Tom Daley rose to fame during the 2012 London Olympics for his diving excellence. He came out first as bisexual through an emotional YouTube video and then confirmed he was gay live on TV. He revealed he was in a relationship with Dustin Lance Black, the screenwriter for the award winning biopic Milk.
Famed underwear company, Andrew Christian is facing a boycott from angry consumers after it blasted its mailing list with the nude leaks alleged to be of diver Tom Daley.
Customers vented their anger at the clothing company, accusing them of using the leaked pictures as a marketing tool, some even suggested that the Olympic medalist should even take legal action against the company that was founded by Andrew Christian, himself.
The email was met with disgust from some on social media.
You shouldn’t get slandered by sane people , publishing or sending around nudes of other people without their consent is just disgusting, no matter the gender of the people involved or their hotness factor .
Andrew Christian often uses its mailing list to direct potential customers to its blog or “feed” and often hosted stories of leaks or pictures of near-naked men. Other times the mailing list is used to notify subscribers of deals and money off offers.
The link contained in the email about Tom Daley now forwards users to a 404 page.
THEGAYUK.com reached out Andrew Christian for comment asking if the Andrew Christian brand had received a take-down notice from Tom Daley’s legal representatives and whether Andrew Christian himself feels that it is right to utilise personal, private leaked photos of someone for marketing purposes.
To celebrate National Coming Out Day 2017, we’re enjoying the best coming out videos on YouTube.
Taking to YouTube is now one of the best ways for stars to talk directly to their fans, especially about painful or personal experiences. Their stories are told in their own voice and there’s no distortion of the truth. Here are the Top 12 coming out videos on Youtube
These brave men and women made the decision to come out on their own terms and we applaud them.
Matt And Blue, Actor and Musician
434,286 views
Despite coming out through a Twitter post back in 2013, Matt Dallas and his partner Blue Hamilton decided to make a coming out video to talk about the how’s, the why’s and the everything’s… Super cute and really fun.
When an actor comes out, it’s big news, when the show that he on is one of the biggest shows on the planet, it’s MASSIVE news. Daniel Newman came out this year, in a video he titled, #OutAndProud.
Lucas Cruickshank, YouTuber
5,274,279 views
In possibly the most fun coming out video Lucas literally burst out of the closet and into the open after one fan asked the simple question “are you gay”.
Troye Sivan, X Men Actor turned singer
7,629,630 views
X Men actor Troye came out on YouTube at the age of 18 in 2013. In his emotional video he said,
“I’m terrified. I know that some people are going to have a problem with this. This could kind of change everything for me, but it shouldn’t have to. And that’s why I’m making this video, and that’s why I think it’s important for people to make these kinds of videos.”
Shane Dawson, YouTuber
9,034,704 views
In 2015 Shane Dawson came out as bisexual in a video that has now been seen over 7 million times. He said, emotionally,
“This is a really hard video to make. I’m really scared… I never thought I would be making this, ever. I woke up this morning and I just had to.
“I’m making this video because I feel like it could help a lot of people. Over the last year, I’ve been extremely sexually confused.
“I always wished that I was gay, that I was just 100 percent gay. It would be a lot easier to be accepted by people… but I’m not.
Joey Graceffa, YouTuber
7,910,702 views
Gorgeous Joey came out on YouTube as gay in 2015. He went on to release a music video which featured a pretty hot, non heteronormative story line of princes falling in love with each other.
Connor Franta, YouTuber,
11,776,973 views
Connor Franta’s coming out video made mainstream news. In a video simply named “Coming Out” the YouTuber told his 3.6 subscribers that he was gay, saying,
“I’m sitting here with no script, no plan, no fancy editing, and I’m just gonna be really honest,”
Tom Daley, Diver,
12,263,378 views
The Olympic champion diver took to YouTube at the end of 2013 to say that he was in a relationship with a man. He described the posting of the video as a “hard decision to make” but ultimately he wanted his fans to hear it directly from him.
Ingrid Nilsen, YouTuber.
16,886,975 views
Ingrid came out as gay in 2015 in a highly emotional video and is to date the second most viewed coming out YouTube video, which might be down to the fact that the vlogger has nearly 4 million subscribers.
The Rhodes Bros
25,014,703 views
Reaching out far ahead of any other YouTube coming out video is the Rhodes’ twins coming out as gay to their father on the phone. The video had huge media pick up which help ratchet the views to over 21 million.
There’s around a 20-year age difference between Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black and speaking recently to a newspaper, Tom revealed that the couple, who got married earlier this year, never thinks about the age gap and he feels like the oldest in the relationship sometimes.
Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, Tom Daley said, “I don’t really think about age and we never notice the age gap. Funnily enough, I feel older in terms of maturity.
Growing up quickly
Opening up about where his maturity stemmed from, Tom revealed that he felt he had to grow up quickly because of his profession and all the travel he had to do as a child going to and from competitions and events.
“I had to grow up quickly because I was only 10 when I first travelled to Australia without my parents to compete.
“In a way, I did miss out on some aspects of childhood because I had to learn to do things for myself and stand on my own two feet quite quickly, but, on the other hand, I was so lucky to be able to travel and have so many experiences.”
Tom and Dustin was “Love at first sight”
Tom and Dustin have been together since before Tom Daley came out in December 2013. They announced their engagement in 2015 and got married earlier this year.
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger – that’s what Tom Daley has said from his hospital bed, as fans worry about what put him there.
Olympian Tom Daley has been in the hospital but hasn’t told his fans why he was there. He’s only given the rather cryptic message, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” and promised to be back on the diving boards again.
