Adam Rickitt is a British actor, singer, and model. He was born on May 29, 1978, in Crewe, Cheshire, England. Rickitt gained popularity in the late 1990s as a pop singer before transitioning into acting.
Adam Rickitt first rose to fame as a member of the British boy band 5ive, but he left the group before they achieved significant success. In 1999, he launched a solo music career and released his debut single “I Breathe Again,” which reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. Rickitt’s subsequent singles also achieved moderate success, including “Everything My Heart Desires” and “The Best Thing.”
After a few years in the music industry, Adam Rickitt shifted his focus to acting. He appeared in various television shows and soap operas, most notably portraying the character of Nick Tilsley in the long-running British soap opera “Coronation Street” from 1997 to 1999. He returned to the role in 2002 for a short period and again in 2019, bringing his total tenure on the show to over a decade.
In addition to his work on “Coronation Street,” Rickitt has appeared in other television series such as “Hollyoaks” and “Shortland Street.” He has also participated in reality TV shows, including “Celebrity Big Brother” in 2016.
Outside of his entertainment career, Adam Rickitt has been involved in various philanthropic and political endeavors. He has advocated for mental health awareness and served as a Conservative Party politician, running for a seat in the UK Parliament in 2017.
Is Adam Rickitt gay?
No, Adam Rickitt is not gay. He has publicly spoken about his sexuality and identified as heterosexual. While he has been an ally and supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, Adam Rickitt himself has not identified as gay.
It’s become quite the annual wait, but it’s always worth it.
Hunky Adam Rickitt has stunned fans with his annual naked / butt photo. We first reported on this in 2017 but 2019’s choice from the TV star and former singer has left many of his 52,000 fans on Instagram amazed.
Fans were quick to note that the actor had seemed to recreate the famous nude scene by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator films. One wrote, “Looks like youâre recreation [sic] that scene from The Terminator”
While another pleaded with the former singer to recreate the video from the song that made him a pin up idol in the early ’00s, saying, “Think You Should Re Create Your I Breathe Again Video! Seriously!”
A gay man who has been battling cancer got the shock of his life at pride when friends and family took over the video screens to send their love and support
Soap star, Adam Rickitt just posted a completely naked picture of his best ass…et
The Hollyoaks’ actor just tweeted a naked picture of his ass and it’s 10/10. The actor told his fans that it was his annual bottom shot day and we think he’s on to something there. Although we’d be up for a daily bottom shot, but that’s another subject.
Speaking about working with Duncan, Adam said in a recent interview,
“Itâs been funny – Iâve known Duncan for years. When I first got the part and they mentioned that Kyle would be gay, I was like, âOh, thatâs fine as long as itâs not with Duncan…â because he was such a good mate. They were like, âErm⊠well it is with Duncanâ. [laughs] In some respect, you think itâs going to be really awkward because Iâd known him for so long, but then at the same time it was really good because heâs such a nice guy and we are good mates! So, my first ever boy-on-boy kiss was with Duncan from Blue! Thatâs definitely a benchmark! [laughs]”
Oh, my. The 38-year-old star looks incredible after revealing that he still has his very very famous SIX PACK.
CREDIT: Adam Rickitt / Instagram
Former soap star turned pop star Adam Rickett knows how to cure the thirst after uploading this hotel selfie revealing that he still has the six pack that made us all go weak at the knees during the 90s.
Speaking to THEGAYUK (issue 3) about how he manages to keep his body in a shipshape condition the 38-year-old star revealed, that he does all his training at home. He also told us that he has to keep his trademark six pack because of an issue with his back. He’s suffered from a chronic back condition since he was 17 and relies on a strong core to keep him mobile.
He said,
“I do it all at home. I have a really bad back so from the age of 17 I had to exercise every day otherwise my back gets really knackered.
I always felt a bit of phoney, because everyone was like “oh my god look at his body” and I was like, well if I donât Iâm f**ked. I still do all the sit-ups and Iâve still got my six-pack.”
