THE FUTURE
POSITIVE INFLUENCE
From starting out on TikTok,GK Barrynow hosts her own podcast, took part in last year’sI’m ACelebrity… Get Me Out of Here!and is a regular onLoose Women. Her down-to-earth take on her sexuality has struck a chord with many in the LGBTQ+ community. This is only the beginning for this media star…
Words Dale Fox
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K Barry greets me on Zoom wrapped in a fluffy, oversized hoodie, her adorable toy poodle Noodle perched contentedly on her lap — a cosy scene that captures the down-to-earth charm that’s taken her from TikTok storyteller to multimedia star. When I introduce my two chihuahuas who just happen to be with me in the
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studio, her face lights up: “Oh my God — I am obsessed with these dogs!” Once the canine introductions are done, we both laugh, remembering there’s an interview to conduct.
“My childhood was really good,” she shares about her younger self. Referring to herself as “technically an only child”, due to much older siblings who’d moved out of home, the rising star reflects on her early years candidly. “School was a little bit rough, but it did make me funny, so swings and roundabouts there.” It’s this humour that would later propel her to fame, but the journey towards finding herself was more gradual. “I only really dated men at school,” she recalls. “I never really thought about it, to be fair.”