Brian Paddick
Brian Paddick, born 1958, is a British politican and former senior police officer. He is distantly related to the gay entertainer, the late Hugh Paddick.
Brian Paddick joined the Metropolitan Police in 1976, rising to the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner. He retired from the police in 2007. In 2008 he was the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London, and in 2011 he was selected to run again in 3012. In November 2008 he was a contestant on the ITV1 reality television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
Paddick knew he was gay from his childhood, but was married for five years. "It was a genuine attempt to live as a straight man"[1] He now lives in Vauxhall, London, with Petter Belsvik, a civil engineer from Oslo, Norway. They married in Oslo, same-sex marriage in Norway being legalised 8 days before, on 9 January 2009.
