The radio presenter remembers his sexual awakening quite vividly (Picture: Getty/Rex)
Nick Grimshaw has revealed that he knew he was gay when he saw a picture of a wet David Beckham in a football magazine.
The former BBC Radio 1 DJ, who is engaged to model and dancer Meshach Henry, discovered he fancied the same sex when he stumbled on a saucy snap of the now retired football star when he was a youngster.
The 38-year-old said he had gone to purchase a football magazine to try to learn more about the sport but ended up learning something unexpected about himself in the process.
‘I flicked through and it felt unnatural for me to be reading about football. But then I turned a page and saw something that struck me,’ he confessed.
‘It was a black-and-white photo of a wet David Beckham. Seeing Beckham was like seeing the northern lights.’
‘I thought David was the perfect representation of a man and me realise that I fancy men,’ he told new! magazine.
Nick reckoned David was the ‘perfect representation of a man’ (Picture: Warren Wimmer/WireImage)
A couple of years ago, Nick had been forced to deny ‘weird’ dating rumours about him and his best pal Harry Styles.
The presenter and the former One Direction star have been friends for years and Nick said he was shocked to stumble upon fan speculation of a romance between the pair when he was researching information ahead of interviewing Harry about his debut solo album in 2017.
Nick believes rumours started after the pair ‘really got on’ when they first met, and said people often assume things about 28-year-old Harry’s sexuality.
He has previously spoken on his close friendship with Harry Styles being mistaken for a romance (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Hugo Boss)
He mused on The Dan Wootton Interview podcast: ‘I don’t know if it’s because we were both Northern and had quite a similar sense of humour, and because he was down in London and away from friends and family, we all just ended up hanging out together and getting on.
‘I think that people assumed that because I was gay and he wears, like, floral shirts that he must be gay and they were like, “They must be going out with each other.”’
Nick and Harry have been friends for several years (Picture: Getty)
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The radio DJ previously admitted that he embarrassed himself in front of Drake after throwing up while smoking weed.
Explained in his autobiography, via The Sun, Nick shared that his pal Florence Welch invited him along to a party at the God’s Plan chart-topper’s studio, where taking a puff from a comically large joint led him to step outside and ‘projectile vomit for what felt like 30 minutes’.
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‘I thought David was the perfect representation of a man,’ Nick said.
