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Stephen Fry, 67, reveals being gay felt like there was 'a horror inside him' when he was teenager and admits that pals poked fun at his 'celibacy'


The actor, 67, publicly came out as gay in the 1980s and has been open about his sexuality for many years.

And then there were those writers, like EM Forster or Somerset Maugham, who held their heads up high and made me feel that it wasn't all slime and grim mackintosh people in a terrible world of darkness.' Speaking about longevity to Evgeny Lebedev on his podcast Brave New World, on the episode where David Walliams was also interviewed, Stephen admitted that he 'likes the idea of death', and it is the 'idea of decay' that shakes his boots. Stephen and Elliott - who is 30 years his junior - tied the knot back in January 2015, just 10 days after announcing their engagement (pictured at the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party)

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