Tom Daley looks back at coming out on YouTube: “I didn’t want to make it a big deal”

I think looking back on it now it seems more weird. Knowing I was gay growing up, or at least queer in that way, I was always a little bit like, ‘Oh gosh, how am I going to hide the biggest part of myself when all of this attention is happening?’ I always felt this pressure to overachieve, to hide or make up for things that were wrong with me.

My team at the time wasn’t exactly happy about me coming out at all. But then I got to a point where I was like, ‘I don’t ever want to seem ashamed of who I am. I didn’t want to be seen as going down [and doing] something like a magazine exclusive, which was

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