Rylan Clark says he’s ready to start dating again

Virgin Radio

19 Jan 2023, 12:15

X Factor star Rylan Clark has said he is now open to dating again following the end of his marriage.

The singer and presenter's six-year marriage to Dan Neal ended in 2021, but now says he's ready to find someone new.

Talking on a podcast, he said: "I’d like to be with someone. I would like to share, I am quite a sharer".

"I like giving and looking after people. For the past year and a half, I have not been doing that and for the first time Ross has had to be on his own." (Rylan's real name is Ross.)

"I’m 34 and I’d never lived on my own in my life," he revealed.

He also said the end of his marriage was "the lowest time of his life" and shared that celeb friends came to visit, but he turned them away.

Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford came to see him, but he recalls telling the pair to "get out".

Rylan says the presenter couple are "like my mum and dad."

He said: "A friend is someone, like last year, when you are at your lowest, they will try and do anything to help you.

"I remember, I didn’t want to see anyone at the house and I became really agoraphobic, and my mum called Ruth and Eamonn, and they turned up at my house.’

He said candidly: "Eamonn got really upset because I was clearly visibly very sick, as did Ruth, and I didn’t want to see them.

"I just remember breaking down and saying, 'Get out, I don’t want to see anyone. I don’t want to see anyone'.

"And they had driven two hours to get there, but they did that not because it was going on Instagram, not because they are going to get kudos from people on Twitter, they did that because they cared, they did that because they cared about me. And I would do the same."

He continued: ‘It reminded me there’s life outside of the front door. I didn’t want it, but it reminded me that I was someone before all of this s**t.

"You forget that you’re a person when you’re going through all of that, you forget that you’ve got a body, you forget that you’ve got a brain, and you forget that you’ve got a voice.

‘And they were obviously really, really shocked at how I was speaking."