To Be a Gay Man, published last autumn. His album’s PR blurb portrays him as an artist of vast breadth, calling him “an activist, author, singer, songwriter, radio presenter, DJ and performer”.
He was the co-host of three seasons of the popular Homo Sapiens podcast, and has been nominated for 10 Brit Awards (winning two) and an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in Cabaret (losing to pesky Michael Ball).
He’s a little more restrained when I ask him what he tells people he does, in the unlikely event they haven’t been aware of his varied career since he became the first person to dare to talk back to Simon Cowell in a TV talent show (“I don’t think you could ever call that average,” he countered), winning the first series.
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