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Sat 11 Nov 2008My Holidays
BRIAN DOWLING, Tv presenter and 'Big Brother' winner talks about his holidays
What's your earliest holiday memory?Because there were seven of us growing up we never went away on holiday, so my first holiday memory was when I left school. I went to Santa Ponsa, in Majorca, and loved it so much I ended up becoming a holiday rep. I spent the whole season there. It was in 1996. I was 18 or 19. It was the sense of being free. I had the whole gay thing in my mind: am I gay? Am I not gay? I came from a tiny, tiny village. I always wanted to spread my wings and get out.
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