Kilted yoga star being forced out by homophobic abuse
● Man who found fame on Youtube may have to move
0 Finlay Wilson demonstrates some yoga with his kilted co-star Tristan Cameron-harper near Dudhope Park, Dundee. He discovered the front tyre of his car had been slashed on Saturday morning.
He said: “A few months ago a letter was left on the doorstep but now it seems to be moving on to something a lot more physical. We came down on Saturday to find the front right tyre had been slashed.
“When I took the car to the garage the mechanic said it had been slashed deliberately and there is no way a pothole could have done that.
“That’s cost about £60 or £70 to repair but it is more the implicit threat that bothers me. It’s moved on from a letter on the doorstep to a physical threat.”
Earlier this year Mr Wilson received a hand-delivered letter addressed to “the gay boy at number 45” demanding he moved out of his block of flats.
He said: “The letter said, basically, ‘get out of the building’ so it must be somebody in the building.”
Mr Wilson said he was now considering finding somewhere else to live.
“Instead of thinking ‘I’m going to move because I’ve found somewhere really nice to live’, I’m thinking of moving because of bullying,” he said.
“It’s incredible people are still doing that.”
Mr Wilson , co-founder of Dundee’s Heart Space Yoga and Bodyworks on Scott Street, said he was going to report the incident to Police Scotland. He shot to fame after posting a series of videos online demonstrating yoga and meditation techniques while wearing a kilt. One video shot in a Perthshire forest has been viewed more than 50 million times worldwide since it was uploaded.
He has also released a book called Kilted Yoga: Yoga Laid Bare which demonstrates various yoga sequences in front of iconic Scottish backgrounds.
Among the locations Mr Wilson visited for the book were Glencoe and the cliffs at Arbroath. A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said homophobia was treated as a hate crime and urged Mr Wilson to report the latest incident.