Dancing on Ice star Matt Evers has come out.
The 41-year-old professional ice skater — who’s coming back to the ITV series on Sunday after a four-year hiatus — talks openly about his homosexuality in Attitude‘s upcoming travel issue.
He’ll be paired up with Candice Brown, the Great British Bake Off winner, when he returns to the show this weekend.
Related: ’13 Reasons Why’ star Brandon Flynn comes out in heartfelt Instagram post
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Once married to a woman, Evers reveals his uncle died 20 years ago from an HIV/AIDS-related illness and had been “banished” from his religious parents shortly before his death.
“He was part of the original San Francisco and New York Fire Island crowd back in the 70s and 80s,” Evers tells Attitude.
“I didn’t know I was gay at the time, but when he was dying it hit me really hard that he didn’t know the love of his mum, my grandmother.
They were strict Catholics at the tip of the Bible belt. I wasn’t aware of why his passing and the thought of him never being accepted by his own family hurt me so much until I realized I was gay. It’s scary, the difference between generations.”
The fact that Donald Trump is President of the United States was another deciding factor.
“Donald Trump has given a voice to the bullies,” he says. “Trump himself is a bully and I’m very outspoken about that.”
“I live my life by example, and I want to show young people that what you feel or how you were born isn’t something bad.”
Knight
A gay ice-skater??? Now I’ve heard everything…
Kieran
The “bully” just appointed the first openly gay US Ambassador to Germany.
Very scary.
jpcolter
What a sad, out of touch comment.
Knight
Oh no! Yet another homophobic stunt from the most homophobic president in memory!
Mick406
Sorry Matt, but we need a ‘bully’ as President to deal with world problems and our own internal worthless parasites that are trying to destroy the country. I don’t believe Trump is anti-gay. I think he is just against anyone or anything that tries to bring the country down. Just like the stock market moves for a long time and then makes a serious if not shocking correction. We’ve had milk toast Presidents now for decades and it was time for someone to step up to the plate and make ‘corrections’ to the dark hole our country has been going in. The economy is on fire. The terrorists are running with their tails tucked between their legs or with their detached heads in hands, we are getting firm about handing out shit loads of free cash to terrorist supporting countries and to our own freeloading population who does nothing but protest, pillage, loot, and burn. Even murders in Chicago are down for this past year! With Trump, it is put up or shut up. No soft stuff. No guessing game. I like someone who is firm and does what he says he is going to do. When his 4 years are up, I think most detractors are going to have to rethink their animosity toward him.
dwes09
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Mick406
Sorry Matt, but we need a ‘bully’ as President to deal with world problems and our own internal worthless parasites that are trying to destroy the country. I don’t believe Trump is anti-gay. ”
Trump continues mindlessly destabilizing the world setting us up for “the end times”, probably not because he believes that bull, but because he is stupid and easily manipulated. The last thing we need is a “bully” you fool! Are you so dull you like that he has destroyed diplomacy and turns our allies against us one by one? The latest is Pakistan, now ripe for greater incursions by Islamists and being courted by Russia.
It is his devotees (folks like you) who are the parasites destroying the country from within. Folks who neither understand our history or care for it, folks who willfully ignore the shrinking middle class and concentration of wealth that is driving us back to the way things were in the corrupt “gilded age”.
And no, he does not like gay people (just look at the overwhelming number of people he has tapped who espouse distaste or outright hatred for lgbt people, by contrast to the ONE gay person he has appointed) He tolerates those of “his class” that he can use. His appointee is evangelical, not a great choice for secular Germany, and oddly has supported the right of federal contractors to discriminate against LGBT folks in hiring, indicating definite self hatred on his part!
galileo
He’s a cartoon, shut up.
johnnymcmxxx
Bullies are never a good thing. Especially ones who are not very smart like trump. He is dangerous and putting the world in danger of WW3. Gays have been removed from the national census. The HIV/AIDS commission was terminated and entire staff fired. He caters to the fundamentalist Christians who are no different than religious terrorists around the world and hopefully he and homophobe Pence will be out of office for money laundering amongst other crimes committed. You are obviously a part of the trump cult. It’s no different than Scientology. Your thoughts are handed to you by FOX news or Breitbart or the National Enquirer and you don’t allow yourself any critical analysis of real facts. You don’t think for yourself or question your leader and forgive him his lies. Hopefully this year he will be dragged out of the Whitehouse in either handcuffs or a straitjacket.
paul dorian lord fredine
how cute. you actually think he’s going to make it 4 years.
herbbtv
Sorry Mick406, but we do have a bigot in the White House, not allowing Trans people from serving in the military is one example. These folks have been serving with honor in our services and being honored by our country before this bigot took office. Your right to support this man as President but I have the right not to. He has been dishonest with his dealing with Russia and he is gaining revenue every time he uses one of his resorts as President. That is against the rules of Congress and he should be impeached while we are getting details from the Muller investigation into his many dealings with Russia and his families dealings with contacts with Russia and his dealings with all his business dealings with the mega donors who have pressured him to pass this tax bill which the President of the United States will gain so much in tax savings again against the law. You can tell me this man is a honest man and speaks the truth about anything he says. He wants to dismantle Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This would put many senior citizens on the street collecting benefits from our small state which most likely could bankrupt our state. I would be one of those seniors on the street. One of my meds costs over $1000 a month and another one costs over $10,000. And many others costing several hundreds of dollars. Then having no money to pay my rent I’d be on the streets with no money to pay it leftover. You tell me that this President is for all Americans because I worked for 57 years and earned and payed into Social Security every week I worked and he has no right to take it away from any Senior Citizen or Disable person who relies on this money.
