'I thank my dad for that, for not allowing me to go down that path.
If I’d have been able to relax, prance around, sing in the street, I might be a different person now,' he said.
“I feel like I could have been really effeminate, if I hadn’t gone to the school I went to. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the Looking actor thanked his father for not allowing him to go to dancing school and become 'really effeminate,' going on to say that he believes it has given him a unique ability to be able to play both straight and gay roles convincingly. Russell Tovey has apologised after controversial comments he made about effeminate gay men in an interview over the weekend caused a social media backlash.