Clark says his camp TV persona is just a huge act and he is actually a secret macho man. The popular presenter and former X Factor star, 35, claims behind closed doors he’s more like fellow West Ham fan Ray Winstone. Revealing his Jekyll and Hyde-style personality, he said: “I’m probably one of the most masculine people you’ll ever meet and no one will f**king believe that.

” Born Ross Richard Clark in Stepney, east London, chose his performing name from a baby-name book after he started modelling aged 16. The host said he reverts to being Ross – who likes a beer and watching Hammers games on his sofa – when he’s clocked off performing. He added: “It’s definitely a Jekyll and Hyde thing.

I could call Rylan a curse, but he’s made me a millionaire. I’m grateful to have been able to do the things I’ve done and had Rylan as the fall guy for it. “Rylan is my job.

If you’re a bus driver, when you go home you don’t sit in your lounge driving a bus. You sit there and watch telly. “And that’s exactly what I do.

I’m not Rylan when I’m at home so, the second the gate is shut, Rylan is left there, and then I’m Ross.” Rylan described Ross as a normal bloke who he says “for want of a better term” has a “heterosexual-man blueprint brain”. He added: “That is, I wanted to grow up, get married, have the 2.

4 kids, have a nice house and a great job. But I just want to do that with another male..

. I see my role in society as being that guy with.