Darren Hayes
Darren Hayes’ sexuality was always an open secret – even to himself. All that has changed since he married his boyfriend last June. Hayes talks to BLUE about coming out, leaving his record label and recording an ambitious new album.
It may be 11pm but Darren Hayes is still hard at work. He has just returned to his London home after a day in the studio, where he’s recording his upcoming album, and now the Brisbane-born singer is on the phone to Australia for this interview to promote two new DVDs. The once very private star is also happy to talk about struggling with his sexuality, past boyfriends, his violent upbringing and his recent civil partnership, or marriage, to his
partner of two years, Richard Cullen. (It’s Hayes’ second marriage – the first was to a woman, his university sweetheart Colby Taylor, in 1995. They separated in 1999.)
The first DVD, the documentary Too Close for Comfort, casts Hayes in a rather unflattering light as it candidly looks behind the scenes on his first solo tour in 2002 following the demise of his wildly successful pop group, Savage Garden...
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