Tom Read Wilson has admitted he has never been in love or felt as though he has found ‘his person’ as he opened up about his love life in a candid podcast.
The TV personality, who has featured as the client coordinator on Celebs Go Dating for 10 years, found a whole new audience last year after his appearance on I’m A Celeb.
And after finishing in second place on the show following the public’s support, Tom, 39, explained how he no longer feels as though there is a ‘gentleman missing’ from his life.
Appearing on Paul Brunson’s podcast We Need To Talk, the star said: ‘Everything shifted for me in the last 18 months to two years because I am sort of rubbing along so happily as a single person.
‘I’m so happy with my lot and I think because I always had a romantic soul and I think I do in terms of art and in terms of my sensibility.
‘I think that I always thought that the thing that was missing from my life was a gentleman. And now I don’t. If it tumbled into my life, I’d be happy as a clam. But I don’t seek it.’
Tom Read Wilson says he has never been in love as star reveals he no longer feels a ‘gentleman is missing’ from his life as he jokes his effeminate voice gets in the way of his sex life
Confessing he has never been in love he continued: ‘I’d like to know that feeling at some stage. I found my person, you know, that would be nice.’
‘Have you ever had that feeling?’ asked Paul.
‘No, I don’t think so. Not really. Not really. I got near to it with one person. I haven’t had it yet.’
Tom also joked that his voice doesn’t aid his love life, as he teased: ‘It’s not an aphrodisiac.’
His posh effeminate voice is a constant talking point, with people often thinking it is put on.
But insisting it is real, Tom admitted it can hold him back in the romance department.
He joked: ‘The only slight downfall… is that it’s not an aphrodisiac. That’s the only thing.
‘It’s like I think that in lots of ways it’s a help because it sort of contributes to one’s silhouette.
‘But it’s not romantically because it’s very I don’t know…. people don’t want Angela Lansbury’s voice coming out, you know, in a steamy setting.’
Confessing he has never been in love he continued: ‘ I’d like to know that feeling at some stage. I found my person, you know, that would be nice’ (pictured on I’m A Celeb with Angry Ginge)
During his time on I’m A Celeb, Tom impressed viewers and his celebrity campmates alike with his extensive vocabulary and his posh accent was a talking point from the get-go.
He wowed everyone around the campfire when he adopted a thick cockney accent and joked it was ‘exhausting’ keeping up his voice.
It left viewers at home baffled as to what Tom’s real voice actually sounds like.
And the Celebs Go Dating receptionist’s co-star Anna Williamson even waded in on the row – insisting that how Tom regularly speaks in front of the cameras is real.
She told The Sun: ‘Everybody is seeing exactly who Tom is. There is no act. It’s really funny, all the stuff around his accent and voice.
Anna, 44, continued: ‘I’m so used to Tom being Tom, and Tom speaking as he does, which is his usual very posh voice. To hear such conversation around it, is it real, isn’t it, when he does his accent is really funny.
‘I can confirm Tom does speak how Tom speaks, as in his normal voice.’
She went on to praise seeing Tom ‘doing his thing’ on the ITV reality series, adding that he was ‘so accurately represented’ in the show as ‘hugely likeable’.
