Sunday, December 15, 2024 - English actor, Jonathan Bailey has revealed that he is considering adopting a child and co-parenting with a woman or a man.
The Olivier Award-winning star of Wicked and
Bridgerton, 36, who is openly gay, said that he was currently reading books on
adoption but had too much on his plate to start a family at the moment.
Speaking to British Vogue about fatherhood, he said:
“Yes, it’s such a privilege for a man, but I can’t bring children into my
lifestyle now. I want to make sure I’m going to be present; I’m reading books
on adoption.”
He added: “I might co-parent with a woman, but I’m thinking
it will be with a man.”
Bailey, who rose to fame after starring in Netflix’s popular
Regency romp Bridgerton, has previously discussed how his role as the
eligible straight bachelor led him to become “hyper-aware” of his
sexuality.
“I was hyper-aware of the complexities and nuances of how I
felt about myself being a gay man, let alone a gay actor, and suddenly finding
success in playing a straight part and talking about that,” he said in an
interview in November.
The stage and screen actor told Vogue that his sexuality was
more of a gradual realisation, only coming out as gay to his family and close
friends in his early 20s after a two-year relationship with a girl.
He said: “It’s interesting with the binary, where you’re
perceived to be either this or that.
“That’s how I saw it at the time, but there are so many
nuances to it. My experience of that relationship was not that I was in the
shadows. She remains one of my best friends.”
“I think other people understood my sexuality before I was
even aware of it,” he added.
He has recently become a patron for the charity Just Like
Us, which supports young LGBTQ+ people to “thrive” in school and beyond, and
admitted he is aware that challenges still exist.
“I’ve always been a confident hand-holder in relationships,
[but] I had a boyfriend who wasn’t experienced at holding hands in public. We
got heckled in London.”
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