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EDITOR'S LETTER

MATTHEW TODD EDITOR

Welcome to our September Style issue. We like to feature new talent at Attitude and this month is a prime example. We couldn’t help but notice the handsome BBC Business reporter Ben Thompson reading the news and being all clever and stomping across the BBC news set much like the Hulk with an ear piece. (He’s 6ft 6, you know) And then like a bolt from above, it came to our attention that he is in fact one of the family. Yes, he sits on our side of the church, drives on our side of the road, bats for our team. In other words, he’s an actual gay. Can you believe it? We met him, we fell in love with him, we felt slight disappointment when we heard he had a boyfriend, but we got over it and decided to bring him to you like the cast of King Kong carrying the giant to New York. (Ours is cuter) Head to page 114 for the full interview.

This is the part where I say it’s great how different things are from how they were in my day. *Cue violin*. Do you know what? It’s great how different things are from how they were in my day. There are gays on TV that aren’t Larry Grayson and who don’t pretend they’re straight. Who’d a thought it, eh? Ben is one of them. Behold.

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