The couple became parents in June, to a son called Robert Ray Black Daley, and Daley said his whole perspective had changed.

Desert Island Discs Tom Daley felt 'inferior' over sexuality

The following year Daley competed at the 2012 Olympics and won bronze.

Daley married the Oscar winner, who is 20 years his senior, last year but he said the age gap had never been an issue.

British diver Tom Daley, who won bronze in the synchro platform event, also commented on the state of the pool in a Twitter post.

Olympic diver Tom Daley says he grew up feeling inferior to everyone because of his sexuality but that gave him the motivation to become a success.

Appearing as a castaway on Laverne's first programme, Daley said he felt less than everyone else growing up because it wasn't socially acceptable to like boys and girls.

I work on the mayor's council in San Francisco, on the International Design Council for Mayors, and Chicago is looked at as the pinnacle, and I really would like to salute Mayor Daley and the folks there.

Daley said his dad did not accept he was going to die and one of the last things he had asked was if they had their tickets yet for London 2012 as he wanted to be on the front row.

The U.S. is actually becoming a bit of a leader in kind of enlightened urban planning and renewal, and I want to single out a place like Chicago, where I look at some guy like Mayor Daley as a bit of a design hero for being able to work through the political processes and all that to improve an area.