SIR Ian McKellen has split from his 30-year-old boyfriend after a year.
The acting legend first locked eyes with Oscar Conlon-Morrey when they worked together in a pantomime.
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The couple met in December 2022 when Ian played Mother Goose and Oscar played his son Jack.
They spent New Year’s Eve together and Oscar was quick to tell followers about it.
“I saw in 2023 at the house of the new love of my life,” he wrote on X.
According to the MailOnline, Ian’s friends have always doubted that he would settle down.
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At the time of their blossoming romance, one well-known actor spoke about his doubts.
“Oscar has been telling friends and family of his big plans with McKellen. He’s even said he thinks they’ll get engaged,” he said.
“McKellen hasn’t had a boyfriend in 20 years. He is really not a marriage man. He doesn’t want a man living in his home. He enjoys having someone when he is on tour.”
“McKellen gets infatuated; then as quickly as he is into them, he’s fallen out with them. There is no way when he is out of the bubble of doing this panto that he is going to have this guy with him in East London, rattling around,” he added.
Sir Ian has been open about his sexuality since 1988 but sadly his parents never knew.
His mum Margery died when he was just 12 and his dad Denis when he was 22.
He spoke about his parents on The Jonathan Ross Show.
The Lord of the Rings star was asked if he was close to them and replied: “As close as you can be when your mother dies at 12 and dad dies when you’re 22.
“Never told them I was gay for example. Didn’t see me do any of my best work. But I remember them with nothing but pleasure.”
He spoke about coming out in his 40s and said how it felt to not be “hiding anymore”.
“I never stopped talking about it since. Made up for lost time. It changes your life utterly… I discovered myself. And everything was better,” Ian explained.
“My relationships with my family, with friends, with strangers, and my work got better as I wasn’t hiding anymore.”
“Up to that point, my acting had really been about disguise and then when I could feel I was myself, it came about telling the truth, which was much more interesting.”
Talking about the differences in LGBTQ+ rights, he said: “I keep giving them advice and saying, “Oh come on, join the modern world, it’s not the same. You won’t get put in prison.”
“That was my dilemma when I was a kid, if I’d said I was openly gay I could have risked being prosecuted. That’s not true anymore. We have very good laws in this country.”
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