Happy anniversary, Tom Daley! Today marks a WHOLE YEAR since the Olympic champ came out

The sportsman opened up about his sexuality in a YouTube video last December

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by Owen Tonks |
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Remember when Tom Daley simultaneously broke a million female hearts whilst fixing those of loads of lads by coming out as gay?

Well, he’s celebrating a year to the day of becoming a publicly open lover of the menz.

The diver, 20, went all digital on our arse and marked the occasion with a tweet filled with colourful rainbows and everything, which is really rather lovely.

If anyone had hopes of dating the dashing Olympian they were quickly forced to give up as it emerged he was seeing 40-year-old screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.

The diver originally opened up about his sexuality in a YouTube video, which he posted in December 2013 but said he didn’t want to label himself as “bisexual” or “gay” at the time.

He clarified his feelings later in the year, telling E! News: “I am a gay man now. I came out on YouTube as I wanted to say what I wanted to say without anyone twisting it.

“I told my family before I told the world. I was terrified. I did not know what the reaction was going to be. I did it on YouTube because people were constantly digging and asking questions.”

Aww, well at least he’s happy now.

GALLERY: Tom Daley naked and in Speedos

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Tom Daley naked and in speedos

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Naked Daley. NAKED AS THE DALEY HE WAS BORN DALEY.

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Tom Daley as... a... sort of skeleton-stroke-devil thing? Tom Daley BLATANTLY did a last minute Asda shop for his Halloween costume. DISORGANISED DALEY.

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Tom on holiday. HOLIDALEY.

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Tom on holiday, again. BEST NOT TO DWELL ON THIS ONE DALEY.

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Tom Daley winning a Junior World Championship medal. CHAMPION DALEY.

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Daley doing a Bolt. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DALEY.

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Tom with his famous friends. SCHMOOZING DALEY.

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Tom at the Olympics. SHOWES DAILY DALEY.

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Tom on holiday, with an Olympics tattoo. 18 YEARS OLD DALEY.

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Tom launching his book. THIS-IS-NOT-HOW-YOU-LAUNCH-A-BOOK-DALEY.

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Daley as Bond. CURRENT DALEY.

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...and Daley on our room, doing a Clark Kent thing. DALEY PLANET.

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