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.
The Olympian Tom Daley took to his Instagram to show off his Team GB kit for this summer’s Olympics in Rio and it doesn’t leave too much to the imagination.
The kit consists of a pair of flip-flops, a red towel, a kit bag and the tiniest swimming costume known to man – not that we’re complaining of course.
Just to remind us of what he looked like in 2012 here’s some piccys for you
Well now you know… it might not be exactly what you were expecting (or wanting – you dirty minxes) but Olympic diver Tom Daley has posted a cute picture of him sharing a bed with his fiance the Oscar-winning Dustin Lance Black.
He captioned the picture, ”
“Someone has jet lag ☺ ❤????❤”
The adorable picture also shows Dustin holding Tom’s arm as he rests up.
So so cute.
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During an interview on Graham Norton’s show, diver Tom Daley revealed why his trucks are so darn small.
“They have to be small because everything has to stay in place,”
The diver who will be heading to Rio for this summer’s Olympics continued to explain that unless his trunks are tight – parts of his anatomy “flap” around and hurt.
Tighter trunks eliminate the flapping.
“If you’re spinning around the last thing, you want to do is have something come out of place!
“And when you hit the water you don’t want things flapping about because it would hurt.”
So there you go.. It’s all about keeping Little Tom where he’s suppose to be.
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They range from a news anchor to YouTube stars, singers to actors. The average age of these stars is 46 years old, YouTuber Troye Sivan being the youngest at 20 and George Takei being the oldest at 78. Some have made their celebrity status through reality TV, like Adam Lambert (American Idol) and some have played the long fame game, like singer Ricky Martin and actor Neil Patrick Harris.
To make it on to this list celebrities needed to have at least one million followers. Trans stars are vastly under represented in the media and therefore may contribute to the fact that only one trans person had enough followers to qualify.
Zachary Quinto came to fame during the Heroes TV show created by Tim Kring. He’s since gone on to star as Spock in the latest series of Star Trek films.
Rylan made his name during X Factor UK – and quickly became a reality TV favourite after he was snapped up by Celebrity Big Brother producers who put him to the house. Despite only becoming recently famous at that point he won that series of CBB. He now presents Big Brother’s Bit On The Side.
Ellen Page is a Canadian actor who came out in February 2014 during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s Time To Thrive conference. She stars in the X Men series of films.
Gok Wan is a well known presenter in the UK his Channel 4 show, How To Look Good Naked made him an instant success.
Colton Haynes made headlines in 2016 when he came out by acknowledging that he wasn’t secretly gay.
The loved up pair published this cute picture on social media today with the simple caption “Love”.
Tom Daley, 21 and Dustin Lance Black, 41 have been together since 2013, a while before Tom came out via YouTube in December 2013.
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In his Coming Out video Tom said,
My whole world just changed right there and then. Of course, I still fancy girls, but right now I’m dating a guy and I couldn’t be happier. It feels safe and it just feels right.
In 2015 the pair announced that they were planning to get married, when the loved up pair, took out an ad in The Times to formally advertise their engagement.
Celeb couple Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black have been photographed in an embrace wearing a “save the George Tavern” t-shirt.
The iconic landmark music venue has come under threat after developers bought the surrounding buildings and has lodged plans to convert them into luxury homes. The proximity of the flats to the music venue will mean that the George Tavern will not be able to host music events, described as it’s “bread and butter”
The pub’s website describes their plight as,
“The Grade II listed pub and venue on Commercial Road, Stepney, London is under threat from developers who have purchased the adjoining site. They have submitted a number of different plans to build luxury apartments next to the pub. If the flats are built, the venue will most probably be forced to stop live music events – its bread and butter.”
Nearly 3,000 fans of the venue have signed a petition which was sent to the Planning Inspector.
The petition was signed by a host of celebrities including Sir Ian McKellen, Plan B, Jo Whiley, Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs.
Despite there being thousands if not hundreds of thousands of men and women in professional sports, very few have come out as lesbian, gay, bi or transgender.
We take a look at the brave few who have come out as LGBT over the last couple of years.
Probably one of the most famous coming out stories of recently years. Daley decided to come out as bisexual through a video on YouTube. He later came out as gay on national TV on a Keith Lemon show.
Olympian medalist Gus came out in 2015 in an interview with EPSN.
A high profile footballer, Liam Davis came out as gay in a newspaper interview in 2014. He said,
‘I personally hope that over the next 10 years I’m not the only gay footballer out there. Nobody wants to be forced out, but I hope they can look and see there is someone out there who has done it.
Swimming champion Ian Thorpe came out as gay in 2014. The gold medal Olympian said, “I’m not straight. And this is only something that very recently – in the past two weeks – I’ve been comfortable telling the closest people around me exactly that.”
A then 19-year-old, Canadian Luger John Fennell came out during an interview in which he called hiding his sexuality a ‘suffocating’
A Brazillian diver came out shortly after Tom Daley revealed his sexuality. He came out despite being told to stay in the closet until after the 2016 Rio Olympics.
German born Thomas came out as gay in January 2014. He was a football player for Aston Villa and West Ham.
Caitlyn Jenner made headlines this year after revealing that she is a woman. She was an Olympian champion known as Bruce Jenner. She is the highest profile professional athlete to ever come out as transgender.
Sam became the first professional English pro rugby player to come out in 2015.
27-year-old Keegan Hirst came out in an interview with the Sunday Mirror.
David a baseball player in the United States became the first pro baseball player to come out as gay. He did so on the same day that Keegan Hirst came out.
Shortly after the video was picked up by various news outlets, the YouTube personality was inundated with views, and comments on the video, many of them extremely nasty.
This week, Carl has responded to the hate messages with his latest video. Towards the end of the video Carl addresses the issue of online bullying, and promotes the services of online anti-bullying site DitchTheLabel.org.
Tom Daley was recently revealed as being one of the UK’s top gay icons, as voted for by readers of THEGAYUK. He came runner up to Stephen Fry.
There’s lots of noise and hubbub (yep we said hubbub) about who is actually going into the Summer Celebrity Big Brother house and we’re excited.
Here’s who’s rumoured…
Tom Daley
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Dan would bring his abs and bum to the table.
Carol Vorderman
Janice Dickinson
JD will up the campness to anything she stars in.
David Gest
Ditto for David…
Kathy Griffin
When gay planets collide you get Kathy.
Jenna Jameson
Basically, we have no idea…
Hulk Hogan
Just for the memories