Rylan Clark reveals he was targeted by homophobic abuse while filming his BBC ... trends now
Rylan Clark has spoken about the horrific abuse he suffered while filming his BBC series with Rob Rinder in Venice, Italy.
The Eurovision presenter, 35, got candid while chatting on Olivia Attwood's So Wrong It's Right podcast as he revealed how members of the public shouted homophobic comments at him during filming.
Rylan had been shooting Rob And Rylan's Grand Tour in Venice with his friend Rinder, 45, where they spent time with an underground drag collective called House Of Serenissima.
'All these people would meet behind closed doors to dress up in drag, have fun, have a lovely day, wipe off all the drag and then go back out on the streets of Venice and go home,' Rylan explained. 'It's behind closed doors because they didn't feel safe.
Rylan Clark has spoken about the horrific abuse he suffered while filming his BBC series with Rob Rinder in Venice, Italy
'I'm quite impulsive and think, 'f**k it, let's have a laugh' [but] Rob goes, 'what's the reason?'. So we go to meet this collective, all gorgeous and lovely.
'Rob finally got it and we dressed up in drag, the pair of us, and we walked with the whole collective to San Marco Square - Rob was giving Pauline Fowler vibes, it was the look he ended up with.'
'We were walking through and one thing that really stood out was someone shouted out something in Italian.
'It was a young guy, probably 20 something, I turned to one of the drag queens and said, "what did he just say?". And they said, "burn the f****ts".'
'I'm now 20 foot in a pair of heels, I wanted to go mad,' Rylan admitted. 'I wanted to go after this bloke and basically knock him out,' he told bluntly.
Yet surprisingly what happened a few moments later proved to be a silver lining.
'Then what happened, 200m later there was a group of old nonnas, probably in their 90s, and they all stood up and clapped us.
'It was that realisation of thinking we always blame the older generation for everything, they're backwards in their thinking, when actually it was that generation that was applauding this collective for being
