Gay British TV entertainer Rylan Clark-Neal has talked about being ‘hated’ when he took part in the X Factor. Clark-Neal is now the popular host of Supermarket Sweep and Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two and takes part in a host of other shows.
But he first came to fame when he finished ninth in the X Factor in 2012. And now he’s told BBC Radio 4 how fearful he was that his mom would read the negative coverage about him.
He even said he was given ‘worse press’ than the late British entertainer Jimmy Savile, who had been exposed as a pedophile.
He said: ‘I was hated. There was two people on the front pages of the papers at the time that I was on X Factor. ‘It was me and Jimmy Savile and six out of seven days I’d get worse press than him