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TV Star Shobna Gulati Has Come Out
TV star Shobna Gulati has come out.
The 58-year-old actor is known for their roles as Anita in Dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013.
Most recently, they starred in TV shows such as Brassic and Vera.
In a recent in-depth interview, Gulati opened up about their identity, which they say they have always felt.
After hearing the news, fans have taken to social media and shared their support.
One person writes: “So pleased that they can finally be the real them.”
“That’s so cool,” adds another. “Seeing someone you always see on TV growing up say this actually feels really lovely.”
A third comments: “Never too late,” alongside a love heart emoji.
Somebody else pens: “All my love to them!”
Gulati has revealed they identify as non-binary.
Non-binary describes any gender identity that does not fit the male and female binary system. The soap star lists their preferred pronouns as she/they on Instagram.
The actor says they have always felt this way but it wasn’t until recently that they realized there was a word to describe it.
“I’ve become more happy describing myself as a person. What do people call it now? Non-binary. So, I suppose that’s who I am,” they told the Mirror.
“I’ve never had a word for it, but I’ve learnt from our younger generation what that might look like in terms of a word because I know what it feels like in terms of being me.”
Gulati also opened up about their identity on the How to be 60 podcast, where they explained: “All the way through my life I’ve never had the words for that and I’ve never managed to explain that and I suppose my immediate family have not really thought about it.
“They’ve just thought: ‘Shobna is either extremely feminine or extremely masculine.’ Because I was just accepted as a person who fell out of the tree and equally the person who put on all this makeup and did a dance.”
The actor said things changed when they met a sound engineer who identified as non-binary.
“The sound person said to me that they were non-binary and I said: ‘What is that?’ So, then they explained and I thought – ‘Well, I feel like that, but I didn’t ever have that vocabulary,'” Gulati recounted.
“They said that they saw themselves as a person and that the gender – the he or the she – wasn’t important to who they are. And I thought: ‘That’s all I’ve ever thought.’
“And I think now I’m free to say it out loud. I think people around me have accepted who I am for a long time without any explanation, but I suppose when I’m asked now, I’ll say it.”
Gulati also revealed that they would happily date someone regardless of whether they were male or female.
The 58-year-old, who said they are currently in love, commented: “That is also something I’m looking at – what that means to me. So yes, I would go for a person absolutely, regardless of their gender.”
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