Will Young: ‘Someone would pitch a music video with me and a girl even though I’m openly gay’
The ‘Pop Idol’ survivor and frequent chart-topper is back with his ninth album. He sits down with Alim Kheraj to discuss feeling like ‘an island’ as a gay man in pop in the Noughties, his harrowing experience of abuse at boarding school, and the realities of dating on the apps as he gets older