{"id":16021,"date":"2022-05-26T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1651560"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:14:08","slug":"tom-daley-and-rio-ferdinand-join-bt-sports-playing-with-pride","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/tom-daley-and-rio-ferdinand-join-bt-sports-playing-with-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Daley and Rio Ferdinand join BT Sport\u2019s Playing with Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 26 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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BT Sport has announced Playing with Pride, a show fronted by Clare Balding, who will host a line-up of guest contributors in a round-table discussion highlighting LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the world of sport.<\/p>\n

The show will air this Friday 27th May on BT Sport<\/a>, and will feature guests including Tom Daley, Rio Ferdinand, Rylan Clark, Fara Williams, Pippa York and Ugo Monye.<\/p>\n

Conversations brought to the table will include the evolution of LGBTQ+ opinion in sport and society, as well as stories of personal experiences that have led the guests to become drivers of change.<\/p>\n

A preview of the show has been released, and you can watch it right here now.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\""x_MsoNormal"\">In the footage, Ferdinand can be seen opening up about his personal history, saying: \u201cIf I\u2019m honest, the household that my sister grew up in, my dad wasn\u2019t somebody that would talk with the right vocabulary and right language about people coming out as gay, at times maybe homophobic with some of the comments he might say.<\/p>\n<p class=\""x_MsoNormal"\">\u201cMyself and my brother the same as well, so I understand immediately my sister \u2013 the pain, the torture, the big effort that it took for her to come to us and go to her big brothers \u2018listen, I\u2019m gonna come out and I\u2019m gay.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\""x_MsoNormal"\">\u201cAnd she told us of the difficulty and the education that she\u2019s given me now\u2026 sometimes in life you need some situations to hit you right between the eyes for it to impact you positively, and I think I\u2019ve taken much more of an interest, I\u2019ve educated myself, I\u2019ve tried to read more up on it and understand people more based on my sister coming to me and being so brave and saying \u2018this is me, this is who I am\u2019.\u201d<\/p> <p>Throughout the show, the guests will be looking at solutions or support for improvements at grassroots and elite sporting institutions, leagues and organisations, to promote a more inclusive attitude in society, with the hope of creating a global sporting arena welcoming for all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Playing with Pride airs on BT Sport 2 on Friday 27<sup>th<\/sup><span class=\""x_apple-converted-space"\">\u00a0<\/span>May at 5:30pm. 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