{"id":156275,"date":"2025-06-04T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156275\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:46:09","slug":"will-young-reveals-plans-his-plans-to-start-a-family-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156275\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Young reveals plans his plans to start a family | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop icon Will Young has spoken of his hopes for family life and the joy of a loving relationship.<\/p>\n<p>At 46, the original Pop Idol winner has candidly discussed his &#8220;wonderful partner&#8221; and their shared vision for a future together.<\/p>\n<p>Young&#8217;s openness about his dreams for starting a family and fostering children was brought to light in an intimate conversation with The i following disclosures he made last year.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Devon Live reports that Will attributed his newfound emotional availability to facing the obstacles fame imposed on his private life, particularly the once pervasive press attention he endured.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed, &#8220;I&#8217;m in a lovely relationship. I&#8217;m having a wonderful time with a wonderful partner. I had a closed heart, but it&#8217;s opened up now. Why has my heart opened up?&#8221;, reports<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/young-gives-rare-update-wonderful-35330934\" target=\"_blank\"> the Mirror.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a reflective tone, he continued: &#8220;Meeting the right person. And making the choice to be open to someone. If you&#8217;re waiting for that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/hollywood\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> moment, you might be waiting for the rest of your life, so you&#8217;ve got to make a choice that you want to be in a relationship. I was restricted by the mainstream music industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing his previous paparazzi run-ins as non-current issues, Will noted these experiences once posed stress for him and possibly affected past partners differently, yet they did not hinder his dating life significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Charting back to his interview with Attitude magazine last year, Will expressed his aspiration to have a family after his album &#8220;Light It Up&#8221; debuted.<\/p>\n<p>Will Young has expressed his interest in fostering, stating to a publication, &#8220;I&#8217;m quite interested in fostering&#8230; I think I&#8217;d be very good at being emotionally available and emotionally validating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also delved into the realms of modern romance, admitting to using dating apps and finding both his last boyfriend and current interest through them: &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit of a lottery. My last boyfriend was off an app. And the person I&#8217;m dating at the moment&#8217;s off an app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pop idol has been candid about his mental health struggles, specifically his battle with PTSD, and attributes gardening as a key element in his recovery. In a heartfelt revelation to the Telegraph, he disclosed, &#8220;When I first went into treatment for PTSD, I had just begun work on one of my gardens. I think because I totally focused on that, it really helped me get better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will expounded on the therapeutic benefits of horticulture: &#8220;I&#8217;ve found that the simple act of putting my hands in the soil helps because it&#8217;s grounding&#8230; it literally grounds me, it grounds my whole body&#8230;. I find one little job to focus on, it calms me down. It is meditative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not content with just his musical achievements, Will is branching out to television as he joins the lineage investigation show Who Do You Think You Are?<\/p>\n<p>. Fans can watch his discoveries unfold in the 22nd series, which airs tonight (Tuesday, June 3) at 9pm on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop icon Will Young has spoken of his hopes for family life and the joy of a loving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,63060,77,66362,66363,66364,711,16,15,66361],"class_list":{"0":"post-156275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-news-section","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-family-plans","12":"tag-fostering","13":"tag-mental-health-recovery","14":"tag-pop-music","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-will-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622574402652876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}