Will Young: ‘People confuse me with Olly Murs. That tests me. I thought I was better-looking.’

It’s funny being a 38-year-old pop star, but the Pop Idol winner is now a writer, activist and podcast host, too. He talks about Gay Pride, homophobia at the BBC – and why he quit Strictly Come Dancing
Will Young has lived in his beautiful country cottage for six months, and I can’t work out how much of the house’s contents belong to the popstar or were left by a previous, elderly, owner. There is heavy furniture, gardening books, and paintings the colour of dust; a