A good therapist is Olly Alexander’s advice for Eurovision contestant
Singer Olly Alexander popped into the Hits Radio Breakfast show this morning for a chat with Fleur East and the gang.
With new music out today, there was a lot to talk about including getting back together with his partner and his advice for this year’s Eurovision entrant.
Olly told Fleur East and the Hits Radio Breakfast team: “I was lucky, I had a good therapist before I did Eurovision, but you’d better believe, I’m still talking to my therapist about Eurovision now!
“I’d grown up with the contest – I’d wanted to do it for a long time, then you’re working on it for a long time and it’s such an intense experience.
“You’re in such a bubble and there was so much drama happening, but you have to really focus on the competition because you’ve got a lot to do and then it suddenly all ends and everyone moves on.
“It’s just good to put something in place which means there’s someone there to support you and move you through each step of the process because it’s so up and down.”
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Olly also appears on sister station Hits Radio Pride this weekend in the first episode of a new series for LGBT History Month, Out Loud, on Sunday at 7pm.
Talking to presenter Jordan Lee, Olly confesses that despite a hugely successful career as a singer and an actor he still feels that he doesn’t really know what he’s doing.
He also admits to watching the drama Queer as Folk when he was 13 or 14 years old – “a bit too young,” he says but had no idea that It’s a Sin would ever become the phenomenon it did: “I knew at the time [of filming] it felt super meaningful and really, really, special but I didn’t expect it to connect with people the way it did,” he reveals.