the internet for clues about David’s sexuality.
He has in the past, stood accused of camping up and “acting gay” during his time as a judge on the show, with many suggesting that he’s doing it just for the laughs. In fact, earlier this year, he sent the Internet into overdrive over his sexuality after seemingly falling in love with an act. Fans of the show took to social media to question David’s sexuality. Many viewers suggested that David’s behaviour was offensive and insulting because he seemed to be using overtly camp gestures or using homosexual innuendos for laughs.
Up until 2015, David Walliams was married to the supermodel, Lara Stone, after their split, fans of David’s started to question whether the Little Britain star was, in fact, gay or potentially bisexual.
In an interview with the Radio Times, he may have answered their question by saying that the gender of a partner isn’t important, but that their “heart and soul” were key factors. He hinted that he could potentially fall for either a man or a woman and suggested that “things can change for people over the years“.
In an interview, he said that as a child that he had “gay experiences” and remembering being “very confused” about it. He also admitted that has always been effeminate and that people often confuse effeminacy with being gay. He finished by remarking,
“I guess I’m just very honest about my sexuality.
“But there are plenty of effeminate people who are straight, and plenty of butch people who are gay.
Anyways, as it’s 2016 it doesn’t matter which way David swings…
David Walliam’s new comedy the BBC, Walliams And Friend begins tonight on BBC1 9.30PM
Four families have been left devastated by the actions taken by serial murderer Stephen Port, who used drugs to “stupefy his victims” without their knowledge to rape or sexually assault them. He then murdered them and disposed of their bodies near and around his home in Barking, East-London.
Anthony Walgate was Stephen Port’s first victim. He was 23 at the time of his murder.
Anthony was pronounced dead at the scene. His top was pulled up, consistent with his body having been dragged along the ground. A holdall next to him contained a bottle with traces of drugs.
In a victim impact statement released by Anthony’s family, they spoke of their devastation.
“Not only has this devastated our family it has broken it as well and I don’t know if it will ever be fixed. Tom has lost his only child, Paul has lost his only sibling and I have lost my youngest child, who was my baby.
“Anthony was a clever, funny, talented young man. All he ever wanted from being young was to be a famous fashion designer and with his passion and determination I’m sure he would have made it.”
Gabriel Kovari
Gabriel Kovari was 22 at the time of his murder. Port met Gabriel Kovari, who had come to London from Slovakia to begin a new life, on a dating website in August 2014 and let him move into his flat. On the morning of 28 August, a dog-walker came across Gabriel’s body propped against a wall in Abbey Green, Barking, about 500 metres from Port’s flat. Gabriel’s clothing was also pulled up as if he had been dragged.
Gabriel’s brother wrote that he couldn’t describe the loss and that his brother’s murder would change his family’s life forever. In his victim impact statement he wrote,
“The impact of the loss of my brother Gabriel can hardly be described in words. He was my only brother. His death was so unnecessary and he had so much to experience in his life. He was so young. I was the one who had to tell our mom, my brother had died. There is no pain greater than losing a child.
“What happened changed our lives forever, we are no longer the same family we once were. He was a great guy discovering himself, when he became a victim of this atrocity.”
Daniel Whitworth
Daniel Whitworth was the youngest of Port’s victims at just 21-year-old. Daniel, a chef from Gravesend, was found dead on 20 September 2014. Port suggested to Gabriel’s partner that maybe Daniel had killed Gabriel and then himself. Daniel was also found slumped against a wall in Abbey Green, by the same dog-walker who had found Gabriel. The top half of Daniel’s clothing had again ridden up and there was a small bottle containing liquid and traces of drugs in his pocket.
Daniel’s family describe a man who had a “zest for life”
Amanda Pearson, speaking on behalf of the Whitworth family said,
“I, alongside his father and partner, witnessed his lifeless body 17 days after his death in the morgue…the one and only farewell from us and a vision that will remain with me for all time, not just the image of young life lost, but of the love of my life pressed against the glass that divided him from his son. A chapel of rest was not available to us on the return of his body in November 2014 due to decomposition and his Grandma was bereft at having had no chance to say her goodbyes at all’
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was 25 at the time of his death. He was the last of Port’s victims and his body was found in September 2015. Jack is believed to have died soon after he met Port as four-and-a-half hours later Port blocked Jack’s account on Grindr. On 14 September Jack’s body was found by a refuse collector in Abbey Green, slumped against a wall with his shirt pulled up. A bottle containing liquid and traces of drugs plus a syringe and a bag of drugs were found on him.
His family described how their lives have been destroyed since the death of Jack,
“Our worlds turned upside down and our lives were destroyed when we were told about Jack’s death.
“We were originally told that Jack had died of a drug overdose and we all knew instantly that he had not done this to himself. We had to investigate this ourselves as we were not going to accept that Jack had done this to himself.
“The black hole that has now been left in our family can never and will never be filled. We have to face this for the rest of our lives.”
