Rylan Clark tackles homophobia & soccer in his most personal project yet
A post shared by RYLAN (@rylan)Rylan Clark is one of the most famous TV personalities in Great Britain, thanks to his ubiquity and successful reality show past.
Now in the prime of his career, Clark doesn’t have to participate in projects that he doesn’t want to. But there was something about a documentary exploring the insidious relationship between homophobia and sports culture that spoke to the former X Factor contestant and Celebrity Big Brother winner.“When the opportunity for the doc came along, my first thought was, ‘No, this isn’t for me.
I don’t want to get involved in things I shouldn’t be getting involved in’,” he told The Athletic. ““Then I thought to myself, ‘f*ck that, I’m a West Ham fan, this would be a good thing for me to do’.
I was a bit reluctant because I didn’t want it to seem like I was lecturing.”Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.A lifelong soccer fan, Clark says he’s been the victim of multiple homophobic attacks himself.
