Thought he was in a regular suit there for a minute, and then I scrolled down and saw the trousers, the clutch and those bloody shoes. 
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He's becoming a caricature of himself.
a) what is that outfit and b) why is he not at home with his family?
bleeping dreadfulpair of snowploughs on
Where did he get those shoes? Out of his Mums Grattan catalogue Spring/ Summer 1981?
I've seen him in person, albeit from a distance at the London 2012 athletes' parade. He isn't as short as he looks on TV. He's not tall, just sort of average, or low side of average. I wouldn't describe him as particularly short.
He was quite orange though, he stood out for that reason.
Shortish arms and legs which makes you look shorter .. if you look at the guy on the right, he’s the same height, but his arm is a fair bit longer and more slender wrist. There is something stocky looking about Tom these days that I don’t think works that well with the effeminate clothing. He looks like a sportsman dressed up for Bowie tribute night. The clothes are wearing him!
Quite an outfit.
He's such a tool. How can he think he looks good 
He looks like he’s wearing my kitchen cleaning cloths
I feel itchy looking at that vomit influenced acrylic
I can already imagine the cut of him on Traitors.
He’s so try hard
Yep
Its even more bizarre considering his sporting success. But he really seems more bothered by fame and attention rather than his sport.
Him, and his mediocre knitting, are very irritating. If a woman knitted like him they would get half the (completely undeserved) praise. Try making something that isn't extra bulky and has some shaping in it, eh Tom?
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I met him, very briefly, when he was in his early teens. His family lived opposite a family member of mine in a modest property, but my family knew the family antics reasonably well in a neighbourly way.
He was insufferable even then. His diving very clearly made him the most important of 3 children, the one who got the most attention from his ailing father, he courted publicly, they would often have things like welcome home banners etc when he came back from anywhere for the rest of the street to see. Everything had to be a constant celebration and fuss about how wonderful he was. He was always centre of attention in any situation.
Nothing really any different than you will have seen online or on his documentaries. He was always needing a lot of fuss around him because even though he was a fame bleep, he was also always (pretending to be) on the verge of throwing in the diving and the parents were to an extent, reliant on his income towards the end of the father’s life, he even funded an extension to the house and new kitchen…which is fair enough considering how much of their own income they lost to support his diving. I suspect he did it to be the favourite son.
He was bullied at school, but to an extent brought it on himself by behaving like he was better than everyone else, I don’t think it was actually anywhere near as bad as he claims. He wasn’t missing school or coming home in tears every day, in fact the school were providing some remote support when he went away to competitions and camps and doing their best to accommodate his every need…he was their star pupil and where he went to school was in the newspapers etc, they really looked after him. I went to that school myself (slightly before he did) and I can assure you that they didn’t give a tit about individual kids unless they were ‘special’ in some way, and the chosen ones got the exact opposite approach. He just suddenly claimed he was being bullied and literally the next minute he’d been offered a free place at the local private school, which the school got a lot of publicly out of.
When I was introduced to him, out in the street, it was an awkward moment, as if I was supposed to comment on the fact he was a famous diver rather than just a random kid of a neighbour of a relative. Although I did actually know quite a lot about him and the family as they were the gossip of that street.
In his late teens he was sponsored by a local car dealership and therefore given a brand new free car, complete with personalised number plates…it had ‘dive’ in it just to make it really obvious, it was advertised they’d done that with a photo of the car in local news and he was out on the roads a lot. He then moved out of his mother’s house and bought himself a property of equivalent size but of older style and in a more expensive nearby area (extremely close to where I was living at the time). I knew exactly where he’d moved to because of the car. No loud parties, he was in and out quite a lot, I assumed he liked the idea of driving around the city with everyone noticing his car.
He bought 2 indoor cats, then abruptly uped and left for London, selling the house a little while later after leaving it empty for a while. The cats went to his mother, maybe he got bored of them.
Any minor news of him makes it to the local rag here and he is heavily featured, whereby people in the comments section rip him apart and state disinterest in his being reported on. Aside from that…since he moved to London when he was about 18/19…I’ve not seen or heard anything about him actually being here in Plymouth at all. He built himself up as this ‘local hero’ figure for years and then did a runner as soon as another opportunity presented itself.
