Hughie Maughan has won over TV fans everywhere after an emotionally charged appearance on Living With Lucy where he openly discussed coming out to his parents who initially struggled to accept his sexuality.
During the episode the Big Brother star’s dad, Hughie senior gave a startlingly honest account of his reacton to his son coming out as gay saying: ‘I couldn’t accept it in any way I was one of those people who was like, “you’re straight and nothing else.” ‘I was a horrible person.
We went through a really hard time. I was shocked because I did not know until Hughie went on Big Brother. ‘I was really hurt inside.