Tom Read Wilson is not married and does not have a confirmed partner. The Celebs Go Dating client coordinator, who is 39 and openly gay, has been single for several years. As of April 2026, no relationship has ever been put on public record. He has, however, spoken honestly about wanting to get married one day and wanting children of his own.
Wilson became one of the most talked-about faces on British television after finishing as runner-up on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in December 2025. His time in the Australian jungle brought his personal life into sharper focus than anything he had done before, with a series of candid conversations about love, marriage and what he is genuinely looking for.
| Married? | No |
| Current partner or boyfriend? | None confirmed |
| Sexuality | Openly gay |
| Wants to get married? | Yes |
| Wants children? | Yes |
| Age | 39 (born 12 November 1986) |
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Is Tom Read Wilson Gay?
Yes. Tom Read Wilson confirmed his sexuality in a 2018 interview with PinkNews, identifying as gay and saying he would not trade it “for anything.” He described being gay as something that had made him more empathetic and shaped how he is with people.
His actions have been consistent. When he won Celebrity Mastermind in March 2020, he chose to play for the Albert Kennedy Trust, a charity that supports LGBTQ+ young people facing homelessness. That was his decision, and it reflected something genuine about who he is.
Does Tom Read Wilson Have a Boyfriend?
No. As of April 2026, Tom Read Wilson has no confirmed partner.
He addressed his relationship status directly in the I’m A Celebrity jungle in November 2025, telling fellow campmate Lisa Riley:
“I can find them but I can’t keep them.”
He added that he thinks he is “such a curiosity” to people. Asked whether being part of a dating show made others intrusive about his personal life, he said: “There’s not very much to find out about.”
In nearly a decade of public life since joining Celebs Go Dating in August 2016, he has never publicly named a boyfriend. That is not an oversight. It is a line he has held throughout.
What Tom Read Wilson Has Said About Getting Married
For most of his adult life, Tom Read Wilson was not particularly interested in marriage. He has said so openly. What changed that was not a relationship but legislation.
During a conversation with campmates in the Australian jungle in November 2025, he explained it plainly:
“I was sort of ambivalent about marriage, but then I was so thrilled about that bill to equal marriage and I remember thinking, ‘This is such a beacon of parity,’ and it made me want to do it.”
He went further:
“It suddenly made me think, ‘Actually that’s a really lovely thing,’ and it also made me think completely differently about the institution of marriage, because I thought, ‘Oh, now it’s for all of us.'”
Fellow campmate Martin Kemp replied: “It’s about love.” Wilson’s response: “Yes, for everybody, yes.”
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act came into force in England and Wales in March 2014. That moment, and what it meant to Wilson personally, is what moved him from indifferent to genuinely wanting it one day.
Tom Read Wilson’s Dating Life and What He Is Looking For
Wilson describes his younger self as a serial dater who was, by his own admission, a terrible self-editor. He would tone down his own personality around potential partners, a habit he eventually recognised as working against him.
He told PinkNews in 2018:
“I realised what I was attracted to in other people were often the curiosities and idiosyncrasies and the nuances. I thought, why on earth am I trying to censor myself or edit myself to get rid of those? Those should be the bits I’m celebrating. The person that’s going to fall for you is going to fall for all of those delicious curiosities.”
On the kind of man he is drawn to:
“I want my partner to be radically different to me on every possible level. I always say I don’t physically have a type except radically different to me, because I always think two-thirds of beauty lies in fascination.”
He also carries one of the more memorable first date stories from any celebrity interview in recent years. He went for dinner with “a very taciturn gentleman,” ordered a lamb shank, choked mid-meal, was too proud to ask for help, and performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on himself against a wash basin. His verdict on the evening: “simply ghastly.”
By 2021, the serial dating phase was well behind him. Speaking to Kate Thornton on the White Wine Question Time podcast, he described what he had taken to calling dating himself:
“I kind of take myself out for a really lovely meal or to the BFI or to the National Theatre. I think it’s actually a science of getting to like your own company — then you’re very well placed for somebody to enter your life.”
He lives alone in London and has described socialising as his favourite thing about being alive.
Does Tom Read Wilson Want Children?
He does, and he has said so across more than one interview, in more than one year.
He told New! magazine: “I’m so lucky I’ve got three godchildren, three nephews — but what I really crave is to have children of my own one day.”
On being single, he told OK! magazine in 2023:
“Most days I feel like a moist madeira sponge that doesn’t really require icing. But if there were icing, it wouldn’t go amiss.”
He is content with his own company. He is also clear that finding the right person and having a family are things he genuinely wants.
Tom Read Wilson and James Haskell: March 2026
The most recent public development in Tom Read Wilson’s personal life came in March 2026, when former England rugby player James Haskell joined Celebs Go Dating as a client following his divorce from Chloe Madeley. Warm, affectionate pictures of Haskell and Wilson together circulated publicly, with PinkNews reporting that Haskell had “declared love” for him.
The context is straightforward. Tom is the show’s client coordinator. Haskell is a client on the show, looking for a relationship after five years of marriage ended. The photographs were genuine, but neither man has suggested anything romantic. Tom Read Wilson remains single.
Tom Read Wilson has spent the better part of a decade helping celebrities find love on television. What he wants for himself, he has been straightforward about: a partner who genuinely fascinates him, children, and eventually a marriage that, as he said from the Australian jungle, is now “for all of us.” He has not found the right person yet. He said as much himself, under the Australian sun, in November 2025. As of April 2026, nothing has changed.
