Surely what's happened here is that he was basically bisexual, legitimately married a chick, had kids, but has now been caught by the press having an affair with a bloke?
But instead of confessing, he's gone for the far more sympathetic excuse that he's been living a heart-wrenching lie all these years out of shame and fear that he'll be ostracised by the notoriously homophobic...*checks notes*....world of light entertainment.