TV star Graham Norton has admitted he doesn’t want to find a husband – and expects to die alone.
The BBC presenter said it is hard to be in a gay relationship when there is one partner who is “much more successful than the other” – as it leads the other to be “emasculated”.
He said: “I meet sweet guys who are drawn to my wealth and lifestyle — the linen napkins, oysters, a celebrity party, first class travel. But slowly their enjoyment starts to sour.
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“Every man, no matter how young and fey, has some alpha in them.
“Where the pretty young woman who marries a fat, ugly billionaire can find her role in having babies and playing hostess, my boyfriends find themselves emasculated.”
And the Cork-born star said in his autobiography he now expects to die by himself, surrounded by newspaper clippings of top moments from his career.
He added: “I have to ask myself if I really want the ‘happy ever after’ and the answer seems to be no. I’m not sure I’m built for sharing my entire life and heart.
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“Being with someone should double your joy and yet I find it halved. I’m not saying being alone makes me happy but I’m not sad, and that seems like quite a lot in life.
“I have a vision of being very old, surrounded by tarnished awards and yellowing press clippings.
“That is when I’ll fall madly in love with a beautiful Brazilian nurse because of his flair when performing a bed bath.
“Maybe we’ll marry and the very next day I can die happy, knowing that for those brief few hours I had a life partner.”