Fri 3 Apr 2009 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Former Coronation Street actor and now NZ-based Shortland Street star Adam Rickitt has spoken out about persistent rumours that he's gay. Here to stay: Adam Rickitt As a 'soap hunk', the 30-year-old was often shirtless on Coronation Street, and was involved its first-ever gay storyline when a younger man tried to kiss him. Rickitt also had a short-lived pop career - appearing in one music video dancing naked in a box - before trying politics as a member of the Conservative Party. His appearances in gay magazines and on stage at London's G.A.Y. nightclub fuelled gay rumours about him in the tabloid press. "It's a very frustrating thing - firstly because it shouldn't bloody matter. Whether somebody's gay or not really shouldn't matter," he told TV2's 20/20 programme. "I was just very honest about it. I said 'I'm not, but I'm not making a big deal about it'. "It's not going to effect your career as much, coming out as being gay, as it is coming out and being Tory, in the UK," he joked. But he does admit his music videos in the past were a bit "camp". "It's the most homoerotic thing in the world," he laughed. "My manager was gay, my A
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First published: Friday, 3rd April 2009 - 12:05pm