Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood admits he was 'completely homophobic' due to abuse and trauma
dailyrecord.co.ukCraig Revel Horwood admits that he was 'completely homophobic' and shut down his sexuality after being bullied. The Strictly Come Dancing judge said that being bullied as a teenager and called names like “pansy” and “p**fter” by classmates led to him staying in the closet for years. “I was completely homophobic,” Craig, 58, said.
He told the Guardian G2: “But when I went to the theatre, when I did my first dance class, the people there were lovely, and people started praising me.
They were older and accepting, and I loved it... I liked those people, and I knew I didn’t like people at school. I was traumatised at school, but dance released that."Elsewhere in the interview, Craig opened up about his upbringing in an abusive home at the hands of his alcoholic father while growing up in Australia.
He said: “That was the reason I enjoyed dancing so much, because I was away from the house, because it wasn’t a happy home.” “We knew after the seventh beer what was going to happen.
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