Jack Vidgen explains new feminine look: ‘I’m just having fun’

Former Australia’s Got Talent star Jack Vidgen has turned heads with a slew of recent red carpet appearances – now he explains what’s going on.

Australian singer and reality star Jack Vidgen has explained his glam new look, telling fans that while he’s “having fun” exploring his “feminine side,” he still uses male pronouns.

Former Australia’s Got Talent winner Vidgen, 26, has turned heads at a number of recent red carpet events, stepping out in full make-up, designer dresses and heels.

Vidgen arrives at the Australian Premiere of Class of '07 this week.

In a new post to his followers, he explained the new look and thanked his fans for their support as he’s uploaded photos of his high-glam outfits to Instagram in recent weeks.

“Just wanted to say a major thank you to everyone who’s been hyping me up/cheering me on while I’ve been glamming it up lately and exploring my feminine side,” he began.

“For everyone wondering I still identify as He/Him. I’m literally just having fun. We as a society have gendered fashion and the more I’m dressing like this, the more I’m uncovering and releasing myself of my own internalised homophobia as a gay man.”

At the recent Minus 18 Rainbow Formal. Picture: MATRIXPICTURES

At Maria Thattil’s Sydney book launch. Picture: Sam Tabone

Despite the support from his fans, Vidgen revealed he’d also copped a lot of negativity online – mostly via his TikTok account – and posted a screenshot showing a selection of the vile comments.

“You’re a bloke … stop kidding yourself,” reads one. “FFS this is what’s wrong with this world,” said another. Many others Vidgen republished are too offensive to repeat.

But the singer, who shot to fame at the age of 14 winning Australia’s Got Talent and has also competed on The Voice and The Masked Singer, said comments about his looks “really don’t phase me at all anymore.”

“The media were so vicious about how I looked when I was on The Voice a few years ago, I’ve become almost completely desensitised to it but I think of all the young queer people who see it and that makes me sad.”

Vidgen on the 2022 reality show The Challenge …

And how fans first met him, as a young Australia’s Got Talent winner.

Vidgen told his followers he would “continue to push the boundaries and break the mould” with how he dressed.

“No one should have to tone themselves down to make the rest feel comfortable. We don’t belong in their boxes!”

And he also offered a hilariously withering response to the Daily Mail’s coverage of one glam outfit he wore to a recent red carpet event. The tabloid outlet had declared Vidgen to be “unrecognisable” as he “transformed into his drag alter ego.”

“Babes I’m not in drag,” Vidgen wrote in response to the article.

“I get it’s confusing but you’ll catch on eventually lol.”

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