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Rylan Clark has opened up about horrific messages sent to him by trolls, including one terrifying moment when a hotel worker said they’d ‘slice’ his neck while he slept.
The TV presenter has previously addressed the online trolling and social media abuse he’s forced to face, but in a preview for an upcoming podcast, Rylan shares a frightening example.
Speaking on an upcoming episode of the High Performance podcast, the 34-year-old begins: ‘I don’t care if someone calls me talentless.
‘I don’t care if someone says “big tooth p***k”.’
‘It’s like, I’ve got money in the bank, I’m fine babe.’
He continued: ‘But when someone’s saying “I can see you currently on your balcony of your room, 401, and I’ve got a key card because I work here and I’m going to slice your neck in your sleep.”
Rylan revealed the terrifying message (Picture: BBC/Emily Manley)
‘Then you sit there go “f**k, that’s a bit too much information that they know”.’
This comes after Rylan opened up about knowing he was ‘the joke’ at the start of his career, when he launched onto our screens on The X Factor in 2012.
Not long later, he won Celebrity Big Brother and found his feet as a presenter on This Morning, Eurovision, The One Show and Strictly Come Dancing spin-off It Takes Two.
Rylan first hit our screens in 2012 on The X Factor (Picture: ITV)
But it was on Simon Cowell’s popular singing contest that he originally found the spotlight.
And insisting he is an industry ‘newbie no more’, he now enjoys the fame he had long since desired.
Chatting to the i last year, the personality discussed his childhood, struggles with mental health and various run-ins with negative press throughout his career.
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He said: ‘I was the joke, but I knew I was the joke.
‘Listen, I’m not claiming to be f***ing Celine Dion or Mariah, but I can sing. But I weren’t supposed to sing on The X Factor. There is a box for every single person on there, and I ticked the “gay stereotype joke” box.
‘I could either stand there and sing and hope to get through, along with a million other auditionees, or I could play the game and put on a feather boa and a light-up outfit and have an argument with Gary Barlow.’
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Rylan opened up on a horrific message he was sent.
