Phillip Schofield has 'secret boyfriend squirrelled away’, jokes Graham Norton

Graham believes Phillip’s decision to come out was because “people needed to know”.

Speaking on his own coming out process he told How To Wow podcast host Chris Evans: “There are no rules in this thing.

“When I didn’t know, I didn’t know, because I didn’t know what it was. I wasn’t aware of sexuality or the spectrum of sexuality, I didn’t understand you could be attracted to different people.

“But I guess as you get older you’ve got more of a vocabulary for all of that stuff so you should be able to name things. But there are no rules.