With hosting gigs on Strictly: It Takes Two, Radio 2 and Ready Steady Cook, Rylan Clark-Neal is one of the biggest names in British TV right now.
But back in his school days, poor Rylan, 32, did everything he could not to bring attention to himself. Mercilessly picked on because of his naturally ginger hair and homosexuality, the bullying took an even more sinister turn when one tormentor subjected him to a violent attack that left him in hospital. "I was the fat, ginger kid at school.
The first three years of school was hard and then I was like, 'I'm gay now, get over it.' It was taunting and very difficult," he previously explained. "When I lived in London there was this playground that I used to go to after school and I got pulled off a
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