âPutin Youâre A PrickâŠâ Is the last tweet that Adam had posted before I picked up the phone to the “I Breathe Again” singer and former Coronation Street actor. Something tells me that heâs back and ready for a fight…
CREDIT: ITV / The Big Reunion
So… That tweet! Tell us your thoughts…
Iâm quite into current affairs and politics, and I think the whole thing is a complete joke. Heâs like some big Panto baddie, some horrible nasty from a Disney film. Heâs there trying to show his own strength to his own people and thereâs no justification for it whatsoever. The guyâs a twat. For someone to come out so blatantly homophobic, but at the same time posing for the gayest photo shoot, riding on a horse, is absurd. I think itâs bad form, I really do.
Is sexuality a big deal?
I genuinely find it incomprehensible that in this day and age someoneâs sexuality is still a definition about the person they are. You donât say, âso and so is a nice person but they are blackâŠâ Itâs always amazed me, because I was raised by my Mum to be like âif somebodyâs black and a lovely person â theyâre just lovely – if somebody is black and theyâre an arse â theyâre an arsehole!â
If somebodyâs gay and theyâre a lovely person⊠it was never about the colour, the creed, the sexuality or anything like thatâŠ
So it amazed me when I was doing pop first time round, everyone was asking âis he gay, is he gay? Well Iâm not, but Iâm not going to make a big deal about it. It should be an issue.
Did you get a lot of sexuality questioning?
When I first started I didnât. I was seen as a bit of a Lothario because they kept getting pictures of me with girls all the time. I kind of found all that attention a bit freaky. So I became a bit of a hermit. Because the press didnât have anything to print about me, because I never went out, they just started making stuff up â letâs be honest, I did look like a prepubescent girl and I am slightly camp. So it wasnât the hardest thing in the world for them to start making that up. It never bothered me. I was so lucky for the support I got from the gay community in my career, the last thing I was going to do was do a bit of a Jason Donavan and insult them by making out it was a big issue.
So are you still Torying around?
Iâm not a career politician. Theyâre lots of them out there who went to university and studied politics and then did an internship with an MP and then became an MP themselves, Iâve got no desire to be a front bencher, my thing in life is that Iâve had such an amazing family and so many opportunities and Iâve always felt that if you get dealt a good hand in life, you owe it to pay it forward. I donât have the skills to be a doctor, I donât have the temperament to be a policeman, and so one way I thought I might be able to help would be to get involved in politics â arguing for a local community. It would have to be the right kind of community. Iâm a bit of a country bumpkin, so thereâd be no point in me standing for Toxteth or something. Itâs meant to be a partnership â you being their voice in Westminster.
So we wonât be seeing Adam Rickitt for PM?
Probably not, no. Politics nowadays is not so much about having a view; itâs trying to offend the least amount of people. Nobody says anything anymore, they just all try and appeal to the masses. My point of view is that politics should be â âYou stand up there, and say this is how I think it should be and this is how I think you should solve it. If you donât agree with me vote for the other guy.â I kind of always get in trouble because I always mouth off and say what I think, which doesnât always go down very well, because youâre not meant to do that anymore in politics. I think thatâs a shame. People get frustrated with politics and lose interest â because nobody ever says anything.
Do you think that UKIP is a viable threat to UK politics?
Hereâs my theory about them: Everybody thinks theyâre a bit of a joke – and they are a bit of a joke. But at least they stand for something. Thatâs what attracts people more than anything else. Itâs basically because of the Europe situation. They are standing there and they are saying, âweâve got a view on this matter â agree with us or donât agree with usâ and thatâs whatâs drawing people to them. At least theyâre standing for something. The problem with them is that they are literally just a one-issue party, and when you go beneath that one issue thereâs a slightly uncomfortable veneer to the rest of it. Theyâre such a new party and if you scratch the surface of a lot of them, Iâm not sure they are the best option.
What did you make of David Silvesterâs gay flood controversy?
Thatâs exactly my problem. Itâs such a new party that youâve got people like that who have snuck in. The saving grace about Labour or the Conservatives is that anyone who is quite such a prat would get found out well before that.
So youâre quite a political animalâŠ
I donât know about animal⊠It does interest me. When I first got involved, back in the day, I was doing some ghost writing for The Spectator when Boris Johnson was editor and it was a piece about âWhy are the youth today so apathetic about politics?â It was after the election where the statistics showed that more young people voted in Big Brother than they did in the election and you just kind of think â thatâs just really f**ked up. But it is up to the younger generation to step up to the plate, if you want to have a voice.
