It is good to see a romance story getting the respect it deserves — people can relate because everyone gets the chance to fall in love at some point.… - Jonathan Bailey

Oh my God, are you kidding? I’m not saying for one second that I’ve been this sort of candyfloss gay who has cartwheeled around London. It’s completely brutal. And at moments really confusing. [But] there’s absolutely no way I’m not going to be visibly out. Even four years ago there wasn’t any actor in my peer group, really, that you could see playing straight roles.

When you’re working with a genre like romance, which is about something fundamental which connects all humans, it’s so important that we can allow everyone to see themselves in that story, and that wasn't necessarily there for me growing up.

LGBT people are not that different - we're just as anxious and just as flawed and just as desperate to fall in love as everyone else.