BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans is positive role model
By Matthew Bell
Wednesday, 2nd December 2020
BBC North West Tonight weatherman Owain Wyn Evans talked TV and sexuality with RTS Cymru Wales chair Edward Russell in November.
Evans, who grew up in a working-class family in Ammanford, became the presenter of S4C's Welsh language children's news programme Ffeil at just 18.
His screen test was nervy, but "they must have seen something because I had no experience", he said.
Since 2012, he has presented the weather for the BBC across the UK, bringing his flamboyant personality and social media innovation to forecasting.
As a teenager growing up in West Wales, he recalled seeing Russell T Davies's pioneering gay drama Queer as Folk. "It was like looking into another world," he said.
Evans is a strong supporter of the LGBT community:. "I would never describe myself as a role model, but positive role models are super important. I do have a platform in a way and it's a great place for me to be myself."
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