Stephen Port has been handed a whole-life term prison sentence for the murders of four men he found on gay dating apps.
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The former chef, Stephen Port was handed a whole-life prison term by the judge Mr Justice Openshaw, who remarked Port should die in prison for the four murders of men he found on gay dating apps and websites.
The 41-year-old was also found guilty of 10 offences of administering a substance with intent, four rapes and four sexual assaults.
Port was convicted at the Old Bailey in London where the judge said that Port had carried out the murders to “satisfy his lust” for sex with men who were rendered unconscious.
Port was found guilty of the murders of Anthony Patrick Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21 and Jack Taylor, 25. Their bodies were dumped in or near a graveyard in Barking. The graveyard was 500 meters away from his flat in east London.
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The Independent Police Complaints Commission, who are currently investigating the Metropolitan Police for their response to the deaths of four men in London are looking for witnesses who may have had contact with Stephen Port to come forward.
Serial killer Stephen Port, 41, is due to be sentenced today for the vicious murders of four men that he found on online via gay dating apps and websites. He was found guilty of their murders earlier this week with a majority verdict of the jury.
Port was found guilty of the murders of Anthony Patrick Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21 and Jack Taylor, 25. Their bodies were dumped in or near a graveyard in Barking. The graveyard was 500 meters away from his flat in east London.
The 41-year-old was also found guilty of 10 offences of administering a substance with intent, four rapes and four sexual assaults.
The murders took place between June 2014 and September 2015.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, who are currently investigating the Metropolitan Police for their response to the deaths of four men in London are looking for witnesses who may have had contact with Stephen Port to come forward.
Homes Under The Hammer star Martin Roberts has been targetted by homophobes on Twitter since his appearance on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
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Since his entry into the Jungle, Martin Roberts has both delighted and annoyed fans of the show with his outrageous behaviour, however, some viewers have taken to social media to homophobically abuse the presenter, despite the fact that he’s not gay.
The flamboyant star, who normally presents the BBC’s Home Under The Hammer, has been the victim of anti-gay abuse and slurs and has even had one death threat with his perceived sexuality being a feature in the Tweets written.
One user started a poll, which asked, “Who’s the biggest faggot in the @ImACelebrity jungle” and listed only Martin’s name
Martin Roberts is actually married to Kirsty Roberts. They got married in 2010 and together they have two children. They now live in Bath, Somerset with their two children. Before he went into the jungle he said that he was determined to make his two children proud of him.
However, it does seem as though Martin does have a man crush.
Before entering the jungle, Martin said that he’d most like to share his jungle experience with Eddie Izzard who he said would be a “riot” to hang around with and be the perfect campmate.
Statistics provided by NoHomophobes.com show that online homophobia spiked the day after the US election on the 8th and 9th of November.
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Trans’ hotline report that their call volume tripled during the period.
Alleged abusers cite Donald Trump’s victory during their reported attacks.
Homophobia on Twitter reaches levels not seen since January 2014.
Bucking the downward trend of homophobia on Twitter, the Twitter homophobia monitor NoHomophobes.com recorded a staggering increase of homophobic tweets on the 8th and the 9th of November.
The monitoring service checks every tweet sent on the social network for one of four terms “faggot”, “no homo”, “so gay” and “dyke”. The website was created by the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services, at the University of Alberta,to “show the prevalence of casual homophobia in our society.”
Since January 2014 the use of those terms has actually decreased to around 45,000 uses of the word “faggot” per week, however, on the 10th November, the term “faggot” was Tweeted over 32,000 times in just one day.
Doctor Kris Wells, pulled the data for the use of the word “Faggot” for us and it’s pretty grim reading,
• March 5 – 6,509 (times the word was used)
• April 3 – 11,406
• July 24 – 6,963
• August 14 – 7,209
• Sept 11 – 7,089
• Oct. 16 – 5,598
• Oct. 21 – 3,344
• Nov. 4 – 5,869
• Nov. 7 – 6,407
• Nov. 9 – 10,225
Commenting on the finds Dr Wells commented, “So we definitely see the reality of a Trump presidency kick in on Nov 10th, two days after the election”.
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In fact, the spike of homophobic language on the two days around the US Election returned to levels found in April 2014. The Guardian noted that there was a spike in reports of hate crimes in the aftermath of the result. Many victims claimed that their alleged abusers cited Donald Trump’s victory as their reasoning for their attacks.
The national trans’ hotline, The Trans Lifeline, told the Guardian that call volume had tripled on the Tuesday into Wednesday morning.
There were numerous reports of death threats, physical assaults and anti-gay and anti-trans graffiti sprayed onto cars. One car had a note left on it which noted,
“Can’t wait until your ‘marriage’ is overturned by a real president,” read a sign left on a car in North Carolina. Gay families = burn in hell. Trump 2016.”
Another gay man was assaulted in an alley in Santa Monica who was told, “We got a new President you f***ing f****ts”.
