Riyadh Khalaf has been captivating Celebrity Masterchef fans with his dazzling culinary skills and quick wit. But before finding fame as a ground-breaking BBC documentary maker, the Irish-Iraqi Vlogger and his family fought through dark times.
His Irish-Catholic mum Lorraine discovered Riyadh was gay when she found same-sex porn on the family computer but kept his secret for nine months before insisting he tell his father, Sam, over dinner.
Too scared to say the words, Riyadh instead passed a note to his 'outrageously heterosexual' dad which read simply, "I'm gay".
And while Muslim Iraqi Sam did his best to put on a calm, supportive front, he admitted to the Guardian his "head was absolutely wrecked" by the news.