I was 'found out' as gay, as happens in Heated Rivalry

Instead, I was discovered in the worst possible way by the worst possible person - which was entirely my stupid fault.

- GARY NUNN

All I’d say in defence is that I was a teenager, unhealthily besotted with my secret boyfriend and, like many my age (I’m 43), deeply damaged by being in the closet, shame, Section 28 of the Local Government Act and growing up in Thatcher’s hostile Britain. As the pun goes, I couldn’t even think straight. So I took a very silly risk.

I was living in a single-parent household with my bodybuilding, burly bouncer dad. He broke people's arms in the CCTV-free stairwell of the rough nightclub he worked at if they “gave him gyp”. College peers were scared of him. Everyone was - except me. Dad was wrapped around my little princess finger. He’d read me every Roald Dahl story growing up, and later became my unofficial chauffeur and chef. I’d been the ideal teenage son: straight-A student; obedient; virginal. I was his golden boy.