So how does that fit in with The Big Reunion â cause theyâre kind of worlds apart â or are they?
Laughter â Iâve always been a bit of a freak in that way. The Big reunion for me is about having fun. Itâs pure and simple about having fun. I didnât enjoy it when I was a younger kid and I always regretted it that I didnât enjoy it â and thereâs no one to blame but myself â I was always insecure, and I wasnât in the right place in my mind and I kinda went through it by numbers and got road rushed into it all. Itâs not rocket science letâs be honest â itâs just really good fun. The advantage this time round is being in a band. When youâre a solo artist it is pretty lonely. Back in the day it was me going from Travelodge to Travelodge and it was just really boring.
Are you still really self-conscience?
Not really â only as much as the next person. My major paranoia first time around was that people thought I was an arrogant prick. I was so fearful that people would think that I was an arrogant prick, just because I was on TV or because I was doing a pop song, I went so far the other way. I became this really servant like, this pathetic thing. The record company would be asking âwhat do you think about this?â I would say, âwhatever you want, whatever you want Iâll do!â You donât enjoy it when you do that, because thereâs so little of yourself in it. All you end up doing is living a caricature of something you think somebody else wants.
Do you regret any of pop stuff?
I donât regret it, because if it hadnât happened I wouldnât be where I am now. I wouldnât be in the frame of mind I am now, I wouldnât be where I am in my life now, so I donât regret it. I was lucky enough that from the age of 18 to 32 the longest I had off between jobs was 2 weeks. I literally worked for 14 years. I had amazing opportunities, Iâm not saying I enjoyed them all, but they were amazing life experiences.
Has it been depressing or hopeful revisiting the pop world?
It depends on your mentality. If youâre going in there to become the next Beatles I think youâre setting yourself up for a life of terrible disappointment. We havenât done that as a group. Weâve basically said lets just enjoy it. Weâre grown men getting to do something really silly and luckily we get on so well weâre having fun. Do we think weâll be winning Ivor Novellos- probably not! The music industry has changed. First time round I found it so monotonous, Smash Hits interview after Smash Hits interview where they were asking you – âWhatâs your favourite cheeseâŠâ It doesnât really stimulate the brain cells. But this time around we can go off and do other things.
When did you all meet?
Well they approached us all individually, and we all kind of said yes, but on the proviso that we all get on together. For example I didnât sign my contract until I met all the boys for myself. The nice thing was, if we had all met 15 years ago there would have been egos in the room, there would have been a pissing contest between all of us â whereas because weâve all been through the mix a few times and weâve experienced the highs and lows of it you realise whatâs important, and whatâs important is to enjoy it.
Do you think that makes you better pop stars?
I think it does because it makes you more confident. Your relationship to the audience is so much stronger. When youâre doing it first time round youâre so paranoid about where youâre going to come in the charts or whether people are going to buy your single that youâre almost begging them to. But now you donât make money on album sales you make it in performing, so you might as well go out there and have a good time with your audience. If you enjoy it â they see it.
Your first album deserved to do better than it did. Why do you think it didnât?
It was weird. Abroad it did really well. South East Asia went mental for it. Here It didnât do so great, it did shit â letâs be fair. I think first of all I wasnât very happy doing it and I think you can see that. You start looking like a Panto character. I also got famous for being an actor and I think a lot of people think of you as just an actor or a pop star â and because I had that slight crossover it was weird. The record company spent millions of pounds doing research in the market place â I always came up as really popular but that didnât always translate into sales. I was seen more as an entertainer than a pop star. Iâd get bookings for ridiculous amounts of money, but then it didnât translate into album sales.
It was a five-album deal I signed, but I knew after the first one, or even before the first single came out that I wasnât enjoying it. I sat down with the record label and said, I know itâs a five album deal, but I canât do five it will kill me. They were like âweâve spent all this money on you can you do the first album and let us cover our costs and make a little bit of money and weâll let you go.â
So, the Corrie gay kissâŠ
You know what â that was the thing that really disillusioned me. One of the characters was gay and the other wasnât. The one that wasnât was asleep â it wasnât a tongue marathon it was a tiny peck on the lips. The fact that made the front page of The Sun or the fact it was promoted as such a shock horror thing, I was like Really? In this day and age, really? Is it such a big issue? I found it so disappointing.
