At last the story can be told: Joe McElderry’s two best male friends are gay! Joe has known @billyt1991 and @TomCharlton91 since his school days (they are from Harton Technology College, which Joe attended before joining Newcastle College at 16). Tom has already come out (more or less) now Billy has too:

RT@PrincessL44: RT @billyt1991 Me and @ashlowes :) ... Love this girl :) xxx http://t.co/TyAuQc1 aww lovely pic you make a nice couple ;) Xx [12 Aug 2011]

RT@billyt1991: "@PrincessL44: RT @billyt1991 Me and @ashlowes :) ... Love this girl :) xxx http://t.co/rSE8C8G shame I'm gay eh ? Haha xx [13 Aug]

I now repeat the question which no other journalistic site has done but which I have been asking for a year now: is there anybody gullible to believe, as Joe claims, that Joe McElderry never even THOUGHT he was gay until 7 July 2010, when a tweet from his account outed him as gay, despite his EXPRESS denial of being gay in the Sun and Star on 15 December 2009?

It is now clear beyond doubt that Joe McElderry has been callously and calculatedly duping his young fans ever since winning the X Factor and has been using his sexuality in a cynical way for the purpose of increasing his fanbase. The whole cynical, deceitful and manipulative campaign by Joe McElderry is told here: http://t.co/D4xRs3a