679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. He attended Newpark Comprehensive School in Blackrock. He made his own pirate radio station at the age of 16. His mother Lorraine is Irish and was a Catholic and his father Sam a Muslim from Iraq. For other inquiries Contact Us. The pair are now closer than ever and attend Pride marches together. And the YouTuber and BBC Radio 1 star, who uses stout and Arabian spices in his dishes, hopes their Irish and Iraqi cuisine tips will help him win the TV crown. For other inquiries, Contact Us. According to The Guardian his mum kept her son’s secret from his father for nine months. Riyadh's father Sam admitted his "head was absolutely wrecked" by the news. Now What? “There was one night when I was up on the computer,” Lorraine says in the video, “and I pressed the wrong button. My mum was great – confused but great – but my dad took it very hard.”. Riyadh rose to fame through his YouTube channel in 2015, when he recorded his mother’s reactions to messages he had been sent on Grindr – a dating app for the LGBTQ+ community. Sam and Lorraine married in 1989 and had Riyadh in 1991. A post shared by Sam Khalaf (@samkhalaf65). According to StatSmash , Riyadh … You’re Gay! He has an Irish mother named Lorraine and an Iraqi father called Sam. “My parents were right at the bottom of the pile for who to come out to,” he told the BBC. … I didn’t know if I was going to be kicked out and made homeless, or if my dad would try to honour-kill me. After Riyadh's father's extended family suggested sending Riyadh to Syria for conversion therapy, he cut ties with them and chose to rebuild his relationship with his son. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Dublin-born Riyadh, who lives in London, has previously told how telling his Irish Catholic mother, Lorraine, and Iraqi father, Sam, that he was homosexual was absolutely terrifying. LGBTQ+ people don’t often get this sort of representation or the opportunity to speak their own truth in such an in-depth way. RIYADH Khalaf has been named champion of Celebrity Masterchef 2020 with a winning menu dedicated to his father. He had already come out to his mother after she found gay porn on the family computer. RIYADH Khalaf has been crowned champion of Celebrity MasterChef 2020, dedicating one of his winning menus to his father. His father Sam is a formerly devout Muslim, and Riyadh has spoken openly about his experience of coming out to him. http://bit.ly/1KyA9sVRiyadh Khalaf is a rising YouTube star, having collaborated and met many celebrities. His parents wrote a section in the book which guides friends and family of gay loved ones on how to support them properly. He is the age of 28 years old. “It was self-preservation. Who are Riyadh Khalaf's parents? A video named "Mom reads son's Grindr messages", which features Lorraine reading through dating app messages on Riyadh's phone, has accumulated almost 5 million views. Riyadh Khalaf is an actor and director, known for Love, Simon (2018), Riyadh K (2013) and Fighting for Pride (2018). Riyadh Khalaf and his father, Sam, laughing during one of Riyadh’s Youtube videos Lorraine, Riyadh’s mother, explains that she discovered that Riyadh was gay by accident when she was on the family computer. 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