{"id":935673,"date":"2026-10-21T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935673\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:04:17","slug":"young-sheldon-star-iain-armitage-makes-rare-remark-about-personal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935673\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage makes rare remark about personal life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/young-sheldon-where-are-they-now-20241118-p5qsb9.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Young Sheldon<\/a> star Iain Armitage has made a rare statement about his personal life in a new book about the show\u2019s success. <\/p>\n<p>The actor, 18, weighed in on the public interest surrounding his sexuality in Young Sheldon: The (Juicier-Than-Meemaw\u2019s-Brisket) Inside Story of the Hit Comedy by Jessica Radloff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c74a90c163ef07a83144dea675c264bafd26a6a61aad0ae07381b2c4cad8893a.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Young Sheldon Star Iain Armitage has made a rare statement about his personal life. \u00a0Instagram\/@iain<\/p>\n<p>The teenager played a young Sheldon Cooper in the Big Bang Theory spin off from 2017 to 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Armitage revealed in the book that he has fielded deeply personal questions from complete strangers about his personal life and relationships since becoming a global star. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn real life I\u2019ve also gotten everything from people thinking I\u2019m dating specific people, like Mckenna [Grace], or people thinking I\u2019m gay,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes people will come up to me in public and be like, \u2018Yo, you gay?\u2019 or \u2018Man, you dating anyone?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say his response varies depending on who\u2019s asking the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s a guy asking if I\u2019m gay, I\u2019ll say, \u2018Not for you.\u2019 Or \u2018I haven\u2019t found the right guy yet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cPeople will say, \u2018Yo, man, do you get a lot of girls? Do you have a girlfriend?\u2019 and I\u2019ll say something funny to make someone laugh and divert the conversation. Or, \u2018That\u2019s private, dude, don\u2019t ask that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armitage snagged the role of young Sheldon Cooper when he was just eight-years-old. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f1ec0227434d5f9cd88ff7daafe0836842eec8326ab11229270d21175266d913.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Armitage says he usually shuts down questions about his sexuality.\u00a0Instagram\/@iain<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iain Armitage, Young Sheldon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ee86137b4672a1a8527a8aec6c649968de9b9e2d.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Armitage as seen on Young Sheldon.\u00a0CBS<\/p>\n<p>The series takes audiences into the childhood of Cooper, who was portrayed by Jim Parsons in Big Bang Theory from 2007 to 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Parson\u2019s served as an executive producer and narrator of the spin-off. <\/p>\n<p>He even makes a surprise appearance in the shows final episode as his grown up self. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage has made a rare statement about his personal life in a new book&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-935673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}