Joe McElderry says Twitter hacker did him a favour

Joe McElderry believes that the person who hacked his Twitter and outed him as gay actually did him a favour.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the X Factor 2009 winner didn’t seem to mind being forced out by a hacker.

“I thought, ‘This is great. It’s broken the ice for me.’ Everybody else was saying, ‘He must be so upset, his Twitter’s been hacked.’ I’d been thinking about it that week and it was the final push I needed. A bit of me was worried I didn’t have control, as it was done for me, but there was also the sense that now I can talk about it.” Joe said.

“It’s a big deal for a young person to come out. It was more important for me to come out to my family. I wanted to talk about it because I’m an honest person, but for a long time I really didn’t know how I felt.”