I think he’s very much a social climber and had his eye on the prize of tv stardom from the start, the diving was just a means of getting there. I also don’t believe a word of this body image nonsense, he takes his kit off at every opportunity and hasn’t stopped doing so even when he finished formal training work. He doesn’t worry about his body due to anything other than extreme vanity.
Also, the mother isn’t as old as she looks, she’s a bit overweight and a bit of a scruff which ages her. He’s the eldest and she had him quite young. I doubt there’s much age gap between his mother and his husband.
He was insufferable even then. His diving very clearly made him the most important of 3 children, the one who got the most attention from his ailing father, he courted publicly, they would often have things like welcome home banners etc when he came back from anywhere for the rest of the street to see. Everything had to be a constant celebration and fuss about how wonderful he was. He was always centre of attention in any situation.
Nothing really any different than you will have seen online or on his documentaries. He was always needing a lot of fuss around him because even though he was a fame bleep, he was also always (pretending to be) on the verge of throwing in the diving and the parents were to an extent, reliant on his income towards the end of the father’s life, he even funded an extension to the house and new kitchen…which is fair enough considering how much of their own income they lost to support his diving. I suspect he did it to be the favourite son.
He was bullied at school, but to an extent brought it on himself by behaving like he was better than everyone else, I don’t think it was actually anywhere near as bad as he claims. He wasn’t missing school or coming home in tears every day, in fact the school were providing some remote support when he went away to competitions and camps and doing their best to accommodate his every need…he was their star pupil and where he went to school was in the newspapers etc, they really looked after him. I went to that school myself (slightly before he did) and I can assure you that they didn’t give a tit about individual kids unless they were ‘special’ in some way, and the chosen ones got the exact opposite approach. He just suddenly claimed he was being bullied and literally the next minute he’d been offered a free place at the local private school, which the school got a lot of publicly out of.
When I was introduced to him, out in the street, it was an awkward moment, as if I was supposed to comment on the fact he was a famous diver rather than just a random kid of a neighbour of a relative. Although I did actually know quite a lot about him and the family as they were the gossip of that street.
In his late teens he was sponsored by a local car dealership and therefore given a brand new free car, complete with personalised number plates…it had ‘dive’ in it just to make it really obvious, it was advertised they’d done that with a photo of the car in local news and he was out on the roads a lot. He then moved out of his mother’s house and bought himself a property of equivalent size but of older style and in a more expensive nearby area (extremely close to where I was living at the time). I knew exactly where he’d moved to because of the car. No loud parties, he was in and out quite a lot, I assumed he liked the idea of driving around the city with everyone noticing his car.
He bought 2 indoor cats, then abruptly uped and left for London, selling the house a little while later after leaving it empty for a while. The cats went to his mother, maybe he got bored of them.
Any minor news of him makes it to the local rag here and he is heavily featured, whereby people in the comments section rip him apart and state disinterest in his being reported on. Aside from that…since he moved to London when he was about 18/19…I’ve not seen or heard anything about him actually being here in Plymouth at all. He built himself up as this ‘local hero’ figure for years and then did a runner as soon as another opportunity presented itself.
I think he’s very much a social climber and had his eye on the prize of tv stardom from the start, the diving was just a means of getting there. I also don’t believe a word of this body image nonsense, he takes his kit off at every opportunity and hasn’t stopped doing so even when he finished formal training work. He doesn’t worry about his body due to anything other than extreme vanity.
Also, the mother isn’t as old as she looks, she’s a bit overweight and a bit of a scruff which ages her. He’s the eldest and she had him quite young. I doubt there’s much age gap between his mother and his husband.
Ps curiously just got the better of me and just checked something… his husband is 51, his mother is 54. Make of that what you will, but what I make of it is that Lance better keep up with the Botox because the vapid, vain manchild is likely to stray (again) if the husband stops looking perfect on his arm.
Great intel, thanks. Seemingly confirming everything many suspected based on how he comes off.
He seems quite detached from his family too
That'll be his odd older husband...... " you dont need them , only meeeeee" etc etc
Twenty-year age-gap.
Hmmmmmmm
....saw him coming, didn't he?