Rylan Clark's heartwarming reason for never turning down a picture with a fan
Rylan Clark has shared the sweet reason he will never just pass by a fan.
The TV and radio star, 35, shot to fame when he appeared on The X Factor back in 2012. Despite finishing fifth, he has made a hugely successful showbiz career which was helped his Celebrity Big Brother triumph
Today, he is the face of This Morning, Supermarket Sweep, a Mamma Mia dating show and BBC Radio 2. However, Rylan has credited his success to his beloved mum Linda as well as the public. Speaking to YThe 93% Club, the star shared how he won't forget how he was given his start at fame.
“If I’m walking about and someone asks for a photo I will always stop because my whole life was a public vote at one point," he told us. "If it weren’t for the public, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing in the first place.” Rylan shared: “I never intended what happened for me, to happen. I’ll tell you the Gods honest truth, the reason I went on X Factor was my car just broke down, right? Patsy the Peugeot, long may she rest.
”I thought, if I could go on that show, last one week of live shows, get a couple of gigs in some gay clubs, earn about 20 grand, I’ll be able to get a new Patsy, buy my mum a new front door, and might be able to start renting somewhere on my own as I was still living with my mum at the time. Well I’ve built three houses and now I drive a Range Rover so f**k them, I’ve done alright!”
Yet, Rylan understands what came could easily go away. “I don’t know tomorrow, but if it all flies away, I’ve got them two houses. That is the worst case scenario - living with my mum again," he said. Rylan also opened up about his childhood with his single mum Linda in a Borehamwood council house.
He said: “Growing up in a single parent family, not having… I don’t like to say we were on the breadline, because we weren’t… but not having loads, like a lot of people did, that’s instilled into me that I’m lucky to be doing the job that I’m doing. I was just thrown on to live TV, it’s all I’ve ever known, and I ended up being quite good at it."
However, the star revealed he still misses being his 18-year-old self when he was someone no-one had heard of. “Anonymity. That’s the main thing I miss from my old life," Rylan confessed. “I’m 20 foot tall with the biggest teeth in Britain. I wish, I wish I’d made the most of my old life. Going out, getting trashed and rolling home somewhere, in a wheelbarrow, you know, doing all of those things, without responsibilities.”
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