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Strictly star hits back at trolls with the perfect response after being targeted by homophobic abuse
The star has teamed up with Rio Ferdinand for a brand new documentary that explores homophobia in football
A STRICTLY star has hit back at trolls who have targeted him with homophobic abuse.
Rylan Clark has revealed cruel keyboard warriors target him daily with vile slurs.
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The beloved TV star, 35, spoke exclusively to The Sun's TV Mag about the trolling he's faced.
He explained: "Mainly on social media, not as much in real life, but I went through a period where it was in real life.
"Now I think people probably see me a lot more and understand me a bit more with the jobs I do.
"Social media, I mean, look, if I was to sit there and retweet every bad thing everyone has ever written about me, we’d need to build a whole new platform when it comes down to my sexuality, but the way that I look at it, maybe I’ve been doing it too long where it’s quite numb now."
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Rylan has teamed up with Rio Ferdinand for a brand new documentary that explores homophobia in football.
Airing on sports channel TNT, the former Big Brother host will also hear from Thomas Hitzlsperger and Jen Beattie.
"I’m the one that they’re talking about and I’m the one seeing it, you’re sat at home writing about it and at the end of the day, I just check my bank account and go: ‘F*** you, I’m rich'," he continued.
"Literally, that’s how I look at it. I know I’m a good person. If I do something wrong or I’m an a*****e, then throw it at
me, I deserve it, but when I’m not I’m like: ‘It don’t bother me, I know I’ve done fuck all wrong'."
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Rylan's TV career so far
Rylan Clark has been a familiar face on telly for over a decade, here we chart how he shot to fame and became a household name
- Auditioned for the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012, making it through to the live shows
- January 2013: Appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, topping the public vote in the final and beating Heidi and Spencer Pratt
- Summer 2013: Landed a permanent presenting role on Big Brother's Bit on the Side
- 2014: Became a regular presenter of ITV's This Morning
- 2015: Co-hosted a special episode of Most Haunted Live alongside Jamie East
- 2016: Channel 5 commissioned his very own chat show titled Up Late With Rylan
- 2017: Rylan presented brand new game show Babushka for ITV daytime
- 2018: Became commentator for the BBC's coverage of the Eurovsion semi finals alongside Scott Mills
- 2019: The star presented ITV's revival of iconic game show Supermarket Sweep, taking over from Dale Winton
- 2019: Following Big Brother's axe Rylan landed a new role on Strictly Come Dancing spin-off It Takes Two
- 2020: Hosted two series of Ready Steady Cook on BBC One
Rylan also opened up on his shock departure from Strictly Come Dancing after four years.
He announced the news last year, leaving fans of the BBC One show stunned.
Ry said: "In my heart, when you have such a life-changing reset, if you like, I knew that I needed different things now.
"I don’t regret it because I love it, it’s so nice to walk away from a success of a show on great terms with people and know that that door is open for you to pop in and see everyone, do you know
what I mean?
"It’s actually really, really nice, but yeah, I just knew that I had to go and try new things."
- The Sun's TV Mag is available for free inside Saturday's newspaper
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