Tom Allen: 'Why do I always talk about being gay? Because I wasn't allowed for half of my life' 🟠 In this interview, the comedian talks about coming out, finally flying the nest in his 30s, and losing his father shortly afterwards
‘“People frighten me a little bit,” says Tom Allen. “But music has always been an escape, a means of getting away into my own world. When I play the piano I get to be on the outside of expectations, on my own terms…” The 39-year-old comedian strikes a Garbo-esque pose. “…like Elsa in Frozen.”
“I listened to Late Junction to get to sleep when I was a teenager, on a little radio walkman my dad bought for me,” he tells me over video from a pre-gig hotel near Tower Bridge. As a closeted, working-class kid in Bromley, Kent, he says he would go to bed “feeling very isolated. There was no mention of homosexuality at all at school. There were just slurs.”Modern audiences often assume that Allen developed his quick wit in response to school bullies.
He left school at 18 to pursue a career on the stage and spent 12 years on the comedy circuit before TV came calling. “The comedy scene in 2005 was still quite blokey. Still very much lad culture. It stumbled into something unkind. When I first went on television people said: ‘Why do you talk about being gay all the time?’ It was because, in the clubs, I felt I had to talk about it because otherwise the audience would whisper it, use it as a tool against me.
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