WLTM - Daniel Boys

Not one of the most well known names in celebrity-land, Daniel Boys is someone who interests me. For those who do not know, he was one of the contestants on the 2007 BBC television program, Any Dream Will Do, that chose a new star to headline Andrew Lloyd-Webber's production of Joseph and the Amazing Techicolour Dreamcoat.

Not quite the amateur that you expect from the type of show that made him a household name (for a few weeks in 2007 at least), Daniel had previously appeared in several hit productions including Grease and Rent. While watching the show he was one of my favourite singers, but he just didn't have the right look for playing Joseph. He was eliminated in seventh place overall, with the great Lee Mead winning the show in the end.

Daniel has since gone on to more good things and he can be seen on posters all over London and beyond as the face of Avenue Q, a musical in which he needs to use all of his skills as a singer, actor and performer, as well as learning the skills of a puppeteer!

What I would like to know from Daniel is how he coped with the massive boost in recognition he had when he appeared on the show, how he coped with his relatively early exit and how he has managed his career since. I would like to know if the relationship between all the of the potential Josephs was as close as it appeared to be.

I was not aware of his sexuality while he was in the show, and in fact one newspaper apparently reported that he was "looking forward to meeting women" which annoyed him as it gave the impression, to those who knew his true sexuality, that he was hiding the fact that he is gay. In a show such as Any Dream Will Do sexuality would probably have nothing to do with the end result, but with the Great British public you never can tell. To be honest as well, with the amount of sobbing that ALL of the guys did during the show, any one of them could have been mistaken for being a Nancy (Oh no, that was a completely different show!)! I do wonder, and would love to ask him, how being in the show, with its intense scrutiny and invasion of his previous anonymity affected whatever relationship he was in at the time.