Saturday 16 August 2014

Tom Daley: My First Time


“The trick first time if you’re scared is to get down on your hands and knees and inch towards the end. You have to look out over it.”

Our Tom is actually talking about going up on a 10 meter diving board for the first time.

He is being interviewed by Paul Flynn for My Perfect Weekend in The Times.

Though Paul, a notorious homosexual, doesn't get much chance to talk to Tom about gay stuff.

In a pleasingly democratic sign of the times, when he posted his coming-out video on YouTube last year, it did nothing to dent his cross-gender, cross-generational appeal...

After making such a swift, efficient and sweet statement about his sexuality, he’s not rushing to discuss it further. In fact he gives me a firm “don’t go there” lift of the eyebrow when I ask about messages he’s sent out across social media platforms, including holding a “Freedom to . . .” protest sign (the pop protest of the Instagram age), complaining about the amount of Commonwealth countries where homosexuality is still illegal...

Oh. 

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