Strictly’s Layton Williams opens up about moment he embraced being gay

Strictly's Layton Williams opened up about the moment he embraced being gay.Source: The One Show, BBC

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00:00 I think when I first moved to London,

00:02 I had a couple of teachers who were just like

00:04 very openly out there and happily gay and fabulous.

00:09 And it was the first time I'd ever seen that

00:10 as a young boy.

00:12 So I was a bit like, oh my God, you seem happy.

00:15 And also fabulous.

00:16 I might try that.

00:17 And just like kind of got me to come out my shell

00:19 a little bit more and you know,

00:21 jump out the closet quite frankly.

00:22 So it was lovely.

00:23 You don't realise how them tiny little bits

00:26 of representation can be quite beautiful.

00:27 So shout out to Matt and Damien.