Tracy Beaker author Jacqueline Wilson comes out as gay after living with partner for 18 years

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Author Jacqueline Wilson has publicly come out as gay and revealed she's been living with her partner Trish for 18 years. The Tracy Beaker writer, 74, has opened up about her personal life for the first time as she explained she's been living "very happily" with her girlfriend.

She revealed: "I've never really been in any kind of closet. "It would be such old news for anybody that has ever known anything much about me.

Even the vaguest acquaintance knows perfectly well that we are a couple." Jacqueline had been married to police officer William Millar Wilson for 39 years up until their divorce in 2004.

Explaining that only her mum was initially "appalled" at her relationship with Trish, she pointed out: "That wasn’t too devastating for me