BBC Radio 2 presenter Rylan Clark has opened up about his love life on his How to Be in Love podcast and spoke about a “worry” he has when it comes to relationships
Rylan Clark has candidly opened up about a “worry” he’s been grappling with following the end of his marriage. The BBC Radio 2 presenter parted ways with his former spouse, Dan Neal, in 2021.
The split came to light after Rylan admitted to being unfaithful at an earlier stage in their relationship. Despite acknowledging that the breakup was “the right thing to happen,” Rylan revealed he suffered a “full-on breakdown” post-separation.
Now, the ex-X Factor contestant is on the lookout for new romance. However, he’s observed a significant shift in his feelings towards intimacy with other men since becoming single.
On his podcast How to Be in Love, Rylan, aged 36, shared: “I have found that, since the breakdown of my marriage, if I’ve gone on any dates or started seeing people, when I’ve had sex with them, I lose interest pretty quickly.”
He expressed his concerns further by saying: “I actually got pretty worried about a year or two ago because I thought, hang on a minute, I don’t remember this from BM—I call it ‘before marriage’. I don’t remember having sex with someone, or orgasming with someone, climaxing, and then after that thinking, ‘Oh, I’m just not bothered now'”
In response to Rylan’s intimate revelations, neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart suggested that the emotional trauma from his marriage could be influencing his current experiences with intimacy. She said: “So now that you’ve put it like that, with the BM, that probably, because you were so hurt, something has changed for you.”
The former Celebrity Big Brother champ confessed: “I did worry for a long time that, almost like I was frightened to commit or open myself fully to someone, because going through a break-up is quite hard.”
Rylan has been open about his feelings of being a “failure” following his marriage breakdown. Chatting with ex-Love Island star Tasha Ghouri, he revealed: “When I went through my divorce, I had a full-on breakdown because it wasn’t just us.”
He continued, expressing the weight of public perception: “It felt like it wasn’t just us, even though it was just me and my ex. I felt that everyone’s going to think this of me. Everyone’s going to think, ‘Oh look, his life isn’t perfect. Oh look, he’s failed like that.’ I just felt like a failure.”
In a heart-to-heart with Stephen Fry, Rylan shared his turmoil over the public scrutiny during his split, admitting: “There was part of me that just felt like a complete and utter failure. I felt like I’d failed personally, but I felt like I’d failed publicly on behalf of—the gays! You know, I’m not, I’m not ‘head gay’, it’s not that.”
Reflecting on his journey towards readiness for new love in his memoir TEN: The Decade That Changed My Future, Rylan penned: “I got in a relationship quite young and just went with it. Now I know I’m my own person. I’m not going to settle for something that’s not right. In a way it’s been a bit of a gift.
“I’m happy to have sex with someone and that’s that, that’s not a problem. But do I want more? Of course I want more. Am I going to enjoy myself on the way? Abso-f***ing-lutely.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
