‘FROM PAIN TO GLORY’ – Rylan Clark opens up about his Heartbreaking Divorce and how ‘Rob And Rylan’s Grand Tour’ ‘REINVENTED’ him, moving viewers to Tears

Rylan Clark emotionally shared a heartbreaking divorce confession at the BAFTA TV Awards after he scooped a win with Robert Rinder.

The former X Factor star, 36, and barrister, 46, took home the Factual Entertainment prize for their show Rob And Rylan’s Grand Tour.

After accepting the award, Rylan, who split with his ex-husband Dan Neal in 2021 after six years of marriage, spoke candidly about what the show meant to him.

He admitted he ‘wasn’t fully over’ the break-up and his travels around Italy with Robert and the hit BBC programme became a ‘therapy’ for him.

‘For me, the show, it happened at a really weird time for me like I still wasn’t fully over sort of the breakdown of my marriage and was flung with the judge,’ Rylan confessed while he clutched his BAFTA award.

He added: ‘It was the best therapy I needed, put it that way.’

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Rylan Clark (left) emotionally shared a heartbreaking divorce confession at the BAFTA TV Awards after he scooped a win with Robert Rinder (right)

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The former X Factor star, 36, and barrister, 46, took home the Factual Entertainment prize for their show Rob And Rylan’s Grand Tour

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After accepting the award, Rylan, who split with his ex-husband Dan Neal (right) in 2021 after six years of marriage, spoke candidly about what the show meant to him

‘I think the journey, and I hate that word in telly but its so true, when you watch our series, that journey from when we meet to sort of how raw especially I was at that time,’ Rylan divulged.

He described how it felt like ‘being an adolescent again and starting again but with cameras there’.

Rylan and Robert captured the nation’s heart with their fun-filled, historic adventures around some of Italy’s most cultural cities during the first season of their show.

The TV personality hinted about the contents of the upcoming second series and said: ‘We are not fully healed and so we went to India. We didn’t think we would be able to top the Italy show but it is incredible.’

Rylan competed on ITV’s singing talent show, The X Factor, back in 2012 and went on to have a successful TV career.

He reflected: ‘Just because I finished fifth on X Factor, I should have been forgotten about by February after I had done all the gay clubs.

‘You can take a different route. Slap that indicator on and go into the left lane, and it’s taken me somewhere else.

‘I think that’s what the show showed. If you don’t try these new things and do it, then you are just going to stay standing still.

‘I think the little Rylan on X Factor did alright in the end.’

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He admitted he ‘wasn’t fully over’ the break-up and his travels around Italy with Robert and the hit BBC programme became a ‘therapy’ for him

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Rylan and Robert captured the nation’s heart with their fun-filled, historic adventures around some of Italy’s most cultural cities during the first season of their show

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Rylan competed on ITV’s singing talent show, The X Factor, back in 2012 and went on to have a successful TV career

Rylan and Robert forged a close friendship after sharing a divorce lawyer and through filming their BBC travel show.

Robert and his ex-husband, barrister Seth Cumming, divorced in 2018.

Both previously claimed the three-part series worked its way into being a ‘heartbreak holiday’.

Having both endured painful divorces, they were ready to embrace the next chapter in their lives by throwing themselves into experiences outside their comfort zones.