An actor, dancer and presenter, Layton Williams, 29, reached the finals of Strictly Come Dancing in 2023, and was the first male contestant to dance in drag. He was a child star on the West End stage, taking the role of Billy Elliott at the age of 12. He is best known on TV for starring in Bad Education, and also narrated the first series of the gay dating show I Kissed a Boy.
How has life changed since Strictly?
The best way to explain it is, when I’m out and about on the street, before I would have had the child of the family clocking me, but now it’s the whole family. The mums and the nans, and the dads and the grandads, they’re just into it.
