Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati comes out as non-binary and shares new love interest

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Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati has opened up about their non-binary identity.The star, who was a familiar face as Sunita Alahan in the soap for over a decade, divulged that they've always felt this way but only found the language to express it more recently.They also shared details of being in love, with an openness to dating anyone regardless of gender. "I've become more happy describing myself as a person.

What do people call it now? Non binary. So, I suppose that's who I am," Shobna confessed. "I've never had a word for it, but I've learnt from our younger generation what that might look like in terms of a word, because I know what it feels like in terms of being me." Non-binary individuals don't settle on a solely male or female identity; they might experience a dynamic sense of gender, see themselves as a mix of both, or fit into neither category.

On their Instagram, Shobna has stated 'she/they' as their preferred pronouns. In a candid chat with Kaye Adams on the How to be 60 podcast, which airs on Friday 21 March, 58 year old Shobna shared: "All the way through my life I've never had the words for that and I've never managed to explain that and I suppose my immediate family have not really thought about it," reports the Mirror. "They've just thought: 'Shobna is either extremely feminine or extremely masculine.' Because I was just accepted as a person who fell out of the tree and equally the person who put on all this makeup and did a dance." Shobna opened up about a transformative conversation with a sound engineer while working on the same show, which sparked a personal revelation.