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COOK-ING ON GAS

Intelligent, grounded and ridiculously wise for his 20 years, Woody Cook has been blessed with a handsome visage and parents, Zoe Ball and Fatboy ‘Norman Cook’ Slim, who were the epitome of 90s cool – he is also someone who wants to do good with his platform.

Woody was scouted by a modelling agency at a festival a few years back, but quickly realised that the lifestyle wasn’t for him – “I smiled too much,” he says, with a chuckle – before rising to prominence on hit Channel 4 reality show, The Circle, where he essentially came out twice: both as the son of famous parents and as bisexual.

Growing up in the liberal oasis of Brighton and in close proximity to that strange, exotic neighbourhood known as Celebland, Woody had access to all kinds of creative, open-minded people of varying genders and sexualities. However, he still struggled with his own.

“Mate, I was so confused for so long,” he remembers. “One day I would think, I really want to get with a guy. I’d kiss a guy, then a few days later, I was, like, why did I do that? What have I done? I

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