It’s always been half-truths in public.”įoster has done lots of television work, from Strictly Come Dancing to being a BBC pundit. I was shocked by the treatment of gay people in Russia and needed to say something – without revealing anything about myself. At the Sochi Olympics I did a piece for Huffington Post. I’ve supported the Terence Higgins Trust, Stonewall, Ben Cohen’s Stand Up to Bullying campaign. “I got really good at the dance of telling half-truths. “I tiptoed around the issue for so long,” he says. But he could not unlock a partially concealed secret about himself. Foster set eight world records as a freestyle and butterfly sprinter and won six world titles, 11 European championship gold medals, two Commonwealth golds and competed in five Olympic Games – even carrying the GB flag at the opening ceremony in Beijing in 2008.