Knight
Dwes you are a senile old twit. Trump has not gotten the US into ANY wars 1 year into his presidency. Meanwhile, Obama went into Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. Hilary? Who knows, but most likely Syria at the very least.
You are just completely disconnected to reality and inventing excuses to compensate for the fact that there just isn’t anything going on to complain about. Oh…I mean “kvetch” (that’s what you people do, right?) Pakistan? Seriously? That country has been a basket-case since the 80s, but now you want to blame THAT on Trump? You’re just a foolish old nitwit. Seriously…you are embarrassing yourself.
Juanjo
I see the resident trumpanzees are here to defend the Orange Howler Monkey.
galileo
You would think Mick and Dwes (lovely couple) would still be clutching their pearls after Coco Bannon the Clown became available for work.
Knight
Juanjo quick question: would you EVER commend the president on ANY decision that you agreed with? Or are you just a total hater filled with bile where your prostate used to be? Just curious.
Mick406
dwes09:
“you like that he has destroyed diplomacy and turns our allies against us one by one? ”
Who gives a shit what other countries think of us?!!! We only have a handful of REAL allies anyway. The rest would put a knife into us the minute they don’t think we will give them anymore free money.
“Pakistan, now ripe for greater incursions by Islamists and being courted by Russia.”
Pakistan couldn’t get more ‘riper’!!! It is an Islamist infested country already. There is not ONE thing Pakistan is beneficial for to us. Let Russia have ’em! Let THEM be sorry they ‘took ’em in’!!! Ain’t nobody gonna shed a tear if the Paki-terrorists rant and rave at us and say ‘we don’t like you anymore’. Good riddance! One less country to send free money to.
“Folks who neither understand our history or care for it”
Ha! That was classic!!! I’m a History major, taught history, and am a 34 year military veteran. It is folks of my generation who has protected and built this country. And yes, we know our history. And because of that, we can see that the future generations (my grown children included), have no concept of history, care and concern for their country, and do all they can to avoid ‘obligations’.
“folks who willfully ignore the shrinking middle class and concentration of wealth”
I’m a perfect example of Middle Class, and I’m certainly not shrinking. The ‘concentration of wealth’ is landing right on top of me and that of my other Middle Class neighbors. Why? I think it is because we WORK! And we strive to make something of ourselves and don’t sit around whining all day because our welfare check wasn’t as big as we thought it would be!
johnnymcmxxx:
“Gays have been removed from the national census.”
Isn’t that what gays have always wanted? To be counted in the mainstream and not singled out anymore as ‘unusual’? You want gayness to be considered ‘normal’, don’t cha? Then, you’ve got it by being included in the ‘normal people’ census. You can’t have it both ways.
galileo:
“Mick and Dwes (lovely couple)”
Uh, it is obvious you don’t have the intelligence of your namesake. The original Galileo would have READ the posts and realized that the two of us you mentioned are polar opposites!
Now, excuse me . . . as I’ve got to go now and count the money I made today in the stock market and from working all day, then read about the headcount of terrorists we’ve stomped ass on today, see how many illegal immigrants we’ve rounded up, get my kicks out of watching liberal cities disintegrate and California implode, and take a casserole to an Evangelist who is volunteering for a shift on border patrol.
herbbtv
Mick406, you really are a stupid American. Having served 34 years in the military what would you say if the President does away with your guaranteed health care and decided to take away the pension you earned?
You say your middle class I call you in the 1% of the upper class who gain from the tax billed recently passed by this Hoar of the President we have.
You are kissing his ass like all those stupid people who voted for him.
Daws
Ice skaters tend to have great butts. Get it, Matt. Get it, gurl!
Esscourt
A male figure skater comes out? SHOCKER!!!!!
ALLENGRUNDEN
Hi, Being gay is a gift… I recently found out that my ex-Boyfriend who used to love me was put under a love spell by another man. They considered themselves as couples. It really broke me. I was really worried about him as to what could happen to him. I still loved him. We were in a ldr and I couldn’t see him… We still communicated from time to time but he made sure he doesn’t get found out by the man. Idt got frustrating as how he cannot see past the spell! I really wasnted him back and also to be safe first and foremost and be away from that man. I also met Dr. Akim online and he helped me break the blackmagic on him and in 40 hours he called me and begged me to take him back. Akim’s website:https://prayerstosavemarriages.wordpress.com will be much appreciated if you contact him for marriage and relationship problems cos i promised to talk about him all over the internet 🙂