The hospital admission comes just days before it is expected that he and his partner, Dustin Lance Black are heading down the aisle to get married. The loved-up couple has been together for four years, but haven’t made the date of their wedding public, although The Sun reports that they are planning to get wed this weekend.
In January, Tom told the Sun: “The date is set, and we’re raring and ready to go for that wedding now.”
Did this “slip out of shape” have anything to do with Tom’s hospital trip? The diver explains in his Vlog that in training he “slipped out of shape” and landed rather awkwardly in the water.
It looks as though Tom Daley could be the latest victim of an online leak after he admitted to The Sun that he had cyber sex with another man.
The Olympic hero Tom Daley has admitted that he sent compromising pictures for an online “romp” with another man according to The Sun, after a video emerged of Tom stripping off. Tom told The Sun that it, “will never happen again” after he rekindled his romance with his fiancé, Dustin Lance Black.
According to reports, Tom had chatted with a guy from Liverpool, who has not be named, during a seven-month secret split from his fiance, Dustin Lance Black. The duo are now back together and have set a date for their wedding.
Fans of the loved-up pair had no idea that the couple had even split. It’s now become apparent that they split for a period of time previous to Tom’s Olympic appearance in Rio 2016 and during the production of Dustin’s latest TV project, When We Rise. Despite the split, Tom’s social media was full of pictures of the two looking happy, leading fans to believe that they were still together.
He told The Sun,
“It was the two biggest years of our lives work-wise — it was my Olympic year and Lance was filming his mini-series for ABC called When We Rise, and distance can be hard sometimes.
Tom said that he had confessed the online romp to Dustin and insists that he never physically met anyone in real life and that it was all online.
Speaking to The Sun he said,
“I’m 22 years old, and if you talk to someone through social media it is what it is. It was nothing more than that. We never physically met.
“But in the modern world this is what can happen — things are more accessible online, and distributed, and they spread like wildfire.”
The couple is now back on track and preparing for their wedding.
The person who leaked the pictures could find themselves in criminal trouble after then culture minister Ed Vaizey said image owners of leaked social media would be able to sue anyone who released pictures without the consent of the image owner.
We spoke with lawyer, Phil Gorski at Blacks Solicitors last year who told us,
“Last year there was a new piece of legislation introduced, which actually set out the specific crime of revenge porn. There is a specific charge that can be brought and so the option is there and should probably be taken if the information has been distributed to a large number of people.
“What the legislation says is that where you’ve got photographs and the phrasing is, “… of a private or sexual nature …” That doesn’t mean you have to be showing intimate body parts or anything like that. It can be in a sort of context that’s perceived to be sexual.
“If they are disclosed and it’s done without consent and the purpose of disclosing them was to cause distress or embarrassment, which when you think about it, it would be very difficult to not be the case. Then, there’s a potential crime that’s taken place.”
Oscar award winning writer Dustin Lance Black has a request for the UK – he wants us to look after his fiancé as he returns back to the US to finish work.
Tom Daley‘s husband to be, Dustin Lance Black, 41, has made a special request to the UK – he’s asked that the UK look after his Olympic medalist boyfriend whilst he returns back to the US to finish off working on his latest TV series, When We Rise.
Dear UK, please take good care of this one while I’m away finishing#WhenWeRise. Sad to have to go so soon
His new TV series stars, Mary-Louise Parker, Guy Pierce and Rachel Griffiths and is a “chronicled re-telling the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969,” according to IMDB.
During the Olympics, DLB set the rumour mill on fire after tweeting that he was a “diving husband” leaving fans believing that he and Tom had tied the knot without telling anyone.
The article by Stephen Green argues, a “degree in psychology” isn’t needed to work out why Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black are engaged to be married.
“Tom Daley, he was seduced into sodomy by an older man, not very long after the untimely death of his beloved father. You don’t need a degree in psychology to work out what’s going on there.”
The author was hitting back after his “provocative tweets” about Tom’s performance at this year’s Olympics where he commented that Tom “becoming” gay not helping his diving, led to a surge of traffic to the Christian Voice website.
Mr Green claims that Daley could repent – and “walk away from the homosexual lifestyle” a journey which Mr Green describes as having been done many times.
“Becoming gay might or might not be a choice. Staying gay definitely is. And who knows, by transforming his mind”
Dustin Lance Black set social media on fire after tweeting something that made fans think that he and Tom Daley had gotten hitched… without telling them.
CREDIT: Dustin Lance Black / Instagram
Love birds Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley set the rumour mill on fire after DLB tweeted something that made their fans suspicious last week.
DLB inadvertently managed to make people believe that the pair, who are engaged to be married, had actually gone ahead with the big day without telling anyone.
“3M Finals with Johnny Chaillot. Watch out #FootballWives, the #DivingHusbands are in the house. #Rio2016 #Diving”
With DLB suggesting that he was a “Diving Husband”, social media went into overdrive speculating that the adorable duo had married – when the world wasn’t looking.
A spokesperson for the pair told The Mirror that it wasn’t true and that the pair weren’t married – yet.
We want first row seats when it happens. In fact scrap that – we want to be the ring bearers.
Diving duo Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow have taken home a Bronze medal at this year’s Olympic in Rio.
CREDIT: Tom Daley / Instagram
The duo took home a bronze in the 10 metre Synchronized diving. This is the second bronze Tom has won at the Olympic games. He won his first at the London 2012 Olympics in the 10 metre platform diving event.
The cold-blooded reptiles took fancy with the loved up couple whilst they were relaxing in the sun in Florida before Tom makes his way to Rio to take part in the Rio Olympics.
Dustin remarked that the pair were “making friends” with the wildlife in Florida.
