My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke