Actor, singer, and all round queer icon Olly Alexander will be appearing on Michael McIntrye’s Big Show on Saturday (8 February), shortly after dropping his acclaimed new album, Polari.

Originally hailing from a town in North Yorkshire, Alexander has risen to fame as the lead singer of the band Years & Years as well as appearing in Russell T Davies’ queer hit show It’s A Sin.

He’s been open about his sexuality ever since Years & Years won the BBC’s Sound of 2015, and he’s also an advocate and campaigner for safer sex and HIV screening.

But what do else do we know about him? Here are some fascinating facts about the star .

 

Alexander was previously in a relationship with fellow musician  Neil Milan Amin-Smith, who was in Clean Bandit, but they split up in 2015 due to scheduling conflicts.

At the time, he told Attitude Magazine: “We’ve had less and less time to spend together and the time we did have together were such short periods it put so much pressure on our relationship.”

He also described himself as having “a crush on” former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn back in 2016.

He said: “Maybe it’s naïve of me to have this romantic political fantasy but I like the way he looks like he’s always about to head off to a march or protest.”

In 2022, Bang Showbiz reported that Alexander has “in love” but would not name the person in question.

Since then however, Alexander has not been seen with a potential romantic interest publicly nor has he mentioned having a boyfriend, so it’s likely he is currently single.

Olly Alexander announced that he would be taking part in the 2024 edition Eurovision Song Contest late last year, stating that he’d “wanted to do it for a while”.

The song he performed at the contest was called ‘Dizzy’ and was released in March 2024.