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August 1, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): 19-year-old Joe McElderry happened to be the victor of the ‘X Factor’ in 2009 with Cheryl Cole as his guru. He has had a rather successful career as a vocalist so far.

A few days back, hackers had broken and entered Joe’s account. Subsequently, they divulged particulars about his sexual orientation on the internet. Joe’s sexuality was disclosed as a comic story on Twitter by the hackers. Nevertheless, it enabled to win Joe over to the idea of becoming visible with his genuine sexual thoughts.

The Sun mentioned online that Joe, initially, was appalled by the hacking. Nevertheless, Joe then resolved to exhibit straightforwardness about his sexual orientation. At the outset, Joe was livid due to the despicable audaciousness of the hackers. Then, a few moments later, he gazed at the postings of the hackers and told himself that what the hackers had posted was not inaccurate. Joe admitted to himself then that he was gay.

Joe has also asserted that he had revealed his homosexuality to his mother in the previous week on a train journey from New Castle to London. Joe has explained that his frankness about his sexuality makes him experience liberation. He can now move ahead in his life.

Joe has remarked that he commenced to analyze his sexual orientation in the past few weeks. ‘X Factor’ chief, Simon Cowell, was the first individual to converse with Joe and express his moral backing for Joe after Joe discharged the news about his sexuality to record chiefs at Cowell’s label Syco a few days back.