Irish comedian Eleanor Tiernan has come out as a lesbian in an interview on the Insane in the Fem Brain podcast. During the interview, she praised TV presenter Philip Schofield, who came out as gay earlier in the year, for helping her realise she could come out at a later stage in life. “There was two factors about him that really chipped away at my head which is one, that he was older than me,” she explained. “And I had been telling myself up to that point, ‘You can’t come out over 40, that’s daft.’ “I had to say, ‘OK, anybody can be gay Eleanor, and you can be gay.’ That was a big factor in it.” Eleanor explained that she has since started coming out to friends and family, saying: “I came out in February, I think.