“It’s been the most beautiful thing, where people are like ‘this is an official welcome’. It’s been so wonderful – and it’s exciting because now the dating pool has expanded!…It’s the most liberating thing.
It’s like life has just opened up because I had the courage to say: ‘This is me.’”Maria Thattil is effusive when she talks about the response from the LGBTQI community to her very public coming out as bisexual.
It was in the trailing moments of her tenure on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, while she was sharing a heartfelt chat with her best bud, David.
Maria Thattil and her brother Dom. Image: Daniel SpellmanThe producers gave her the option of removing the clip but she chose to keep it in.
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