Layton Williams on Fame, Finding Love & Performing in Drag on Primetime TV 💃

Happy Healthy Homo

Joel Wood & Keegan Hirst

Gay, Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgbt, Lgbtq, Lgbtq+, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Going to therapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. Our paid partner BetterHelp makes therapy simple, with 10% off your first month to help you get started: https://betterhelp.com/happyhealthyhomo

Welcome to Season 5 of Happy Healthy Homo hosted by Keegan Hirst and Joel Wood. Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, it'd really help us out: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/welcome-to-happy-healthy-homo/id1677092370?i=1000604110054

This week we're joined by the brilliant Layton Williams for a proper catch-up about his incredible career journey. From playing Billy Elliot at 12 years old to winning an Olivier Award for playing an iceberg in Titanique (yes, really), Layton's story is wild.

We chat about his time on Strictly Come Dancing and how he pushed boundaries by performing in drag on Saturday night TV, his emotional experience filming Who Do You Think You Are and discovering his family's history, and why being the voice of I Kissed a Boy means so much to him.

Layton also opens up about how being in a loving relationship has changed his perspective on life, his Slay Clubs business that's building confidence in young people across the UK, and his passionate plea for everyone to support their local gay bars before they disappear.

Plus he explains why he thought every footballer position was a "lead role," and shares why turning 30 has made him feel like a genuinely happy, healthy homo.

It's a conversation full of laughs, honesty, and genuine insight into what it means to stay authentic while building a career in entertainment.

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0:28.5	hey homos welcome back to happy healthy homo. I'm still Keegan and I'm still
0:40.6	Joel. We are still boyfriends. Can you believe it? Can you believe it? So before we
0:45.6	get into this episode we just want to take a moment to talk to you about the paid
0:48.6	partner of this episode which is Better Help. So I know that for me I have struggled
0:53.3	with over the last few years of
0:54.7	comparing myself to other people. You know how like growing up you've been like, oh, by the time
0:59.7	I'm 25, I'm going to be married and have kids, or by the time I'm 28, I'm going to have a thriving
1:04.4	business and I'm going to be earning six figures a year or whatever it may be. And these
1:08.9	milestones, I may have hit some of them, others of them I've not hit.
1:13.5	And I have previously found that very, very difficult to come to terms with because I am
1:17.7	someone who likes to set goals and likes to meet those goals.
1:21.5	I could get into a comparison spiral.
1:23.8	Yeah, basically.
1:24.7	And like, because you can go, oh, boo-hoo, like you didn't meet your goals.
1:27.3	But for some people, especially when it's enforced by society, these standards, it can just make you
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