“Here’s the thing, and I learned it from Ru, you can’t reason with stupidity. Stupidity is just stupidity. You can be as negative as you want.
“Why would I waste my great, beautiful, zen, happy energy trying to convince you? Absolutely not.”
Michelle who has been blasted on social media for her sometimes harsh constructive criticism of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race said that she pays the haters no mind and she doesn’t want to validate the hate by giving it any time.
She continued,
“There’s absolutely no need in trying to validate hate.
“Me giving my energy to that hateful energy is completely giving away my power. I need my power for good, not evil.”
A gun attack has left one dead and three wounded in a gay club in Albany New York
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Police responded to an emergency call out when shots were fired at a gay bar in Albany, New York at 2:00AM Thursday morning. Police report that four people were shot inside the Rocks On Central Avenue night-club.
The venue’s management describes it as “proudly gay owned and operated”.
Among the injured were two men and two women. Of the men, one died from his injuries according to reports.
Three others had injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
WTEN reports that at least one person was taken into custody.
Police believe that the venue was not targetted because of the patron’s sexuality but that the shootings happened for no specific reason.
“The one thing we want to let members of our community members know, especially the members of our LGBT community know that this is not a random act, this bar was not targeted for any specific reason.”
No motive has been made clear at this time and the suspect’s details have not been released.
So Aaron has joined the legion of celebrity fans, including, apparently Rupert Everett, that have had the infamous Vampire Facial. The treatment, first made world famous by Kim Kardashian, involves your own blood and a lot of injections. Aaron smiled through his procedure and Snapchatted the entire thing.
The Vampire Facial is a way to “Rejuvenate your skin, using your own platelets” according to The Garrett Clinic where Aaron had his treatment.
The procedure which costs £550, uses your body’s own ability to heal itself using platelets in your own blood.
Aaron told us, despite looking like a drastic treatment as there are quite a few injections involved, that it wasn’t painful and “was okay”.
Apparently to get the full benefit of a vampire facial you will need 3 sessions at 4-6 intervals. Would you be tempted to try out the vampire facial?
She’s come a long way from her shaky start in the first few weeks of this year’s series of the X Factor to become one of the show’s most popular stars and now she has announced her plans to marry her girlfriend, Meri Sopanen, of two years.
Twenty-nine-year-old Saara, revealed her engagement through an interview with OK Magazine and apparently her girlfriend waited for a quiet moment when they were together at home.
It was super low-key.
Last August, on their two-year anniversary, her girlfriend popped the question, whilst the singer was in her PJs after a long and happy day.
Saara joked,
“She just said: ‘Oh, we had a lovely day…’ Then: ‘Will you marry me?’”
Meri was quick to point out,
‘We did have candles! I wanted to do it when she wasn’t wearing make-up – I love her soul.’
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, who are currently investigating the Metropolitan Police for their response to the deaths of four men in London are looking for witnesses who may have had contact with Stephen Port to come forward.
The bodies of all four men were found in the Barking area, between June 2014 and September 2015.
The Metropolitan Police Service referred itself to the IPCC in October 2015 after it identified concerns regarding the initial investigations into the men’s deaths.
Stephen Port was a member of a number of services and had a variety of handles on services, these were: shyfitguy on Flirt, Daddy4son2012 on Daddyhunt, topdomhunk on Hornet, knockknock2014 on PlanetRomeo, untilwemeet on Manhunt and StephenPort on Couchsurfing.
On gaydar his profile name was, skygay502 and on Grindr he was known as Top Fun Joe.
Peter Tatchell, gay rights activist, said,
“Appallingly, even after the third murder the police were still maintaining that the deaths were ‘unusual’ but ‘not suspicious.’ They did not issue a public alert to the gay community that a serial killer could be on the loose. This failing ignored Met Police best practice advice which was agreed two decades ago, after previous murders of gay men.
“The police appeal for public information came in October 2015 – a year too late. Four young men were already dead. This appeal should have been made in August 2014 after the first two killings. If the police had done this, further deaths may have been prevented. Two of these men might still be alive.
IPCC Commissioner Cindy Butts said,
“Today our thoughts are with everybody affected by the tragic deaths of Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack at the hands of Stephen Port.
“It is important we establish whether the police response to the deaths of all four men was thorough and appropriate in the circumstances, including whether discrimination played any part in actions and decisions. As his trial established, Port was known to the police in connection to the death Mr Walgate. We now know that tragically, three more young men went on to lose their lives.
“I have met with LGBT community members in Barking and Dagenham to explain the IPCC’s role, and would like to provide the assurance that our investigators are continuing to work hard to scrutinise the police response to the tragic deaths of these four young men.
“We would like to hear from anybody who provided information to the police about Port, or any of his victims, between 19 June 2014 and 15 October 2015.”
Anyone with information should contact the IPCC on 0800 151 0021 or email barking&dagenham@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk.
